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This section's edited by Hylton Jolliffe, the founder, editor and publisher of Corante.
Up for inclusion: anything on the culture, technology, politics, and future of blogs. Please send any tips, suggestions or reactions to Hylton.
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CORANTE ON BLOGGING: In media res
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By Hylton Jolliffe
Marc Canter, who says we're on the brink of something big: "These new kind of tools connect stand alone islands... together into a meshed universe - somewhat resembling the real universe."
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Liz Lane Lawley, whose week was both good and bad, on blogging the bad parts in full view of her peers: "I have to believe the risks of blogging the difficult passages in my life are outweighed by the benefits." |
Jonathan Peterson, over at Amateur Hour, says that the media revolution afoot, in which blogs are playing a critical role, means that "Andy Warhol’s 15 minutes of fame is closer at hand than ever before."
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Joi Ito: "If you took all of the drunken businessmen in the 75,000 bars and restaurants in Tokyo... and made them go home and blog, the revolution in Japan might happen much more quickly." |
Henry Copeland, in the much-cited Guardian article, on BlogAds: "Blogads allow advertisers to tap into the passionate audiences. Blogs are where opinions get made these days, and advertisers need to position themselves accordingly."
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Tom Coates on Blogger: "It's done so much for me - and for remarkably little in return."
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Jeff Jarvis on Tony Perkins' AlwaysOn: "Boy am I unimpressed... Pontification without links; I can find that in lots of old-media places already, thanks." |
Jeneane Sessum comments on the proliferating number of good blogs she's finding: "I thought it would be different... I thought a bunch of not-so-great wannabes would wind up here... But the opposite. I should have known."
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Jeneane Sessum: "If bloggers are, in some way, a family--which many of us have said is so--then our ages, our birth order, do come into play in what we say, what we write, how we relate."
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Sheila Lennon discusses the evolution of online media as more and more content recedes behind subscription-only walls: "[We may] look back on the information bulge that passed through in the late 90s and ask, 'What was that?'" |
Judith Burton says blogging is to traditional news media what the Alphabet game is to the Telephone game: "Each opinion in the string remains intact while the message goes 'round." |
Tom Coates, who's been wrestling with what he thinks of the trackback feature: "It seemed like such an unlikely and ungainly solution. It was almost as if someone had written documentation for the process of 'Opening a can of beans with a banana.'" |
Steve Himmer ponders whether blogging is "a medium, a tool, or a genre?" His conclusion: "If I get all excited about this kind of question in the middle of the night... then, well, then I'm a tool." |
Dave Winer sticks up for the level playing field he thinks RSS and blogs offer: "Amateurs and pros, young and old, rich and poor, the homeless, the uninsured and people with AIDS, you name it -- they all can slug it out for readers in the same venue."
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Tom Matrullo on RSS: "All the code in the world might not make too much of a difference in what we call news, so long as what we're doing is accessing the same tired media by whatever novelty of means."
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Steve Himmer asks rhetorically, in a long reflection on blog hierarchy and so-called 'A-list bloggers': "Are links in fact the 'currency' of the web?" His answer: "Well, sort of: links are the functional currency of the web, yes, but... the real, primary currency of the web... is actually currency: the web is, in fact, rife with exclusion and unequal access, but not at the level of readership and prominence." |
[Quietly proliferating around Corante today - Amateur Hour, a new blog by Jonathan Peterson whose writings I hope you know from Way.nu or this commentary.
The gist of the new section: the democratization of content production. Or, to put it differently, how the proliferation of cheap, professional-quality media-making tools, paired with the drastic decrease in the cost of content distribution is leading to a quiet but very real revolution in the quantity, quality and creativity of "amateur" content.
It's the the "Big Flip" as Clay Shirky calls it, a developing story that's of interest to many bloggers and one that's going to play an increasingly important role in how we make, share and consume media.
Please tune in, spread the word, and shoot comments and suggestions Jonathan's way.] |
Dan Gillmor, who's attending the Newspaper Association of America's Connections conference, says there "don't seem to be any vendors selling stuff that makes for better journalism or better new-media techniques. Weblog companies might do well to show their tools at a conference like this." |
Duncan Watts says, in a NY Times article on the burgeoning science of networks that should be of interest to bloggers, that "decisions people make and the actions they take are so hopelessly entwined with the behaviors of everyone else that it's difficult to draw the boundaries around the individual."
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Liz Lane Lawley has published the first draft of the NSF grant proposal she and Alex Halavais are working on to try to establish a center for the study of blogs. From the proposal: "the proposed research center would bring together those scholars best able to explore the technology, as well as scientists able to develop tools that extend the power of current authoring and publishing environments." |
Jason Kottke: "As opposed to the design of personal home pages in the mid 90s where people were designing pages that expressed their individuality and personality, weblog design is much more functional in nature." |
Fabio Sergio says that "[the evolution of blogs] these days seems to follow a path that I would dub 'from Thinklogs to Linklogs,'" - which is to say, he continues, that many prominent bloggers are linking more and thinking less. "It's the difference," he says, "between a travel guide and an un-ordered list of places to visit." |
Anne Galloway on the stratification of blogs: "Dominant blogs propose the formal rules, and have the (relative) ability to exclude those that cannot, or do not, follow the rules. Subordinate blogs either conform to the rules (partial inclusion) or try to resist and rearticulate them (from a place of exclusion)."
She concludes: "It has become (somewhat painfully) obvious that the same inequalities that we struggle with in the everyday are equally present in cyberspace - they just take on context-specific qualities." |
Nick Denton says, in an article on the evolution of American journalism, that "the new news media is raucous, sloppy and amateurish. But it is at least, at its best, engaging."
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Gary Turner: "one day every significant occurrence that takes place in the world will eventually get blogged by at least one person, maybe more, hence providing a permanent online record of, well everything. The more people that blog, the higher the resolution of this memory or record will become and the less significant the event requires to be before getting blogged." |
Steve Himmer on what distinguishes his blog-writing from his novel-writing: "It is scattershot, chaotic. It's a scratchpad where I kick ideas around and churn them up and bounce them off others."
But he also adds that he's "concerned that we (I) lose something by writing so unstructured for so long: there's a value to discipline (I've never said that before!), though there's also a value to freedom." |
Julius Caesar, the "original warblogger," on his site's redesign: "I keep my team very busy and with our impending departure, there's little time to keep working on the site. Bear with us."
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Leslie Michael Orchard agrees with Dave Winer's personal objections to having comments on his site: "[He's] right... assert a strong opinion, right or wrong, and get it read widely enough and do it often enough - and your weblog will turn into a cesspool with all its graciously thrown open doors clogged with trolls." |
Russell Beattie on moblogging: "It's more of an instant online scrapbook than a real communications medium... With moblogging, I take a picture, send off an email and then I'm done. There's nothing else to do - no interaction." |
Liz Lane Lawley raves about Mark Pilgrim's writing in particular and the loosely joined blogosphere in general, saying that "maybe when Microsoft and AOL launch their blogging juggernauts, the bloggers will circle their wagons, and the lines will become more rigid... in the meantime, I can only hope to keep finding people who write as well as Mark." |
Clay Shirky says, in an article on the Big Flip and whether it'll happen in the music industry, that "the old notion of 'filter, then publish' is giving way to 'publish, then filter.'"
A significant side effect of this Big Flip: "the division between amateur and professional turns into a spectrum, giving us a world where unpaid writers are discussed side-by-side with New York Times columnists." |
Dana Blankenhorn says of NetLogo, which Cory Doctorow pointed to, "How'd you like to see something like this let loose in the Blogosphere?"
In an earlier post Dana ponders why "this medium, blogging, seems bogged-down," particularly when we have a good sense what the next generation will bring: "It's the waiting that's the frustrating thing." |
Scott Rosenberg of Salon, which has just announced a new scheme, says that "the truth is that free, professional journalistic content... only makes sense if you're selling something else..." |
Meg Hourihan on the news that there's a new book on blogging on the way: "It's the same God-awful publisher behind my book. Apparently one under-publicized, under-selling weblog book wasn't enough for their catalogue." |
Anil Dash says, humbly, that after the screening of the Media Matters program in which he featured prominently "one of the other things about weblogging of which I'm very proud is the fact that I'm widely considered to be the sexiest male weblogger in the world."
Richard Bennett on Anil's appearance on the program: "You're still a pinko liberal, but you did well on the TV show. Take a bow, please." |
Joi Ito reports that he and and Larry Lessig have been talking about how "it was OK to talk about politics on blogs." But with war seemingly imminent, he continues, and "as thoughts turn to feelings and feelings turn to action, I think that we will start testing and stressing the little network of blogs we call a home." |
Halley Suitt says that "all of us are a lot more lonely than we fess up to" and that "blogging is helping bridge that gap as families fall apart, re-form, change, or stagnate." |
We've finally made Corante's blog archives available. See here for this section's. Also those for:
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Tom Shugart on his slow blogging of late: "As for losing readers, why would I want to get involved in that mindset? It’s the blogger’s version of making the sale." |
Sheila Lennon on her self-publishing of the full transcript of an interview with David Gallagher a few months ago: "Anyone in the news who thinks that their statements were taken out of context or edited to show them in a bad light does [now has] recourse."
[Remember this dandy from Dave Eggers a few years ago?] |
Chris Pirillo, who's redesigned his site recently, says that while "the newness [of blogging] may have worn off, that doesn't mean this medium is any less exciting," given "you're always one link away from changing the course of your day." |
Jeff Jarvis says that very soon your blog will represent more than just your opinion: "It holds your links to others; your photos and videos; and the metadata for your life," and that, "this will be true not just for web sophisticates but for the masses." |
JD Lasica on the new blog-based AlwaysOn Network from Red Herring's Tony Perkins: "Call me underwhelmed... these are the tech industry voices with all the power. The whole idea of weblogs is about empowering grassroots individuals to add their voices to the media ecosystem and have their opinions rise and fall on the strength of their arguments, not the pedigree of their CV."
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Richard Bennett on PBS's Media Matters blog segment: "[It] was apparently intended to make blogging off-putting and surreal to the traditionalists who still get the news from the papers and the McNeil News Hour." |
Ken Layne knocks publishers for not taking a shine to his last book, particularly given "the book's premise -- that some jackass self-made journalist could drive major media coverage with a home-made Web site -- is now an accepted part of the media world." |
Ken Layne urges Dave Barry (and other writers he likes) to blog: "Please start a blog. You don't have to regularly update or anything. Just post a paragraph now and then. You can even do it drunk!" |
Oliver Willis on his appearance in Media Matters' segment on blogs that ran last night "Man, I've got a big head... Appropriately the broadcast was followed by an episode of Teletubbies."
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Dan Pink hangs it up: "Whip out those handkerchiefs, ladies and gentleman. I'm not going to be [blogging] this year... it took time. And time's not something I've got lots of right now."
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Nurul Asyikin in an outline describing the thesis of a paper she's proposing on blog community: "...it is surprising that the idea of weblog communities has been accepted by so many people and with so little resistance." |
Bryan Durell proposes the idea of a "non-mobile collaborative blog," a wireless access point somewhere in Harvard Square to which people could only post if they were using the access point's IP. It would be, he says, "an ad-hoc collaboration but... tied together by a given community."
His conclusion: "They say you can’t solve social problems with software, but I believe that you can shape social interactions with technology." |
[Off topic but just in case: Be sure to tune in to my neighbor Copyfight, where Donna Wentworth's doing a stellar job assembling news coverage and commentary on the Eldred v. Ashcroft Supreme Court decision that came in yesterday.] |
Iain Murray says he was fired because of his blog: "When my employer expressed his concern, I immediately offered to stop updating the blog forthwith. However, this was not enough and I was fired on the spot." |
Glenn Reynolds announces his new blog: "[It's] part of MSNBC’s Weblog explosion. I’m happy to be part of it, since MSNBC seems to be interested in the new things going on around the Web, and so am I. The Internet is just a big playground for guys like me."
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Stuart Henshall: "It's becoming clear that the web isn’t just evolving because of economics, it’s beginning to accelerate again as the 'intangible human web' is discovered or perhaps redefined."
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Harold Gilchrist ponders whether bloggers will soon need a media management gateway: "As we move and scale our blogs toward other media types (both dynamic (live streaming) and static) a separate media management/gateway server is the way to go."
On next generation blogging: "Blogging 2G will include cell phones, PDAs, Notebooks and other devices that can be 2 way on a network that connects to the Internet and back to the blog someway." |
Andrew Sullivan, who's on Cape Cod at the moment and had been worried the isolation would drive him nuts, says that "the blog makes me feel as if I'm in the middle of things." |
Jeneane Sessum on a personal website she's just shuttered in favor of her blog: "It was a moment when I decided I am making my online home here... It was a moment when I accepted blogging as a critical part of my life, for real, for good."
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Halley Suitt on the picture of Larry Lessig on his site: "It's just about the most perfect picture of someone in the act of blogging I've ever seen."
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Mark Hurst says that "in terms of market activity, weblogs are quickly becoming today's version of the Geocities home page: lots of press buzz, lots of Net activity, and unknown market value."
And more: "A small subset of the weblogs in existence are high-quality publications, well worth reading. Unlike the bottom 99.999% of all weblogs, the top 100 or so weblogs will command huge readership, press attention, and possibly, eventually, some revenue." |
Dave Weinberger on Jupiter's new blogs: "I'm glad you're blogging and I enjoyed what I read. Really. But it isn't yet really a blog because it's not in conversation with other blogs. And for me, that's the difference between a column and a blog." |
Gary Sullivan on what blogging can do for writers: "It's amazing what an odd, fixed idea will do to a writer, how it moves them, literally, through territory they might not otherwise have even known existed." |
Brandon Barr on a slew of new blogs from some of his Poetics colleagues: "What is so interesting is that the writers have in essence defined themselves in a communal manner. They all have each other on their blogrolls, which establishes their writing within a reading community." |
Francisco Toro says he's giving up working for the New York Times because the voice and platform his blogging affords him is too important: "I don’t think I could muster the level of emotional detachment from the story that the New York Times demands. For better or for worse, my country’s democracy is in peril now, and I can’t possibly be neutral about that." |
Nicole Bruni says that the "The voyeur in [her] loves blogging because of the comments sections. They can be more interesting than the blogs themselves."
She also asks herself "what needs I'm trying to fill by being here." Her answer: "I think we all have the same basic reasons, if we are really honest with ourselves. We want attention..." |
Matthew Boedicker says that he continues "to be amazed by how fast ideas snowball through the net," noting an aspect of an idea's propagagation that bloggers know well: "What's interesting... is that at each step along the way, the individual makes a decision... [with] all of these tiny decisions [adding] up to form a kind of single, collective consciousness..." |
Sebastian Paquet says, in a comprehensive article on clustering, social networking and knowledge management and how they may all converge via blogs, that "the technologies and practices that underlie weblogs and the resources which complement them evolve very quickly, on a timescale of months if not weeks." |
Dave Winer says that "Glenn Reynolds nailed it when he said I was basically a blogger-in-residence at Harvard. Exactly right, if it works as I hope it does. A pied piper."
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Stanton Finley says that "with trackback, pingback, auto-discovery, and so on, it’s clear we’re on the verge of a Gutenbergian revolution here..." |
Seth Finkelstein takes issue with all the "blather" about blogging, arguing that "more opportunities for punditry doesn't necessarily mean society becomes more egalitarian... rather, it just means more people have a chance at becoming professional chatterers..." |
Donna Wentworth says that she's been thinking about the "politics of architecture," particularly since it was announced that Dave Winer is joining the Berkman Center to help them further explore blogging, and questions like "If every form has a politics, what politics does the blog form have?" and "What types of behavior does the blog "architecture" encourage--or discourage--among its participants?" |
Jupiter Research has announced the launch of analyst blogs: "Jupiter Research division will be the first research advisory firm to offer dedicated research analyst Weblogs."
Rafat Ali on the news: "Slightly late in the game, if you ask me," but also that it's "a good start...and Jupiter is first off the blocks as far as research agencies go." |
Catherine Moore reports that a "[new] crop of vendors is stepping up to extend Weblogs to specific business processes such as corporate intelligence gathering and market research."
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Glenn Reynolds on the potential for blogs to compete with newswires in reporting breaking events: "When we get widespread combined PDA/cellphone/digital cameras this will really take off, I think." |
Mark Glaser, who's declared 2003 the Year of the Blog, welcomes the news that AOL may soon offer blogging tools: "[It] will likely create a wasteland of self-absorbed babble, providing the perfect foil for us professional writer types."
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Dave Winer comments on Dan Gillmor's piece on 'We Media': "Journalism is all about barriers. Today you have to be sure there's lots of value in your barriers, or else you have nothing to offer. That's hard to do." |
Dave Winer, who, it's just been announced, is going to be a fellow at the Berkman Center this spring, on the enduring question about whether there's any money in blogging: "...you might measure the money-making in the form of money saved, or shortcuts found, or new ideas discovered, or blind alleys averted." |
Greg Beato says that at first glance "vlogs sound like a bad idea in search of an even worse venture capitalist," but concedes later that "having said all this, I do think vlogging has a lot of potential." A significant challenge - cost: "Any fee over 'free' will immediately eliminate millions more potential vbloggers." |
Fishrush offers up his post-blogging pronunciamento, saying blogging was born "out of a need for independence and out of a simultaneous trust and mistrust for the community. People who join blogging groups keep their freedom. They don't accept any theories. They've had enough of the academies: laboratories of formal ideas." |
Dan Gillmor, in the Columbia Journalism Review, on "We Media": "Journalism is evolving away from its lecture mode — here’s the news, and you buy it or you don’t — to include a conversation."
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A.K.M. Adam ties together several recent threads bouncing around the blogosphere in a post on the etiquette of linking to one's sources: "At the risk of identifying myself as a rho male, though, I’d argue that the true alpha values the strength that comes from affirming solidarity with all one’s partners, even and especially the less-eminent ones." |
Andrew Sullivan reports, with help from Donald Luskin, that the word "blog" has been named the American Dialect Society's second favorite coinage of 2002 and the one "most likely to succeed." Sullivan's comment: "I'll say." |
Joi Ito says we're "at a very exciting point in the history of the future," that smart hardware companies should be supporting open standards and letting users create content, and, importantly, that he's going to put his fund's money where his mouth is and "invest the rest of the $15mm I have into companies that develop things are end-to-end stupid network oriented, open standards compliant, blog community supportive, non-proprietary OS based and generally un-evil."
He also issues a charge to those working within existing harware companies: "Now that we have blogs to talk on, engage us in the dialog and try to break open mobile devices and consumer electronics platforms and get them to take advantage of the most talented group of unemployedself-employed developers since before the bubble." |
Alex Halavais reports he's been talking to Liz Lawley about applying for NSF funding for a new research center devoted to microcontent publishing, or blogging, and says he sees "it as partially an incubator and partially a bridge." |
Stefan Sharkansky shares an observation made by Joanne Jacobs at a gathering of bloggers in San Francisco in which she noted that she's generally found journalists similar in their background, personality types, and attitudes, as opposed to the blogosphere where she's found "a lot of 'very smart people' with a wide variety of backgrounds and knowledge." |
John Jorsett chimes in on a discussion about the inevitable backlash against Glenn Reynolds: "I'd term this the Rush Limbaugh effect... I think there's an instinctive reaction by 'the mainstream' to pound down the upstart nails that have the audacity to protrude, regardless of ideology." |
Andrew Sullivan says of the news that the New York Times is working on an article on Glenn Reynolds, that it's "no surprise that Howell Raines might despise the blogosphere. It's done more to expose his trashing of the Times' reputation for accuracy, honesty and balance than many others." |
Steve Himmer ponders blog ettiquette after a prominent blogger cited something he'd sent him without pointing back to his site: "By not linking, is this blogger 'breaking' the web, or are they defining it in their own legitimate, responsible terms?"
Later in the same post, "In all of the conversation about trackback and comments and connections and 'sticky strands,' where do we leave room for those who just want to do their own thing, those more interested in monologues than conversations?" |
Shelley Powers, in kicking off a discussion about Trackback: "I feel it it my bones: 2003 will be the Year of Linking Dangerously. It will be the year that we reject page ranks and popularity-based 's/he with the most links bubbles to the top of the heap' skimmers." |
The Register reports on an Irish company that's rolling out mo-blogging software. CEO Paddy Holahan: "We think in the short term network operators will see this as an immediate way of capitalising on the new wave of camera phones."
Dave Winer's thoughts on the news: "The right way to do this, imho, is to connect the phone-to-weblog software through the MetaWeblog API, that way existing weblog users could participate, and new users would have choice of backend software." |
Thomas Spencer says, in a comment about the discussion that's broken out in recent days over Instapundit's alleged decline in traffic, that many lefty bloggers "have decided that he is becoming the Bill O'Reilly of the blogosphere." |
Greg Beato has done a quick analysis of the news of the past year to see how many times individual bloggers were cited in the mainstream press: "It does indeed appear that blogs - and specifically politically oriented blogs - got quite a bit of attention in 2002." |
Dan Gillmor on moblogging and some ideas he has for how news organizations might put them to good use: "The future of news is being invented as we speak."
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Patrick Nielsen Hayden on the growing use of blogs as promotional tools by authors: "As a publishing professional I'm fascinated by these probings into webloggery... most authors build their audience slowly... and accumulating readers who feel a sense of personal connection is very important." |
Jeff Jarvis asks if Chris Locke is the Hunter Thompson of blogs: "[He] announces with great fanfare on Dec. 20 that he's starting another blog at Corante. Many bow down in gratitude. Then he disappears..." [The facts, as we know them: computer problems are dogging Chris - he should be back soon.] |
Halley Suitt, in a discussion on Joi Ito's site, sings the praises of "VOICE": "The only thing I want people to do when they visit my blog is to feel like they just got a love letter from ME and even if I didn't sign it, they would know it was from me and no one else." |
Marc Canter says that for people to be able to make money from blogs, "we need to cluster content - into comprehensive 'publications' or collectives - to not only simplify the process of paying for content, but also enable true 'e-zines' to emerge." |
Adina Levin articulates what differentiates the blogosphere from the mediums that have come before: "The weblog network is a mesh of communities with overlapping and shifting memberships; each subcommunity has its connectors and popular voices." |
Ross Mayfield says, in proposing a "Blog-buddy System," that "one of the challenges in getting people from truly different walks of life to take up blogging is finding a mentor. Most new technologies require informal network support." |
Nick Denton: "Weblogs are a gigantic interlinked discussion forum, in which it's trivially easy to route around idiots."
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John Scalzi, who reports that the book he was going to serialize via his blog won't be and instead that he's been signed to a two-book book deal: "The fact this sale was possible at all is yet another example of the maturation of the online medium." |
Denise Howell says that Howard Bashman has created "a previously unheard of inside channel to the nation's appellate judiciary." The reason for the trust he's earned: "The weblog has allowed all the delicate conditions necessary for this -- voice, audience, editorial and technological control -- to converge."
Later, in a comment on the speed with which Howard's readers weighed in on a California case, she says that "the weblog format is utterly unique in its ability to engender discussions like this in the legal field, discussions unhindered by geography or the particular professional, governmental or academic institution the participants call 'home.'" |
Evan Williams says, of the news that AOL may soon be offering blogs to its users, that Blogger has "firsthand knowledge that AOL has been looking at the space." His guess on what they're up to: "They will release something called blogs, or some derivative of the term... [and] co-opt the term to rehash something they already have." |
Ross Mayfield, who's just completed a map of the social network of Ryze's Blog Tribe, says that blogs aren't currently designed as networking tools given "identities are not explicit (save for a person's URL), and transaction costs are higher for linking from an identity to another." |
Jeff Jarvis, who describes himself often as a populist, on AOL's pending launch of blogtools: "Blogging will explode... But when everyone blogs, no one will feel special." Not to worry, he concludes, "that quality thing will take hold," and "only the cream will rise." |
Mark Anderson weighs in on the role bloggers played in the Trent Lott affair: "The question facing the blogging community in the wake of its first flush of success is: where are the writers who will bring the medium into maturity through their willingness to tackle broader subjects with the doggedness of true journalism...?" |
Susannah Breslin, who says in her next post that "sex blogs are very hot right now," is looking for someone in LA who's "blogging alternatively, pushing at the boundaries of the medium" for an upcoming panel discussion she's co-producing for Rhizome.
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Jim McClellan, in an article in the Guardian on lots of subjects of interest to bloggers, says that via blogs "we're seeing the rise of a kind of twenty first century Usenet - more focused, more responsive, more integrated into the rest of the online world." |
Steven Johnson likens his experience blogging over the past few months to an "intellectual version of going to the gym: having to post responses and ideas on a semi-regular basis, and having those ideas sharpened or shot down by such smart people, flexes the thinking/writing muscles in a great way." |
Rafat Ali speculates on blog mergers and acquisitions, including Corante's, in 2003: "The New Year could be the year when brand-name media companies bought out name-brand blogs."
[I can be reached directly at hylton@corante.com. Ha ha. [While I'm waxing parenthetical and self-referential, check out the Boston Globe the other day for a Copyfight/Donna Wentworth mention.]] |
Joe Gregorio on blogging, Google, emergence, memetics, and stigmergy: "The weblog has got to be the single most inefficient mechanism for communication that has even been invented. Webloggers should be committed en masse." But, he continues, "there's only one problem: It works..." |
Ken Layne, who's working on a print publication for the first time in seven years and says the experience has renewed his faith in blogs: "Web media, especially the "thin media" my pal Henry likes to talk about, is so much more alive than print publications."
He continues: "Print pubs are relics, aren't they? Relics of last week and relics of a time when the only way to widely distribute media was to chop down a tree, pulp it, buy ink, run it all through a machine, and have a crew of laborers haul it around the city or country or world. Nuts to that." |
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