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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
Gary Turner: "I go through phases where I'm drawn to a particular group of blogs more than others. Then those phases pass and I find I'm hovering around another small cluster of blogs, and so the pattern seems to go."
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Ray Ozzie on how companies might handle employees' blogs: "If the blogger is ultimately sued for libel, the plaintiff may very well claim that the corporation is also liable ... not a totally specious position." |
Jeff Jarvis after a visit to the doctor: "...I suffer from blog elbow. I'm calling the New England Journal of Medicine."
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Jonathan Delacour: "This will be my last post for a while. I’ve decided to take an extended break from weblogging in order to focus on other projects... I hope to catch up with you again at some point in the future."
Shelley Powers on the news: "I have lost people from my neighborhood, weblogs gone silent, emails unanswered and each time, there's a hollowness where they were, though I respect their decisions to leave." |
Glenn Reynolds: "The nice thing about a blog: it lets you indulge in the kind of monomania that a newspaper seldom can."
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Dave Winer, in his essay on what makes a blog a blog: "Weblogs are unique in that only a weblog gives you a publication where your ideas can stand alone without interference. It gives the public writer a kind of relaxation not available in other forms."
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Brad Fitzpatrick of LiveJournal: "I know there are a lot of people out there saying we're lazy bums who don't know what we're doing. We kinda deserve it. The site has been slow on and off a lot lately. But, we are working hard on it, and hardly sleeping."
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Jay Rosen, a journalism professor at NYU, on the fallout from the Jayson Blair affair: "For a long time journalists haven't had to explain very much how they do things... The Internet has created the expectation that news organizations can be interacted with, can be questioned." |
Joshua Allen in a post on whether top executives will find the blogs of their employees of interest: "As soon as people get the impression that their CEO is looking to blogs for insights, people will start trying to influence their CEO via their blogs." |
Don Park: "If today's Blogland is LA, tommorrow's Blogland will look like NY with skyscapers reaching for the sky. By a skyscraper, I mean a nested group of blogs forming a hierarchical structure."
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Henry Copeland shares the text of his talk at blogTalk: "If we can begin to construct ways to measure hubness and passion, bloggers stand a good chance of leading an advertising revolution that matches their publishing revolution." |
Pierre Omidyar on the trust in government that's missing: "Institutions need to be personalized... A commenter on this site has said "blog for the people." I think that's what he's trying to say: give the people more access to leaders, so we can begin to trust you." |
Azeem Azhar comments on his involvement in 20six: "Last week, returning from a dinner, I mentioned my new venture to my cab driver. 'An internet business?' he replied, 'Do they still do those?' We certainly do..." |
David Weinberger follows up on Rebecca Blood's comments about the echo chamber nature of blogs: "Because we can only understand the new in terms of the familiar..., agreement is the ground on which learning can occur." |
Ross Mayfield: "20six takes advantage of the innovation in the wireless sector that's happening everywhere except the US to extend blogging to the masses in a new way."
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Mark Federman again, on effectiveness of advertising in blogs: "Before we rush out and license our blogs to the highest bidder... we have to remember that the effect is destroyed the moment we notice."
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Mark Federman: "Blogs that come to be noticed are those which are cited, that is linked-to, interestingly mirroring the best academic tradition. This is the highest form of editorial oversight - peer review." |
Shelley Powers: "Dave Winer uses his Harvard weblog, and we assume the clout and prestige of his Harvard position, to push the weblogging industry into backing his versions of both RSS and a Weblogging MetaAPI."
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JD Lasica: "The saddest bloggers in the land must be the four newspaper bloggers at the Albuquerque Journal who reside behind a paid registration wall... a blogger who's cut off from the blogosphere has got to feel a bit unspecial." |
Dave Winer on blog formats and protocols: "My position is fairly simple. When one of the blogging tools vendors goes first, if the others implement what they've done, compatibly, then they should use the same name."
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Reuters reports: "A trio of European dot-com survivors have embarked on one of the Internet's promising, but niche, new businesses as they launched on Wednesday a Web publishing business for Internet diarists..." (Thanks, Rafat)
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Steve Gillmor: "Forgive me if you think weblog stories about weblogs are just so much inside baseball. Of course they are, but the emerging direct publishing platform is rapidly becoming the national pastime in more than name only." |
Chris Brown: "With the ever increasing bandwidth of really personal feelings being put on the web in the form of blogs and the means to index and search for these feelings it will bring more power and experiences to the people."
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Joshua Ellis: "My personal experience as both a blogger and professional journalist is that the level of quality in the blogosphere is pretty much on par with the mainstream media - which perhaps says more about the mainstream media than anything else."
Later, on what the general democratization of media portends for independent creators: "It's an opportunity for distribution and collaboration unparalleled in the history of media." |
Simon Phipps: "How does one penetrate the 'inner circle' of weblogs?... The world of blogging is not one big happy family and the fact I am not part of the factions seems to have something to do with it too."
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James Lileks on the the booing of New York Times reporter Chris Hedges' commencement speech: "It’s an old-media/new-media moment... The college students in the audience grew up with the internet; they have spent their college years in chatrooms and blogs. Email’s been around since they were in kindergarten. They are wired for instant feedback." |
Derek Slater, an undergrad at Harvard, compares his schoolgoing to his blogging: "When my coursework peaks, I turn into a person I don't entirely like... Blogging is the complete opposite. It's low pressure and collaborative - the atmosphere makes me want to work harder, study more..." |
Jack Balkin, Yale law professor and blogger: "I was walking out of the Law School building a little before five o'clock in the afternoon with Jim Ryan to get some coffee when we both heard a big explosion from the Yale Law School buliding..." |
Jared Blank, a senior analyst at Jupiter, reports on marketing efforts he undertook to promote his blog. His wife's comment: "Wait... you're going to pay Google to drive traffic to your Web site, and you're not going to make any money from it?" His response: I admit it sounded funny when she put it that way..."
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Nick Denton shares the comment of a print journalist who's realized his medium lacks a feedback mechanism: "We just don't have the rebuttal space. Bloggers always have the last word." |
Dan Gillmor reports on a visit to Google's offices: "A project is under way to create a superior method to help people find, sort and make better use of the content that all those webloggers are creating."
Also worth noting: "Sergey Brin said there were no plans to segregate weblog content from the main search engine results."
[Sorry about yesterday - DOS attack on our hosting company had Corante down and me grumpy.] |
StavrostheWonderChicken on South Korea's OhMyNews.com: "[It's] more like a less-sophisticated kuro5hin.org for the Korean non-geeknoscenti, in my humble. Interesting, but more as a concept than a reality." |
Julius Caesar on May 14th: "This site is two years old today. Thanks to all my readers for following along - your support and feedback are a constant delight."
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Tom Coates hypothesizes: "For any given body of information on weblogs, no matter the rate of replication of information or the number of people who post exactly the same comments, close to 100% of the available insight can be reviewed by reading a disproportionately small number of sites."
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Josh Koenig says that "the personal-publishing revolution is leading to a more fully disclosed, transparent and diverse society... People need to talk about shit, and posting online is a good exercise in this." |
Joi Ito on the criticism he's been getting: "I am not trying to mislead anyone. Trying to cover my ass too much is probably just as dishonest as deliberately misleading people."
Josh Ellis' follow-up comment: "You are a wicked, wicked man, and the bane of civilized investing. You are hereby sentenced to watch Wall Street sixteen times, especially the whole Gordon Gecko "greed is good" speech, before blogging again." |
Dana Blankenhorn on blogging: "What's remarkable, what is revolutionary, is that by trial and error, hundreds of thousands (maybe millions) of people are acquiring the skills of journalism." |
Jonathan Peterson jumps into the googlewashing fray: "The folks building blogs and blogging tools understand how the web works and build appropriate tools, the folks in charge of "legitimate" content sources are overwhelmingly driven by business needs." |
Tim Oren lays out his personal blogrules and chides those who might resent top bloggers: "If the idea that some people are more interesting than others offends you, too bad. The 'A-list' is there because they write articulately about interesting lives. Why don't you get one?" |
Steven Johnson in commentary in Wired on the architecture of blog space: "The Web remains a space of functionally infinite data, but that space is increasingly mapped by human minds, linked in ways we're only beginning to imagine." |
Doc Searls, in commentary on Google and whether they're favoring blogs over traditional pubs: "In the ecology of News & Commentary, the News side is largely unchanged. The Commentary side has changed enormously..." |
Dan Gillmor on South Korea's OhMyNews: "The easy coexistence of the amateurs and professionals will, soon enough, seem natural."
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Ross Mayfield on the value of informality: "If there is one factor that keeps great voices from emerging in blogspace and holds back the development of new journalism, its the blurred distinction between informal and formal speech..."
Pierre Omidyar follows up: "Now that I know more people are watching what I post, I'm more hesitant to post informally. I want to, but it seems risky at a personal level." |
Michael Hall says he's eager for blogs to win general credibility but that "if they can't be counted on to do something as simple as provide a reliable way for readers to learn when an error has been made and corrected, it's going to be hard." |
Doc Searls says he agrees with Bill Thompson's piece yesterday finding fault in the over-reporting of ETCON by bloggers: "Somehow the sum of the parts was less than the whole. And I say that even though I'd much rather have that pile of parts than the near-nothing we had before the days of blogs and wi-fi."
Later, in the same post, on the general dialogue taking place in the blogosphere: "Here's the real bottom line: Being in a conversation beats being out of one." |
Clay Shirky, in a discussion next door on the ugliness of email and wikis: "Weblogs are in many ways too pretty... making even uninteresting content look important." |
Dana Blankenhorn, in proposing a way blogs might make money from advertising: "Blogs need some sort of shared-registration scheme... Users should have one place where they can tell the blogosphere what their interests are, what kinds of pitches they might listen to." |
Frederick Marckini in an article by Joanna Glasner on the impact blogs are having on Google: "The Web is absolutely the great equalizer. Good content rises to the top on the Internet. It doesn't matter if the medium is a blog or a corporate Web page." |
Glenn Reynolds, who's about to appear on a C-SPAN segment on blogs: "I love their division of callers into three categories: people who agree or disagree with Bush, and then 'bloggers.' That seems about right." |
Curt Siffert says we've got it all wrong on: "Basically, we're making the conversation subservient to the posts. Shouldn't it be the other way around?" |
Bill Thompson, in commentary critical of blogs in general, on A-listers: "These people are not quite an aristocracy. Perhaps they are simply the blogeoisie (pronounced bloj-wah-zee), a dominant class in network society." |
Brad Zellar, a senior editor at City Pages on the addition of blogs to their website: "Ultimately I really think -- and hope -- that it'll be just one more way to make the paper more interesting to people and to engage those people who do stumble into the place in some kind of freewheeling dialogue." |
Clive Thompson, in discussing South Korea's OhMyNews.com, the democratization of media and the role of reputation management in P2P journalism: "I love this... this concept -- user-generated news -- is going to increase in size and importance, worldwide." |
Bill Hobbs, who covers Internet news for Corante, shares an interesting tidbit on his own blog: Tennesse state senator Curtis Person, about whom Bill discloses he's written favorably in the past but criticizes in this post, sent him "a $100 check last year when I was seeking support from readers to upgrade to a new PC so I could keep doing the blog." |
Jonathan Peterson, in pointing to a Frontline story on white collar crime: "Perhaps the right model for future journalism is some sort of virtuous cycle between blogging and public broadcast journalism?" |
Evan Williams says even he hasn't quite figure out his feelings on posting about company news: "...But then a bunch of bullshit gets flung around, and I feel the need. And then I change my mind." |
Joi Ito reports on his discussion with Dan Gillmor about his forthcoming book: "My thought was that journalism is defined in the constitution and is a part of democracy. Dan's notion is that the Net and blogging is changing the nature of journalism which in turn has a huge impact on society and democracy."
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David Appell, who's written for Salon, New Scientist and Discover, says he's got an article he's looking to sell but that instead of approaching a major pub wants to try an experiment in independent journalism: "If I can raise $200 in contributions from my readers, I'll report the story here first..." |
Arnold Kling with a different view of the media consolidation debate than Donna: "If webloggers launch a campaign against media mergers, isn't that sort of an oxymoron? I mean, how can we say that big media is a threat when we're cleaning their clocks?" |
Jeff Jarvis, in commenting that blogs are revolutionary and could bring change to Iraq, Iran and elsewhere: "Weblogs are not just the hottest trend on the trend-addicted Internet, they are a powerful tool for free speech, a free press, and democracy." |
Dana Blankenhorn lauds Dave Winer's piece yesterday on the demise of the tech press and readers' migration to blogs: "The plain fact is that the computer press, from its inception, had just one audience -- vendors. Whenever the interests of users and vendors diverged, the computer press followed the vendors." |
Donald Luskin: "If blogging is the next killer app of the Internet -- or more important, if it is a fundamental change-the-world innovation in media and journalism, then we have our work cut out for us, and we have our opportunity. We are like the cobblers who have discovered the land where no one wears shoes -- yet."
His conclusion: "If you're a blogger, or even if you just get some of your news and opinions from blogs -- take a moment to be proud of what you are part of. It really is a force for good. It really is revolutionary. And it really is just beginning." |
Evan Williams reports on why Blogger's site came first in a Google search: "It was just because blogger.com's PageRank has been artificially raised, so we'll get more traffic..."
He says, on a more serious note, of the Great Power Law Debate that although "a power law is inevitable... the software can influence the degree of drop off at the tail... We're actually thinking a lot about how to fatten the tail in the blogging world." |
Natalia, a high school junior interviewed for a Christian Science Monitor piece on the use of blogs by teenagers: "It's an outlet for ideas and thoughts that don't have another place to go..."
Meg Hourihan, in the same article: "It's a great way for quieter, shy kids to participate... [Blogs] take away the advantage from the loudest person and highlight people who actually add something to the conversation." |
Alison Brooks in Newsweek on the arrest of Sina Motallebi: "[He] has become a symbol — to the Iranian government as well as to his supporters — of the Internet-savvy Iranian youth growing in numbers, of their need for a space for self-expression, and of a repressive government crackdown on any structure that creates such a space."
Hossein Derakhshan adds that "weblogging has opened a whole new window for self-expression [in Iran]" and later in the article that "until the press is free, weblogs will continue to flourish." |
Paul Syznol, in making the argument for why Google shouldn't ghettoize blogs: "I don't think it is is wise or even reasonable to determine the value of information solely by the manner in which it is presented. The value of information is determined by content, not format." |
Dan Gillmor on the Technorati API: "Technorati is rapidly becoming the early-warning system for the blogosphere's most interesting news. This can add to the wealth of possibilities."
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Dave Sifry announces the Technorati API: "I created [it] to help foster creative ideas and developers [and] I didn't want to become a bottleneck between you and the data."
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Allan Karl: "While considered primarily a personal, non-promotional and egalitarian 'tool,' you can be assured that corporate America has its eyes focused closely on what has become a pop-culture trend that crosses a number of demo-graphical boundaries."
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Jason Shellen on BIG (Blogger in Google): " A tip for all you smaller web services who get purchased by larger companies, release an internal tool that your co-workers can't live without!"
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Elizabeth Spiers of Gawker (and a growing number of other pubs): "It has become fairly obvious to us that most of you are reading Gawker on weekdays between the hours of 9 and 5... as of next week, Gawker will cease publishing on the weekends." |
Zack Lynch discusses the misreading of a recent post of his, says "blogging is a real-time social sport" and concludes: "The moral of the story for me is, choose my words more carefully. But I won't, because that would ruin the real-time fun we are all having." |
Phil Ringnalda with an idea for Google and how they consider blogs: "By treating any URL that appears in a changes.xml file as the front page of a weblog, Google could more intelligently handle weblogs..." |
Dan Verton reports that blogs are "increasingly being used to support the intelligence-sharing requirements of homeland security efforts."
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Donna Wentworth follows up on Dave Winer's piece on the impact blogs may have on the next New Hampshire primary with a call to action on the FCC's early June reconsideration of regulations governing the media industry: "When the proposed rules are released, let's write ourselves out of the margin."
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Esther Dyson's back: "It's well-known that most blogs die in infancy... but I couldn't bear to let that happen to this one..."
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David Weinberger on the sensitive approach a reader took in trying to promote his product: "[He] played me like a trout. In the best sense." |
Halley Suitt reports on a blog-gathering: "One more blogger meeting proving nothing beats the real meet and greet."
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Dave Winer: "I'm in a good mood because my fellowship was renewed for another year. Yehi, I get to stay and play."
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Todd Brehe exhorts businesses to start blogging but warns neophytes that it is "a cosmic shift from the marketing and public relations materials that are the staple of business communications."
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Jeff Jarvis, in relaying the news that Sina Motallebi has been released from prison, says that "every weblogger is now on warning... then again, the mullahs are on warning, too: The whole online world is watching." |
Bill Hobbs, a senior editor for us, reports on his journalistic endeavors over the weekend and attention paid him by Glenn Reynolds and others: "Every so often, the blogosphere amazes me... The past two days, it did it again..." |
Joi Ito relays a thought triggered by a visit from Dan Gillmor: "What I really want is a text to speech to mp3 converter that took my RSS feed and dumped it into an mp3 file that I could listen to my iPod on the way to work." |
Hossein Derakhshan: "This evening, at 8 PM, Persian bloggers in 11 cities of the world are meeting for the first time. Thanks to the fantastic Meetup.com."
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An anonymous blogger in Tehran: "I am glad that I live in the 21st century when injustice could be heard all around the world, just by a few words in your weblog."
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Glenn Reynolds on the Jayson Blair/New York Times episode: "If you look to the upper left, you'll see that I've taken down the quote from Pravda about InstaPundit being 'The New York Times of the bloggers.' It just didn't feel right, anymore." |
Jason Kottke: "I got extremely accustomed to not posting... I almost didn't start up again. Maybe I'll quit again soon."
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JD Lasica calls a New York Times article on the failure of new media "clueless," citing as evidence that "apart from commercial enterprises, more than half a million weblogs have taken off and are increasingly becoming a staple of countless readers' daily routines." |
Evan Williams on Andrew Orlowski's recent article speculating that Google's going to omit blogs from inclusion in its primary search: "As far as I know, [he] is full of crap." |
Ross Mayfield says Clay Shirky has entered a "world of hurt" in challenging him to the great power law distribution debate: "You ignorant slut. You have preferential attachment backassward."
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Chuck Olsen, who reports he was approaching people in Times Square and asking if they'd heard of blogs: "Fortunately, the vast majority of people have no idea. So my blogumentary might be vaguely relevant for another 30 seconds."
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Charles Cooper: "That a 'nobody' like [Salam Pax] wound up providing a more nuanced view of his world - better than either the authoritarian inanities of the Iraqi information minister or the Geraldo-besotted dispatches of the commercial television networks - testifies both to the specific value of weblogging as well as to the broader impact the Internet may yet have around the world."
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Ross Mayfield: "The number of people under-hyping social software grossly outweights those hyping it. Most of these folks must enjoy being able to talk about hype threat of something besides blogging."
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Kevin Werbach, in discussing the ascendance of decentralization: "The Net gives local and independent content creators the ability to compete against the domainant corporate media, not by building walls but by leveling the playing field."
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Andrew Orlowski on Google's new blogsearch engine on the way: "It isn't clear if weblogs will be removed from the main search results, but precedent suggests they will be."
Also cited: Chris Roddy, a critic of the attention Google pays to blogs: "When a major political or social event happens, Google is noised to the brim with blogs and you have to start at result number 40 or so before you get past the blogs." |
News.com on the rumors that AOL had hundreds working on its blog app: "Those familiar with AOL's plans called the head count reported on Winer's blog implausible at best." |
Dana Blankenhorn on blogging: "The implications of this are as profound as the implications of the Web itself... To call blogging journalism is to damn it with very faint praise indeed."
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Allan Karl, as his blog turns one: "In blogs there are no rules... the only responsibility you have is to yourself and/or to your collective collaborators, sponsors or anyone/thing of your choosing."
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Mary Jo Foley: "With one foot in the consumer world, and the other in the business realm, Microsoft seems to be hedging its bets as to how to capitalize on Weblogmania."
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Andy Ihnatko, in an article in the Chicago Sun-Times: "Today, getting a Weblog up and running is about as challenging as buying a Coke from a vending machine."
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Jack Schofield writes, in the Guardian, "If there is a new type of social software emerging, it is clearly emerging from the blogging world." |
Howard Bashman on his blog's one-year anniversary: "I can assure you that no one is more amazed at the success this Web log has met with in just one year than I am." |
Salam Pax is back: "If you are reading this it means that things have gone as I hope and either Diana or my cousin has posted to the blog..."
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Dave Winer passes along a report on AOL's blog effort: "[They have] decided that weblogs are the next killer app, and that most of the work at the Mountain View office was going into building a weblog component for AOL." |
Liz Lawley in pulling together commentary on the just-launched LinkedIn: "I still find it amazing to see how quickly a web of public, participatory discussion and debate can form with blogs as the medium." |
Derek Lowe reports that several leading academic researchers are "are proposing something for the scientific literature that every blog reader is familiar with: an online comments section... I hope it catches on." |
Mark Anderson, with more: "Some people, judging from a perusal of all of the available options in the blogosphere, just plain seem to know beyond a shadow of a doubt why they do it: they have, to themselves and their daily visitors, cornered a market on truth, and have found a way to show that fact to the world."
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Curtis Leung follows up on Mark Anderson's piece on the use of polemics in blogs, saying: "the active investigative and polemical weblogs Mark envisions--or some other contemporary equilavent of the classic political pamphlet--are necessary conditions of a more activist community, but not sufficient ones..."
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Rebecca Fox on "Tamagotchi journalism": "To get any joy from the toys, users had to sustain them through constant ministration...What if the same held true for certain kinds of journalism?" |
Howard Rheingold in an article on moblogging: "Blogs are not as powerful as the mass media --yet... but I expect many-to-many media to bloom as mobile devices enable many people to report what is happening on the street."
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[Got 15 minutes to spare? Consider filling out this survey on blogging from researchers at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville and Southern Illinois University-Carbondale.] |
David Galbraith's observation: "It seems that even the mainstream press are now saying that weblogging constitutes something more important than personal online diaries." |
Jill Walker translates an article by Rune Røsten in which he described how blogs outdid traditional media in reporting on a speech by Bill Gates: "The journalists... didn't check the original speech but reproduced misinterpretations of it from other media. The bloggers Røsten cites linked directly to the speech... And they're unpretentious." |
Dave Winer relays John Perry Barlow's take on blogging: "He said he thought weblogs are like poetry when he was in college, lots of people writing, very few people reading."
Winer's follow-up: "Instead of comparing it to poetry, compare it to something more prosaic, like a telephone." |
Stowe Boyd on the line PR flacks may be crossing as they turn their attention to blogs: "Interaction in Blogland is personal, and in principle what is said -- or what links are created -- are a representation of your personal perspectives." But, he adds, "there is a way to do this, open and above board, that doesn't stink like the Raging Cow mess." |
Phil Ringnalda: "Every time I think about categorizing my blogroll, or try to remember why I added someone, I come to the same conclusion: I like generous people who produce things, and explain things. Not because they explain why they are right, or because they explain why someone else is wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, and wrong again..."
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"Dolphin Masanobu," in an article by Justin Hall and and Jane Pinckard on amateur-created wireless content: "Most people live life by hiding their intentions. But I take as my theme the variety of the mundane. To write about human emotions is to feel gratification." |
Halley Suitt, in referencing Eric Raymond, catblogs and open source: "Blogging is parallel processing, one networked brain made of many, e pluribus unum, with feline fur." |
Matt Tomkins says his initial high hopes for Always-On have faded: "The site’s founders have simply used an old Silicon Valley trick of trying to hook their wagon to the fastest horse." |
Joi Ito responds to an article by Andrew Orlowski: "I really don't see how the investment lessens my commitment to talking to everyone and sharing. In fact, I think that now that I have my money where my mouth is and it should increase my commitment to blogging generally."
Steve Anderson, in the comments, with a different point of view: "Andrew was dead-on... Given the lack of critical thinking, cult-of-personality and band-aid 'conversations,' the complete misunderstanding of markets, and 'true believer' concepts, bust is a given."
Anil Dash's response: "Steve, bide your time for a few months, or a year, and see if you think we're hyping something useless then... [It] isn't a bubble, isn't the hype of cultists, it's the confidence of people who know they've found something significant and important." |
Jeff Jarvis asks why the New York Times, Washington Post and others haven't written about the arrest of the Iranian journalist and blogger Sina Motallebi: "They all did stories about weblogging when it was new and interesting and fun... Well, now it matters."
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Meg Hourihan: "It's hard to believe but megnut is 4 years old today!... I can't imagine life without this site."
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Eric Meyer to JD Lasica on the Hartford Courant's banning of its reporter's blog: "It's about time for all those Webloggers out there -- you included -- to start chilling out. Even the former Iraqi information minister would have to bow in admiration to the amount of hyperbole being slung around..."
JD's response: "Those of us who love newspapers wonder why fewer people trust the news media these days. We express puzzlement at why more and more talented journalists are leaving the profession. Some of the answers can be gleaned from this single episode of big media hypocrisy." |
Will Richardson: "We've come up with some truly creative ways to use Web logs in our classrooms. But as our ideas move from lessons to classrooms to schools to disctricts, I have a feeling we're going to be talking much more about the implementation and marketing of the technology from here on out." |
Pierre Omidyar, in discussing the personal nature of blogging and how it might impact companies and causes with which he's affiliated: "I am obviously very committed professionally to a couple of institutions, both for-profit and non-profit... But what I say here shouldn't be interpreted as me speaking for any of [those] institutions." |
Amy Campbell on blogs and and free speech: "I do wonder and worry what happens when they become the only channel of free speech and what would keep the feds from shutting down blogs or websites under anti-terrorist Patriot-Act style powers." |
Jonathan Peterson: "I doubt that any candidate's personal blog is going to have any kind of impact on the next presidential election, but there is no doubt that the grassroots money raising and consensus building/destroying that blogs enable are going to play a part. "
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Paul Philp, who's recently launched his new blog: "Blogs are to web services what the spreadsheet was to the personal computer - a good start." |
Mena Trott on an idea she presented to Jeff Bezos at ETCON: "Regardless of the outcome, it's nice enough to see that even the biggest players online have enough respect for weblogs to at least consider the idea."
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Dave Winer on Joi Ito's recent investment in Six Apart, developer of Moveable Type: "I hope we work together to elevate the competition in this space... I'd like to be in a position to cheer when any of the companies in this space wins." |
Matt Morse in offering up some blogging pointers: "Pick a topic. Good topics include anything that you are likely to launch into unprovoked speeches about. If it's gotten to the stage where talking about it annoys your SO, relatives, and friends, that's a good sign."
Thanks to Donna, who says, "The picture Matt paints of weblog writers isn't terribly flattering, to be sure. Yet I like what he's dared to imply: that human desire is a natural fuel source in this space."
Eugene Volokh's initial thoughts on how to build readership for one's blog: "Trying to sell your blog to a stranger is like trying to sell anything else to a stranger -- it's a reasonable thing to try to do, but the stranger can feel free to just ignore you." |
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