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This section's edited by Hylton Jolliffe, the founder, editor and publisher of Corante.
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CORANTE ON BLOGGING: In media res
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By Hylton Jolliffe
Rich Miller on the Wired story on the protection from libel claims blogs enjoy: "I expect the line that's being drawn here will get blurred as weblog business models evolve and we see more original niche news content being created by Bloggers." |
Steve Safran on the regard with which he and his fellow journalists are seen: "We have a reputation that must be at an all-time low... We can repair that reputation, blog by blog."
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Ben Trott, in laying out the reasons why Six Apart's in favor of Echo: "We've all learned a lot about how we're using RSS, and we can apply this knowledge to creating a new format built by the community without any of the baggage--political or technical--that has been built up over the years." |
Don Park: "As I streak across the sky called life, I pickup debris that will slow me down or change my direction unless I cast it aside. My blog is the long tail of a comet called me."
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Dave Winer: "Scripting News is taking a break... The lack of support, even name-calling, from people who think of themselves as my friend, has got me thinking that maybe this isn't worth it." |
The Oddpost folks: "The cruel fate of the software engineer is that you can win PC Magazine's Editor's Choice Award and PC World's World Class Award... yet remain entirely unknown to Halle Berry. So who should we kiss instead? Thus far, our sorry options may or may not include this guy and this... dude?"
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Dave Winer on Tim Bray and fallout from Echo: "Because of what he did, control of RSS will go to the BigCo's, probably Microsoft, possibly a battle between IBM, Microsoft and Google."
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Dave Winer on the inclusion of Blogger's BlogThis feature in Google's toolbar: "Users of [other blog software] would love to have this functionality not just work with your blogging tool, but with all blogging tools... what a lost opportunity..."
Anil Dash: "Google has always been community oriented. I think they'll do the right thing." |
David Weinberger reports he was pitched by a PR agency: "I heard back from the PR guy who sent it to me. They went through MediaMap and sent the pitch to about 25 bloggers and 100 media outlets." |
Tim Bray: "I am worried about the next-gen syndication process rooted in Sam’s Wiki is in danger of going seriously off the rails, because some of the participants have got the loony idea that it’s about trying to invent new technology or improve RSS."
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Gretchen Pirillo's taken a blog vacation: "By now, you've noticed that I haven't been blogging much. I think of the things I normally used to think of that made me dash to my keyboard, and I contemplate... 'Who really cares?'" |
Sam Ruby, leading the charge on Echo: "Let's put aside our differences and work together to achieve these goals."
Jason Shellen: "As quiet observers of this initiative thus far, we at Blogger would like to cast our vote in favor of this process and commend Sam on his efforts."
Mena Trott: "All signs point to the future success of this new format and its companion API, and we plan to integrate them into both TypePad and Movable Type in the future."
Dave Sifry: "I think this is a really good thing, and I'm looking forward to participating in this process. Technorati will support it."
Dave Winer: "I can support Echo because it appears to be respecting the Roadmap in RSS 2.0. That's much appreciated. Thank you." |
Doc Searls: "I'm tired of blogging about blogging. I kinda OD'd on it in Boston a couple weeks back, at the bizblog conference there. Fun as it was, a room full of bloggers blogging about blogging, mostly (it seemed to me at the time) for each other, seemed almost a parody of a parody of itself." |
Evan Williams reports on a new feature: "Google Toolbar: now with BlogThis! Also: Pop-up blocker and form auto-fill. (In beta.)" |
Andy Bourland, who appears to have just set up his own blog, on his acquisition of groupblog MarketingFix.com: "We've got two companies combined: one that struggled and failed to find a business model that would sustain it, the other such a new form, that there IS no business model that's ever been tried. Nice challenge, huh?"
Rick Bruner on the news: "We're thrilled to death... Online media and marketing have a great future, and we couldn't be happier about having this front row seat." |
Joel Biroco on blogging: "[It's a] bit like having a birdtable in the garden, I like the idea of it, but I know I'd forget to refill the peanut bag and put out the crumbs and all those sparrows would be lined up on the fence looking at me like I should have a guilty conscience." |
Tom Coates on his obligation to his audience: "The next person who tries to tell me what I should and shouldn't be writing on my own site - which I produce for free and for which I ask nothing in exchange - is going to get a kick up the arse..." |
Steve MacLaughlin, in a new interview by Frank Paynter, on the recent Jupiter conference: "Bloggers sat on panels with other bloggers, some of which were blogging what was said, while other bloggers sat in the audience blogging about all of the blogging discussions... Yawn." |
Brink Lindsey, a few weeks ago: "I've lost the will to blog. Actually, I lost it some time ago, but I've been trudging along in hopes that I would find new inspiration..."
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William Gibson in an op-ed in the New York Times: "In the age of the leak and the blog, of evidence extraction and link discovery, truths will either out or be outed, later if not sooner... The future, wielding unimaginable tools of transparency, will have its way with you." |
Rafat Ali breaks the story that there's been an acquisition in blog media: "Andy Bourland is back... he has scooped up two media properties: Adventive, the family of business-oriented discussion groups; and MarketingFix, Rick Bruner and the gang's group-blog on online marketing."
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Mark Pilgrim: "The recent flap about 'funky RSS' just highlights the ongoing political quagmire of weblog tech, and the importance of having an open format that is not controlled by a single vendor."
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Anne Davis on the first time she saw blogs used in the classroom: "I thought, 'This is all about possibilities'... It's about listening, talking, collaborating, having a dialog."
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Dave Winer on the news that BBC has rolled out dozens of RSS feeds: "This is a milestone in the world of open syndication on the Internet. I can't recall a day when so much great content came on line."
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Ryan Pitts: "Why do each of us read our own list of bloggers? Because they point us in interesting directions and they filter information... We test our preconceptions against theirs, and come out better informed."
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[Corante's just launched a new classifieds service that's a fast, cheap and east way to get in front of the tens of thousands of people that read our industry digests. Alert our readers to upcoming events, job openings, company developments, etc. for just (tens of) dollars a day. More info here.] |
Marc Canter on the news that Ross Mayfield & Co. have raised an angel round of funding: "First SixApart, now SocialText. Gee I wonder who's next?..."
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John Patrick reports he's met with "quite a few" senior executives of major corporations in the past week or two "but not one had even heard of blogging. One said, 'blobbing?'..."
He goes on to discuss the growing density of the mediasphere: "This phenomenon is not a bug; it is a feature. Having so many channels allows us more choice, more breadth and depth, and more on demand information and expertise." |
Esther Dyson, a few weeks ago: "As a new blogger, I am learning that the only way to do it is to do it regularly..."
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Matthew Kirschenbaum: "It’s often said that the network has no memory, that everything online transpires in an ever-expanding state of the perpetual now. But that’s not really true..." |
Jeneane Sessum on the New York Times article on blogging: "If 'corporate weblogs' drown out the genuine voices here--we'll find a new place, and the brains and hearts will go there."
Tom Matrullo: "What exercised Jeneane was possibly the most inane piece about blogging to date, braying the news that corporations blog. Of course they do. Just as corporations think, care, love, fuck, sweat and smell, they blog." |
Michael Theodoulou on Iranian blogs in the Christian Science Monitor: "such online journals are a fascinating insight into a closed society, airing issues that may be taboo in public and revealing the underground lives of many young Iranians." |
Anita Hamilton in Time: "As phone cams spread like brush fire, phone-cam blogs are popping up all over the Web."
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Chris Lydon: "In the booming energy of blog world, we are glimpsing the fulfillment of an Emersonian vision: this democracy of outspoken individuals." |
Howard Rheingold, in pointing to an algorithm developed by Kevin Burton for exploring blog networks: "What are blogrolls but recommendation/reputation instruments and social network nodes?" |
Lee LeFever, who's just launched Common Craft: "Viewing a blog in the style of a bulletin board shifts (some) of the focus from the author to the participant." |
Bill O'Reilly: "The audience for dispassionate news is shrinking, and the demand for passionate reporting and analysis is on the rise."
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Mark Carey: "If GlobeAlive could combine efforts with Blog community sites, it could gain the users, and broader scope required for it to take off." |
Dave Sifry says Technorati's now keeping tabs on more than 400,000 blogs: "We hit 100,000 back on March 5, and 200,000 on April 6."
Andrew Anker on that news: "At this rate, there will be more than 6 million blogs by the end of the year."
Phil Wolff: "I expect Technorati's growth to accelerate until the blogosphere is mostly mapped; then we'll see periodic bursts as new clusters are discovered or services come online." |
Liz Lawley on "women's voices": "Every time someone like Shelley, or me, posts about our frustrations with trying to participate in white-male-dominated technical contexts, a whole bunch of white males immediately point out to us that of course it’s not about gender." |
Marc Canter: "Technorati is quickly becoming the Google of the blogosphere." |
Tom Shugart on Dorothea Salo: "She's articulated an unassailable reason for not having Comments on her blog. That doesn’t keep me from wishing she’d have a change of heart."
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Media Minded, earlier this month: "I'm fed up with blogging... I'll be logging off until sometime in July."
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Hal Pawluk writes in to alert people to his Tude.com: "The concept is that of a 'meta-blog' where bloggers could voice opinions that they might not ever post on their own sites..."
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Ken Layne, in a 'symposium' sponsored by Kevin Holtsberry on "Blogs and the media": "Only a tiny fraction of people read these blog things, so anybody who thinks they're a big deal should understand it doesn't much matter in the outside world." |
Ryan Pitts, of the Spokesman Review, in advocating the use of blogs: "Making our newsroom more transparent humanizes us, turn us into something more than just 'the media.'" |
Alan Meckler says, in a NY Times piece on corporate blogging, that under advice from his lawyers and objections from vendors he had to tone down his blog: "I'm not stirring the pot anymore, which isn't my nature." |
Mary Jo Foley reports "Microsoft corporate is beginning to take more of an active interest in how its employees are expressing their opinions in their Web logs."
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Clive Thompson: "Here at Collision Detection, we try to implement blogging solutions in a scalable, extensible fashion, to maximize audience buy-in and provide carry-through with continuous quality improvement, while leveraging our core competencies as an enterprise player in the many-to-many publishing space."
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Henry Copeland: "A number of people have asked me whether I'm worried about Adsense, Google's new ad service for publishers. Frankly, not at all..." |
Kevin McCullough: "While limousine liberals are trying to get a 24 hour news network funded... conservatives are on to the next cultural wave: weblogs."
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Glenn Reynolds: "I think we'll see a lot more local-blogging. In part that's because local newspapers, almost always monopolists and often with too-comfortable relations with local politicos, are ripe targets."
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Andrew Sullivan on Glenn Reynolds: "One reason his blog is so popular is his ability to reason calmly and reliably... it's always good to see my own view echoed by someone as disinterested and as sane as Instapundit."
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Martin Nisenholtz, the CEO of New York Times Digital with whom Dave Winer has a "long bet" about where people will turn first for online news in 2007, cites Corante as one of the sites he tunes in to most often. (Thanks, Rafat)
More importantly and less self-indulgently, Nisenholtz says that "while some of my colleagues disagree, I think the web log and Wiki movements will have a growing impact on the public dialogue." |
Halley Suitt on the history of blogs, the rebirth of story-telling, 9-11, corporate fraud, the empowerment of women through blogs, and much, much more: "Weblogs work the way women work, they invite conversation and interaction in order to solve problems. They are not designed with women in mind, but they are all about cooperation, conversation and transparency." |
Shelley Powers reports she's almost got her new server up and running: "We're going to roar where before we whimpered, and nothing will stop us now. Best of all, I'm going to be surrounded by people I greatly admire and respect."
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Jim McGee, on the "subtle promise of blogs and RSS aggregation as a tool for knowledge sharing": "The simplicity of the tools allows them to be gently grafted on to existing processes and practices with minimal disruption. The challenge is to let this simplicity work its course..." |
Meg Hourihan, in an email shared by Dave Winer, on the fundamental difference between "blogs and everything else": "...posts vs pages. It's about posts, chunks of content, not pages, which is what wikis are [and what] Vignette and Interwoven output."
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Tim Bray raves about the potential of RSS: "We’re potentially sitting on a rocket ship. But there are obstacles..."
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Mark Pilgrim, in a follow-up to Sam Ruby's thoughts on the anatomy of a well formed log entry: "Sign your name on everything you write. Even if it’s a pseudonym, sign your invented name on everything you write. Build an identity."
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Phil Wolff offers up more headlines from the future: "Wife Wins Joint Weblog In Divorce Court."
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Dave Sifry follows up on the New York Times article for which he was interviewed: "Not all bloggers are looking for audiences, but some are, and it is human nature to... feel like someone is out there reading and thinking about what one says." |
Jeff Jarvis: "RSS doesn't suck. RSS has great potential. But every RSS reader I have tried sucks botulism."
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Simon Phipps: "I really like the report on [Many-to-Many] about java.net but it raises for me the question of why none of the other sources I respect in the blogging community have even mentioned the launch of blogs and wikis on java.net."
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Dana Blankenhorn notes the death of a professor of his from journalism school who believed technology would lead to a decline in the number of journalists: "...in some ways he [was] right... but now everyone can do journalism, and thousands do..." |
Josh Marshall, in the Princeton Alumni Weekly, on Talking Points Memo: "In the middle of last year, I considered shutting down the site... Now, I can't imagine any reason why I would stop working on the site." |
Hans Nyberg on "blogging power" - he notes that his efforts to promote his 360-degree panorama photograph of Mt. Everest in the traditional press failed. What worked: links from Jason Kottke and The Presurfer that in turn led to "840 links and 200,000 visitors" in 24 days.
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Tom Shugart on the comments function in blogs: "When there is [none] and we want to respond to something, we’re often too lazy to crank up the email. A potential conversation is lost..."
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Glenn Reynolds on the key to good blogging: "Have something interesting to say, and say it well. Kind of like, well, every other sort of writing - just faster, and with links."
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Rafat Ali, in an article on one-man blog ventures, on the demands of nanomedia and the 14-16 hour days he puts in pointing to articles from other sources: "Link, link, link, link... I can link everybody to death." |
Dina Mehta shares some observations after introducing her husband to the blogosphere: "It was really fascinating to observe how he got more and more absorbed in reading, clicking on links, reading some more..."
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Robert Paterson: "Am I odd, or do I sense a new topic emerging on the blogosphere - 'my spouse versus my blog'?" |
Tom Coates offers up the "Ten Commandments of Weblogging." #7: "Thou shalt not commit weblog-adultery with other people's hard-earned links unless you carefully mark them with a 'via' credit."
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Marc Canter on the "People's Mesh": "One of the most exciting evolutions I see coming is how the technical and social standards established within the blogosphere will spread around the world." [Funny... I was talking to a friend in telecom yesterday on a drive back from Vermont about the notion of "mesh media."] |
Aaron Swartz on the RSS debate: "I like Dave, and I don’t mean to flame him, but I just can’t sit by while he repeatedly asks Movable Type to stop innovating."
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Renee Hopkins points out a newish city-blog: "My former co-workers at d magazine started blogging a few months ago on the culture and city of Dallas... it's pretty good." -> Front Burner
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Anne Holland cites David Weinberger's presentation at last week's conference in discussing her doubts about the use of blogs as marketing tools: "The more you start to market within a Blog and start to look for the kind of traffic, reach and sales that would create a profitable business, the more you go to the outer circle (aka the dark side)... leaving truly powerful Blog content behind." |
Hiawatha Bray in an article in the Boston Globe on last week's blog conference: "...blogs are bound to go commercial. Who knows? Maybe a few will even get it right. There are good TV commercials, after all."
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Dave Winer on a compromise agreement struck with the New York Times: "We may have established a template for other publications to continue to charge for access to their archive, yet remain open to weblog writers." |
Donna Wentworth points to a like-minded weblog and says: "I knew that there was an organization called Information Commons before I discovered that they had a weblog. But--despite our common(s) interests--I wasn't talking to them... [Now] it's satisfying simply to know that we have made a connection, and will make more." |
Arnold Kling on an approach to a Web-based news service proposed by David Gelernter: "He is like the kid with a hammer, to whom anything looks like a nail... Bloggers also think that they have a hammer. The difference is that ours is out there working..." |
Dave Winer on InfoWorld's decision to run ads in their RSS feeds: "They asked my opinion before-hand, and I said I thought it was not a good idea, but of course they're free to do it, and of course we're free to unsubscribe."
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Mark Glaser in an article on city-specific blogs: "Local Weblogs might prove useful for local audiences looking to connect with those around them, but they probably won't be cash cows anytime soon."
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Anne Holland: "Although practically none of my EmailSherpa readers.... said they think RSS is interesting yet, I'm guessing that same question six months from now will get much hotter response because this been-a-baby-forever trend finally is starting to build steam fast." |
Dwight Shih follows up on Rich Miller's reaction to ads in RSS feeds: "The right model for ad supported RSS is the email newsletter."
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Bill Seitz to the Always-On crew: "You may join our parade, but please don't try to jump in front of it waving a baton."
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David Weinberger on antipathy to Tony Perkins and the debate over the definition of a blog: "The question wasn't about semantics. It was about politics, about the effect on our connected existence of Tony proclaiming loudly that AO is a weblog."
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Rich Miller on InfoWorld's decision to put ads into its RSS feeds: "Maybe there's a way to do this that will align with the culture of the Blogosphere... But I don't think we'll see it originate with professional marketers or magazine publishers." |
Xeni Jardin in Wired on camera phones: "Like blogs, phonecams are a fresh combination of familiar elements that equal way more than the sum of their parts."
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Tom Coates on permalinks: "It may seem like a trivial piece of functionality now, but it was effectively the device that turned weblogs from an ease-of-publishing phenomenon into a conversational mess of overlapping communities."
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Clay Shirky, in a piece by Jane Black on open source media, says that to say blogs will harm traditional media "is like saying that instant messenger will kill e-mail." |
Sébastien Paquet reports he's found a job: "I wouldn't go so far as stating that my blogging activity got me a job, but I'm pretty sure that it was a significant factor in the decisions to invite me for an interview and subsequently to hire me." [Congrats!] |
A heroic near-transcription of the conference: Heath Row. |
Glenn Reynolds: "So I got in the car to run errands, and as soon as it started the radio came on and to my amazement I heard Rush Limbaugh talking about the 'blogosphere'... That's the power of the Blogosphere, shaping the discussion in Big Media!"
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Chris Lydon, who's speaking at the moment on the Jayson Blair affair: "The real nightmare for the Times is the plain fact that one-way print-based corporate journalism cannot prevail in a rough-and-ready information game against the interactive, almost-free, global, democratic and instant Internet." [See the end of the post for a personal anecdote about Blair.]
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And now joined by Donna here and here... |
Phil Wolff shares "headlines from the near future of blogging" - #4: "Atlanta, Georgia – The Center for Disease Control reports a sharp rise of in the number of reported blog addicts in 2004. 'Symptoms include absenteeism, compulsive posting, and a sense that life events are not real unless blogged. In addition to new clinical treatments you can consult your local Bloggers Anonymous.'"
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[Same as yesterday: Denise Howell, Doc Searls, David Weinberger, Jason Shellen, Jeff Jarvis, Halley Suitt, Anil Dash, Sam Ruby, Dave Winer, Michael Gartenburg, Phil Windley, Debbie Weil, Adina Levin, Neil McIntosh, Martin Roll, Phil Wolff, Heath Row, Johannes Ernst, Bill Seitz, Rex Hammock, Beth Goza...] |
Matt Drudge: "In the end I really don't care what I'm called, as long as it's not [a] blogger." |
[I'm headed out to the blogging conference and may post from there. At it already: Doc Searls, Denise Howell, David Weinberger, Jason Shellen, Jeff Jarvis, Halley Suitt, Anil Dash, Sam Ruby, Dave Winer, Michael Gartenburg, Phil Windley, Debbie Weil, Adina Levin, Neil McIntosh, Martin Roll, Phil Wolff, Heath Row, Johannes Ernst, Bill Seitz, Rex Hammock, Beth Goza...] |
[Most comprehensive coverage of the blogging conference: Denise Howell, as usual.] |
Jason Shellen on David Weinberger's keynote: "Listening to [him] talk is like helping yourself to $500 out of the register. It feels like you've stolen something."
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Andrew Sullivan announces a new fundraising drive: "I'm hoping to take this further, blogging directly from the conventions and tackling the election campaign with the speed, chutzpah and orneriness you've come to expect. But to do all this, I need your help..."
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Edward Felten notes an interesting conflict of interest he's encountered after having a taped discussion with a DARPA colleague from whom he'd like to win funding: "I would be lying if I said that the thought of publishing the tape never crossed my mind." But, he continues, "he clearly saw me as just another computer scientist. He probably didn’t know that as a blogger I sometimes wear the hat of a pseudo-journalist." |
Ryan Pitts: "I don't think Google will strip blogs from its regular search results, but the argument that it should is frustrating. When you're searching for something online, it's all about the destination information. Who cares about the conduit."
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Shelley Powers wraps up her visit on M2M with a comment on the tyranny of the commons: "Though I realize that condemning warbloggers is becoming rather old fashioned and quaint among weblogging circles, it's in them that we see some of the more obvious forms of tyranny of the commons practiced..." (Thanks for stopping by Shelley!)
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Doc Searls on an article on the role of blogs in the takedown of Howell Raines: "While mainstream journalists are, on the whole, getting a better grip on the subject, it's still a bowling ball with no holes. So they roll a lot of gutterballs. This was one of them."
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David Warren, in the Ottawa Citizen: "A revolution is happening in journalism... And the fall of Howell Raines this last week is like the first brick in a Berlin Wall. It will not stop tumbling." (Thanks, Kathy) |
Shelley Powers, in the guest blog next door at M2M: "One of my biggest criticisms of the ongoing social software efforts is that there seems to be an assumption that Man is inherently a cooperative, social animal."
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Jonathan Peterson on the use of blogs in project management: "It is ironic is that at the same time that companies react to the money wasted by neophyte project managers by insisting on PMI certification, the tools and practices needed to deliver the next generation of intra-enterprise applications in a web-services environment are evolving at an exponential rate under the radar of corporate America."
Jonathan again: "One of the reasons RSS is so powerful, while so simple is that it leverages the journalistic 'inverted pyramid'... the beauty of RSS is the potential for extensibility to a 'good enough' level which still leverages all the tools and code that has already been created." |
Dave Winer on Six Apart: "I wish they'd take the high road and focus on features and performance, and not polarize the users about interop... It gets nasty when people bring commercial interests into this stuff."
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Andrew Orlowski's latest: "Google now owns Blogger, and views weblogs as a vast advertising billboards for its Adwords service.... a clear commercial conflict of interest." |
Anil Dash, in an interview with Jeffrey Zeldman about Six Apart and standards: "As much as we advocate web standards, we’re not zealots about it, and we know that people have different needs." |
Brent Simmons: "I probably wouldn't hire anybody for anything unless they had a weblog... if you don't have a weblog, I probably don't know you, and I don't have an easy way to get to know you."
And: "No matter how big the web gets, it will always be a small town because that's how you interact with it. You can't help but make your own small town out of it." |
Jeff Jarvis on Andrew Sullivan's blog triumphalism: "Tearing down people can be deserved. It can be fun. It can be righteous good work. But if all you do is destroy -- and complain and carp and snark -- you don't build, you don't contribute."
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[ A new feature on Corante: a highlights page from which I'll be pointing to specific posts from our various blogs - hopefully will do a better job of pointing to all the super stuff being written every day... Look to the left column and you'll find a permanent link to it from any of our pages.] |
Doc Searls responds to a recent article charging blogs of interpassivity: "I won't idealize it. It has shortcomings. But whatever it is, it's a breed apart from broadcasting and print journalism."
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Phil Wolff, courtesy of Doc Searls: "RSS newsreaders are TiVo for bloggers."
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Nick Denton: "Apart from, say, a Watergate, few stories are big enough to warrant continuous attention from established media. But webloggers are built for the marathon."
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Shelley Powers, next door on M2M, on "Weblogging by its nature is a social animal, and if you ignore that aspect of it too long, it will destroy your furniture and eat your best plant." |
Andrew Sullivan, with more on how blogs have changed the New York Times and media in general: "This media foodchain forced transparency on one of the most secretive and self-protective of institutions... We did what journalists are supposed to do - and we did it to journalism itself." |
Ryan Pitts, in proposing some ideas on how bloggers and journalists might work together: "As more people read more blogs and become more dissatisifed with the problems that do exist in today's news culture, they'll demand a media that is informed by what blogging has to offer." |
Tony Perkins, in an interview of himself on the commercialization of blogging: "I suspect we’ll now see the rise of thousands of mini-Fox networks... we’ll see a lot of Ted Turner-like characters emerging to try and build brands around niche communities."
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[ A new feature on Corante: a highlights page from which I'll be pointing to specific posts from our various blogs - hopefully will do a better job of pointing to all the super stuff being written every day... Look to the left column and you'll find a permanent link to it from any of our pages.] |
Anne Galloway, in a post on academic-authored blogs: "As an aside, my research is funded by Canadian taxpayers and I think they should have every opportunity to see what I'm up to." |
Andrew Sullivan on the resignation of Howell Raines and Gerald Boyd: "This really shouldn't be a sign of a revolution, but it is... It means that huge and powerful institutions such as the New York Times cannot get away with anything any more. The deference is over; and the truth will out." |
Torill Mortenson says she's unhappy with Pyra and on the verge of switching to Moveable Type: "I am so frustrated, I can't focus on any other work.... I'll give Blogger 24 hours..." |
Andrew Sullivan, who's likely to be happy about the news breaking about the New York Times' Howell Raines: "I have a feeling that this election cycle will be the moment that blogs really hit the big time."
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Nick Denton, publisher of Gawker, on it being called "painfully naive" by Bully Magazine: "Don't they get it? The appeal of weblog media is its embrace of the mundane."
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Scott Heiferman on fotolog's new premium service and the ensuing backlash: "If you don`t like it, you`re free to leave, build an alternative or whatever... we`re sorry if this is disappointing to some people, but it`s best for the long-term future of fotolog." |
Clay Shirky says blogs are "the freest media the world has ever known," but that "in this free, decentralized, diverse, and popular medium we find astonishing inequality, inequality so extreme it makes the distribution of television ratings look positively egalitarian."
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Joel Spolsky: "The formerly secretive world of VC has become a bit more transparent, of late. VCs like Joi Ito, Andrew Anker, David Hornik, and Naval Ravikant have created weblogs which are a great source of insight into their thought process."
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Jonathan Peterson follows up on Phil Windley's questions about the use of blogs as project/program management tools: "I'd be willing to bet that blogs + RSS + trackback pings + Google would be significantly more powerful than whatever is currently in use in 95% of IT organizations."
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John Naughton in the Guardian: "When it comes to many topics in which I have a professional interest, I would sooner pay attention to particular blogs than to anything published in Big Media - including the venerable New York Times." |
Bill Hobbs on the news that MediaMap is including blogs, but only those by "accredited journalists," in its directory: "[They] still have this mindset that only Big Journalism can do journalism, and haven't figured out that blogging tools have lowered the cost of publishing almost to the vanishing point, democratizing journalism and beginning to alter it in very fundamental ways..." |
Rich Miller on blogs and "pack journalism": "An important evolving role for weblogs - and the primary way the Blogosphere can truly begin to perform 'collective journalism' - is for bloggers to develop their own access to information and decision-makers." |
Thomas Warfield on the "Achilles' Heel of big company blogging": "Blogging could be a tool to personalize big companies, make them seem more human. But they won't be able to do that if their humans have their words tied behind their backs." |
John Dvorak: "While the smug I-told-you-so–type bloggers out there (you know who you are) find themselves on the crest of a wave, I'm not so sure that the shore ahead isn't rocky..."
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Jeff Jarvis: "History has never had a better, cheaper, easier, faster means of publishing content and distributing it worldwide. Now is the time to take advantage of this for sake of democracy and freedom and nothing less than that." |
Peter Maas, who reported on the war from within Iraq, says he knows the identity of the Baghdad blogger: "Salam Pax, the most famous and most mysterious blogger in the world, was my interpreter..."
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Ross Mayfield on how a blog enables individual voice: "No other tool has shown the ability to gain the participation of people in a larger, dare I say, system. Perhaps because it gives so much back." |
David Glenn in the Chronicle of Higher Education on "Scholars Who Blog": "To a remarkable degree, blogs also appear to bring full professors, adjuncts, and students onto a level field." (Thanks, Donna) |
Dave Winer on warbloggers: "A lot of punditry, a lot of furor and outrage, quite a few flames, but what did they actually do other than act important... Pheh." |
Dave Winer reports on a discussion with senior New York Times execs about their archives: "We found a good compromise, the archive will remain open to people who link from weblogs, but they will keep the toll booth up for others."
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