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About this site
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A new section on the emerging blogosphere that's edited by Hylton Jolliffe, the founder, editor and publisher of Corante who believes blogging's more than mere fad and that what will flow from it will have major implications for media, marketing, distributed thinking and business in general.
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
N.Z. Bear follows up on John Weidner's call for a blogburst to try to influence US policy on Iran with the proposed text he and John have agreed upon: "Get as many blogs as possible to post a copy of an open letter (in English and Farsi) on an agreed-upon date."
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Empty Bottle says, in a long lament about the decline of MetaFilter, "Some days it feels as if my love is turning into common street trash before my eyes, and no matter how well-documented my weaknesses for common street trash, that's just not the girl I fell in love with."
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Graham Leuschke lists a number of blogs with the same names, saying "There's a lot of brand dilution going on in the weblog world lately." |
Rick Bruner, he of the "uncontrollable blogging jones," says his least favorite topic these days is "explaining to incredulous new friends what the hell blogs are." His answer to their questions: "Heard about the recession? Lots of smart people have more time on their hands these days..."
On being recognized by an author offline he'd tweaked online: "Rude shock to have meatspace and blogosphere collide unexpectedly like that." |
Elizabeth Spiers on her blogging: "When this stops being fun, I'll stop doing it. I will take my disturbed self and find something else into which my disturbed energies will be channelled." |
A pleased Andrew Sullivan trumpets his success in getting the New York Times to print a correction: "Score one for the blogosphere. Here in cyber-space, we also correct our errors promptly." |
Tom Shugart reflects further on the great blogroll debate: "Should one limit one's blogroll to a certain length? If so, when does it become too long? Is there such a thing as a blogroll being too long?"
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John Hiler says, in a post explaining why he's scrapping a roundup of blogware for a second cut at it, "Can you believe it?! TWENTY FIVE separate pieces of blogware. Good lord, that's a lot of blogging software."
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Anil Dash on his tooling around with Moveable Type's TrackBack feature: "It's great, but it's got almost too much potential." |
Anita Roddick, of the Body Shop, in an interview with the Guardian says of her website, "The most satisfying revelation has been the weblog community - such a vibrant group of thoughtful people and such an amazing way to share wisdom, outrage and information."
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Doc Searls says, of the flurry of real-time blog efforts in recent weeks: "[I t's] a terrific new sport."
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Brian Linse on an observation he's made lately: "I've been pleased to note that the number of interesting liberal blogs has been growing."
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Charles Kuffner on his long blogroll: "There was a time (you know, back in the Good Old Days of blogging) when you could read just about anyone who was worth your time to read. Anyone who tries to do that now is either unemployed or soon to become unemployed." |
David Gammel on the use of blogs in knowledge management: "The catch-22 I keep finding myself in is trying to encourage the grass-roots development of KM tools and sharing while simultaneously crafting an organized taxonomy for our klog network."
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Jenny Levine, The Shifted Librarian, comments on the ways in which blogging has allowed her to promote herself and her interests: "I've unintentionally become a multi-faceted brand." [Scroll down for her article.]
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Chloe of Watermelon Punch comments, in a Blogroots discussion, on the Guardian's recently released list of notable blogs: "I [wasn't] arguing with the idea of the Guardian list... But perhaps it will be months or years before the blog you've been waiting for all your life makes it onto one of those lists."
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N.Z. Bear on Mickey Kaus' blog at Slate: "I think we can now declare Microsoft Blog ready to ship as R1.0... Sure, MSBlog will be DRM-hardwired to prevent deep-linking (to limit legal liability), but everything interesting is always on the front page anyway, right?"
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Patrick Ruffini says, of the many bloggers who've gone on vacation of late, "By taking long walks on the beach or having a life for one second more than is necessary, we expose our soft underbelly and fall victim to just the sort of complacency that could cause the whole blogging trend to peter out in its infancy."
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Anil Dash offers up his own review of friend Rebecca Blood's blogbook: "Fortunately absent is any significant attention to the loud but worthless in-fighting that plagues a few small clusters of the weblog community. There's a healthy respect for the fact that these never affect the other 99% of the weblog world."
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Mike Sanders says, in a post about terrorism, "My life and blogging experience has informed me never to have trust in 'the life of the mind.' Intellectual capacity is no match for bias and hatred of the heart."
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Jeremy Wagstaff suggests, in an article in today's Wall Street Journal on setting up a blog, that "one day your grandchildren are going to sit on your lap and ask you, 'Grandpa/Grandma/Generic Grandparental Figure, what did you do during the Great Blogging Revolution?'" He continues: "OK, so they might not." [subscription required]
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Donna Wentworth on the week she spent real-time blogging the Berkman Center's ILAW program: "I'll be honest: it took stamina." On writing a wrap-up: "How do I make this stuff comprehensible to those who, in the interests of balance and good health, didn't spend every waking minute last week reading along as I wrote?"
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Glenn Reynolds gives his feedback on Rebecca Blood's blogbook: "I can't help but feel that the publication of a how-to book about blogging marks an important milestone in the Blogosphere's development, though I'm not sure exactly what it means, for good or ill."
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Rich Gordon, in E-Media Tidbits, on the value blogs/digests may provide for news consumers: "I just had an experience that, to me, came close to the way paid content could or should work on the Web... An editor scanning many information sources pointed me to content I was willing to pay for." [Disclosure: Corante's mentioned] |
Steve Outing follows up on his article last week: "Not surprisingly, most of the bloggers approved of my ideas; I've also received quite a bit of criticism, but most of it seems to be from more "traditional" journalists." |
Tim Drake comments, in an article from early June, on the reason blogging's "currently undergoing an explosion among Catholics": "Many think the clergy sex abuse scandal is a primary factor contributing to the increase in Catholic blogs and has contributed to the majority of the Catholic blog chatter."
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Denise Howell, who's just started reading Rebecca Blood's new book, draws an analogy to blogging without some initial instruction: "Sure, you can swerve onto the freeway without driver's training, but it's not the greatest idea - you could do unnecessary harm to yourself and others."
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Arnold Kling invokes blogs and the "phenomenon of distributed editing" as one of the reasons the newspaper business will be dead in 20 years: "It does not work exactly like traditional centralized editing, but the end result is that people are finding help in sorting out fact from rumor and what's important from what's trivial."
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John Hiler says of his blogging slump, "I'm not sure what's up - somehow I'm not having as much fun with it lately."
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Glenn Reynolds comments on Blogger: "I've scrupulously avoided criticizing Blogger, since it's free and it led to the Blogosphere explosion. But it seems to get less, not more, reliable as time goes by."
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Glenn Reynolds, reacting to James Lilek's post, on his blogging: "A lot of the blogger-critics seem to forget that blogs aren't bigshot media operations that claim to cover all the news that's fit to print and to do so (chortle) in an unbiased fashion, but rather personal operations run in someone's spare time, by people who have an axe to grind and plenty of fury to turn the wheel." |
James Lileks says "I’ve always thought that the phrase "blogging will be light today" is akin to saying "the free ice cream cones will be 27 percent smaller today." It’s still free ice cream."
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Jon Udell comments on Jeffrey Shell's blogposts on Zope: "I find his thinking-out-loud process incredibly valuable. Writing is a way to clarify thinking. Doing such writing on a weblog is the primal act of knowledge management."
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Bill Taylor evangelizes the use of blogs by executives: "Sometimes executive staff can become isolated from their members. Blogs could be a great way to help members feel more involved, because they are being given more frequent updates from upper management." |
David Gammel comments on the team klogs he and his colleagues are employing "The first thing I did yesterday [after a week on vacation] was fire up our team klog and read what had been going on while I was out last week... It really took my breath away how effective it was for quickly getting me back up to speed." |
Glenn Reynolds: "I'm a bit troubled by [Clay Shirky's] suggestion that my proposal for open traffic counters will accelerate the separation of the Blogosphere into non-egalitarian spheres... I don't really see that it follows." |
Kevin Holtsberry interviews Australia's Martin Roth who says he sees no signs that his blog has helped him sell books or land writing gigs: "If the best bloggers don't somehow start making
money from their efforts I wonder how long they'll keep at it." |
Martin Devon, who's been called a top "link slut" by N.Z. Bear: "I'm actually far more of a link slut than he realizes. I can live with that."
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Jim McGee is advocating an experiment for academia: encourage graduate students to set up their own blogs and use them "as a lab notebook of their developing intellectual capital... Where do you think these students will be after several years of sustained and steady writing? How many will have already started to establish reputations as serious thinkers?"
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Steven Garrity says, in a discussion about fame and celebrity and whether it can be achieved online, "When you are dealing with few-to-many medium (TV, radio, print), you get a few people known by many: fame. When you are dealing with a many-to-many medium (the web), you get smaller groups of people who are known by each other." |
Doc Searls: "I think I know 10x the bloggers I knew only six months ago. And the number of interesting items that flow through all their blogs, and all the emails we all toss to each other, is up by about the same multiple."
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