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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
Christian Crumlish on his experience consulting on content management systems: "There's a big hole in the middle of the market for CMS framework software that will handle 80% of the needs of most clients... I wonder how many businesses could manage their web and intranet content just fine with affordable tools such as powerful blog systems." |
Andrew Sullivan passes along an email he received: "I should take up smoking ... because every time I finish having sex, I have to read your weblog."
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Andrew Sullivan on a change he claims credit for - getting the Associated Press to issue a correction of its description of Christopher Hitchens: "Ah, the blogosphere!" |
Heather Havrilesky on blog hype: "Everything gets blown out of proportion and then summed up as a stupid trend in the end. Popularity should never be taken too seriously -- the good writing and good art that come out of any given movement is all that anyone focuses on over the long haul."
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Joan Connell announces MSNBC's embrace of blogs: "What had once quietly flourished in the grassroots of cyberspace has now burst into the mainstream, transforming the way Internet news and communities are perceived."
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Glenn Fleishman with his reaction to the transcipt of the panel discussion held last week on blogs at Berkeley: "One of the points that I come away with from this discussion is that the real crux of the difference between journalism and personal blogging is a very fine amount of intermediation. Instead of the heavy intermediation that happens between a newspaper journalist writing and the account that appears in the newspapers, blogging journalism involves fewer people and fewer changes." |
G. Beato weighs in on Google News: "It announces that 'This page was generated entirely by computer algorithms without human editors.' But that's really the exact opposite of what people want these days. Blogs are popular because they're personal -- readers feel a connection with blog-authors that they don't feel with traditional media." |
The One True b!X on blog-writing: "It's simply an inevitability that anyone who is trying to write truthfully about themselves or about living in the world is, at some point, going to write themselves into an altercation, or right through the center of someone else's sensibilities." He concludes: "People are going to have to learn how to live in a world of honest writers."
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Nick Denton with a prediction on the Tablet PCs on they way: "Tablet users will be lazy bloggers." His take on Google News so far: "[It's] news search engine is very good; but they're no good at picking stories." |
Jim Louderback in USA Today on geeky terminology: "Soon 'blog' will replace 'bloviate' in describing windbags and blowhards. 'Turn the TV off, Marge; we expected a stemwinder, but Bush is just blogging.'"
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Steve Outing in a comment on Google News, the criticism some might levy at it, and indirectly what many think will happen in the blogosphere: "It's not unreasonable to posit that this "collaborative" story placement is a more accurate reflection of the top stories of the day than the placement decisions made at a single media outlet. Google News makes its placement decisions on collective editing intelligence."
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Johan Peter Lindberg on what he means by "cognitive blogging": "I mean that in order to more deeply understand a topic, blogging about it during the course of reading really enhances the understanding." |
Aaron Swartz: "People claim that no one will create if they can't get paid... I'd like to introduce you to free software and just about every weblog on the planet."
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Rayne Today provides a little historical context: "Blogging isn’t a new concept. Humans have been chronicling for as long as there has been media to support our need to create, to capture expression... Some efforts were singular, some collaborative - but all gained a larger life through observation and participation." |
Anil Dash on Dave Winer and RSS: "Dave says that RSS is a syndication format, nothing more. And that it has nothing to do with RDF. I am just curious, why does Dave get to make these decisions if these are community standards?"
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Roderick T. Long, a new convert to blogging: "Finding that another blogger (or unblogger) has scooped your site's name is a bit like showing up at a costume ball only to learn that one of the earlier arrivals has anticipated your Giant Carrot costume." |
Tom Shugart: "S/He who blogs makes a conscious choice to accept the risk of going public. It has a profound effect on one's relationship with one's self... One thing that it's allowed me to do is to explore my personal sense of authenticity and to claim my own authority, which was under-developed for many years."
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The New Republic launches a blog: "Our hope is to provide rapid-response, bite-sized commentary with the same critical voice and eye readers have come to expect from TNR."
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Matt Haughey on whether sites like Kuro5hin and Slashdot should be included in Google's new news service: "I thought about asking Google to index MetaFilter as well, but wondered "what news is being covered at blogs, aside from being reflections of news being reported elsewhere?"
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J. Neil Doane in an essay on why he hates blogs: "Clearly weblogs are fucking retarded as a general rule... What can be plainly seen is that most weblog authors need something to push them back into the real world from the self-centered and delusional world they have created for themselves."
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Emily O'Neill, a 16-year-old blogger who maintains three blogs, including one into which she spills "all [her] teen-agerly insecurities,": "Blogging keeps me in contact with my friends, keeps my thoughts in order, and entertains me and the load of guests I get daily... [It's] a pastime of sorts." |
The One True b!X defends meta-blogging (and me): "Without question, blogging about weblogs is a meta-category than can become tedious and somewhat incestuous... The fact that Jolliffe's entry referencing a criticism of his site nicely illustrates a truly open and transparent approach to writing a weblog. Such transparency, of course, is an element of what we argue is necessary for establishing credibility." |
Mike Demaria: "Until blog developers address the issues of archive classification and sorting, blogs can't possibly live up to their potential."
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Madison Slade, aka Moxie, on blog celebrity: "Yesterday afternoon, I was the 'Luckiest Girl in Hollywood.' I got to have lunch with the very charming and svelte Doc Searls."
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Ray Ozzie on implementing pingbacks for blogs: "I don't have a 'discuss' link on this blog for a reason: I think that it's a Good Thing that this blog medium is different than a traditional electronic discussion medium - relying on human mechanisms to 'spread the word' about interesting referrals, rather than technical mechanisms."
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Doc Searls on a conversation he had with a fellow blogger: "We talked about all kinds of stuff, but one item that sticks in my mind was our co-realization that blogging to a huge degree thrives in the Googlesphere."
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JD Lasica provides a transcript of last week's panel discussion on blogs and journalism that was convened by Paul Grabowicz at Berkeley. Among the remarks:
Dan Gillmor on "do-it-yourself" journalism: "Something's going on that's amazing right now, and it's the process of people getting involved in the creation of information that is valuable and often accurate... There's this blurring of lines and I don't know where it's going to come out, but I do know that something major is going on that is bringing journalism from the top down and the bottom up."
JD Lasica: "The most serious challenge facing newsrooms today is that readers think we're largely irrelevant to their lives... Participatory journalism brings them into the news equation." |
Scott Heiferman, the founder of MEETUP: "Today's the day. I'm officially no longer interested in the world of blogs." The cause? Corante on Blogging: "The world of bloggers talking about blogging and other bloggers is boring. This is the page that did me in." |
Amy Langfield reacts to the New York Times article on blogging and whether news sources should have their journalists doing it: "As a former copy editor and desk editor, I want to say Good God, NO!..." Later in the same post: "The reality of it is that many reporters really want to be columnists, and most reporters have harbored thoughts of seeing their editor vaporized – so of course blogs seem like a dream."
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Sheila Lennon of the Providence Journal provides the full text of her interview with David Gallagher, responding to his question about whether she'd recommend blogging to other news sources: "Absolutely. We're educating and involving readers in the decisions that will affect their future. The feedback is instantaneous, and the stories advance cooperatively." |
Dave Winer on the New York Times' apparent deal with Google to index its site: "What are the implications of this? Here's one. Martin Nisenholtz may now have a chance of winning his bet with me." |
Eugene Volokh on "insultblogging" and a specific post he excerpts: "I apologize if I'm sounding schoolmarmish... [but] I feel I have an interest here: I want blogging, public-issue blogging, and centrist/libertarian/free-market/sensibly-pro-war public-issue blogging to succeed... if these smart people just cut back on the insults and focus on the substantive argument our views would be so much likelier to prevail." |
Jeff Jarvis comments on the panel Columbia's convening as it reconsiders the mission of its journalism school: "You will not find any emissaries from the future of any weight, experience, or credibility... I could nominate people who have changed journalism and reporting and commentary using the tools of this new medium and the new relationship with the audience they create, but what's the point."
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Jenny Malleron on the occasion of her 33rd birthday: "I remember my first blog post. I remember my first contributions to an emerging community... I remember being surprised, enlightened, fascinated, excited, terrified, and hungry... I remember the bile I was able to expel by the grace of the blogging revolution..." And, she continues, "I remember the future here... I remember being afraid of the future, and how important it is to be anything but silent, invisible." |
Amanda Kooser in a run-of-the-mill article introducing Entrepeneur's readers to blogging: "The elements of interactivity, community and collaboration will be key as growing businesses adopt blogs for customer relations, advertising, promotion and even internal communications."
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Shelagh Garside to dailiee:
dailee, dailee, give me your answer do
I'm half crazy all for a blog from you...
so please be sweet
and give us a treat
please, please log in to MT, do! |
Jacob Weisberg of Slate on a correction they issued which linked to blogger Eugene Volokh's proper account of the facts: "I'm not sure people are going to click on a correction about a piece they may or may not have read." |
The One True b!X on a CNN story about blogs : "In the never-ending writing and re-writing the mythos of weblog history, let's all try to remember that weblogs were not somehow illegitimate prior to their 'discovery' by the mass media."
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Danah Boyd comments, in her masters thesis, on Blogdex and Netscan, the Usenet tracker: "While these tools fail to make the leap between data and their value, they are particularly noteworthy because they take the first step in making otherwise uncollected data accessible in unique ways." |
David Streitfeld in a profile of Larry Lessig and the proliferation of independent voices he says he's fighting for: "It's already getting hard to remember what it was like before the internet brought a million different voices into your home... the Net was all about experimentation and openness, a place where no one needed a printing press to publish an article."
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Andrew Sullivan: "Funny, isn't it, that the New York Times would run a piece about how weblogs can lead to friction between bloggers and their mainstream media outlets, without mentioning yours truly."
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John Hiler ponders why we are the way we are : "It pains me to witness the destructive power of ego as it lays waste to the blogging countryside. I don't think there's a lot we can do about that, but it's truly shaking my faith in the blogging medium itself."
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Doc Searls on Information Week's recent article on blogging (which he calls a "new low"): "This piece is so relentlessly clueless about blogs that I hardly know where to begin." |
Eric Alterman, in an article in today's Times by David Gallagher, on the blogging MSNBC pays him to do: "I can't imagine a nicer way to make a living. It's therapeutic..."
Jane Kirtley, a professor of media ethics and law at the University of Minnesota, comments, in the same article, on the use of blogs by traditional news publishers: "If I'm a lawyer advising a news organization, the idea of a weblog like this would just make me break out in hives... the editorial side and the lawyers are going to have a clash." |
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