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Fascinating analysis of the left and right wing political bloggers and their likely role in a shift of political power
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Auntie Beeb switches from Microsoft to cross-platform Adobe tech. Good news.
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Does what it says on the tin
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On the problems with making money from social networks.
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An interesting decision, based on following the money…
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Some good hints for maximum quality embeds from YouTube.
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Mum's vicar buys Will Self for a day…
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A social network for magazine journalists
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Some explanations for the woeful performance of Technorati of late.
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Should publishers allow journalists to blog privately, on non-competative subjects? Yes, say most. It's the ones who say "no" that worry me.
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The implications of Google cache for libel - and why it's really, really hard to take something down after you've put it on the net
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For blogging to succeed, you need to be conversational. Why do so many people struggle with that?
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Kavin nails exactly why so many journalists have a "head in the sand" attitude to the changes in their industry
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UK blog traffic at an all-time high
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Six Apart claiming an excellent security record for Movable Type versus other Well-usedPlatforms...
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Useful reference for my new obsession...
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Very useful.
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Still not 100% convinced about video comments - but I will be installing the Movable Type Seesmic plugin as soon as they get around to releasing it.
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Key points from the event last week.
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How social media "covered" the Exeter bombing
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Do newspapers have the right to just republish material from blogs? Well, how would they feel if bloggers just republished newspaper stories?
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I find the idea of separating out the events business very odd - removing one path to making money from online brands seems very short-sighted.
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Automatically suggests tags via a Wordpress plugin
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They provide metrics and ad serving against feeds
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Typepad's editing functionality is getting a big upgrade over the next few weeks...
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Major newspaper syndicates blogs content. Very interesting.
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A nice dissection of the idea that balance is just "giving both sides of the story". You also need a sense of the relative weight of those sides.
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Much of this applies just as well to magazines or any journalistic endeavour.
For your Friday lunchtime viewing pleasure, may I present some stupid construction site tricks?
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Promising start...
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I must admit that I'm only an NUJ member through inaction right now. This might just change my inclination towards leaving.
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Some interesting pointers as to how the Telegraph created a traffic surge.
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Nice responses to the people who characterise Macs as "Fisher Price" computers.
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Interesting wee breakdown of the servers needed to run Facebook.
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Somewhat heated debate around the performance of Wordpress under load, and how it could be improved. This was behind our choice of a static publishing route.
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Towards a classification system for blogs...of a certain type.
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Handy guide to using Twitter, targeted at hacks.
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Interesting model. Pay to stream press releases via RSS…
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Yes, we certainly need more people who can bridge the (often vast) divide between the people who create the content and the people who build the publishing systems
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Just dealt with another "all this social media stuff is rubbish" type letter on our corporate internet. I should have just linked this instead.
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Interesting course concept.
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I like the concept of social networking around wikis - we recently discovered that we had 3 separate groups working on RSS metrics here, a situation that could have been headed off by this kind of thing.
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Robin highlights the way the police in London are encouraging people to view photographers with suspicion. Worrying.
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A WoW-blogging friend ventures out of the Azeroth ghetto...
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Round up of mobile Twitter options
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Oh, dear God. If this is a genuine video than Microsoft has more problems than any of us realised...
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One of the Computer Weekly bloggers has something sensible to say about corporate IT and social networks.
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A Facebook app to post to your blog - including the various flavours of Wordpress - from Six Apart.
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Lore's take on the bemusing anti-video crusade amongst Flickr users.
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Ever get the feeling that the music industry lost sight of listeners as "customers" and started thinking of them as "revenue streams"? Shane Richmond tears apart the latest idiocy.
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Interesting moves afoot at the ever-changing Telegraph.
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It's getting scary out there.
Good Lord, nearly 6.20pm and I still haven't done a decent post today. And I was so sure it was going to be a quiet day today. Never mind, here are some hit and run things that caught my attention today:
- Marc Andreessen is writing about the history of newspapers and how that compares to the birth of new media. I had a conversation about this very issue with Antony maybe 18 months ago, and I do think it's a fascinating subject. I shall be following it keenly.
- Self-hosted Wordpress blogs which haven't been patched recently are being exploited widely. I like Wordpress. I use it for some blogs. But I dislike the more fanatical, evangelical end of its community who think EVERYBODY should use it. As a particular blog platform approaches ubiquity, it's going to be exploited (just as happened with Windows and desktop OSes). We saw this with Movable Type and comment spam. Now it's Wordpress's turn. This is why we need a diversity of blog platforms.
- Sarah Lacy (she of the infamous Zuckerberg interview) now has a blog, called Sarah Lacy. Prosaic name, but nice design. (Discovered via Techcrunch UK.)
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A new player in blog search
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Clever social hack whereby using a free theme has compromised many Wordpress blogs. Clever, but worrying.
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Ah, this looks interesting. It starts to address many of my concerns about the other comment trackers
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I like the "disemvowelling" in particular.
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A very positive take on moving journalists into the digital age - help, mentor and enthuse, don't impose.
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Could text be embedded like YouTube videos?
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Interesting breakdown of blogging types and their strengths and weaknesses. They're not mutually exclusive, of course.
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Ah, some points behind the snark.
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I'll probably be pilloried for saying this, but I suspect as the amount of content on the net rises, the need for experts to sift it will. too.
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Interesting round-up of the best UK efforts in the technology video show area.
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The new owners of LJ manage to upset the community for the first time.
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Interesting dissection of The Guardian's statement on journalists participating in blog comments
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Fascinating insight into what it takes to make an innovation-first company.
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And if they don't do the same for Movable Type, there will be a number of us wanting a "wee chat" with them...
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Does Automattic have its eyes set on making Wordpress into a sociall network platform?
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Web video is hitting critical mass, but as we all start buying cameras an production suites, livestreaming rears its head…
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Watch the Six Apart and Automattic guys take pot-shots at each other in the comments...
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Could blogs CMSes become the default?
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Oooh! Shiny!
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danah on the LJ advisory board - good news for the home of my first ever blog.
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Interesting low cost alternative to Six Apart's own offering.
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An interesting new blog directory. Can they succeed where so many have failed?
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Jeff Jarvis thinks about the uses of Twitter
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Free ebook for anyone interested in the future of reputation, privacy and identity in the online age.