Sunday, June 09, 2002

The New York Times Story You've Been Waiting For... A Rift Among Bloggers. Five years ago, programmers pioneered Weblogs, or blogs. These days, many consider Weblogs to be inherently political, something that has angered Weblog veterans. By David F. Gallagher. [New York Times: Technology] Apparently, there is no rift.  At least not between Instapundit and Dave Winer.  Ah...peace in the valley. 10:41:00 PM

Thursday, June 06, 2002

More on the Warbloggers vs Techbloggers from Doc Searls... Dean Peters: A house divided cannot blog. He's worried that the big media putting a vs. between techbloggers and warbloggers will turn us all into Sharks and Jets. Or something like that. [Doc Searls Weblog] 4:42:40 PM

Saturday, June 01, 2002

More on Blogging... From InstaPundit: "CATHERINE SEIPP has a great article on weblogs at the American Journalism Review. I like the Dennis the Menace analogy." Basically bloggers are like Dennis with his slingshot looking to pop Mr. Wilson's fat behind whenever he can.  Guess who represents Mr. Wilson? 9:43:28 AM

Wednesday, May 29, 2002

News Aggregators & Bloggers = Human Routers? From Jon Udell: "the raw output of the online news collective is filtered for me by people doing what they do best: spotting patterns, alerting the tribe." A great article on the emerging use of news aggregators, which lists some free aggregators that the non-Radio folks can use.  And winds up with a good summary quote from Jenny. 8:36:20 PM

Thursday, May 23, 2002

First Look at Blogging Book - O'Reilly Blog Book Is Online " 'Essential Blogging,' the O'Reilly blog-book for which I wrote the first chapter, is online as a series of PDFs for public review -- g'head and download a copy and let me know how badly I screwed up. Seriously, I think this is going to be a swell book." [bOing bOing] 12:25:09 AM

Wednesday, May 22, 2002

Will Blogs Change the Web? Read three different opinions on the impact of blogs on the Web. [TVC Alert] 10:59:32 AM

Tuesday, May 21, 2002

Eric Alterman starts a weblog on MSNBC.   Not that long ago his colleague Marty Wolk did an article about weblogs (in which I was mentioned).  [Story via Scripting News] 3:28:34 PM

Blog Notes 4: Categories No Audience is Interested in Everything You Produce.  XML gives Weblogs the capacity to be organized into categories. It's good news and bad. When authoring an article (or one of those littler bloglets), the author is confonted immediately with a series of usability questions like: If I put this piece in several categories, does that reduce the meaning of each category? If the piece is on the home page and in a category, why would anyone ever go to both? If the piece is only in a category and not on the home page, how does anyone know? If the piece is only on the home page, what are categories for? In other words, the use of xml/categories forces every Weblog Author or Editor (perhaps the word is Author) to consider the audience from a structural perspective each time a piece is developed, particularly in the early weeks of the development of the blog's basic style. Categories are extremely useful for knowledge-management applications. They give an 'Author' the ability to tell a specific group of readers that all of X sort of material will appear in x section thus allowing the development of discrete conversations about subsets of the overall architecture. XML creates the opportunity to keep that question open for a while as the blogger develops a real time feel for audience structure and composition. via [5th Constituency] 1:45:44 PM

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