Monday, September 08, 2003OJR article: Online News Pioneers See Lots of Changes in the First 10 Years OJR: How important are Weblogs in the history of journalism, and how do they differ from personal home pages? Winer: Weblogs drop the cost of publishing...
(via Channel 'social_software') [judith meskill's knowledge notes]
4:05:46 AM
comment [] trackback [] Six million cyber-Egyptians and not a single Web log?
[Blogalization Community]
3:44:42 AM
comment [] trackback [] Emerging Alternatives: Blogworld
[Daypop Top 40]
3:34:55 AM
comment [] trackback [] Are bloggers the heir-apparant of the independent weekly?
Welch: For all the history made by newspapers between 1960 and 2000, the profession was also busy contracting, standardizing, and homogenizing. Most cities now have their monopolist daily, their alt weekly or two, their business journal. Journalism is done a certain way, by a certain kind of people. Bloggers are basically oblivious to such traditions, so reading the best of them is like receiving a bracing slap in the face. It's a reminder that America is far more diverse and iconoclastic than its newsrooms.
[MetaFilter]
3:30:48 AM
comment [] trackback [] Cary McMullen
"And on the 2,893,402,568th day, man created blogs."
(Lakeland Ledger) [via Scripting News]2:52:07 AM
comment [] trackback [] Sunday, September 07, 2003Columbia Journalism Review : Emerging Alternatives: Blogworld by Matt Welch "This February, I attended my first Association of Alternative Newsweeklies conference, in the great media incubator of San Francisco. It's impossible to walk a single block of that storied town...
(via judith meskill's knowledge notes) [Channel 'social_software']
8:15:00 PM
comment [] trackback [] Chicago Tribune on blogging in the workplace
[Scripting News]
8:02:09 PM
comment [] trackback [] Saturday, September 06, 2003Getting further from what it was originally meant for (you can blame Marc Canter for this!), but towards something else useful :-)
You can now use it to host blogrolls. Here's one:
Click the '(ite)' link at the bottom to get to the documentation and see how to make your own one.
You can also upload images, but please don't upload too many as I have limited hard disk space ...
[Second p0st]
3:36:29 AM
comment [] trackback [] The Blogger's Platform (Phil Wolff) [Scripting News]
3:19:37 AM
comment [] trackback [] Instances of edBlogging
Al Delgado is tracking lots of education blogging initiatives on the educational weblogs and EdBlogger Praxis weblogs. This thing is really booming.
[Seb's Open Research]
2:58:18 AM
comment [] trackback [] Online News Pioneers See Lots of Changes in the First 10 Years
An interesting comparison on the past, present and future state of online news. This piece also makes some interesting points regarding RSS and blogging.
[Lockergnome's RSS Resource]
2:55:16 AM
comment [] trackback [] Feed Combiner
Phil Pearson is experimenting with a feed combiner, a sort-of blogroll-style miniaggregator you can insert into your own static pages. See Experiment: constructing blogrolls with RSS for more information on how it works and how to use it....
[Lockergnome's RSS Resource]
2:53:39 AM
comment [] trackback [] Wednesday, September 03, 2003[Seb's Open Research]
5:19:11 PM
comment [] trackback [] Blog Spammer Exposed
Blog Spam is currently climbing up the charts on the main blogging indexes with top-penis-enlargement.com/vigrx.htm hitting No.11 at Blogdex today, all achieved through the process of spamming comments sections of blogs worldwide, including on numerous occasions, the Blog Herald. Victim sites include Scriptygoddess, Bigpinkcookie and many others currently listed on the reference page at Blogdex for the site....
[The Blog Herald]
5:23:33 AM
comment [] trackback [] Tuesday, September 02, 2003Christmas caroling in high summer down the Brazilian blogstreet.
[Blogalization Community]
4:23:50 AM
comment [] trackback [] 24-Hour Trends in the Non-English Blogosphere
"We've divided the "whole blogosphere" into slices based on the language of each individual weblog ..."
[Blogalization Community]
4:22:13 AM
comment [] trackback [] Dietblogs make headlines losing weight
' sure I blogged this before, but it's still...
...an interesting utilisation on blogging and peer support...
(via The Blog Herald) [Rocky Mountain News: Technology]
4:13:22 AM comment [] trackback []
Web Event: Trotts to speak on CNN
Six Apart founders Ben and Mena Trott will be discussing TypePad on CNN Headline News on Wednesday, September 3. We do not know the time yet, or whether this will be on CNN International as well, but would definately mark...
[The Blog Herald]
4:08:34 AM comment [] trackback []
KernelTrap: Open Source RSS feeds and blogs
KernelTrap aims to bring news about all open source kernels, not just the Linux kernel. However, at this time the majority of news posted to this site is Linux-centric. KernelTrap (also) has very dynamic RSS feeds.... of specific content.
Generally speaking, any KernelTrap URL that looks like '/taxonomy/view/...' can be turned into a feed by changing the word 'view' to 'feed'. Here are a few examples: Linux stories, FreeBSD stories, OpenBSD stories, and KernelTrap features.
KernelTrap is organized into numerous categories and subcategories utilizing Drupal's taxonomy functionality.
[via Daypop Top 40]
4:01:24 AM comment [] trackback []
Well-formed writing and information routing
"The tagging conventions I've been applying for the last four months are really springing to life, now that structured search of my blog is available..." (Jon Udell)
[via Daypop Top 40]
3:26:11 AM comment [] trackback []
Monday, September 01, 2003Internet giants catch on to blogs / Major portals provide services for online journals
"It definitely seems like blogging is losing its underground image," said Matthew Haughey, co-author of the book "We Blog: Publishing Online with Weblogs" and co-founder of Blogroots, a Web site that chronicles blogging news. ...
(SFGate.com) [via The Blog Herald]
3:06:42 PM
comment [] trackback [] Fight or Switch?
PostNuke or pMachine? Portal, vortal, or classic blog? The Blogalization test-kitchens are busy cooking up alternatives.
[Blogalization Community]
2:39:38 PM
comment [] trackback [] The Why and How of Blogging
a presentation by Nick Finck for the Web Design World 2003 in Seattle.
[Der Schockwellenreiter]
1:30:37 PM
comment [] trackback [] First Draft
Today I found another source of experienced opinion on the changing face of print communications -- Tim Porter, a fellow traveler into the future of print.
From his web page bio:
"I am an editor and writer who entered newspapering as a reporter with a typewriter and left it as an editor building websites. Today, I work independently but retain a passion for newspapers and the pursuit of quality journalism."
The website he built belonged to the San Francisco Examiner, and he was formerly the city editor there as well.
Porter's weblog, First Draft, chronicles the triumphs and travails of the newspaper industry. Newspapers -- like their ailing sisters in the printing industry -- are another industrial-age giant trying desperately to cope with a geriatric future. Their road into the future of print won't be easy, but for a lot of reasons they'll figure out how to survive. It just may not look anything like it does today. And the lessons they learn may be important to all of us.
[b.cognosco]
1:22:18 PM comment [] trackback []
Static or dynamic blog, which is best?
Christoph has an interesting entry on the obvious benifits of a static structure over the dynamic structure of a blog.... I bet he's a DIY fan too :) Personaly I like the MT solution, but will be the first to admit that it takes a little too much hard work to install and comes with some useable but hardly appealing templates...
(via Reflective Reality) [Channel 'social_software']
1:16:03 PM comment [] trackback []
How to Organize Feeds
Via Paolo Valdemarin: "When publishing on a weblog or any other kind of site, authors could define their posts as part of a "channel", such as technology, politics, etc. Newsreaders able to parse this kind of information could provide users with additional tools to organize what they read. A shared taxonomy to define categories would make this process much more useful to the user."...
[Lockergnome's RSS Resource]
12:52:09 PM comment [] trackback []
More On Semantic Blogging
I am starting to pick lots of stuff up in RSS feeds about semantic blogging. Phil has had a number of post in the past week following a semantic blogging demo at HP. Here's a presentation from the project summarizing the intent. Here's the actual blog for the project. It is very cool to see a company like HP investing resources in blogging and RSS. Paolo is working on a semantic news aggregator. This is just the beginning. Once people start grokking how this all works, it's going to explode. Semantic blogging is a way to take back the control of your online life.
[Dann Sheridan's Weblog]
12:46:58 PM comment [] trackback []
Microcontent Wiki
I guess Richard means that there should be a way to subscribe to a post and all its comments and TrackBacks! Agreed!
"Weblogs and Wikis are authoring tools that enable everyday people to write to the Web. However one part of the Writeable Web is often overlooked: weblog comments. Often some of the best nuggets of content can be found buried in a comment attached to a weblog post. I've even coined a phrase for this: Microcontent Wiki, which is defined as: Weblog Post Comments. It's microcontent because it's usually content based around a single theme or topic (defined by the weblog post). And it's like a Wiki because anyone can write a comment on a weblog, so it has a similar collaborative feel to a Wiki. The problem is, currently we don't have an easy way to track Microcontent Wikis. We can subscribe to RSS feeds for weblogs and even topics (k-collector), but weblog comments aren't as simple to aggregate."(via Read/Write Web) [Roland Tanglao's Weblog]
12:40:48 PM
comment [] trackback [] The Spanish Feedster
And why Feedster might be the Google rival to watch.
[Blogalization Community]
2:41:14 AM
comment [] trackback [] The Israeli Blogs & Journals Index
Eureka! A report of Hebrew and English blogs from Israel. Add to wiki.
[Blogalization Community]
2:35:22 AM
comment [] trackback []
| Theme Design: Bryan Bell
