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[2006-01-31] RSS Advisory Board
I joined the RSS Advisory Board with Meg Hourihan, Loïc Le Meur, Eric Lunt, Rogers Cadenhead, Jenny Levine, Randy Charles Morin, Greg Reinacker and Dave Sifry.
[2006-01-31] MS Blog Policy to Address Country-Specific Issues
IDG News reports that Microsoft has revamped its blogging policy after many employees expressed outrage over the company's abrupt censoring of a Chinese blogger.
[2006-01-30] Gmail Pulled Over By SpamCop
419 scam emails coming from IP addresses belonging to Google's Gmail service landed in SpamCop spamtrap accounts, leading SpamCop to blacklist those addresses.
[2006-01-30] Web 2.0 *Is* All Hat *and* All Cattle
The San Francisco Chronicle has a big piece on Web 2.0 that gets to a fundamental question.
[2006-01-30] Wikipedia Bans Congress
A one-week ban on IP addresses associated with the US Congress will stay in effect until the Wikipedia Foundation can collect comments on abuses of Wikipedia by Congressional staffers.
[2006-01-29] The FeedButler Digged It
Someone better update that News 2.0 matrix because here comes FeedButler.
[2006-01-27] Gonzales V. Google Date Set
Judge James Ware of the US District Court in San Jose will hear arguments on February 27th from both sides over Google's refusal to comply with federal subpoenas from August 2005.
[2006-01-26] The Subpoena Thing: Gov't Keyword Research
It's time to say a few words about why the government's request for search query data bothers me. As he so often does, Danny summarizes a controversy nicely.
[2006-01-26] AP's Unbloggy Blog
The Associated Press is blogging the World Economic Forum from Davos, Switzerland where political, business and media leaders are gathered.
[2006-01-26] I Ain't Sayin' She a Talk Digger
Jeremiah Owyang shared a neat tool with the Frost conference attendees, Talk Digger.
[2006-01-25] Network Neutrality - It’ll Make Your Head Hurt
"How ya gonna keep ‘em down on the farm After they've seen Paree"
[2006-01-25] TypePad Captcha in Action
I was adding a comment to a post on my own blog in reply to a previous commenter and hit the 'submit' button. What I got next was a pleasant surprise:
[2006-01-25] Yahoo Addresses Blogstorm
Over on the YSearchBlog Yahoo has officially addressed yesterday's intense discussion over Susan Decker's now infamous quotes.
[2006-01-25] Wrickr Beta Launches
Wrickr has launched.
[2006-01-25] PRWeek Reborn, Facelift Coming
It's no secret that PRWeek is undergoing a redesign, an annoying little countdown teaser has been flashing on the home page for a while now, but from an outsider's perspective, it seems that bigger changes are already a foot; changes in how the publication approaches its content.
[2006-01-24] Sparkle Beta Released
I've just been nutty busy lately. I got my email down to zero by the time I left for home at about 9 p.m. (was at work at 8:30 a.m. so long day).
[2006-01-24] Web Video Trends on Intranets
I had already been pondering the surge in popularity of online video when Steve Rubel wrote today about the "Big Bang" that occurred when Apple began selling TV series episodes and other video content through its iTunes store.
[2006-01-23] Google News Adds Recommendations
Do you use Amazon.com? Like the personalized recommendations it often gives you?
[2006-01-23] Disintermediating the News
A thoughtful article on Friday by Richard Sambrook, director of global news at the BBC, on how the internet is disintermediating news:
[2006-01-23] News Alloy Promises to Bring it All Together
News Alloy is a new service for discovering, reading, and sharing Internet news and information.
[2006-01-23] Notice Anything Different?
Yes, there's something different about the Google News logo. Can you tell?
[2006-01-23] Are You Ready for the Video “Big Bang?”
According to a an ABI Research report Apple's announcement last year that it would sell videos on the iTunes Music Store triggered the online video "big bang."
[2006-01-23] News 2.0 Matrix
Paul Montgomery has put together a feature matrix for all of the sites that aggregate news.
[2006-01-19] Vixie, Cerf Clash On Net's Future
Paul Vixie helped create BIND, the domain name system that lets people type in a domain name instead of a dotted quad; now the programmer has lent his talents to a German group seeking to create an alternative to the modern Internet.
[2006-01-17] Buzzmetrics, Intelliseek Merge with Nielsen
Buzzmetrics today announced they have purchased Intelliseek and sold a majority stake in the new company to Nielsen, which is owned by VNU.
[2006-01-17] Google AdWords and Radio
Hang onto your hats.
[2006-01-17] Web 2.0 Doesn't Mean You're Excused from Reality
So Yahoo missed its analyst's estimates today and the stock is already down 13 percent after the close.
[2006-01-16] AdAge Strikes Again
...it occurred to me that there is no such thing as blogging. There is no such thing as a blogger.
[2006-01-16] Wikipedia Unmasks Plagiarism But Gets no Credit
The brief article by editor Frank Bridgewater in the January 13 edition of the Honolulu Star Bulletin informs readers that entertainment reporter Tim Ryan has been dismissed for "phrases or sentences that appeared elsewhere before being included, un-attributed, in stories that ran in the Star-Bulletin."
[2006-01-16] Technorati Charts the Blogs
Technorati has beefed up their charting feature.
[2006-01-16] Dell Blogger (Yes, There Is One) Departs
One of Dell's few known employee bloggers, Sam Decker, now is fully immersed in the religion.
[2006-01-14] Gather Aims to Build a Blog Content Marketplace
Gather has been getting fair amount of media attention over the last several weeks.
[2006-01-14] Facebook Adds New Timeline Feature
Facebook and Myspace don't get talked about much on the blogs I follow, which is interesting since these two services are VERY popular (MySpace is something like the fourth most visited Web site and Facebook is used by a large percentage of college students).
[2006-01-14] Climbing the RSS Summit
Another RSS conference has sprung up and I'm speaking at it: The RSS Summit at Hyatt Regency Cambridge in Cambridge, MA.
[2006-01-14] Gotta Update Blogspot…
Some people might find this interesting: According to Alexa, the contact person for all Blogger blogs is Pyra Labs Evan William.
[2006-01-13] Slashdot, Digg, And All That Traffic
Once an old iPod story on kottke.org got Dugg, visitors streamed to the story; then Slashdot picked up the story and the fun really began.
[2006-01-12] CBS and NBC Track Blog Buzz
Both CBS and NBC have launched new initiatives to track the most popular stories in the blogosphere.
[2006-01-12] So Long Hogwash
Andy, you are so right. The Everyday Hogwash contest plays into "online lynch mob" meme that I have been trying to refute.
[2006-01-12] Anonymity, Identity, and the Internet
When it comes to the recent amendment, regarding a change to make anonymity and online annoyance a federal crime, I'm not sure why there is such a the big fuss.
[2006-01-12] How about a comment-based Memeorandum?
I was just noticing that John Montgomery's post on a potential "Live" version of Visual Studio kicked off a ton of comments.
[2006-01-11] Where the Blog and Media Worlds Diverge
Over the past several weeks I have had several interesting discussions with co-workers, clients and prospects about what bloggers generally like to write about.
[2006-01-11] Pointers (1-11-06)
Another podcasting transcription service has sprung up, this one called Casting Words.
[2006-01-11] Podzinger Voice Recognition / Daily Roundup
Haven't test-driven it yet, but reviewing product features, it looks like PodZinger's ability to use voice recognition to help users search for podcasts is state of the art.
[2006-01-11] The Closed Blogosphere…
Squash rails on Memeorandum and the closed blogosphere. Squash's theory? New people can't get discovered because of sites like mine and Memeorandums.
[2006-01-10] Bloggers Grumble Over Google Video
Bloggers can be a company's best friend or worst enemy. Take Google.
[2006-01-10] Pointers (1-10-06)
Lawrence Lessig (constitutional law professor, author, blogger, Creative Commons innovator) has produced a downloadable version of a presentation he created to address the fair use implications of the Google Books project.
[2006-01-09] How Big Blue Blogs
The Westchester Journal News breaks down how IBM blogs.
[2006-01-09] Search May Leech, But It Still Profits
Usability guru Jakob Nielsen calls search engines "leeches" and ponders how much of the value of online content has been plundered by the likes of Google and Yahoo; he misses a basic concept about search engines and SEM, and the traffic they deliver.
[2006-01-09] Yahoo Acquires WebJay
Tristan Louis pings me to let me know that Yahoo has acquired WebJay, a site that allows for categorization, editing, listening, and sharing of playlists online.
[2006-01-09] Pointers (1-9-06)
The Journal News has a nice piece about IBM's internal and external podcasting efforts.
[2006-01-09] Slashdot is Going out of Style in 2006?
Okay, since I'm apparently in "2006 doom and gloom" mode here's another observation that I can re-brand as a 2006 prediction.
[2006-01-09] Spectrum of Corporate Social Media
Dan Mitchell's What's Online column in the NY Times highlights the grey area of the Business Blogging Wiki:
[2006-01-08] Feedster Will Die in 2006?
Is it just me, or has Feedster been completely useless for over 6 months now?
[2006-01-07] Bloggers Scoop Media on Dell, Google Deal
Score another one for the blogosphere.
[2006-01-06] Can Google Pack and Video Win the Battle?
Mike Bazeley of the Mercury News covers the expected new products from Google today.
[2006-01-06] Newsvine Launches
I have been invited to try the public beta of Newsvine, a news aggregation/citizen journalism hybrid.
[2006-01-05] Xoogler Site Facing Legal Issues?
Hmmm, did someone hire away our lawyers when I wasn't looking?
[2006-01-05] Should Google Acquire Monster.com?
Oh goody, more speculation and rumor. ;-)
[2006-01-05] Blogher Dates Announced
I see the BlogHer conference dates are announced (July 28 and 29 in San Jose).
[2006-01-04] CES Coverage Should Be Interesting on Gadget Sites
I was talking with Jason Calacanis (founder of Weblogsinc.com) yesterday and he told me that AOL was sending a bunch of bloggers to CES to cover that, particularly on their Engadget site.
[2006-01-04] Microsoft's PR blunder
Microsoft has been doing a pretty good job over the last year or so rehabilitating its image as The Evil Empire.
[2006-01-03] Wales Scuttles Wikipedia Ad Talk, Kind Of
Advertising was the hot issue after a Times Online UK interview with Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales seemed to indicate they would be part of the online encyclopedia's future.
[2006-01-03] Wikipedia to Remain Ad Free
Contrary to earlier reports, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales is now saying there will be no ads in Wikipedia.
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