Some (mild) outrage about the Jackie Danicki post about her tube attacker here and here and here. There’s talk of lynchin’s in them there blogs. I find that quite bizarre. Jackie – who I don’t know – was verbally and physically attacked during a tube journey and posted about it, together with a picture of her [...]
November 24, 2006
I was intrigued to read the headline ‘Widow PC Caters to World of Warcraft Fans’ on Gizmodo. It turns out that it’s a high-end PC with a very fast network card to optimise your connection to the game. Boring. However, it made me think, and I’d like to register my copyright on the BlogWidow PC for [...]
November 23, 2006
I have a bit of a love/hate relationship with Techmeme. It’s very useful for days when you haven’t got time to read through your RSS subscriptions (viz. most days) and just want a snapshot of what the techies in the blogosphere are talking about. On the other hand, it tends to focus very heavily on the [...]
November 16, 2006
The recent ’state of the blogosphere’ report from Technorati’s David Sifry has ruffled a few feathers because of the inclusion of a new semi-scientific ranking system to group bloggers into four distinct groups. Let’s call them A-D. (Aside: find out where you stand using this handy tool) The report describes the four groups thus: The Low Authority [...]
November 11, 2006
A great article in the FT this week by Sarah Murray (behind their paywall) about the power of the internet to make consumers powerful broadcasters. It ends with four quick tips for companies planning to join the social media space: See what’s out there. New services can help companies analyse their online reputations. Blog-focused search engines [...]
November 7, 2006
David Sifry posts on the state of the blogosphere. There are more than 57mn blogs, and amazingly, more than half of them are active: “About 55% of all blogs are active, which means that they have been updated at least once in the last 3 months.” The blogosphere has very slightly slowed in growth, doubling [...]
October 27, 2006
Some interesting discussion over the last couple of days about the necessity for a new kind of metric for measuring the effectiveness of blogs. Robert Scoble talks about the difference between getting page impressions (bad) and engagement (good): There’s another stat out there called “engagement.†No one is measuring it that I know of. What do I [...]
October 17, 2006
Late to this story. Sorry. Seemed a bit rumour-ridden earlier. Richard Edelman has apologised on his blog for Wal-Mart-gate. Edelman PR appears to have aided in creating a faked* blog [http://walmartingacrossamerica.com - now taken down] about a couple travelling across America, camping in Wal-Mart car parks along the way. Edelman writes: For the past several days, I have [...]
October 5, 2006
Former humourist and Daily Mail correspondent Keith Waterhouse makes friends with the blogosphere: Seasoned googlers, of whom there is already a vast tribe, are nerds, anoraks and braces-wearers of the worst sort who spend every working moment searching the infernal engine for other people’s blogs. They are descended from a generation of titterers, pranksters and spokespersons of [...]
September 22, 2006
[Update: some of the links that were below don't work anymore, so I've removed them] Dead 2.0 is a funny tech blog. The author posts anonymously under the name ‘Skeptic’, and enjoys deflating the hype around Web 2.0 startups with posts like ‘Funding the Web 2.0 gravy train’ and ‘Secret to why you should invest in [...]
September 21, 2006
In breaking news err… yesterday, NewAssignment.net has received a $100,000 grant from Reuters to hire an editor. NYU journalism professor Jay Rosen explains the project’s agenda: The idea is to draw “smart crowds – groups of people configured to share intelligence”into collaboration at NewAssignment.Net and get stories done that way that aren’t getting done now. By [...]
November 28, 2006