I’ve produced an experimental social media news page using Feedly Mixes. You can embed this sort of thing into any site you like. As you can see, it grabs and mixes up the content from selected RSS feeds – a list of sites covering the subject, as chosen by me. It then ranks the articles according [...]
December 17, 2009
The latest storm in a teacup to upset the blogosphere is the spectre of ‘fast-food content’. Raised as a threat by McArrington himself, the worry is that fast and loose content quickly generated to match popular keywords will swamp quality content in search rankings. …what really scares me? It’s the rise of fast food content that [...]
April 1, 2009
There’s a famous anecdote from Baudrillard that illustrates some of the fundamentals of postmodernism. A pilot returning from the first Iraq war is interviewed by a television reporter and asked how he found the war. “I don’t know; I missed it” is the reply. He didn’t see it on TV, so it didn’t happen for [...]
November 25, 2006
Chris Riley has come up with a great idea for tracking exactly how in touch the BBC website is with its readers. His BBC Touch site compares the top ten headlines on the BBC News front page against their popularity – the news that was actually read. This brief sample shows that we’re a bit more [...]
October 12, 2006
Reminiscent of this post, comes a reminder from LexisNexis that traditional media are much more highly trusted than any of us lot. However, it appears that the US is less trusting of its media – old and new – than the UK. Are we brits more gullible than the US, or is American media just [...]
September 19, 2006
Forgive me, but it’s time for me to indulge in a ‘how cool is this!?’ post. Grazr is a very nifty solution to RSS and Blogrolls in a widget. It can work from either a single RSS feed or an OPML file. Pity you can’t add or remove subscriptions on the fly, but you can’t [...]
September 7, 2006
News voting site digg is to re-adjust its story promotion algorithm to give less weight to votes from friends. Founder Kevin Rose writes on the digg blog: This algorithm update will look at the unique digging diversity of the individuals digging the story. Users that follow a gaming pattern will have less promotion weight. This doesn’t [...]
August 11, 2006
Being the Elvis of Web 2.0 is a busy job, it seems. I’ve been stalking Kevin Rose of digg for about six weeks, watching him sign a girl’s chest, hit the cover of BusinessWeek and attempt to fend off attempts to hire the service’s most loyal users. And basically, not getting to interview him. It’s [...]
August 4, 2006
The news aggregator site reddit has been profitable since April, according to Mass High Tech. I’m very pleased for them. The site takes the digg model a little further with recommendations based on your voting habits. It also seems to have a somewhat quieter, maybe older user base, which leads to a difference in the [...]
January 4, 2010