deeje: BlogosphereCreating and consuming weblogsThe Blog Explosion- July 16, 2003 I need to find a chart of weblog growth... I was just over at Technorati and noticed the "weblogs watched" count went over 400,000 today (it's at exactly 400,091 right now). It was only March 5 when the 100,000 mark was passed. At this rate, there will be more than 6 million blogs by the end of the year. VentureBlog ...expect a hockey stick when AOL Journals rolls out.http://www.ventureblog.com/articles/indiv/2003/000131.html RSS Killed the Infoglut Star- July 16, 2003 Here's the same meme again...RSS Killed the Infoglut StarQuote:"When I started using an RSS newsreader daily, some remarkable things happened that I didn't necessarily expect: I began to spend almost no time surfing to keep up with current technology information, and I was suddenly able to manage a large body of incoming information with incredible efficiency."Comment: I've had the same experience...more information, dealt with more quickly. Slowing the pace of information isn't a solution to...http://www.elearnspace.org/cgi-bin/elearnspaceblog/archives/001169.html CNN on RSS and news aggregators- July 16, 2003 This meme, about weblogs reducing time and increasing reach, is quickly spreading...Christine Boese writes an overview of news aggregators as a new way to read weblogs and news sites."Less wasted time and more efficient surfing might appeal to folks dealing with harassing pop-up windows and masses of spam. It helps to balance the signal-to-noise ratio back in our favor." RancheroNow if we could just drop the term surfing... which do you prefer, aggregating or harvestinghttp://edition.cnn.com/2003/TECH/07/14/hln.hot.buzz.new.web/index.html the aggregator protocol- July 16, 2003 The Fuzzyblog makes an interesting suggestion: Now if I was making an aggregator, I'd want to make it easy for people to subscribe to RSS feeds.&160; Really I would.&160; Now take a look at the Feedster seach results page and you'll see that even we're trying.&160; The three aggregator specific links on the right allow you to click on a Feedster RSS feed and subscribe to it in any supported aggregator.&160; So what's a supported aggregator you ask&160; Well its any aggregator that exposes a web.http://radio.weblogs.com/0103807/2003/07/15.html#a1885 The market for micro-content managers- July 16, 2003 Anil Dash wants a good micro-content manager, and is willing to pay serious bucks for it!I'd pay $500 for a Google-branded microcontent management platform based on the Mozilla core if it were scriptable, stable, and integrated API-neutral blogging and aggregation tools. Or I'd pay $150 annually. So, Google, are you guys game for taking your position as a platform vendor seriously Anil Dashhttp://www.dashes.com/anil/index.php?archives/006726.php Pad as a new term for Blog- July 8, 2003 Steve IM'ed me the other night with questions and concerns about the term blog in the name BloggerJack. His points are valid (summary = blog is an ugly word), but I countered that the term blog is being used everywhere, and as a new company, we would serve ourselves well to leverage the meme. Now, just days later, Jack Mottram suggested a term that I kinda like... pad....Also, I'm sure that Pad is destined become a standard synonym for Weblog. This is a good thing on two counts: firstly,...http://jack.typepad.com/blog/2003/07/on_weblogs_and_.html SELL out to Symantec a second time- July 8, 2003 Something is about to happen to Dave Winer's company UserLand.Ground is shaking in UserLand. John Robb's abrupt departure and blog disappearance smells bad. Dave is hinting at a bigger change that should be "net-net good news for Manila and Radio users and for the weblog community." While going open source is a possibility, "We weren't ready to announce, John surprised us" seems to point to a buyout. My list of suspects with recent news about AOL's entry into BlogLand are:Yahoo Adobe...http://www.docuverse.com/blog/donpark/ RSS, Echo, Wikis, and Personality Wars- July 2, 2003 This is an excellent article on the raging debate over RSS and a new syndication format. In trying to refine my own voice on this weblog, I won't post the entire article here, but I highly encourage you to read it. I will, however, summarize it, from my own perspective. First, the difference between weblogs and wikis. Weblogs are author-centric, whereas wikis are project-centric. Sam Ruby has started the (not)Echo project on a wiki so as to remove the personalities that invariably are tied..http://www.corante.com/many/20030701.shtml#42346 |