Friday, November 28, 2008
Eight years and ten days ago I published the first post on this blog (though at the time, and for several years, it was on blogspot). The first post is both on this domain and still up on blogspot. I give Google a lot of credit for keeping what must be thousands of dead blogs [...]
Google Reader has updated tonight with a new trends feature. All a part of Google’s effort to tell you more about yourself. In this case there are no surprises. Over time I expect the % Read figure for Messrs. Marshall & Yglesias will climb thanks to their switching to full text feeds.
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Thursday, January 18, 2007
John Battelle has a long post on what he’d like to be able to do with his blog. In short he’d like to use the data about his blog’s use to build useful navigation tools for his readers. It’s all there, he knows, but how to get it out? I’ve been mulling some similar issues, [...]
Since the Long Tail concept was so popular in 2006, why not give it a kick on the way to 2007? "Of course a couple of those top 10 sites are actually places like YouTube and MySpace where large amounts of user generated content drives traffic and then deposits money in hands not of the creators, but instead in the coffers of the large corporate landlords. Nicholas Carr aptly compares this setup to sharecropping." — # 01/2/2007
A two-fer Tuesday (honk-honk) from Copyblogger today. Best of Copyblogger 2006. And Mark Twain quotes as blogging inspiration. — # 01/2/2007
MediaShift has a long and interesting interview with Paul Kiel and Justin Rood of TPMMuckraker. "I don’t believe in the ivory tower idea, but legitimacy is hard to win. People value news outlets for their legitimacy, which is very hard to do. So that’s a problem for the citizen journalism movement." — # 11/22/2006
Markos, "But in the end, none of this would've happened without the effort all of us made. Those who think that the DSCC and DCCC don't deserve credit are idiots. Those who think Dean doesn't deserve credit are idiots. Those who think the netroots and grassroots don't deserve credit are idiots. We all had our roles to play, and we wouldn't be where we are today without all of us doing our part." — # 11/10/2006
Thursday, November 9, 2006
Since the Grey Lady has decided to open up the Select garden to the rest of us slobs to remind us just how trite Tom Friedman is, I decided it was time for a little self-referential linking. For those who pay for Time Select, see below for how you can get the very same opinion [...]
Wednesday, November 8, 2006
Matt and Rand debate. Are the below icons good for your site or not? Matt says they distract the writer from producing good content. Rand says they can benefit the site by demonstrating that your content is there for the sharing. Rand makes a much more persuasive argument, while including several important caveats.
I’ve been devoting [...]
Profile of Matt Mullenweg in the Guardian. "Now you see people with no technical ability creating really amazing sites reaching audiences they would never have imagined reaching." Also profiled: Ev, Joshua Schachter, Dick Costolo, Caterina Fake & Stewart Butterfield. — # 11/6/2006
Thursday, February 17, 2005
Nooners takes up the issue of blogging today. I join others (Dave, Matt) in generally praising the column. Nooners can’t bring herself to actually mention a blogger that doesn’t share in her ideology, but what is one to expect from opinion pages of the WSJ? I do find amusing the dogged attempts [...]
Wednesday, April 11, 2001
No love from Slate.com here. Maybe it was that blog about Kinsley asinine review of that blockbuster Anti-trust that bumped me off the list. I’m sorry Michael, I loved your piece on the estate tax. If Camille Paglia gets on there before I do, I’m taking the site down.