Many geeks are in town for the O’Reilly Where 2.0 conference this Wednesday and Thursday. I’m planning a geek outing for Friday if anyone is staying in the area and would like to see some sights and unique things, leave a comment and I will announce more details soon. We can do some geolocation-specific things like GoCar or Segway tours, visit the Lucas Letterman Digital Arts Center in the Presidio, walk the Golden Gate Bridge, or many other things. I liked my Seattle experience of a group breakfast followed by group excursions. Let’s plan for a 10 a.m. breakfast at…
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Female blogging poster from World War II
I saw this poster produced by the Royal Typewriter Company during World War II in the United States and I think it’s a good female blogging poster as everyone has something interesting to say. Keep ’em flying, Miss U.S.A.Tags: wwii…
blo.gs transfer imminent?
Blo.gs is currently down, indicating an announcement is imminent. Whois records show Jim Winstead is still the domain contact and resource, but Jim previously announced the domain and its assets would change hands on or after Monday, June 13.Tags: blo.gs…
$100,000 to watch Dukes of Hazzard and blog
CNN reports that Country Music Television has just signed Christopher Nelson to a $100,000 contract to watch Dukes of Hazzard and blog about it. Nelson emerged from almost 2,000 applicants by creating a website for a fictional character called Slick. No news on whether a 1969 Dodge Charger comes with the job.Tags: dukesofhazard…
Quotes from the D: All Things Digital conference
The Wall Street Journal published some good quotes from this week’s sessions at the D conference in Carlsbad. Mena Trott of Six Apart has a new self-described title of “chief egotist.” Anna Marie Cox of Wonkette mentioned that people at the top will get commercialized but “there is always someone in the garage.” Donald Graham of The Washington Post described the self-publishing nature of the blogging world as “one person who’s Ben Franklin and 100,000 people who think they’re Ben Franklin.” Peter Kahn of Dow Jones thinks publishers in general have underpriced their products. “I don’t think we were particularly…
KRON hosting bloggers at TV studios
I received an invitation from KRON-TV, a local San Francisco Bay Area news station, to attend a blogger gathering on June 11 at their television studio in San Francisco. From the open invitation: We recognize the significance of the personal media revolution, and we want to listen to what you’re saying. We think this is a good way to start. Sounds great! KRON is a local TV channel that was approached by NBC a few years ago but did not sell. They are still alive and kicking with local programming from parades or the back roads of local parks. The…
TV mixed with blogs
Dana Stevens, television critic for Slate, recently wrote about how television media chooses to cite blogs in their news coverage. I have yet to see the blog coverage on CNN or MSNBC, but it seems like they have the wrong approach to including this new medium. We witness cross-media citations all the time. News organizations care about who broke the news and who had the best commentary and the best sources are usually cited multiple times on big stories. Newspapers or radio stations often break stories and CNN reports on these breaking stories just as they would their own original…
The New York Times including blogs as a regular feature
Next Monday The New York Times will introduce a new Business Day section with a regular feature about the world of blogs written by David Carr. On Mondays, Business Day will focus on media and marketing news, with technology included as it relates to those industries. David Carr will write a column on new media; the world of blogs will be covered as a regular feature.Technorati Tags: nytimes…
Blogging statistics from Pew
The Pew Internet & American Life Project has some new statistics available from its survey of 2,871 internet users from January 2005 through March 2005. 9% of internet users now say they have created blogs. 6% of the entire U.S. adult population have created blogs. 25% of internet users say they read blogs. The number of adult readers of blogs is about 40% of the size of the talk radio audience. The blog-reading audience is about 20% of the size of the newspaper-reading population. I will comment more once the full report is available….
John Battelle starts FM Publishing
John Battelle recently announced his new company named FM Publishing to act as a publisher for more authors in similar ways to his role as band manager at Boing Boing. I plan to partner with site authors, acting as a platform which provides important services to them – revenue (in the form of advertising), back end support, and the like.