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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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 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.
Intelliseek and Edelman partnered to create a white paper on weblogs.
Students at Proctor High School in Vermont can no longer write weblog posts at school. School officials are concerned for the safety of the children posting personal data online that could be used by an Internet predator.
Much to my surprise, Dare Obasanjo came up to me and told me, after some fairly vitriolic complaining from me to him about this earlier state of affairs, that he wished I'd continue to post. I thought about this over the weekend and decided that to some degree, you have to take your chances in this environment rather than just hide when you don't like the behavior and that perhaps I was being over sensitive anyway.
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Jim Winstead officially placed blo.gs up for sale today.
and Flickr are still in negotiations over purchase price and no final agreement has been reached. A high level source within Yahoo told SiliconValleyWatcher that the two companies are in negotiations over the purchase price and that as of late Friday night Pacific Time, no final agreement had yet been reached.
Jason Kottke just announced he is going to run kottke.org full-time supported — he hopes — by user donations. "This is me taking online personal publishing seriously because I feel it deserves as much."
I just uploaded the full audio of the February 15, 2005 episode of The Charlie Rose Show.
The mayor of Oakland, Jerry Brown, has started a weblog on TypePad to discuss the issues of interest to Oakland and to provide a direct voice. His first post currently has 54 comments.
I just started playing around with Picasa 2 and I noticed they have a "Read the Picasa Blog" option in their help menu linking to a new Blogger weblog. Picasa is the first product that I have seen link to a weblog within the application and it is especially interesting to see the link appear in the help section and not in a more generic about section….
I just came across RSS Submit, a $25 piece of software that will ping RSS search engines with your feed URL. (via Danny Sullivan) Hilarious! It's like Ping-o-Matic but for $25!…
Dan Gillmor has a new TypePad weblog. Grab your RDF feed or Atom feed if you would like to keep track of Dan's new citizen journalism projects and other technology insights….
I tried to leave a comment on Marc Canter's weblog in response to his post reacting to requests for reasonably priced geek dinners, but his weblog is not setup correctly. If you want to use TypeKey you have to edit your Movable Type weblog preferences and add your TypeKey token. You're not enabling a conversation! I was motivated enough to post here since Marc unfairly targeted some people trying to make the event work for everyone. Tantek's idea was to try somewhere new and to make the event as inclusionary as possible. He's been to geek dinners all around the…
FeedBurner announced new features today FeedCount, an image displaying the total number of readers of a FeedCount enabled FeedBurner feed. You can choose your own background and foreground color and choose an animated version. FeedBurner also claims 1 in 5 podcasts listed on audio.weblogs.com is provided by a FeedBurner feed….
As an economics nerd I have a lot of thoughts about weblogs and theories of incentive. Weblogs share some social and economic motivations with the world of open source software yet I struggle to quantify the economic effects on an individual publisher level. The key overlooked metric of the blogosphere is the society of the underemployed. People with full-time jobs and a paycheck who rather be doing something else on a full or part-time basis utilize weblog tools in an attempt to gain notoriety or possibly a new job. Weblogs are the karaoke night of online journalism where many participants…
Jason Kottke's recent experience with Sony has him reconsidering his role as a publisher. Is the hassle worth it? Only big publishers have the budgets to deal with any hint of legal issues. I raised this issue at Lawrence Lessig's Law & Blogging session at BloggerCon. Regardless of fair use, being on the right side of the law, it is difficult to gather the resources to respond to legal harassment. Lessig differentiated between a "nastygram" and an actual legal filing. Jason has demonstrated good judgment and community building in the past. I received an e-mail from Jason before he pointed…
AlwaysOn will introduce a quarterly print magazine. Over "50 percent of the content in the issues come either from AO members or will be posts that our members considered the most valuable. In this way, our community is both transparent and plays an active editorial role in the content we publish." AlwaysOn is the first weblog site to spin into a magazine….