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Researchers at UC Berkeley researched the environmental impact of reading a newspaper on a PDA versus in reading the paper form. [I]f just a quarter of newspaper readers around the country switched to reading the news on their PDA, they'd generate just two to three percent of the carbon dioxide that would have resulted from the 14 million print newspapers they no longer need. A good argument for syndicated feeds!…
Red Herring has an article about Joyce Park's termination by Friendster for blogging. In just five business days, Ms. Park estimates that at least two dozen Silicon Valley employers – including Friendster's most prominent competitors – deluged her with job offers. Good to see things worked out well for Joyce. She definitely received a lot of help sending the word out to employers that she is looking for a new job….
In what may be another first, blogger Jessica Cutler, "The Washingtonienne," is featured in Playboy's Cyber Club starting today. There is a safe-for-work interview with Jessica on the Playboy site as well….
Ed Schrock, United States Congressman for Virginia's 2nd District, announced yesterday he would not seek a third term in November. He faced homosexual allegations that surfaced on weblogs such as Michael Rogers' blogACTIVE. He received a 100 percent rating from the Christian Coalition in 2002 and was one of 233 lawmakers who supported the Marriage Protection Act. The 63-year-old Schrock is married and has one son. Ed Shrock not seeking a third term is the first instance I know of where webloggers have pushed someone out of federal office. Trent Lott is often cited as an example of the power…
The Wall Street Journal profiles the 15 official webloggers attending next week's Republican national convention. "Asked what they learned from Boston, some of the New York bloggers characterized the Boston coverage as self-absorbed and overly preoccupied with celebrity sightings. The Republican bloggers said they'd stay more focused on the issues and the convention itself — a chance they'll get next week."…
O'Reilly Media published the entire text of Dan Gillmor's new book, We the Media,under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 license. Chapter PDF files are available for download….
Users of Kazaa 2.7 (currently in beta) can promote their weblog or Web site within search result and traffic panes. Once you enter your Web address through the options menu your user name will be hyperlinked in the search results and traffic display. Interesting feature and it adds accountability. I am guessing this feature will be more useful to distributors than end-users. Independent music distributors can direct users to their Web site for more bands or a rich media presentation. Vendors can offer sample clips on Kazaa and link to their sites where a full-length clip is available for purchase….
Daniel Terdiman of Wired News reports on Bakersfield's The Northwest Voice newspaper giving its readers control of its content through online article posting. "36 percent of the content is photographs, while 13 percent is school news, 11 percent is community events, 7 percent is youth sports and 2 percent is church news. Ten percent of coverage is columns written by locals selected by Fulton for their expertise on things like horses, cars, schools and outdoor life."…
Jason Cook wrote a optimization guide for Atom and RSS and it is now available on Webmonkey. GZip compress, use conditional gets, and validate your feeds. A good use of statistics to drive the point home….
News.com now has descriptions (not just headlines) in its RSS feeds….
Nike now has a weblog published by Nick Denton's Gawker Media. "Nike commissioned 15 talented young filmmakers to interpret the idea of speed. Over the course of 20 days, this weblog will introduce these innovative directors, their short films, and the digital technology behind the scenes." (via Scoble)…
Steven Levy writes about Nick Denton and Gawker Media in Wired magazine. Writers are typically paid $1500 a month (contract, not full time) and build a reputation good enough for a traditional publisher. Levy estimates Gawker Media nets $80,000 per blog per year. "Denton's move to professionalize blogs bestowed instant credibility on an unknown single-writer Web site."…
Andy Raskin of Business 2.0: "Creative Commons encourages artists to share and distribute their work for free. And that could be the key to a new multibillion-dollar industry."…
Jena McGreggor discusses corporate weblogs in the April issue of Fast Company. Some of the uses mentioned, such as project status, seem like candidates for a wiki instead of a weblog. The article makes Scoble seem like a marketing arm of Microsoft, in the same class as Macromedia blogs. I would have liked to see mention of Scoble having a Userland weblog and not a MSDN weblog. Robert Scoble may well be one of the most powerful people in Redmond right now. A trusted group of employees started blogs to answer users' questions, and the blogs have grown into online…
Pew Internet and American Life Project's latest survey covers content creation online. Some interesting findings from a phone survey conducted between March 12 and May 20, 2003. 13% maintain their own Web sites 7% have Web cams running on their computers 2% maintain Weblogs, 11% read weblogs, and about a third of readers have left comments. 10% of bloggers update daily. Power creators, average age of 25, are most likely to be blogging. It is interesting to note what has happened since May 20, 2003 that has most likely increased those numbers. AOL launched its AOL Journals service. TypePad launched….