Category Archives: Weblogs

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….

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….