Archives by Topic: Blogging
Beyond Text
Bob Wyman of PubSub has just written a killer post on the future of blogging (or one of them...). An excerpt: "What Kedrosky is speaking of is what we at...
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Lawyer asks Bloglines to remove his feed
Looks like the first salvo has been fired in what is sure to be an ongoing controversy over contextual advertising using RSS. Martin Schwimmer, a trademark lawyer, has asked Bloglines...
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Everything has already moved
Simon Waldman, Director of Digital Publishing for Guardian Newspapers, writes: "Gizmodo gets handed an interview with Bill Gates. Good for them, I say - and a smart move by Microsoft....
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Technorati Issue Solved
Thanks to a link from Robert Scoble (who is always looking out for his readers, bless him), my issue with Technorati not indexing my blog came to the notice of...
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What's wrong with Technorati?
What, my links not good enough for you Technorati? ;-) I say that with a wink, but to be honest I'm pissed off with Technorati. My main weblog, Read/Write Web,...
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Top 24 of 2004
There's a nice meme just started, asking people to list their Top 24 posts of 2004 (via). I decided to check out my web stats and dig out the most-visited...
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The Marqui Experiment
What if I told you that, starting 1 December, I will be paid US$800 per month for 3 months to write 1 blog post per week about a company called...
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Blog Aid Successful
To wrap up what has been a busy week, yesterday I finally got some momentum going in the blogosphere with the O'Reilly interview. Thanks to Jason Kottke, Robert Scoble, Phil...
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Don't all link to me at once...
In a recent post I floated the theory that Content Creators need Media Companies to help them attract mass eyeballs to read their carefully-crafted content. It would be a symbiotic...
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Us and Them
This is about as political as I'll get here on Read/Write Web, but I couldn't resist posting this cartoon by fellow kiwi Tom Scott. It also reminds me of the...
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Top Ten Blog Post Titles I Want To Use
It's Friday afternoon where I live, so time for a less serious post. There's an art to creating good weblog post titles and most of the time I craft my...
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Blogging as Marketplace and Ecology
Jason Kottke wrote today that the blogging revolution will be commercialized. He said that "out of Technorati's top 100 most-linked weblogs, only 16 don't feature advertising or are otherwise noncommercial."...
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Baby names for bloggers - comments
Excellent response to my light-hearted Friday post Suggested baby names for bloggers. The comments are still open if you want to add your suggestions. As for me, I have the...
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Suggested baby names for bloggers
Warning: This post is frivolous and NOT topic-focused! May the blogosphere have mercy on me. So here are those baby names... Girls: Bloggia Blerta Post Ping (could work as a...
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Gmail Invite Giveaway Galore!
UPDATE: I HAVE NO MORE GMAIL INVITES, SO DON'T EMAIL ME ABOUT IT....
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What are your Google Number 1's?
Andrew left a great comment on my previous post about blog branding. I'd mentioned I was number 1 for the Google phrase "two way web blog". Andrew also informed me...
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We're all on the same page
In yesterday's post I mentioned The 3 C's: Create, Communicate and Collaborate. The 2nd one could just as easily be 'Converse', as in conversations. All of these C's are things...
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Google AdSense for Search
Good timing Google! Adding search functionality to my site was on my To Do list for this month and Google has just announced a new AdSense for Search feature. It...
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Feed of the Day
Cool, I'm Feed of the Day at Feedster! btw regular readers may've noticed I'm posting more frequently now. Shorter, pithier posts. But I plan to continue the long-form entries...
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Funk
Don't worry I still like blogs ;-) I was thinking it would be amusing to change my name to The Artist Formally Known as Read/Write Web and write a...
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The Bore-osphere
In answer to all the blogs I've read today: 1. No I don't want a friggin' Gmail account. 2. I don't want to read your opinion on Dave Winer closing...
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Duplicating Link and Guid
I don't want to wade into an RSS syntax debate, but I came across a practical example of why to duplicate the Guid and Link elements in your RSS 2.0...
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Pop Quiz: Comments
More tinkering. Last night I made the header and footer fixed width, evened up the right-hand column's width in relation to the left column, added more white space to the...
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Must. Blog. Something.
Oh man, has it been a whole week since I lasted posted something on my weblog? I've actually been busy working on an upcoming special feature for Read/Write Web. Top...
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Moving your Radio Userland comments system to PyCS
I've now swapped my comments system from Radio Userland's comments server to the Python Community Server, developed and hosted by Phil Pearson. The reason I did this was because I've...
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Testing PYCS comments server
Just testing my swapover to PYCS comments server. Please ignore (unless you're Phil Pearson helping me get it set up!)....
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Much Ado About Comments
I've noticed that a few of my favourite webloggers are being hit by comment spam. Bill Seitz's WikiLog has been hammered this week and Andrew Chen noticed this morning a new trick. A spammer had...
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Portrait of a Geek as a young-ish man
Note to self: don't bother with any more surveys, because I'm not popular enough. As Homer Simpson might say, Stupid A-List... :-) But seriously, I was a little disappointed more...
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Last chance
OK, so I'm not Kottke and my surveys don't attract hundreds of punters :-( But thank-you Rogers for linking to my survey. I'll keep the survey going till tonight NZ...
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So come on then, what do I look like?
So far I've gotten two very interesting responses to my informal survey: what do I look like? This is a fascinating experiment, because even from just two responses I can...
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Informal Survey: what do I look like?
I'm currently updating my 'About Me' page, so that it reflects my 2004 goals and themes that I'll be exploring this year. I've got the draft sitting on my brand...
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Linkblog added to sidebar
I'm doing some incremental changes to the site. First up, I added my linkblog to the sidebar. I use my linkblog to save links, ideas and memes that interest me....
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Homage to Hyperlinks
I've just finished transferring a bunch of links from Outlook to my linkblog. They are links I've been hoarding over the past few months, as ideas for future weblog articles...
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Linkblog begun
I've been playing around with some linkblog solutions. Firstly, on Phil Pearson's advice I tried del.icio.us. Once I negotiated my way around the minimalist design and even more minimalist documentation,...
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Linkblogs
I've been thinking about starting a linkblog, like Phil Pearson has just done. Two of my favourite daily reads are Anil Dash's Daily Links and Erik Benson's Morale-o-Meter. Both those...
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11 Weblog Pieces
Forgive me, it's the end of the day and I don't want to write my usual lengthy blog post. So I thought I'd do the blogging equivalent of "piano pieces",...
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Rock n roll
On a less serious note than my previous post, it also occured to me that bloggers are like rock n roll bands. The best bands explore a different theme each...
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New School Blogroll example
As per my previous post, I've updated my blogroll to include topics and conversations. I just manually updated my blogroll OPML file, but I envisage a web frontend for this...
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Extending blogrolls
Don also mentioned auto-population of blogrolls, which is something that Phil Pearson has been experimenting with and I've been commenting on. My view is that the "blogroll" can be extended...
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Google PageRank navel-gazing
A few days ago John Robb complained about his Google PageRank being zero after he moved to his new domain. I was in the same situation, but this morning I...
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My new domain name
I have moved to a new domain name. Please update your records: New weblog address: http://www.readwriteweb.com New RSS feed: http://www.readwriteweb.com/rss.xml ps the reason I am re-posting this, and my XML...
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RSS and Echo
Jon Udell on RSS: "It's about a new way of communicating, one that's defined by personal publishing and subscribing, and that empowers writers and readers as never before." Amen to...
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C List blogger checks his stats
I admit it. I regularly check my stats at Technorati and Blogshares, plus I do some search engine checks now and then. Everyone does it. I have to say I'm...
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Scobleized
I've been Scobleized. Now I really am part of the blogosphere...yay :-)...
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