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Micro Persuasion: You Know the Blog Bubble Has Arrived When...

There's an interesting debate here. Will existing media companies just hire bloggers and suddenly become new media companies? I.e., the continuation of the old guard. Or, will new entrants be the ones to watch?

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Bud posted this on September 23, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

unmediated: Niche aggregators: that was fast!

"Thanks to Mayhem and Chaos for pointing out that while I've been proposing the idea of fine-sliced (niche) music aggregators, Audiolunchbox (and, presumably, CD Baby soon) has been building them."

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Bud posted this on August 3, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Wikipedia improves Britannica

I assume Jimbo is referring to the the plan to have a "release 1.0" version of articles to serve as a standard reference, so at least you won't have to worry that when you link to an article on bosons, someone will go there during the ten minutes when it'

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Bud posted this on July 21, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

AJAX Good or Bad Part II (or What should publishers do with AJAX?)

However, aside from making commenting faster I’ve yet to find an amazing AJAX idea out there for blog publishers.

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Bud posted this on July 20, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

AJAX bad for publishers, good for users?

In my mind if you’re running a webservice like DIGG, Flickr, or email AJAX is great, if you’re a publisher it’s too soon to start giving away 10-20% of your revenue—right?

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Bud posted this on July 19, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Ajax Archive Drop Downs

With this tutorial, I'll take that one step further and use AJAX such that when you select an archive, rather than redirecting to the corresponding archive page, the appropriate posts will just replace those currently shown.

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Bud posted this on July 18, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Jon Udell: A progress report on InfoWorld's del.icio.us experiment

Now that InfoWorld's experiment with del.icio.us tagging has been running for a while, it's a good time to step back and assess how things are going.

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Bud posted this on July 18, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

The Observer Blog

This looks like an interesting application of folksonomy, and he will be releasing plugins for MT. Something to watch.

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Bud posted this on February 27, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

The Observer Blog

Ben Hammersley has built a newspaper weblog with folksonomy. Wow! I wonder if it will fit with Thomas Vanderwal will approve.

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Bud posted this on February 22, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

About The New York Times: Deep Into Web 2.0 Now

The NY Times bought About. The key thing is About's ability to generate revenue from blog content. They are doing very well on paid click throughs.

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Bud posted this on February 21, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

The Future of Newspapers

An insightful commentary on how newspapers could raise their ad revenues online. He recommends ad targeting and opening the archives. Makes sense, but I wonder if newspapers will ever let loose of the archives.

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Bud posted this on February 20, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

About The New York Times: Deep Into Web 2.0 Now

The NY Times bought About. The key thing is About's ability to generate revenue from blog content. They are doing very well on paid click throughs.

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Bud posted this on February 20, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Digital Web Magazine - News - Show me the content!

This is an odd post in that The Indepenedent cited Jason Kottke's link blog on February 7 as one of the 12 most interesting sites it had seen.

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Bud posted this on February 16, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Are newspapers dead?

This is a question of scale not personal experience. The question is to what extent a large portion of people are getting their news online. The revenue model for newspapers is a concern.

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Bud posted this on February 13, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

All News Sites Will Become Aggregators

Not clear to me that news goes over to branded readers. Value is in exclusive access to content, editorial control, and archival access. What is the relationship between these components?

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Bud posted this on February 11, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Media Sites as News Portals?

A notion that news aggregation could be equivalent to publishing. In a way, aggregation is not structuring and editing.

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Bud posted this on February 11, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Questions from Susan Mernit

Will publishing turn into branded feedreaders? Perhaps with suggested sources of content. This actually makes some sense. Charge for packaging, easy on-ramp, and indepdence from online aggregators.

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Bud posted this on February 7, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

John Battelle's Searchblog: Latest Business 2.0 Column: Tom Glocer, Reuters

Reuters is moving to a web business model. I wonder if they will do podcasts? Makes sense as a move, but lots of work needed on that front.

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Bud posted this on February 3, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

The Guardian on Gates, Google and the battle for the way we think.

With search engines dominating navigation, their algorithms necessarily bias what we view. This in turn alters our perceptions. Is there search diversity out there? Where is the easy-to-use metaservice? Would this be allowed by the main engines?

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Bud posted this on February 3, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

seattlepi.com Buzzworthy: Brands of one

Extremely thought-provoking. How does one step back from blogging? Many people just blog as they will. I think getting caught up in the competitive rat race, believing you are new media etc., leads to burnout.

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Bud posted this on February 2, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

US local ads to boom

A 46% rise in online spending is unbelievable. How many people actually do that much looking online? It may be that online responsiveness is better when targeted, and online targeting is easier.

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Bud posted this on February 1, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Media transparency: A ZDNet experiment

The interesting assertion, at the end, is that companies will lose from their blogging efforts if they are not transparent. I like the specification of when blogging will not work.

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Bud posted this on January 20, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Slasdot debates the future of internet news

The author tries to suggest that Google adsense is paying for blogs. Which blogs? It would appear that advertising revenue cannot itself support blogs. Can blogs with no revenue model, even, become media?

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Bud posted this on January 18, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Link-Up Digital: Magazines on Web Tools and Content

A good resource on how to get your electronic content noticed and get you credit (maybe even money).

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Bud posted this on January 16, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

When Reporters Become Bloggers

Remarks on the profit motive and blogging.

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Bud posted this on January 15, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Serialized eBooks via RSS

Book sales are declining. Would people pay to subscribe to these books if they were good?

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Bud posted this on January 15, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Progression through regression

So, will weblogs be aggregated by new media giants? Or, will they remain fragmented as the author suggests.

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Bud posted this on January 14, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

NYT and charging for the website - or not

Would people pay for the nytimes?

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Bud posted this on January 12, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)