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Bud Gibson's site about blogging
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Bud posted this on January 14, 2006 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
apophenia: justice, fairness, power and privilege
Actually a fairly thoughtful piece on how the cost of blogging is time, and time is the result of having liesure, often a side-effect of privilege.
Bud posted this on November 15, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Blog-Spotting With IBM
Not entirely clear how this works. It's not a service. It seems like it is a software that you install and then I suppose set it loose on some set of blogs. Wouldnt' it be better if it were a service, for scalability if nothing else?
Bud posted this on November 9, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
USATODAY.com - Teens wear their hearts on their blog
Unprecedented numbers of teens are using blogs — Web logs — for: cementing friendships with classmates, seeking new friends, venting, testing social limits, getting support and getting all emo
Bud posted this on October 31, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
More on McDonald's intranet blogs
McDonald's is running blogs on its intranet. Makes a lot of sense.
Bud posted this on October 19, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Survey: 55% of Corporations Using Blogs
"Maintaining enthusiam and encouraging adoption among contributors more difficult than getting management buy-in." The social aspects are what is hard. People need to work on that. On the upcoming test, if a question asks us to list or count
Bud posted this on October 18, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Weblog Usability by Nielsen
"Quite fun to see Nielsen getting into weblog usability… should really just go check our the problogger but still pretty interesting… how do you measure up?" Well, I'm probably missing one or two.
Bud posted this on October 17, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Sifry's Alerts: State of the Blogosphere, October 2005 Part 1: On Blogosphere Growth
The key thing to note is that the number of blogs doubles about every 7 months. Are these new bloggers? or just old bloggers starting another blog? I have around 10 myself.
Bud posted this on October 17, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Metrics - Introduction
The intro to a series on blog metrics. Probably worth a read.
Bud posted this on October 17, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Doing the numbers on the AOL-WeblogsInc deal
So, this is an interesting take on what the value of a link is based on AOL's purchase of Weblogs Inc., a blog publishing network. Are these the types of metrics we should be using in business? What price visibility?
Bud posted this on October 8, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Tigerlily takes charge
Have a peek at this technorati search on one of Tigerlily's posts. She has been found by the world of bloggers.
Bud posted this on September 24, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
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?
Bud posted this on September 23, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Niall Kennedy's Weblog: More TypePad 2.0 details
Niall's take on Sixapart's move toward community sites like the learning remix. I think he misperceives the potential impact of the tools. They are not for lazy people but for people who want to pull together disparate community members.
Bud posted this on September 23, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Project Comet
This is a project not unlike our learning remix. We expect to see it in 2006. The limit I see here is the extent to which it enables entrepreneurially remixing. It seems like a mass market project oriented toward family and friends.
Bud posted this on September 23, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
6-Figure Blogging
If you lost hope about your blogging career after reading about $30k blogging salaries, this interview with 6 figure bloggers should give you some hope.
Bud posted this on September 22, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Blogger Salaries Surface
Insider reports suggest to me that bloggers are essentially viewed as staff writers in most companies. Therefore, the average person won't make much, but there will be some stars. Blogging is clearly not a full time profession for most.
Bud posted this on September 22, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Moodteller: Estimating mood levels in LiveJournal
Could we apply this to the learning remix, and would it be useful? My cut is that things like mood analysis are good at large scale. At small scale, like in a classroom with under 100 students, you are better off directly engaging.
Bud posted this on September 22, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
TIME.com: Blogging 2.0 -- Sep. 26, 2005 -- Page 1
"There are millions of weblogs (blogs for short) online, but many never get read. One reason: blog overload makes it hard to find the good stuff."
Bud posted this on September 19, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Google Blog Search
An extremely good blog searching tool by google. Search for LearningRemix
Bud posted this on September 14, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
tech.memeorandum
The Web is humming with reports and opinions on technology. tech.memeorandum is page A1 for these discussions.
Bud posted this on September 13, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
apophenia round-up: posts that slipped through (danah boyd)
"Social bookmarking is different than blogging and mixing the two is cruel to users."
Bud posted this on August 25, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Word of Blog
Word of Blog will host your ad, make it available to bloggers to post on their blogs, and track the blogs that post it and the click thrus they generate.
Bud posted this on August 23, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Just talked with Matt Mullenweg ....
"I want to talk with Matt about doing an API between the OPML Editor and WordPress."
Bud posted this on August 19, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Turning Wordpress into a tag-based blogging application - Jarrod Trainque
describes how he does tags in wordpress. Quite impressive.
Bud posted this on August 16, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Sifry's Alerts: State of the Blogosphere, August 2005, Part 1: Blog Growth
I have put together some high level information on what we've been tracking. Today I'll focus on the macro growth of the blogosphere, both in the number of bloggers out there, as well as in the growth of new blogs per day.
Bud posted this on August 2, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Posting, Subscribing, and Tagging
I think we're only seeing the beginning of a larger explosion in interactivity and that these actions are a just the tip of the iceberg. This is definitely a more digestible hierarchy for understanding how people bahave with content.
Bud posted this on August 1, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Talk Digger: Check who is linking to you.
Talk Digger will ask to major search engines who links to a specific URL. The results will then be processed and displayed on Talk Digger.
Bud posted this on August 1, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Ajax and weblogs
Ajax is a ridiculously easy technology to implement***, especially if you're using something like Movable Type which quickly and easily outputs chunks of XHTML.
Bud posted this on July 31, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
quickSub
a javascript for one-click subscribing to your blog. Sounds like a needed addition.
Bud posted this on July 24, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
When will blogging peak Jeremy asks
The services that aggregate bloggers' content are where the action is going to be now. Flickr. Technorati. Feedster. Pubsub. Bloglines. Blogpulse. Clusty. Blogdigger. IceRocket
Bud posted this on July 21, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
More blog search engine discussion
Gary Price over on Search Engine Watch says he does all his blog searches with Clusty. A few people have emailed me about Clusty in the past 24 hours too. So I know it's getting more popular. So, let's try it out.
Bud posted this on July 19, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Brands Suffer from Negative Google PR
They boosted their Google rankings by defining a niche for their blog, targeting search phrases, naming categories for each phrase, and writing effectively about subjects related to each category.
Bud posted this on July 18, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Which Blog is Tops in Search?
Yahoo's got an interesting experiment going. They want to know: do readers find blogs via links or through search?
Bud posted this on July 18, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
The Tags Power Tool for Movable Type
And finally, it wouldn't be tags without an accompanying weighted list, so you can check out Dan Wolfgang's writeup of how to turn your new tags into a cloud.
Bud posted this on July 18, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Sifry's Alerts: Scaling, performance, and plain old bug fixing
What a couple of months this has been! First, some stats on what’s going on in the blogosphere. Technorati is now tracking over 13.3 Million blogs, and 1.3 billion links.
Bud posted this on July 18, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Blog Search
The comments indicate some frustration with Technorati and rightly so.
Bud posted this on July 18, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Yahoo! RSS Search
Yahoo! has a lot of good data inputs for a solid database of feed content.
Bud posted this on July 18, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
The Art and Science of Web Design
Jeffrey Veen's "The Art and Science of Web Design" has been an influential work for many web designers for half a decade now, and to celebrate, Jeff's made a PDF of the book available on his blog for free download.
Bud posted this on July 18, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Micro Persuasion: Yahoo Testing Blogs and RSS Search
Shhh, don't tell anyone but you can find Yahoo's new blog and RSS search tool here.
Bud posted this on July 18, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)