Dave Sifry has posted his State of the Blogosphere, August 2006, with the fairly amazing note that Technorati has tracked its 50 millionth blog. Of course, a lot of them are link-groveling spammers, but still…
Posts under ‘Blogging’
Not Your Average CEO Blog
Who’s writing the hilarious fake blog, “The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs, Aged 51 1/2?”
Blawg-o-sphere Gets Respect
Chicago Lawyer: Law Related Blogging Starting to See a Coming of Age: Berman is among a growing number of law professors, law students, lawyers, and even judges who have gravitated to the world of blogs, the interactive online medium that allows people worldwide to publish their ideas, and others to comment on them — all […]
Most Bloggers Aren't Journalists: So What?
Slate’s Jack Shafer expresses apparent suprise that the Pew survey I mentioned this week shows a distinct minority of bloggers who consider themselves journalists. Since when was it otherwise?
Man on the street reporting: homeless blogger takes reins at blog sponsored by TV station
Lisa Williams: News2/WKRN, Nashville’s ABC affiliate, has a great ongoing experiment called Nashvilleistalking.com, where WKRN blogger Brittney Gilbert rounds up the best of the local blogosphere and beyond each weekday. Each weekend, the station pays $100 to a local blogger to keep the site ticking over Saturday and Sunday. The site’s most recent weekend host […]
Student Journalists' Major-League Project
A terrific project called News21 — sponsored by two major foundations to help figure out the future of journalism education (and maybe journalism itself) — is under way. This is an important initiative, bringing in students and faculty from five major universities in a multi-year effort that involves some serious journalism about the intersection of […]
Bloggercon
Arrived for the second day, or part of it (I’m shuttling back to Supernova as well), of BloggerCon, and the session is all about tools. As promised, the audience is the expert panel, not a panel. Phil Torrone of Make magazine is a great MC. I’ve now learned about several podcasting tools I didn’t know […]
On the Road
Heading back home from Helsinki and the great Aula event. Ross Mayfield and Bruno Giussani did some solid blogging.
Another Blogger Goes Independent
It is genuine and excellent news to see that Om Malik, as he writes in “Its Time To Transition,” is going independent. His blog is required reading in Silicon Valley, and he’s one of the best journalists I’ve encountered, period. He’s amused to have been scooped by the ValleyWag blog. This reminds me of when […]
Netscape as Digg, Newsvine, Etc.
AOL’s blogging boss, Jason Calacanis, has convinced the company to use the Netscape.com brand — still enormously valuable — as a Digg-like site where people vote on which news stories are the most important, interesting, etc. I’d expected something like this from Yahoo, not AOL. Jason seems to have made the difference, and I hope […]