Posts under ‘News’

Newsvine took off the wraps today, and I have to say it’s one of the best efforts yet in combining the knowledge of the community with the news. I’ll be saying more about it in an upcoming post, but this is one of the sites you have to watch if you care about the future […]

All-around smart guy Tristan Louis has examined blog trends in the past year by taking the Technorati 100 from 2005 and comparing it against 2006. He found some interesting results, showing the dynamic nature of the blogosphere: Only 9 blogs moved up in the rankings, and there were 65 new entries to the list. That […]

The New York Times reports that Yahoo is shifting focus away from creating traditional, TV-like content on the Web to a major focus on bottom-up material. Key passage: With advertisers moving large parts of their budgets online, the market for content, created by professionals, bloggers and individual users, is expanding rapidly — as is the […]

Jay Rosen and his students at New York University have launched their Blue Plate Special, a listing of what they deem to be the best blogging newspapers in America. Check out what they (accurately) call their nifty chart.

For a piece in CIO Insight magazine, “Banking on Blogs,” I talked with JP Rangaswami, chief information officer at Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein about his use of modern communication tools. One takeaway: In particular, he’s adopted a variety of conversational tools—weblogs, podcasts, instant messaging, wikis and the like—which he believes are fundamental to fostering better communication […]

HBO is using Google Maps in a clever way to promote the the Sopranos series, which starts a new season soon. At Behind the Scenes: Sopranos Maps, you’ll find locations annotated with videos, photos and episode details from Season 5. (The image here is at Shea Stadium in Queens, NY, and of course that’s the […]

It has not been reported very well outside Southeast Asia, but Thailand is in political upheaval with protests over Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra‘s sale of Shin Corporation to Singapore’s government investment arm, Temasek Holdings, under dubious terms. People have taken to the streets in protests over the past few weeks calling for his resignation, with […]

George Will: Less Freedom, Less Speech. In 1989, in two speeches in Austria, Irving said, among much else, that only 74,000 Jews died of natural causes in work camps and millions were spirited to Palestine after the war. An arrest warrant was issued. Last November Irving was arrested when he came to Austria to address […]

New West Network: Denver Media Offering Politicos Free PR Outlet. In south metro communities, at least, several politicians — including the House Minority Leader and a couple of wannabes who hope to be ensconced in the Colorado Capitol after next fall’s election — have discovered that they can post whatever they like in “news stories” […]

It’s not entirely lame, but Google Page Creator will have some distance to travel before it’s all that useful. The company describes it as “a free online tool that makes it easy for anyone to create and publish useful, attractive web pages in just minutes.” Over at Search Engine Watch, Chris Sherman has this analysis, […]