Here are extracts from an IM interview with Jeff Henning, COO, Perseus Development Corporation, an online survey company. Me: i was starting from the experience of being slashdotted/boingboinged, and trying to give it some context for the general user, and using it as an excuse to talk about how information gets around… Jeff Henning: Well,… Read More »
Here, inspired by a comment to a recent post from Graham ‘pieman’ Holliday, I thought I’d start tracking Internet words we’d rather not have around. First off: The Blogosphere. The term, according to Wikipedia, was coined on September 10, 1999 by Brad L. Graham, as a joke. [1] (http://www.bradlands.com/weblog/1999-09.shtml) It was re-coined in 2001 by William Quick… Read More »
I’m writing this from my Treo which is a great example of portable blogging, I guess, but it’s not good for adding links. Does a blog posting have to have links to be good? I know one school of thought has it that blogs must be alive with links to offer value, while others suggest… Read More »
Wired offers a sobering story about the power of blogs, or rather the tendency of political bloggers to swarm (Howard Rheingold’s word). I would call it Salem-style witch hunting crossed with good old-fashioned conspiracy nuttiness. Academic David Hailey stepped into the debate about the Texas Air National Guard memos suggesting they might have been produced… Read More »
A new blogging website was launched yesterday which includes one or two interesting features that might catch on elsewhere. JoeUser.com, launched by Stardock Corp, is basically a free blog service. But it also: Automatically posts the newests articles on any JoeUser.com site on every other JoeUser.com page; Has a ‘SlashDot-style’ Peer review function. Readers can… Read More »