Category: Blogosphere

Fimoculous.com: Feeding On Itself lists the 26 (or 7) best blogs of the year. What are your picks? I’d start with my current OPML reading list and have to whittle it down somehow. Update: Here are Kottke’s favorites.

Prove Steve Rubel right: (Forbes.com Blog Poll): Forbes.com is running a poll: What’s Your Involvement With Blogs? Have my own and update it dailyCheck somebody else’s every dayHave seen one, but don’t read regularlyHave never seen one, but have heard of themWhat’s a blog? Who wants to bet me that the first option will win…

Over on her own blog, mitten defends MR against an apparent attack by alleged right-wing blogger Cathy Siepp (a later date: ms. siepp). In so doing, she brings up an interesting matter that relates to the evergreen metablogging question “Why do we blog?“: Cathy apparently cares most about the links and comments she gets on…

Jessamyn “the librarian” West tipped me off to this article on Jerome in his local paper: The Blogger: One Vermonter’s Internet ax-grinding attracts national attention. (Jessamyn also gets a plug in the article’s sidebar.)

WSJ.com – Folksy No More, Blogger Firm Taps Big Clients: Michael Pusateri, vice president of engineering at Disney ABC Cable Networks Group, a division of Walt Disney Co., used Movable Type for his personal blog. Then he realized that technicians in his group could use a blog to update each other daily on the condition…

A weblog called des femmes is taking writers (usually men) to task for using language, particularly vulgar language related to female body parts, in their blog entries, a practice that she notes tends to discourage some readers (particularly women) from participating in the conversation. In Pleasantly ignorant, she objects to Joshua Micah Marshall’s use of…

One of the people I met during BlogOn whose blogging I admire is Sean Bonner, but I do remember being puzzled when posted to the irc backchannel something about how “the cameraman is an ass.” I posted “Hey, that’s Scot Hacker. He’s a friend of mine and he’s a great guy.” The reply was something…

Some nice candids from the conference. We’re in the final session (“Who’s investing in social media?”) and Anna Zomosa just asserted that craigslist is “making millions.” At the lunch break I got into an interesting conversation with Buzz Bruggeman (no relation to Buzznet…) who demoed me his fascinated ActiveWords product for Windows. Sadly, this meant…

Sean Bonner is blogging the BlogOn conference assiduously. The irc backchannel chat seems to prefer today’s second panel to the first.

According to this wiki page (BlogOn Eventspace – Blogging BlogOn), here are a few of the people blogging this conference (besides me): Jason McCabe Calacanis Heath Row, for FC Now

As the list of sites you notify of your updates grows, you can consolidate it somewhat by pinging the Ping-o-Matic

In The Fractal Blogosphere at Read/Write Web, Richard MacManus proposes that bloggers not worry too much about the popular/unpopular dichotomy suggested by most common interpretations of the various power laws that govern linking and traffic among blogs (and frankly in any linked network of any kind at all), but instead pick a scale that makes…

Forgive the raw note dump but I’m on deadline and I figure notes are better than nothing, especially when being Searlsdotted… This page’s name is called TechnoratiSalon. TechnoratiSalonIdeas … (see blog entry for start) Merged two codebases, API calls along with internal functionalities (bug fixes work for both HTML output and APIs). Techno front-end app…

Drove over the bridge and past the ballpark to Technorati’s new digs for thei first Developers Salon I took pictures but forgot my adapter so will post them later. Promise some new infopr0n – some new analytics that hasn’t been out yet (Mary’s research). Dave is asking for an open discussion Intro technorati team. Liz,…

…but I play one on the net. Well, actually not that either but they say Technorati users are welcome at the Technorati Developers Salon Kickoff in SF tonight, so I’ll be there, barking my feature wishlist at anyone willing to listen. Hope to see Ian Kallen and Mary Hodder there, among the usual suspects. Had…

As in some previous years, I am taking photos and jotting down who I hear and what I eat out at Fest. I haven’t had time to write up any notes yet, but when I do the entries will go in my personal blog, and if you drop by now you can click through to…

Baseblogs – Obsessive fans track the national pastime on the Web. By Josh Levin (uses the word “baseblogosphere”). On deadline, linklogging…

Jeneane Sessum and RageBoy are having a little fun at the expense of the second annual BloggerCon (which, full disclosure, I’d love to attend if I could get myself to Boston then, but I’ve already got one trip to Boston in the works this year – for the Democratic convention – so it’s not going…

The Carter Center’s website is publishing journal or weblog-style reports by Jimmy Carter from the field. He is currently in Africa. It’s not blogging in the sense that it’s not automatica and direct and easy, but their using the terminology themselves, so I think that counts. First ex-Presidential blogger? [via Seb’s Open Research (via Geodog)]

Though it’s sure to annoy Stavros, I have to say I had a mighty fine time meeting face-to-face with a bunch of smart webloggers and new media types last Wednesday, February 18. Susan Mernit invited me (and blogged about it in Navigating the Info Jungle). J.D. Lasica co-hosted it (and reported on it in his…