Category: Required Reading
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Blogs Giveth and Blogs Taketh Away?
Ray Ozzie writes about e-mail and blogging taking away when other technologies give back. I recognize the compulsive “system monitor” personality he talks about and so I hope I can look forward to someday hacking my flow as effectively as he describes it. It’s fascinating to read how he’s watched his children adopt IM and…
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A List Apart: 10 Tips on Writing the Living Web
New, at A List Apart, Eastgate impresario Mark Bernstein offers 10 Tips on writing the “living Web.” I’m quoting tip number 8 as a cheap way of following the advice in tip number 8: Be sexy You are a sexual being. So are all of your readers (except the Google robot). Sex is interesting. Sex…
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Blogging, Trust, and Spam
(via scriptingnews) Some thoughts on the mainstreaming of blogs and the definition of spam in this essay, Blogging, Trust, and Discovery by Bob Frankston. A sample: I find the more interesting change is in the process of discovery. Being heard against the din of all the voices is hard and we have a large industry…
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Architecture Matters: The Rebirth of Public Discussion
Ray Ozzie hits the nail on the head, detecting the architecture of the blogosphere and the benefits it confers through decentralizing the content management and enabling people to make the connections: But blogs accomplish public discussion through a far different architectural design pattern. In the Well’s terminology, taken to its extreme, you own your own…