Tag: memes

  • John Robb Responds to Shirky on Scaling

    Robb makes the case that weblogs will (and do) scale more effectively than discussion groups: Too much input is exactly the reason that discussion groups can’t scale. A serial thread on a topic with a million contributors swamps a discussion. As a reader, I can’t find the good posts in massive discussion group or mailing…

  • The Legacy of Eve Andersson

    Adam Barr takes to task the insider-y side of the blogosphere’s hypocracy in this article posted to kuro5hin: Back then you had to be able to write pure HTML to put up a site like that. With modern blogging has come authoring tools that free you from that restriction. So is this the huge breakthrough…

  • Weblog Metadata Initiative

    Via Doc, who never metapun he didn’t like (groan): No time to write about it, but here are three links to get the chewing started: http://www.truthlaidbear.com/001274.html#001274 http://www.truthlaidbear.com/blogmd/ http://blogs.salon.com/0000002/2002/8/27/#200208272 http://www.blogs4god.com/

  • Shirky on Scaling Pains of the Two-Way Web

    Clay Shirky addresses the issues of scale in two-way media: Prior to the internet, the outbound quality of mass media could be ascribed to technical limits — TV had a one-way relationship to its audience because TV was a one-way medium. The growth of two-way media, however, shows that the audience pattern re-establishes itself in…

  • Deep Roots of Hypertext Journaling

    Believe it or not, I’m still sorting out what I’ve learned about Traction Software, sifting and trying to digest what I’ve learned. Traction was heavily influenced by Doug Engelbart and his ideas about

  • EPN World Reporter: Top Blogs

    Here’s someone’s idea of some good blogs to check out. What interests me is this assertion: Further, the distinction between web diaries and web logs continues to become more blurred. Which, ultimately, makes for better reading.

  • Mining Udell on Radio and the Two-Way Web

    I should have known I’d get sucked in. I remember reading Jon’s columns as he continually documented what he was learning about web servers, content managemenet, database-backed websites, and so on. From the link mentioned in my previous entry I’ve now read Udell’s review of Radio 8 and a three-part article on the writeable web,…

  • Will the Blogosphere Have Scaling Pains?

    A kuro5hin post I noticed in my aggregator (The future of blog: The scaling barrier) brings up an interesting point: will blogs scale? Blogs have a scaling problem. Kinda like clubs. The good crowd moves in and they become these perfect little places for some time. And then too many people start coming in, and…

  • Is This One Nation, Under Blog?

    Wired News discusses ambiguous or unavailable installed-base figures for blogs. Surprisingly, they spell blogosphere with a hyphen as well, following Newsweek style? Meanwhile, the VC-oriented world looks elsewhere: Industry research powerhouses are likely to stay away from the blog-osphere until it reaches profitability. Gartner, Neilsen\//NetRatings, Forrester Research and International Data Corporation don’t have a single…

  • Standalone TrackBack in the Works

    Mena posted at Movable Type about a new threaded version of TrackBack and alluded to a standalone version of TrackBack (that is, one that does not require MT) to be released soon. Keep them innovations coming!

  • Word Virus

    Subvert Press: The ‘Thank You’ Sticker. Thought-virus: Thank you for financing global terror (via Metafilter sideblog)

  • New Forms of Journalism

    I’m still mining the J-School resources here. This is a link to J.D. Lasica’s weblog/journalism resource: Journalism’s new life forms: The following links provide information about new forms of personal journalism — including weblogs, collaborative news sites, personal broadcasting, and more — as well as pointers to examples of each genre. Naturally, you’ll start seeing…

  • Beginning of the End for Gopher?

    Following a link from Q Daily News (I’m still exploring links that turned up from checking out the UC Berkeley J-School IP Weblog Class syllabus mentioned in an entry yesterday), I found this copy of developer’s notes for Internet Explorer 6 SP 1, including the nonchalant mention that they are effectively abandoning the Gopher protocol:…

  • Policies for Employee Blogs

    (Via A Blog Doesn’t Need a Clever Name [via Scripting News]) Ray Ozzie is working through some of the legal issues surrounding employee weblogs at Groove networks.

  • An Info Immune System for the Planet

    I must be obsessed, since now I’m dreaming about weblogs and waking up with new thoughts freshly gelled from my subconscious. This morning it was an image of weblogs as antibodies or red^H^H^Hwhite blood cells (can you tell I haven’t studied biology all that carefully?), swarming to attack so-called information from every possible angle. Whether…

  • Dvorak Doesn't Get It

    I remember when the Internet started being big news and a lot of the reports back from it discussed some cursory overview of an arbitrary aspect of the Internet as if this random facet was the whole thing. The old “blind men and the elephant” metaphor. This April PC Magazine article from Dvorak, Deconstructing the…

  • Well, I… So I decided…

    Ever notice how many blog posts start with “Well, …”? I’ve seen myself do it. I think it’s because of the conversational nature of the medium. There’s an instinct for writing as if you are carrying on or resuming a spoken converation. So then I…

  • Blogging Gnomedex

    (Via Leoville), Jason DeFillippo of blogrolling has created a blogroll of bloggers blogging Gnomedex:

  • I Don't Know What to Say

    Wow, I just passed Zeldman in the myelin blogging ecosystem. Something tells me this is just a slice off the real macrosystem….

  • Revolution? Well, You Know…

    Andrew Bayer Is Dreaming of China takes issue with some of Dave Winer’s more upopian pronouncements of the importance of weblogs to the future: Here’s the thing — he’s assuming, first of all, that everyone will have a computer. Maybe at some point in the distant future, this could be the case, but for the…

  • Chaords Everywhere I Look

    Chaords Everywhere I Look gives a hearty endorsement to the writing found in Salon blogs when compared to mass media.