I have redesigned this site again following on from last year’s attempt to integrate my different blogging worlds. I was never completely happy with my 2006 design and my attempts at regular blogging this year have been sporadic to say the least. I am hoping that having my key content areas up front will encourage […]
After days of fiddling this new version of my blog is up and running. I have brought together all the entries from my other blogs and reverted to the name I chose when I first started blogging in 2004 - but with a “z” because the other domain was taken. I thought it was about […]
Interesting post by Donna Bogatin about blogging taking a starring role in a new police investigation series USA networks Psych. What is think is even more interesting is the fact that Gus (played by West Wing’s Dule Hill) the sidekick of the starring psychic baddie catcher Shawn, blogs in character on the show’s website. The […]
Dave Sifry at Technorati has just posted their latest quarterly “State of the Blogsphere” report: In summary:
* Technorati now tracks over 35.3 Million blogs
* The blogosphere is doubling in size every 6 months
* It is now over 60 times bigger than it was […]
Excellent piece in Kairos on “Blogging Places”. Tim Lindgren explores a range of new place blogs that are primarily concerned with locality and ecology as distinct from the global or purely personal approach of much of the blogsphere.
Some unrepresentative cherry picks:
On blogging genres:
Carolyn Miller and Dawn Shepherd suggest, blogging is remarkable for its ability to […]
Day two, I’m a bit more relaxed today as I presented yesterday.
Mark Bernstien led a very interesting discussion to start off the day on the value of comments. He essentially suggested that comments - which are often either brief or harshly negative or hit and run – are not all they are cracked up to […]
I thought John Schwartz’s article in the NYT: “Myths Run Wild in Blog Tsunami Debate” was going to be the inevitable snow job following on from some fairly positive coverage of the role of bogs in the disaster. And it certainly starts that way.
But the blogosphere’s tendency toward crackpot theorizing and political smack […]
A basic, but interesting, article on the evolution of blog influence over the last year on BBC Online.
Andrew Nachison, Director of the Media Center, a US-based “nonprofit think tank committed to building a better-informed society in a connected world,” points to the US presidential election as a turning point for the blogsphere:
“You could look […]
NYT article on bloggers getting book contracts. What is interesting is that the article shows that publishers have begun to actively search out bloggers and commission them to do books. Everyone from Belle d’Jour, a high class British call-girl blogger, to Julie Powell, a Queens secretary who blogged about trying to make every recipe in […]
The Big Blog Company is a British outfit that is spreading the word on blogging. They have a business focus but interestingly they are also working with journalists. Niel McIntosh (Guardian journo and blogger) gives them a big wrap and suggests that London journalists go to their introductory seminars.
One of the interesting things about tBBC […]
Blogging is continuing to evolve in all sorts of directions. From citizen journalism to business blogging.
Dan Gilmour is leaving his full time journalism gig to explore a new unspecified “citizen-journalism project.”:
I hope to pull together something useful that helps enable — and demonstrates — the emerging grassroots journalism that I wrote about in my […]
It takes all sorts…
Superman’s Blog:
Wednesday, September 15, 2004
Feeling a little depressed today
I just discovered that two other superheroes, The Incredible Hulk and The Green Arrow, both have their own blogs. And guess what? Compared to their blogs, mine sucks!
Why oh why can’t I ever be the first superhero on the block to play with the […]
John Quiggin at Crooked Timber does some interesting sums in trying to work out How big is the blogosphere ?
There are heaps of dead blogs out there (thanks to changes in technology, hosting problems and so on, I’m already on my fourth). I prefer to start with another Technorati estimate, that there are about 275,000 […]
It is interesting that Australian independent Senator Meg Lees has aweblog. She may be trying the new technology, but its obvious she doesn’t get it. There’s not a single hyperlink in her text. She’s just using it for old style political monologues.
Another interesting comment on blogging conversations with a great set of links that follows a more rigerous academic analysis of blogging conversation.
Very interesting discussion (very hesitant to use that word given the nature of the post) on this public address about conversation in blogging. the participants are discussing why some posts become full fledged […]
Tanja asks some interesting questions about “the conversation” of blogging in her comment on my post below.
Let me float a few things in this conversation about conversation. I think conversation has to be understood in at least three different ways in this context:
1. The intrapersonal conversation with the self that Wrede talks about that I […]
