09 March 2005
08 March 2005
BLOGthenticity » Want To Know What Business Bloggers Really Have To Say?
by smudieSmall business bloggers interviewed by Jeffrey Hill - including one "Stuart Mudie of Blethers"
05 March 2005
01 March 2005
27 February 2005
TCS: Tech Central Station - Chasing the Long Tail
by ramagemass media continues breaking apart into smaller and smaller fractals
Wired 12.10: The Long Tail
by ramageThe future of entertainment is in the millions of niche markets at the shallow end of the bitstream.
26 February 2005
25 February 2005
Your blog's great—nice dirt on Graydon Carter!—but can it buy me a beer?
by MorgaineIt takes a lot to make me rethink my place in this city, and even more to make me question my very existence. But lately, irrational social fears are keeping me up at night. Something is going horribly wrong, and I have finally traced the problem to its source: blogs.
What Makes A Great Weblog? (UrbanMainframe.com)
by Morgaine & 2 othersWhy do some weblogs attract large numbers of readers while others operate with near invisibility? Why do the same weblogs get linked to time and time again?
Explaining and Showing Broad and Narrow Folksonomies :: Personal InfoCloud
by Morgaine & 6 othersWe benefit from folksonomies as the both the personal vocabulary and the social aspects help people to find and retain a tether to objects on the web that are an interest to them. Who is doing the tagging is important to understand and how the tags are consumed is an important factor. This also helps us see that not all tagging is a folksonomy, but is just tagging. Tagging in and of its self is a helpful step up from no tagging, but is no where near as beneficial as opening the tagging to all. Folksonomy tagging can provide connections across cultures and disciplines (an knowledge management consultant can find valuable information from an information architect because one object is tagged by both communities using their own differing terms of practice). Folksonomy tagging also makes up for missing terms in a site's own categorization system/taxonomy. This hopefully has made things a little clearer for all in our understanding the types of folksonomies and tagging and the benefits that can be derived.
the institute of hybernautics : requirements for a tag-aware RSS reader
by Morgaine & 1 other (via)Then I started thinking: since Flickr and Del.icio.us and Technorati are encouraging everyone to tag their content, it follows that the tag-aware RSS reader will be the next step. I should be able to browse through the stream that my RSS reader has captured using the tags assigned to the individual entries.
A Consuming Experience: Technorati tags: an introduction
by Morgaine & 2 othersThis is a introductory guide to "tags" on Technorati, the blogosphere search engine, which started using them in mid-January 2005. It's a practical introduction rather than a tutorial (ending with some personal thoughts about tags), but I'll summarise the basics about Technorati tags and how to use them in your own blog posts - stuff I've learned from digging around, playing around and, as you'll see later, much tearing out of hair.
23 February 2005
22 February 2005
Doing kottke.org as a full-time job
by mouche & 5 others (via)I recently quit my web design gig and -- as of today -- will be working on kottke.org as my full-time job. And I need your help.
Doing kottke.org as a full-time job
by François Hodierne & 5 othersI recently quit my web design gig and -- as of today -- will be working on kottke.org as my full-time job. And I need your help.
18 February 2005
elise.com: On the Job: Weblog Tools Market - Update February 2005
by ramage & 3 othersblog tools market share