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Talkin’ Bout a (Blogging) Revolution. Chalk up that headline as a hat tip to one of my favorite artists, Tracy Chapman, who is performing in San Francisco this weekend. In the slipstream of my post from earlier this month, The Evolution of Blogging, several folks have come up with their own take on why there is a crying need for a new blogging revolution. Chris Saad, who works for JS-Kit.com, a startup that makes social media tools and has been involved in various technical groups such as DataPortablity.org, today outlines seven reasons why the blog builders and users need to rise up.
“It’s time we start re-investing in our own, open social platforms…Blogs are our profile pages – social nodes – on the open, distributed social web,” he writes. Well said, Saad! His seven reasons are: 1. The point in number six is a bit of a stretch, but the rest of them make absolute sense to me. A way to quote. 25 top blogs. Namaste ! Salam ! blogs le figaro. Francis Wacziarg est décédé mercredi 19 février à New Delhi « des suites d'une longue maladie » pour reprendre l'expression consacrée. Il allait avoir 72 ans.
Il nous manque déjà et manquera longtemps à la communauté des artistes, à celle des affaires.... En Inde et ailleurs. Francis était de ces hommes de talent qui transforment en succès tout ce qu'ils entreprennent. Intéressé de tout, il était le symbole même de l' »honnête homme » au sens où l'entendait Montaigne. En juillet 2005, Le Figaro consacrant l'une de ses séries d'été à ces « Français partis à la conquête de l'étranger », j'avais tout naturellement été voir Francis. . « A 63 ans, Francis Wacziarg règne sur un empire.
Francis Wacziarg adore faire semblant d'être un personnage ordinaire. Plus de sonneries de téléphone, plus de stress. Le soir tombe doucement. Il montre deux livres, écrits en collaboration avec Aman Nath, historien de l'art. . « Vous vous rendez compte de ce qu'était l'Inde en 1986 ? Le corps incarcéré.
Amazing Stories of Openness (Open Ed Conference 2009) Alan Levine • cogdogblog.com • cogdogblog@gmail.com Open Education Conference Vancouver August 12, 2009 cogdogblog.com/stuff/opened09 While the Open Education movement focuses on institutional issues, a large ocean exists of powerful individual accomplishments simply from tapping into content that is open for sharing and re-use. As colorful as old covers of “True Stories” magazine, this presentation shares moving, personal stories that would not have been previously possible, enabled by open licensed materials and personal networks. Beyond my own tales, others have been culled from the net, and you can share your own. See how this all started at cogdog.wikispaces.com/TrueStories Theme and graphics based on the Comic Book Plus copyright free archive of True Comics (1941-1950). Bonus! The CoolIris presentation, plus all videos and links are below the fold or watch all videos via a playlist.
The Educational Technology Site: ICT in Education: --> The blog is dead, long live the blog. An article in Wired magazine advocates dropping blogging, or not starting to blog in the first place. What a mess of muddled thinking! The writer, Paul Boutin, seems to be saying that whilst blogging was OK when it first came on the scene, because it allowed anyone to publish their stuff, now it isn't because it's been adopted by professionals and corporations. In other words, blogging has become mainstream. There are a number of issues here, I think. First, if you're going to blog or not blog on the basis of how many other people are doing so, or who is actually doing the blogging, doesn't that make you an incredibly superficial person?
I suppose that that is my own prejudices coming through: I have always thought that dedicated followers of fashion are superficial people. Second, it calls into question why people blog in the first place. Third, blogging is a way of connecting with one's audience. What do you think? Datablog | News. The State Worker: Blog back: Language, 'lies,' and per diem.
California state government’s leave cash-out program is up and running at the Department of Social Services, where employees last week received query forms that asked if they wanted to trade up to 20 hours of leave time for money. Social Services workers covered by the California Statewide Law Enforcement Association and International Union of Operating Engineers (Bargaining Unit 12) are eligible under terms of contracts bargained last year. The state’s civil service engineers’ union, a group mostly found in Caltrans, also bargained a leave cash-out clause. And the Brown administration added excluded employees to the program – managers, supervisors and the like – even if they manage unionized workers who aren’t eligible.
About 62,000 of the state’s 218,000 government workforce falls into one of the four groups. Departments have discretion whether to offer the program, since they have to cash out the leave credits with money pulled from existing resources. Creating order out of aggregation Abnormal Returns. “Investing is hard.” (Abnormal Returns) “Investment blogging is difficult.” (Abnormal Returns) You would think, by transitive properties, that investment blog aggregation would also be difficult. But the idea floating around of late that aggregation, including investment blog aggregation, is easy. (And please don’t send this to the BusinessInsider guys who have had this strip sent to them one too many times.) News aggregators may be high profile targets at the moment, but the art of aggregation is not easy. paidContent.org reported today that the New York Times is going stop its aggregation feature Times Extra at the end of the month.
There are at least two big reasons why aggregation has come under such scrutiny of late. The second reason is that aggregation has become increasingly high profile as it yields successful business models on the Internet. A common denominator among the blogs on that list is a steady stream of posts during the day. The list is the origin of culture. Nice example of the new blogging. Wired 12.06: How Can I Sex Up This Blog Business? Hot gossip! Cool gadgets! Gawker & Gizmodo, Fleshbot & Wonkette!
Inside Nick Denton's plan to become the nanopublishing media mogul. By Steven LevyPage 1 of 4 next » 1. Gawker Stalker: Nick Denton's Hot SpotJust spotted Gawker founder Nick Denton at his new American Gigolo-style loft on Spring Street in SoHo. Story Tools Story Images Click thumbnails for full-size image: It's a cold day in early April and the heat isn't working in the loft Nick Denton moved into a week ago. Clearly, this is not Rupert Murdoch's world. The empire, as it were, includes four Web sites and a just-unveiled blog portal that helps people organize their weblog reading.
And now the empire is expanding, with Denton planning to add six blogs this year. 2. Denton's path to becoming a molecular version of the Rupe was long in the making. In August 1997, Denton finally landed his dream assignment based in San Francisco as the FT's Silicon Valley correspondent. Second Effects: Second Life Blogger’s Party - Fall 2009! Things magazine: an online journal about objects and meanings. SPOS #171 - Twitter Talk With Shel Israel. Welcome to episode #171 of Six Pixels Of Separation - The Twist Image Podcast. Shel Israel recently released a book on Twitter titled, Twitterville. He was in Montreal to speak at a Third Tuesday event for PR, Marketing and Communications professionals (yes, on a Sunday). His take on Social Media, storytelling and the changes it causes in the world makes this conversation well-worth taking a listen to.
If you have never heard of Israel, he also co-authored a book about Blogging called, Naked Conversations, with Robert Scoble. Enjoy the conversation... Here it is: Six Pixels Of Separation - The Twist Image Podcast - Episode #171 - Host: Mitch Joel. Running time: 36:46. Please join the conversation by sending in questions, feedback and ways to improve Six Pixels Of Separation. Download the Podcast here: Six Pixels Of Separation - The Twist Image Podcast - Episode #171 - Host: Mitch Joel. By Mitch Joel. Rex Hammock’s RexBlog.com » Blog Archive » Thought’s on Twitter #6: Why I’m re-booting my Twitter follow list.
[Notes: You can view all my "Thoughts on Twitter" posts displayed chronologically here: Second, after starting to write this, I noticed ubber-blogger Robert Scoble wrote a post on the same topic. I thought of just pointing to it and saying, "what he said," but had, by then, written too much.] It’s rare that I post on a topic because someone requested me to — primarily, because it’s rare that I get such requests. However, I’ve been asked to explain why I’ve decided to start all over in building a list of people I follow on Twitter. Until yesterday, I followed about 1,300 people on Twitter. Wait, let me correct that. 1. That’s how I started out building my original follow list, but when I crossed about 500 followed people, I began to notice something: If you follow lots of people who tweet alot, only a fraction — sometimes only a small fraction — of those tweets begin to show up in your “tweet stream.”
[This post has officially ended. 1. 1. Mind Map: What is the Future of Blogging? Steve Rubel is SVP, Director of Insights for Edelman Digital, a division of Edelman. He is charged with helping clients identify emerging technologies and trends that can be applied in marketing communications programs. He explores these topics on his lifestream site and in his bi-weekly AdAge column. A little over five years ago, sites like Typepad, Blogger and WordPress dazzled by empowering anyone to instantaneously share his or her thoughts with the world; My how times change.
Today, however, in a world where thousands of status updates and tweets whiz by our screens every hour, blogging arguably feels slow. So is blogging dead? From my point of view, blogging's future will likely flow down one of two paths: either it will evolve and grow into something else (like many species have) or it will succumb to Darwinism and become extinct (like the Dodo). Evolution If blogging is to evolve, there are a number of potential outcomes. Darwinism Add to the conversation. Product v. process journalism: The myth of perfection v. beta culture. An alarm went off on some desk at The New York Times business section: Oh-oh, time to slam blogs again. But the latest assault reveals as much about The Times and the culture of classical journalism as it does about bloggers. Like the millennial clash of business models in media – the content economy v. the link economy and the inability of one to understand the other – here we see a clash over journalistic culture and methods – product journalism v. process journalism.
In The Times, Damon Darlin goes after blogs for publishing rumors and unfinished stories, calling it a “truth-be-damned approach” and likening it to yellow journalism, the highest insult of the gray class. He hauls out the worst example again – just as bloggers trying to go after MSM reporters do: the Steve Jobs heart attack rumor and Times WMD reporting (or Jayson Blair or Dan Rather), respectively. Darlin leads with TechCrunch and Gawker sharing bogus rumors of Apple buying Twitter. One word: standards. Newspaper websites need to improve their readability. Most newspaper websites are doing a bad design job in making their stories readable.
Too many are using: small fonts,long off-putting paragraphs,no subheadings,no in-content boxes or pictures, andno in-content links. To explain more, I’ve written a companion post on online readability (design, not writing – and this post was first published here). And here’s an example each of their news stories so you can see the issue: Daily Mail, Express, FT, Guardian, Independent, Mirror, Sun, Telegraph, Times.
Main readability design mistakes This table summarises the main ways they are going wrong. Tiny fonts They are all using font sizes that are too small for comfortable reading on copy-heavy pages. But most of the sites use 12 or 13px fonts for body copy. No sub-headings Long paragraphs Nearly half use long paragraphs, serving up great slabs of unappealing copy. Bad readability These three are vying for last place when it comes to readability. Fairly poor readability Getting there Headings explained. The Praized Blog. How to Write Fast.
The Huffington Post. BlogBurst. Blogging 2.0 and Professional Blogging. There’s been some amazing reaction and discussion around Blogging 2.0 in the last 24 hours. I don’t mean to write on the topic every day, but there is one aspect I didn’t tackle in the earlier post that others have raised: blogging 2.0′s affect on professional bloggers. One argument against blogging 2.0 is that in taking the conversation away from blogs exclusively, professional blogging will become extinct, on the presumption that blogging 2.0 reduces page views. Old models die hard There is no argument that the traditional blogging 1.0 professional blogging model around maximizing a blog as the center of the conversation is a model that has served blogging and professional bloggers extremely well. But it’s a model that pre-dates the rise of social networks and really Web 2.0 itself (blogging was co-opted into being a part of the 2.0 movement, but its functionality is older).
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