links for 2006-05-21 The Blogosphere is Rigged …
links for 2006-05-21
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The truth of the matter is there is a disproportionate amount of traffic going to only a privileged few that have eked out there own little network hierarchy within the blogosphere.
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I have been preaching the benefits of RSS newsfeeds for a very long time and a recent article by Phil Gomes confirms the fact that RSS is an excellent marketing tool for business…
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I was reading today how the net has made us more informed, but it is also bombarding us with more information than we can synthesize and turning us into mere skimmers of information — i.e. sufferers of information bloat for lack of a better word.
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“As for Blogs vs. Mainstream Meda there can be no comparison. It’s like trying to compare foreplay to immediate gratification (we’ll leave the rest up to your imagination).”
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What I don’t understand is how they could have offered an email service without the forgoing in the first place. What were they thinking? I’ve come to expect more from Feedburner. I think I’ll pass and wait and see if the product matures a bit more…
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I use a free product called WinHTTRack Website Copier and it works very well. The product is open source and of course is FREE. I could also mention other laborious methods of backing up but I won’t waste your time…
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Everybody’s talking about Google Trends so I decided to put it through its paces. After a few queries later it told me the following…
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I finally found a tag cloud that not only works well but looks great too. It’s called ZoomClouds and it gives you a convenient feature for your readers to find information on your blog. (You can see it in action in my left sidebar below the “Categories” m
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If you’re into podcasting and want to stay out of trouble, you had better read the new Podcasting Legal Guide published by the Berkman Center Clinical Program in Cyberlaw and the Stanford Center for Internet And Society. A pdf version is also available fo
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I don’t know about the legal part but you can watch over 70 TV Stations and 700 TV Show Episodes for FREE. As I speak I’m watching Monty Python but better hurry before they decide to shut this down too…
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Have you ever wanted one of those cool looking Gmail buttons for your email contact link? I know that I have. I’ve been secretly suffering from button envy — but praise the Lord no more! (As evidenced in my profile @ the top left menu).
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So what do all of these have in common? Well, the recent Colbert Blogstorm has raised some important observations about the fragile (and often volatile) relationship between the blogosphere and mainstream media.
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I suppose it was only a matter of time. Bosses are considering putting specific provisions in employment contracts that could regulate what you put in your private blog or even prevent you from blogging at all…
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This allows you to monitor all the bookmarks of users who share your interests and whose bookmarking activities you’d like to follow…
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According to John Dvorak it is. Dvorak has been around forever (or at least since the good ole DOS days) and it seems that his picture never changes with time like Dorian Gray. But I’m sure he’s just knowledgeable today as he was then, so when he speaks I
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There was a time when blogs couldn’t buy press time, but how the times are-a-changing. Almost every day I can peruse the news and find at least one or two mainstream stories about bloggers…
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Since most everybody is giving Sphere a thumbs-up I thought I would give a contrarian point of view, just to mix things up a little….
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Blogger has added an audio verification method for its word verification CAPTCHA tool because many bloggers are not able to see it. That’s good news for the reading or visually impaired…
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This article was written with the Real Estate Business in mind, but it applies to any business endeavour…
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This makes me sick to my stomach and all the more reason to boycott RIAA music. I think the Canadians have got it right…
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Sifry tells us that most everybody is tagging these days, and that the blogosphere is international with (believe it or not) the Japanese language beating out English…
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Yahoo has introduced a new site called Yahoo Tech. But after a quick perusal — where is the RSS newsfeed? I can’t find it. And surfer beware, there are lots and lots of ads mined here to dodge around. Then again, just bypass the front page and read the b
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Political FootBall gives us a different perspective on a recent survey by Blogads about political bloggers…
links for 2006-05-21
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The truth of the matter is there is a disproportionate amount of traffic going to only a privileged few that have eked out there own little network hierarchy within the blogosphere.
-
I have been preaching the benefits of RSS newsfeeds for a very long time and a recent article by Phil Gomes confirms the fact that RSS is an excellent marketing tool for business…
-
I was reading today how the net has made us more informed, but it is also bombarding us with more information than we can synthesize and turning us into mere skimmers of information — i.e. sufferers of information bloat for lack of a better word.
-
“As for Blogs vs. Mainstream Meda there can be no comparison. It’s like trying to compare foreplay to immediate gratification (we’ll leave the rest up to your imagination).”
-
What I don’t understand is how they could have offered an email service without the forgoing in the first place. What were they thinking? I’ve come to expect more from Feedburner. I think I’ll pass and wait and see if the product matures a bit more…
-
I use a free product called WinHTTRack Website Copier and it works very well. The product is open source and of course is FREE. I could also mention other laborious methods of backing up but I won’t waste your time…
-
Everybody’s talking about Google Trends so I decided to put it through its paces. After a few queries later it told me the following…
-
I finally found a tag cloud that not only works well but looks great too. It’s called ZoomClouds and it gives you a convenient feature for your readers to find information on your blog. (You can see it in action in my left sidebar below the “Categories” m
-
If you’re into podcasting and want to stay out of trouble, you had better read the new Podcasting Legal Guide published by the Berkman Center Clinical Program in Cyberlaw and the Stanford Center for Internet And Society. A pdf version is also available fo
-
I don’t know about the legal part but you can watch over 70 TV Stations and 700 TV Show Episodes for FREE. As I speak I’m watching Monty Python but better hurry before they decide to shut this down too…
-
Have you ever wanted one of those cool looking Gmail buttons for your email contact link? I know that I have. I’ve been secretly suffering from button envy — but praise the Lord no more! (As evidenced in my profile @ the top left menu).
-
So what do all of these have in common? Well, the recent Colbert Blogstorm has raised some important observations about the fragile (and often volatile) relationship between the blogosphere and mainstream media.
-
I suppose it was only a matter of time. Bosses are considering putting specific provisions in employment contracts that could regulate what you put in your private blog or even prevent you from blogging at all…
-
This allows you to monitor all the bookmarks of users who share your interests and whose bookmarking activities you’d like to follow…
-
According to John Dvorak it is. Dvorak has been around forever (or at least since the good ole DOS days) and it seems that his picture never changes with time like Dorian Gray. But I’m sure he’s just knowledgeable today as he was then, so when he speaks I
-
There was a time when blogs couldn’t buy press time, but how the times are-a-changing. Almost every day I can peruse the news and find at least one or two mainstream stories about bloggers…
-
Since most everybody is giving Sphere a thumbs-up I thought I would give a contrarian point of view, just to mix things up a little….
-
Blogger has added an audio verification method for its word verification CAPTCHA tool because many bloggers are not able to see it. That’s good news for the reading or visually impaired…
-
This article was written with the Real Estate Business in mind, but it applies to any business endeavour…
-
This makes me sick to my stomach and all the more reason to boycott RIAA music. I think the Canadians have got it right…
-
Sifry tells us that most everybody is tagging these days, and that the blogosphere is international with (believe it or not) the Japanese language beating out English…
-
Yahoo has introduced a new site called Yahoo Tech. But after a quick perusal — where is the RSS newsfeed? I can’t find it. And surfer beware, there are lots and lots of ads mined here to dodge around. Then again, just bypass the front page and read the b
-
Political FootBall gives us a different perspective on a recent survey by Blogads about political bloggers…
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