Would Princess Diana Have Been A Blogger?

August 26, 2007 – 6:29 pm

In an interview on NPR, The Diana Chronicles author Tina Brown says ?Diana had represented feeling, and the end of the stiff upper lip,? but the Princess comes off sounding a bit like a harbinger of the Cluetrain. Yes it’s all about the Royals, the glamor, and her dramatic death ten years ago, but take [...]

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?This Would Make A Really Great Blog Post…?

September 29, 2006 – 12:27 pm

A comic from XKCD:

?I feel like I’m wasting my life on the internet. Let’s walk around the world.?

?Sounds good.?

[panels showing the world's great beauty, a truly grand adventure]

?And yet all I can think of is ‘this will make for a great Livejournal entry.’?

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Should Universities Host Faculty or Student Blogs? (part 1: examples and fear)

September 27, 2006 – 12:36 pm

Our CIO is asking whether or not Plymouth should get involved with blogs. Not to be overly academic, but I think we should define our terms.

Despite all the talk, ?blogs? are a content agnostic technology being used to support all manner of online activities.

What you’re really asking is instead: what kind of content do we want to put online, and who do we want to let do it?

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Microsoft Vs. Bloggers In Accusations of MSN Spaces Censorship

September 18, 2006 – 10:51 pm

I’ve been citing pieces of branding consultant james Torio’s master’s thesis for some time now. But because the thesis is long, and I want to cite a few small pieces, and those pieces aren’t directly URL addressable, I’m quoting them here. Clickable URLs are added, but everything else should be exactly as Torio wrote it. [...]

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We Just Have To Go Do The Work

August 27, 2006 – 1:28 pm

Nicholas Lemann, in a story on blogging and citizen journalism in the August 7 issue of The New Yorker:
[N]ew media in their fresh youth [produce] a distinctive, hot-tempered rhetorical style.
…transformative in their capabilities…a mass medium with a short lead time — cheap…and easily accessible to people of all classes and political inclinations.
And quoting author Mark [...]

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WordCamp

July 25, 2006 – 11:13 pm

As noted here, I’m going to WordCamp in SFO in early August.
Matt describes it as a BarCamp-style event (where ?’BarCamp-style’ is a code phrase for ‘last minute’?) with ?a full day of both user and developer discussion.? I’m just going for the free t-shirt, of course, but I can imagine a number of folks will [...]

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Blogging From Basements

May 12, 2006 – 3:17 pm

My buddy Cliff emailed me excited about the following quote he found on the Yahoo Finance message boards:
Sun vs Dell
All you need to know about Dell & Sun was predicted 8 months ago by some blogger in his parent’s basement. The draft ads are cool:
http://spiralbound.net/2005/09/15/sun-talks-some-smack/
How come the big brokerage house analysts can’t figure this stuff [...]

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Higher Ed Blog Con (and other things I should have posted about last month)

May 2, 2006 – 10:41 pm

I meant to post about this weeks ago, but HigherEd BlogCon has now come and gone. It had sections on teaching, libraries, CRM, and web development. (Aside: why must we call it ?admissions, alumni relations, and communications & marketing? instead of the easier to swallow ?CRM??)
The ?events? are over, but everything is online, and most [...]

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Richard Sambrook Talks Citizen Journalism

April 4, 2006 – 12:04 pm

I’m not sure what to think of Richard Sambrook appearing to struggle to find a place for traditional journalism in the age of the internet, but the story’s worth a read.

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To Blog Or Not To Blog

January 28, 2006 – 11:56 am

A friend revealed his reticence to blogging recently by explaining that he didn’t want to create a trail of work and opinions that could limit his future career choices. Fair point, perhaps.
We’ve all heard stories of bloggers who’ve lost jobs as a result of the content of their posts. And if you believe the [...]

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Political Blogging Protected By FEC

January 3, 2006 – 10:16 am

Way back near the end of 2005, Lot 49 reported that the Federal Election Commission had basically ruled that bloggers are journalists:
The Federal Election Commission today issued an advisory opinion that finds the Fired Up network of blogs qualifies for the ?press exemption? to federal campaign finance laws. The press exemption, as defined by Congress, [...]

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What are blogs?

October 25, 2005 – 7:13 pm

Tech Tuesdays: Blogs and Blogging
blogs, blogging, presentation

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Tech Tuesdays: Blogs and Blogging

October 25, 2005 – 11:30 am

Note: these are my presentation notes for a brown bag discussion with library faculty and university IT staff today. This may become a series…[[pageindex]]
More: my presentation slides and the Daily Show video.
Introduction
Public awareness of blogs seems to begin during the years of campaigning leading up to the 2004 election, but many people credit bloggers for [...]

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Hello WordPress.com!

October 20, 2005 – 6:42 pm

Cliff invited me to WordPress.com earlier this week and I’ve just gotten a chance to get things up and running over there. I’m planning (though plans are never certain) to move my link blogging (think ?blinks?) over there and (perhaps) re-publish them here in some aggregated form. We’ll see how that works out over time.

tags: [...]

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James Torio’s Blogging Thesis

October 13, 2005 – 12:31 pm

James Torio has been working on his masters in marketing and took a strong look at blogs for his thesis.
I looked at how Blogs have impacted business and communication, how some Blogs create revenue, how some companies are using Blogs, how Blogs greatly boost the spread of information, how Blogs add richness to the media [...]

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