UPDATE: Blog Exposes Creator of Ad Portraying Clinton as Big Brother (NYTimes.com, login required). Turns out the creator is a now-former employee of political consultancy that has worked with Obama’s campaign. UPDATE 2: Fears of a YouTube Swiftboat Wired News on why this is a big deal. I’m sure by now you’ve seen the Hillary [...]
[20 Mar 2007]
A PodCamp unconference will be held in Atlanta. No brand-name speakers and in crowd folks. Just a bunch of enthusiastic podcasters and bloggers leading how-to sessions, discussions and such. Register by adding your name to the PodCamp Atlanta registration wiki page. Event details When: Friday, March 16 through Sunday, March 18, 2007 Where: Emory University [...]
[4 Jan 2007]
Areas of interest include ethnography, blog influence, the power curve, navigation and social tools, visualization and the semantic web. There is a call for papers open now. More details to come. Event details Where: Marriot Boulder When: March 26 through 28, 2007. How much: Erm, no word just yet. More details
[9 Oct 2006]
Yahoo allows outsiders to innovate on Yahoo e-mail Officials of the world’s largest Internet media company said on Friday it planned to give away the underlying code to Yahoo Mail, one of the crown jewels of its business, in a bid to encourage software developers to build new applications based on e-mail. Via LifeHacker. Wanted: [...]
[2 Oct 2006]
Apple releases Mac OS X security update Patches for 15 fixes were released today. (Added at 17:14 p.m. EDT) Open Source in the Boardroom [Go straight to the MP3] Not a technical discussion of open source software, mind you, but a look at how businesses and organizations take advantage of the ‘for the community’ ethos. [...]
[29 Sep 2006]
The IE7 User-Agent String Must-have information for user-agent string parsing and content serving. IE7 still supports conditional comments, which you can use to serve a different style sheet to older versions of Internet Explorer. Boing Boing Boing BoingBoing’s new Odeo-powered podcast. Pew Internet Project Bloggers Report – July 2006 [PDF] I missed this the first [...]
[19 Sep 2006]
A round up of bits on technology and blogging culture. Mostly new. One old. All worth a read. The Future of White Boy clubs A-Z list blogging — what is it really about? The blogosphere imitating life … Surprise, surprise! sick and tired of being sick and tired
[16 Sep 2006]
This year’s Blog Business Summit promises to show you how to make blogs work for your business. It starts with a day-long pre-conference workshop titled Essentials of Business Blogging, Podcasting and Videoblogging designed to bring newbies up-to-speed on the basics. The two-day conference will include topics on blogger engagement, monitoring your brand, generating traffic, and [...]
[29 Aug 2006]
Go peek into Rebecca’s Pocket this morning. Rebecca Blood interviewed me for her “Bloggers on Blogging” series, and the interview is up today.
[28 Aug 2006]
A blogging and culture round-up. These posts discuss the hype versus the reality of the blogosphere. The Great Unread Nicholas Carr discusses the real blogosphere. Blogospheric Calvinism, or Unread != Unworthy Or “Yes, you can produce quality writing and still be ignored in the blogosphere.” Influence and Affluence Ethan Johnson tells you to temper your [...]
[25 Aug 2006]