Posts in: Blogging and Metablogging
- Twitter meta: It does too have a point
- Blake Robinson of TechCrunch compares Twitter, Dodgeball and Facebook status. His take: I think though that Twitter has a limited appeal. Sure it’s cool at an event like SXSW, but I can’t see it maintaining much functionality out of a convention/festival environment. Trust me, it does. There’s the obvious point: it’s fun. As Jason put it All [...] [21 Mar 2007]
- ‘Hillary 1984’ and what might it all mean?
- 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 1984 ad [...] [20 Mar 2007]
- Atlanta: PodCamp Atlanta
- 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 Miller-Ward Alumni House, [...] [4 Jan 2007]
- Boulder, CO: International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media
- 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]
- Links for October 2, 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: A Way [...] [2 Oct 2006]
- Links for September 29, 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. (Added at 13:50 [...] [29 Sep 2006]