Archive for August, 2005
Sifry’s State of the Blogosphere
It’s time again for Technorati’s quarterly summary of the what they’re seeing and the numbers just underscore the fact that blogs are here to stay. Some highlights:
The number of blogs continues to double every 5.5 months
Technorati now tracks over 14.4 million blogs and 1.3 billion links
That’s a new blog every second or 80,000 blogs/day
The [...]
MSN to compete with Gawker & Weblogs Inc.
Now we know why Microsoft was seen on the job boards looking to hire bloggers. MSN’s new service, Filter, aims to take the best of the blog posts and highlight them for their readers. Slate (now owned by the Washington Post Company) was Microsoft’s last big effort at content creation and for that effort they [...]
comScore Measures the Blogosphere
Over the weekend comScore Networks released a market research report (pdf) on the growth and scale of the blogosphere. The report was unique in its methodology. Rather than extrapolate from a self-selecting sample of users that may or may not realize they are visiting a blog, comScore’s survey and measured actual behaviors of its permission-based [...]
Photos from Japan
Ok, I’m getting there. I’ve uploaded some photos from the Japan trip to give you a sense of what we did while we were there. A guy I work with, Matt Peterson also took some pictures while he was in Japan and they are fantastic.
Business Blogs gets local coverage
While I was on vacation last week, the Oakland Tribune ran a story about corporations getting into blogging for which I was interviewed. While the angle they took was a tad alarmist, (Watch Out! The first step into the blogging world can be a doozy) but it’s nice to see business blogs getting some coverage [...]
15 minutes of fame
While I was in Japan last week, the Oakland Tribune ran a story about corporations getting into blogging. The angle they took was not quite the one I would have stressed (the first step into the blogging world can sometimes be a doozy) but it’s nice to see business blogs getting some coverage in the [...]
“Blogging” as a hook
Airbag notes that Gateway is now using “blogging” as reason to buy a new computer.
Amazing how in less than five years blogging has replaced gaming, video editing, and homework as the criteria of choice for purchasing a computer.
Put another tick on the checklist of what it takes to go mainstream. What’s next?
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My brush with Louis Rossetto
This post was written on the plane ride over to Japan where I was last week. More on Japan later.
I read Gary Wolf’s Wired, an account of the magazine and it’s founder, Louis Rossetto. The tales within resonate even stronger than most books about this era because I have a personal connection with some [...]
