Blogs
What’s Scoble Reading
We’ll get <meta> on you today. Here’s a link to Robert Scoble’s Blogroll.
Working towards a new metric
Back in August, Mary Hodder riffed on the shortcomings of Google’s PageRank and Technorati’s incoming links algorithms for ranking blogs.
Counting links is very much like counting subscriptions to magazines in order to sell ads, as far as comparing it to a number not reflective of what is actually going on with the media it’s meant [...]
Blogs by Mail
I was listening to the This Week in Tech (TWiT) podcast this morning and Dvorak called the whole Web 2.0 conference "groupthink." Yes, the hype meter was turned up higher than last year and at $2,800 a pop, the conference weeded out the starving developer types and favored the MBA & Biz Dev folks which [...]
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 [...]
Blogs on the cover of BusinessWeek
It’s going to be another busy week - BusinessWeek has a lengthy cover story on why companies need to pay attention to blogs.
Go ahead and
bellyache about blogs. But you cannot afford to close your eyes to
them, because they’re simply the most explosive outbreak in the
information world since the Internet itself. And they’re going to shake
up [...]
Reading vs. Scanning, Browsing vs. Searching
A common objection to blogs is that because the medium is so easy to update and the cost so low, too much unedited drivel makes it online to make the material useful as a source of business information. I have to say I don’t mind people speaking their mind in an unedited stream. I describe [...]
Monday Morning Read In
Elise Bauer has published an update to her overview of blog tool market share and has determined that:
- the number of blog sites has grown 120% in six months,- Six Apart, (my employer) with the acquisition of LiveJournal, has the largest market share of blog sites,- It’s impossible to measure the business market which sits [...]
Udell on the definition of Blog
Jon Udell hits the mark again. I should be packing up for our big move up to the city (starting from January 3rd we’ll be at 548 4th Street in San Francisco) but got distracted reading an old InfoWorld column where Jon talks about the definition of blogs. A blog is more than the simplistic [...]
