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Corporations Entering World of Blogs
(AP)

Corporations Entering World of Blogs
(AP) 06/05/2005 10:59 PM
AP - When General Motors Corp. wanted to stop speculation this spring that it might eliminate its Pontiac and Buick brands, Vice Chairman Bob Lutz took his case directly to dealers and customers who were up in arms about the possibility. He wrote about it on the company's blog.

PR, Blogs and the Evolving Media World

PR, Blogs and the Evolving Media World 07/12/2004 03:50 PM
An online event called Global PR Blog Week is under way. They've posted an interview today with Jay Rosen, who (blush) has kind words for my book. I'm busy answering questions for an interview they'll post later in the week.

Real World cast member bl0gs about
indecency bust

Real World cast member bl0gs about
indecency bust 05/07/2004 01:39 PM
pulls a pee wee, and then owns up to it on his weblog. Powered by TypePad!

Blogs, message boards draw world closer
after tragedy (SiliconValley.com)

Blogs, message boards draw world closer
after tragedy (SiliconValley.com) 12/31/2004 02:34 PM
SiliconValley.com - When the killer tsunamis surged over Asian coastlines Sunday, communications consultant Peter Griffin struggled with how he could help from his home in Mumbai, India.

Webl0gs, Inc., World’s Largest Blog
Publisher, Announces Three New Blogs on
Satellite Radio (droxy.com), Flash
(flashinsider.com), and SAS
(sas.webl0gsinc.com).

Webl0gs, Inc., World’s Largest Blog
Publisher, Announces Three New Blogs on
Satellite Radio (droxy.com), Flash
(flashinsider.com), and SAS
(sas.webl0gsinc.com). 12/17/2004 06:44 PM
Weblogs, Inc., The World’s Largest Blog Publisher, Announces the Launch of 64th through 66th Weblogs, focused on Satellite and Digital Radio (droxy.com), Flash (flashinsider.com), SAS (sas.weblogsinc.com). [PRWEB Dec 15, 2004]

Vasanth Dharmaraj?s Blogs - World?s
biggest rural wireless network in India!
[my bl0g on dot net, java, eclipse,
linux, formula one, xbox gaming? ]

Vasanth Dharmaraj?s Blogs - World?s
biggest rural wireless network in India!
[my bl0g on dot net, java, eclipse,
linux, formula one, xbox gaming? ] 08/17/2004 05:59 AM
World's biggest rural wireless network in India!: "Kerala one of the southern states in India has launched wireless broadband connectivity to rural areas where land lines or cellular phones are not available. The Kerala State IT Mission Department has setup 550 internet kiosks covering 3500 square kilometers of land. The services ...

Boston.com / News / Blogs / David
Weinberger bl0gs the Democratic National
Convention on Boston.com: Blogging
crosses over

Boston.com / News / Blogs / David
Weinberger bl0gs the Democratic National
Convention on Boston.com: Blogging
crosses over 07/29/2004 05:21 PM
fun post about the blogger breakfast

boston.com/news/blogs/dnc/2004/07/blogging_crosse.html
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Internal Blogs: So, Are They Different
From External Blogs?

Internal Blogs: So, Are They Different
From External Blogs? 03/29/2005 07:22 AM
Internal Blogs: So, Are They Different From External Blogs?
http://www.llrx.com/features/internalblogs.htm

Dennis Hamilton shares his experience with launching a blog behind the corporate firewall, and suggests parameters that focus on content value to ensure its successful implementation. This is an feature article appearing in the March edition of Sabrina I. Pacifici's LLRX.com.

Reading bl0gs, writing bl0gs

Reading bl0gs, writing bl0gs 06/06/2004 06:45 PM
Kansas City Star (subscription),MO-9 hours ago• BlogPulse.com offers a blog search engine. Just type in keywords of interest. Or use Google to search for “blog” and keywords of interest. ...

BBC NEWS | World | Americas | German
crowned world beard champion

BBC NEWS | World | Americas | German
crowned world beard champion 11/04/2003 05:18 AM
world beard and moustache championships .. German crowned world beard champion .. Beardy Weirdies!

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3233833.stm
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Trend Micro's PC-cillin Internet
Security wins 2004 World Class Award
from PC World

Trend Micro's PC-cillin Internet
Security wins 2004 World Class Award
from PC World 06/18/2004 10:08 PM
Sunday Times South Africa Jun 19 2004 2:20AM GMT

Weinberger: "free access to every work
of creativity in the world is a better
world"

Weinberger: "free access to every work
of creativity in the world is a better
world" 09/21/2004 04:55 PM
Cory Doctorow: David Weinberger, author of the brilliant and seminal Small Pieces Loosely Joined, has posted a draft of a great speech on copyright that he's giving at the World Economic Forum in NYC tomorrow:

[F]or one moment, I'd like you to perform an exercise in selective attention. Forget every other consideration — even though they're fair and important considerations — and see if you can acknowledge that a world in which everyone has free access to every work of creativity in the world is a better world. Imagine your children could listen to any song ever created anywhere. What a blessing that would be!

...We publish stuff that gets its meaning and its reality by being read, viewed or heard. An unpublished novel is about as meaningful and real as an imaginary novel. It needs its readers to be. But readers aren't passive consumers. We reimagine the book, we complete the vision of the book. Readers appropriate works, make them their own. Listeners and viewers, too. In making a work public, artists enter into partnership with their audience. The work succeeds insofar as the audience makes it their own, takes it up, understands it within their own unpredictable circumstances. It leaves the artist's hands and enters our lives. And that's not a betrayal of the work. That's its success. It succeeds insofar as we hum it, quote it, appropriate it so thoroughly that we no longer remember where the phrase came from. That's artistic success, although it's a branding failure.

Link (via isen.blog)

Ubi Soft Selects Eiko Media to Help
Integrate Real World Products and Brands
into the World of Video Games

Ubi Soft Selects Eiko Media to Help
Integrate Real World Products and Brands
into the World of Video Games 01/07/2005 04:22 AM
Ubi Soft, one of the world’s largest video game publishers has selected Eiko Media Inc. as their preferred agency to assist in bringing real world products into their suite of video game titles. [PRWEB Jan 7, 2005]

VOIP Video Phones by Packet 8 and 5 LINX
Are Changing How the World Communicates
and Can Reunite Your Family No Matter
Where They Live in The World

VOIP Video Phones by Packet 8 and 5 LINX
Are Changing How the World Communicates
and Can Reunite Your Family No Matter
Where They Live in The World 06/24/2005 03:20 PM
VOIP Video Phones (Voice Over Internet Protocol) by Packet 8 and 5 LINX are revolutionizing the communications industry as you read this and reuniting families that in many cases haven't seen one another in years. There hasn't been a cultural or business change as dramatic since trains were being replaced by airplanes as the common way to travel. [PRWEB Jun 24, 2005]

Where's The Border For Real World Laws
In A Virtual World?

Where's The Border For Real World Laws
In A Virtual World? 12/04/2003 03:52 AM
Last month when everyone was making a big deal over the news that the online game Second Life had decided that players own any intellectual property they create in the game, I said it was a bad idea, since it basically took all of the problems of our intellectual property system and moved them into the virtual world - where it was likely to get more confusing. Over at LawMeme, James Grimmelmann, has been thinking a lot about that very idea and has written an insanely long - but absolutely worth reading - discussion about intellectual property issues as it relates to games. It's impossible to summarize his points, but he explores many of the issues in-depth and appears to have thought about these issues in much more detail than the designers of the various games. What it really seems to come down to is the question of whether or not in-game actions are simply covered by the End User License Agreement (which basically becomes the Constitution for that game) or if real laws in the real world should apply.

PC World gives World Class Awards to Mac
OS X, iTunes

PC World gives World Class Awards to Mac
OS X, iTunes 06/03/2004 07:16 AM
Technology business magazine PC World has announced the winners of its 2004 World Class Awards, and Apple is on the list. The magazine's editors make their selections for the awards "based on exemplary usability, design, innovation, features, performance, and value from a reliable manufacturer."

Indiagames to Bring “World Cyber Games
Mobile Competition”, the World’s Largest
Computer & Video Game Festival, to
Mobile Phones

Indiagames to Bring “World Cyber Games
Mobile Competition”, the World’s Largest
Computer & Video Game Festival, to
Mobile Phones 03/14/2005 05:26 PM
Indiagames secures global rights to bring the WCG Mobile Game Competition. [PRWEB Mar 7, 2005]

where earlier in the day there used to
be the biggest Toys R Us in the world,
in its place is now a store that sells
the nastiest sex toys in the world.

where earlier in the day there used to
be the biggest Toys R Us in the world,
in its place is now a store that sells
the nastiest sex toys in the world. 05/18/2004 07:24 PM
Choose Your Own New York You're in town to visit your wealthy and eccentric Aunt Ginny, who is spending the day having her blood replaced with Botox on the Upper East Side. Now you have the entire day to yourself to explore the most exciting city in the world! -- A Choose Your Own Adventure story, updated.

Global Disaster Information Network in
the Works to Help Remote Crisis-Stricken
Areas Around the World;Preliminary
Findings to Be Presented at World
Conference on Disaster Reduction, Kobe,
Japan, January 18-22, 2005

Global Disaster Information Network in
the Works to Help Remote Crisis-Stricken
Areas Around the World;Preliminary
Findings to Be Presented at World
Conference on Disaster Reduction, Kobe,
Japan, January 18-22, 2005 01/05/2005 03:28 AM
In the aftermath of the tsunamis that devastated Asia in late December 2004, observers pointed out that lack of official, credible information gave victims and governments in the area little prior warning of the impending disaster. Although still in the developmental stages, a partnership of the Global Disaster Information Network (GDIN) and the Organsation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) is creating an information system that may significantly reduce the impact of future natural and manmade disasters. Native American Pueblo and Navajo Nations in Arizona, New Mexico, Utah and Colorado are providing pilot sites for the GDIN system. [PRWEB Jan 5, 2005]

MP3 bl0gs

MP3 bl0gs 05/28/2004 02:06 PM
Forget file sharing, MP3 blogs are all the rage [...]we have unashamed folks who are not afraid to provide you with a daily song that...

Little red bl0gs

Little red bl0gs 06/04/2004 08:56 AM
On the 15th anniversary of the Tiananmen crackdown, blogs are booming in China. But are they making any difference?

Blogs and PR: a Q&A

Blogs and PR: a Q&A 07/15/2004 01:33 PM
As part of Global PR Blog Week, an online look at blogging as it relates to public relations, Steve Rubel asked me for my own thoughts on the subject. Here's the Q&A posting.

bl0gs.sun.com

bl0gs.sun.com 06/06/2004 06:48 PM
It’s been running for some time, and it’s stable enough now to talk about in public: blogs.sun.com is a space that anyone at Sun can use to write about whatever they want. The people there now are early adopters; there’s an internal email going out to the whole company Monday officially reinforcing that blogging policy, encouraging everyone to write, and pointing them at blogs.sun.com. Herewith a few remarks on the setup and process...

Blogs of War

Blogs of War 03/20/2003 04:20 PM
16) Blogs Of War

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ET Goes to E3 and Blogs It

ET Goes to E3 and Blogs It 05/11/2004 10:54 AM
ET's Jason Cross and Jim Louderback head down to the City of Angels to check out the latest gaming goodness and technology trends in interactive entertainment. It's also the inaugural outing for the ExtremeTech show blog.

Top 50 Law Blogs

Top 50 Law Blogs 07/15/2004 10:16 PM
A list of the top 50 Law 'blogs according to the EDD Information Exchange, from Abstract Appeal to The Volokh Conspiracy....

MSN Blogs

MSN Blogs 08/09/2004 04:53 PM
Phil Ringnalda: Sam will be delighted to know that they validate out of the box. Charles will be delighted to know that they include both Last-Modified and Etag headers, and apoplectic over the way that when presented with the proper If-Modified-Since and If-None-Match headers to reply to a request with a 304 Not Modified, they instead return a 200, with the exact same Last-Modified and Etag headers, and the exact same content. I would share Charles's concern.  On the plus side, I'm pleased to see utf-8 used consistently throughout (in both the content and the HTTP headers, and in both the html and feed).  I'm also delighted to see feed autodiscovery being used. If you have an aggregator, or are running one of those popular planet* type of sites where you republish a combination of the feeds of others, then you really should make sure that you pass these aggregator tests.

What is new about Blogs?

What is new about Blogs? 01/29/2003 08:09 PM
Ok, so we have been yacking around the office about this cool new thing that everyone seems to be doing...Blogs. Like this one. But haven't people been publishing web pages, sharing links, communicating their thoughts to each other over e-mail and IM and many other things for quite some ...

Some Blogs are just fun :)

Some Blogs are just fun :) 02/10/2004 08:09 PM
http://www.gnome-girl.com/

how UK MPs could be using bl0gs

how UK MPs could be using bl0gs 08/04/2004 01:20 AM
a few of them are already, but not enough

A Lot of Blogs

A Lot of Blogs 07/07/2004 09:54 AM

As of yesterday, Technorati was tracking more than 3 million weblogs. Dave Sifry explains.< p>

"[more bl0gs]"

"[more bl0gs]" 02/19/2004 06:44 AM

"Blogs"

"Blogs" 04/03/2005 10:12 PM

MSM + Blogs = Bad

MSM + Blogs = Bad 03/29/2005 08:07 PM
The experiment has ended. Roughly 8 months ago, the Star Tribune joined forces with blogger Twins Geek. The hope: a productive union of traditional journalism and online weblogs. The verdict: an unholy marriage, apparently. And this was just a baseball blog.

Are bl0gs just?

Are bl0gs just? 01/08/2004 08:04 PM

Lou Marinoff described one definition of Justice as "doing the right thing at the right time." He continued by explaining that it means you have to define "right thing".

There are at least eleven ways of being right.

1. deontology - rules tell us what is right and wrong
2. teleology - The end justifies (or sanctifies) the means
3. virtue ethics - goodness comes from virtues, which are like habits
4. humanistic existentialism - what we choose to do determines what we value
5. nihilistic existentialism - "God is dead." And we killed him. So all moral bets are off
6. analytic ethics - "Goodness" cannot be defined or analyzed
7. correlative ethics - every right entails an obligation, and vice-versa
8. sociobiology - ideas of "right" and "wrong" are motivated by our genes
9. feminist ethics - women have different moral priorities: e.g. ethics of caring
10. legal moralism - if it's legal, it's ethical
11. meta-ethical relativism - each situation has its own unique ethical dimension

Aeons ago, Clay asserted that power-laws existed in blogs and that it was in-equal but fair. Maybe he is basically being a deontologists with a bit of legal moralism thrown in. The rules are fair so it's OK. Marko (a philosopher among other things) asks the question, "So the interesting question this raises is: What are the principles if satisfied that would show the blogging world to be a just institutional structure? And the meta-level question: How would we justify these principles to each other?" I know that Marko is an expert on "justice" and my simple explanation above is far to simple, but this dialog about whether blogs are fair, good or just forces us to examine what we mean by fair, right and just. I think that in order for us to justify these principles, we might need to define Virtue. (Since defining "right" is so difficult.) According to Lou:

Aristotle said that Virtue is the Golden Mean between two extremes. It was all about balance. "Rational" comes from "ratio". The idea was to triangulate from two extremes of vice. For example, Courage is the mean between cowardice and rashness.

I know Dave Winer likes the word "triangulation" and the blogs are good at that. Is it possible that blogs can help us get out of the echo chamber and achieve the Aristotelian Virtue of the Golden Mean? (I know many people disagree with this, but I continue to believe as I argued in my Emergent Democracy paper that this is possible.) da nah expresses her opinion that blogs are not an equalizing technology and that it is the a technology for the privileged. To her, fair (and probably just) isn't about having rules that are difficult to game, but rather about being available and designed to promote equality. She is probably more of a teleologist with a bit of correlative ethics and feminism thrown in. (Sorry, just playing with the labels a bit. Don't mind me.)

To finally tie it into the discussion about technological determinism vs social constructivism, I think we need to be aware that we have an active effect on how the architecture of this technology evolves. I don't think we can yet "show the blogging world to be a just institutional structure", but rather we can try to determine what is just and strive to make the blogging world into something we feel is just. This requires us to dive into some of the questions that even Aristotle didn't answer. What is right? What is just? Hopefully the tools themselves will help guide this discussion, but rather than be nihilistic or deterministic, I think we should be actively involved in a dialog that best represents a consensus of our views. In order for this to be just, we must try be as inclusive as possible of everyone and on this I agree with danah. The tool is not yet inclusive. I think that blogs are right in many ways, but are far from right in many others. How can we try to make blogs as right and just as possible. I think that this is the question that faces us today.

Blogs and SEO

Blogs and SEO 01/19/2004 02:02 PM
" I started reading about blogs and thought ok this is what I should do. So I have started to switch my site over to blogs on every page. Now I am not sure this was the right thing to do. I noticed that as soon as I switched to a blog on my main page my PR on google tool bar dropped."

Let bl0gs be bl0gs

Let bl0gs be bl0gs 08/04/2004 11:42 AM
The Democrats have sent a msg to the faithful (including me) drawing our attention to some bad taste going on over at the W blog where they're quoting part of a Jack Dunphy column at Nationnal Review Online. The part quoted on the Bush site makes fun of the fire fighters and police officers who have come out in support of Kerry, saying that they're beer-bellied poseurs, not the working class, straight-talkin' rank and file. Big deal. It's some rabble-rousing flamery along the lines of calling Dean a Birkenstock-wearing, brie-eating, Volvo-driving, effete Liberal. It reads as dumb and emotive, but,...

Blogs and PageRank

Blogs and PageRank 07/15/2004 10:09 PM

Will the preponderance of blogs these days wreak havoc with Google's PageRank model? It used to be that you couldn't get a link from a big name site without having something they they wanted to link to. And if they linked to it, then they liked it, so others might as well, thus a higher PageRank. Not so anymore.

I can get a link on SixApart.com by posting a comment or a trackback. Ditto for Kottke. I can't on Boing Boing, but I can on Don Park's site. And there a lot of other blogs out there with PageRank values of, say, seven and up that I can get a link on very easily.

This site, for instance, has a PageRank of six, and you can get a link from here by just saying some intelligent (sadly, we've taken steps to eliminate the PageRank value, but I may remove that because other steps have helped cure the spam problem).

So, with all these high PageRank sites out there, it's getting easier to increase the PageRank of your own site. And you don't even have to spam — even a dolt can come up with something intelligent to say about post. Keep it remotely relevant, you won't get deleted, and — voila! — you just finagled a link from a site with decent PageRank.

This being the case, will PageRank's relevance and value deteriorate over the next few years?

(This begs another question — would Google ever allow you to designate links as self-service? By using a special comment or something, you could declare to the GoogleBot that you didn't add these links yourself, instead they were added by the link's target. And if this happened, would you do it? Would you essentially screw your commenters? Would people be more likely to comment on blogs that advertised that they didn't marginalize links using this method?)

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Fuel for the pro-war bl0gs

Fuel for the pro-war bl0gs 07/17/2004 04:21 PM
uses the same quote .. Tim Rutten's .. reminds us .. considers

latimes.com/news/columnists/cl-et-rutten17jul17,1,1174166. column?coll=la-news-columns
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