On the other hand, Bush's blog seems to point outside more often
-- a more Web-like thing to do.
BloggerCon Bloggers
BloggerCon Bloggers
04/17/2004 08:46 AM
Jeff Jarvis is making
copious notes about the blogging/journalism session. He types faster
than I can.
Bloggers come of age in US presidential
race (AFP)
Bloggers come of age in US presidential
race (AFP)
07/05/2004 01:15 AM
AFP - It started as a way to have a cyber-rant or just share a
personal thought, but the blogger has become cutting edge media with a
role to play even in the US presidential election race.
BloggerCon 3.0
BloggerCon 3.0
08/16/2004 10:29 AM
Dave and friends are planning a BloggerCon
conference this fall in Palo Alto. Count me in. Hope I can help.
[bc] BloggerCon
[bc] BloggerCon
04/17/2004 06:04 PM
I'm at the second BloggerCon, Dave Winer's do at Harvard. Dave begins
by sketching the shape of the conference. Then he leads us in a
sing-along of Take Me Out to the Ballgame and the US national anthem.
Really. Now it's on to Jay Rosen's session on blogging and journalism.
He's running it like a 100-person seminar, which is the format of
sessions here. Why is blogging moving towards journalism, Jay begins
by asking. There is, of course, a spread of opinion. Are blogs moving
towards journalism? Are they more like op-eds? Are they muckrakers?
Could blogs move towards...
How to do a BloggerCon
How to do a BloggerCon
04/19/2004 06:58 AM
In the last Fat Man Sings session (in which the fat man didn't
sing) it was suggested that I write a howto that explains how to do a
BloggerCon. At that moment, as I was about to complete the job, the
thought of doing more work for BC seemed pretty horrible. But the idea
stuck and I think it's a worthwhile thing to do, but not something to
do all in one shot, rather to do it over time and hope that someone
investigating this will use a search engine to find all the bits.
BloggerCon:
BloggerCon:
04/19/2004 03:01 AM
BloggerCon Links
BloggerCon Links
04/18/2004 09:50 AM
Tara has an enormous list of
links to folks who wrote about one or more of the BloggerCon sessions.
One way she got it was using Feedster, an RSS search
engine that I find quite useful.
Bloggercon ahoy
Bloggercon ahoy
09/22/2004 02:23 PM
I spoke at the first Bloggercon last year and enjoyed it. Missed the
second one last spring. Dave
Winer asked me to moderate a discussion at the next one, on Nov. 6 at Stanford,
and I was game. The topic is the next phase of the continuing dialogue
on blogging and journalism. The previous discussions led by Ed Cone and Jay
Rosen set high standards I'll aim to match.
I've been a pro journalist for 20 years but I've always been on one
fringe or another -- first, as a writer for an alternative weekly;
then, as a theater critic on the "wrong" coast, writing for the
underdog afternoon paper here in San Francisco; then, as a migrant
from the print world to the Web, here at Salon; most recently, as a
pro editor turned blogger. Since I started my publishing career in my
teens cranking out mimeographed Diplomacy and Dungeons & Dragons
magazines in my basement, the new world of self-publishing makes me
feel right at home.
I'll do my best to steer us out of the shallow familiar waters (is
blogging journalism? Of course! Much of the time, anyway) and toward
what I feel are the more challenging questions about journalists' and
bloggers' symbiotic relationship. I've tried to lay some of them out
here. Feel
free to join the discussion over on the Bloggercon site, or at the
event, or right here.
Liloia.com: Blogging BloggerCon
Liloia.com: Blogging BloggerCon
04/19/2004 12:12 AM
just about every single BloggerCon post .. links to Bloggercon
blogging .. linksliloia.com/archives/000729.php
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Ideas for Saturday's BloggerCon?
Ideas for Saturday's BloggerCon?
04/15/2004 02:24 PM
Due to the unavailability of a more qualified/desirable moderator I
have been drafted to lead a session at Saturday's BloggerCon.
Supposedly there will be nearly 100 people in a single room at Harvard
Law School from 1:30-2:45 pm and we're supposed to talk about the
concentration of readership among a tiny handful of blogs.
An article by Clay
Shirky is the original source for the session.
This assignment frightens me for a number of reasons. First
the original proposition does not seem sufficiently surprising.
We are all familiar with the fact that NBC has more viewers than the
local public access channel. Second I'm not sure what issue is
amenable to a free-form unanchored discussion among 100 people but
this one doesn't seem like it. That's one of my stock refrains
in the online community world, actually, is that the publisher needs
to frame the discussion with articles or the whole site loses focus
because nobody can figure out what the purpose is.
Anyone have an idea for breaking the participants up into groups of
10, having them do something for 10 minutes, and then report the
results to the whole crowd? I think many people there will have
laptops and Harvard Law School has wireless access (MIT does too but
visitors have to donate a kidney to the I/S department before they are
authorized to use it).
"just about every single BloggerCon
post"
"just about every single BloggerCon
post"
04/19/2004 03:01 AM
BloggerCon session announcements
BloggerCon session announcements
09/22/2004 08:31 AM
Session description: Bloggers and
Journalists -- Border Crossings.
The next BloggerCon is November 6 at Stanford Law School. Late
last week I started working with the discussion leaders, one-to-one,
talking about how BloggerCon sessions work, and to get started on the
session descriptions.
I like to present the sessions one at a time, on the BloggerCon
site, and here on Scripting News. Starting today we'll be introducing
sessions on a fairly regular basis until the grid is filled in, which
will probably be the day before the conference, if memory serves me.
";->"
Scott Rosenberg, managing editor of Salon, will lead a
discussion on journalism and blogging. He's an ideal person to lead
this discussion because he's a skilled reporter, and both a journalist
and a blogger. All three BC's have had sessions about journalism. The
first discussion was led by Ed Cone, the second by Jay Rosen, and now
we turn to Scott Rosenberg.
E:M | Brainstorming at Bloggercon -
International bl0gging
E:M | Brainstorming at Bloggercon -
International bl0gging
04/18/2004 04:23 AM
Editor: Myself (English) .. # 17 Apr 04 @ 02:06 PM .. Hoder's
commentshoder.com/weblog/archives/010481.shtml
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The BloggerCon 2003 Webl0g: Home Page
The BloggerCon 2003 Webl0g: Home Page
04/17/2004 08:53 AM
News in Blogging:This weekend's Blogger Con .. Harvard Blog Conference
.. The BloggerCon 2003 .. BloggerCon2003 ..
BloggerConblogs.law.harvard.edu/bloggerCon
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BloggerCon: Discussion Notes for, "What
is Journalism? And What Can Webl0gs Do
About It?"
BloggerCon: Discussion Notes for, "What
is Journalism? And What Can Webl0gs Do
About It?"
04/09/2004 04:12 PM
The background essay, "No One Owns Journalism," and an initial list of
questions for the BloggerCon session I will be leading April 17 at
Harvard Law School. Expect this post to change as comments come in
and I re-think it. Plus, I need ten more questions for my final list
of twenty. Got an idea?
Brain Food for BloggerCon: Journalism
and Webl0gging in Their Corrected
Fullness
Brain Food for BloggerCon: Journalism
and Webl0gging in Their Corrected
Fullness
04/16/2004 10:22 AM
Here's my Introduction, take two, for the Saturday morning session at
BloggerCon. Let's start by separating two things. Blogging is not
journalism. But if each imagined itself as the other, some good might
come of that.
PressThink: Brain Food for BloggerCon:
Journalism and Webl0gging in Their
Corrected Fullness
PressThink: Brain Food for BloggerCon:
Journalism and Webl0gging in Their
Corrected Fullness
04/16/2004 10:22 PM
Brain Food for BloggerCon: Journalism and Weblogging in Their
Corrected Fullness .. takes on a question ..
Rosenjournalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/2004/04/16/con_p
relude.html
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presidential election
presidential election
12/26/2004 08:58 PM
here,news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4125297.stm
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"U.S. Presidential Campaign"
"U.S. Presidential Campaign"
09/10/2004 03:47 AM
A presidential flop
A presidential flop
08/31/2004 03:17 PM
At the "GOP Marketplace" at the New York Hilton, a pro-Bush bazaar of
sorts, one entrepreneur sells the inevitable $15 John Kerry
flip-flops, actual thong sandals with his "for" positions scribbled on
one shoe and his "against" positions on the other. Flip-flipping
tchotchkes abound here. There are flip-flop playing cards. Little
flip-flop pins for ladies' sweaters. You get the idea. But the
delegates having fun with the Kerry "flip-flop" cliche at this
convention have run into a snag: Their own candidate, sold everywhere
here as "resolute," "steady," and "decisive," can't seem to figure out
whether we can win the "war on terror."
What's the Presidential Tipping Point?
What's the Presidential Tipping Point?
07/24/2004 09:18 AM
The question that voters seem to be wrestling with now is not whether
President Bush is a legitimate president but whether he is a
trustworthy one.
Presidential candidate ringtones
Presidential candidate ringtones
06/24/2004 09:39 AM
If your phone supports MP3s or WAVs as ringtones, you can download
these clips of the three presedential candidates saying "I'm John
Kerry and I approve this message," "I'm George W. Bush and I approve
this message" and "I'm Ralph Nader, running for president and I
approve this mess."
Link
(Thanks, PT!)
Every US presidential TV ad from 1952 to
present
Every US presidential TV ad from 1952 to
present
07/09/2004 08:09 PM
Arlen sez, "This site has (I think all) of the television ads from
1952 to the present. You can view them broken down by year, the type
of commercial (BackFire, Biographical, Fear, Real-people). It is
interesting that, while less slick, ads haven't changed all that much,
and the rhetoric seems just as strong (at least to me). It is also
quite amusing to see things such as Carter's ad accusing Reagan of
being a Flip-Flopper on, of all things, nuclear proliferation."
Link
(Thanks, Arlen!)
Presidential Market 2004
Presidential Market 2004
01/28/2004 10:17 AM
Presidential Market 2004 is
an online game in which players buy and sell "shares" of the major
2004 presidential candidates. If you finish on Election Day with
one of the two highest-valued portfolios — by executing savvy trades
throughout the primaries and general election campaign — you'll win
a trip to the inauguration next January.
Clark Abandons Presidential Bid (AP)
Clark Abandons Presidential Bid (AP)
02/10/2004 11:54 PM
AP - Wesley Clark, the novice politician with four-star military
credentials, abandoned his presidential bid Tuesday after two
third-place finishes in the South.
Karzai to stake presidential bid
Karzai to stake presidential bid
07/25/2004 09:19 PM
Afghan leader Hamid Karzai is expected to announce he is standing in
presidential elections due in October.
Presidential Freudian slip?
Presidential Freudian slip?
08/05/2004 06:07 PM
President George W. Bush
President Signs Defense Bill
REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT AT THE
SIGNING OF H.R. 4613, THE DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS ACT FOR FISCAL YEAR
2005
Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They
never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people,
and neither do we.
Ooops. A Freudian slip?
via George via
IP
UPDATE:
mp3 file of this from Lauren
Weinstein's blog.
Comment - TrackBack
Whiskey Bar: Presidential Powers
Whiskey Bar: Presidential Powers
06/07/2004 05:12 PM
White House's How-To Guide For Torture .. Whiskey Bar: Presidential
Powers .. Billmon has a lot to say ..
Bilmonbillmon.org/archives/001514.html
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Abbas launches presidential bid
Abbas launches presidential bid
12/25/2004 09:09 PM
Interim Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas calls on Israel to end its
occupation as he begins his election campaign.
Bush as Presidential Simulacrum
Bush as Presidential Simulacrum
07/14/2004 05:05 PM
Being
Nothing: George W. Bush as Presidential Simulacrum. [Via
wood s
lot.]
AOL Presidential Match Main
AOL Presidential Match Main
01/28/2004 05:10 AM
AOL Presidential Match Mainpresidentmatch.com/Main.jsp2?cp=main
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Is Presidential Election Spam On The
Way?
Is Presidential Election Spam On The
Way?
09/09/2004 03:51 AM
Are you ready for that political spam? An anti-spam company is now
estimating that the US presidential election will ge
nerate 1.25 billion political emails this year, and notes that the
campaigns already have access to 25 million email addresses. Of
course, both of these claims could use further explanation. As the
article goes on to note, those 25 million email addresses are often
held by companies who refuse to give them to the campaigns. If that's
the case, why are they included in this stat in the first place?
Furthermore, the way the article is laid out, you would think that all
of the messages are unwanted, but the details suggest that they're
including opt-in messages from the campaigns. So, when you boil the
numbers down, it's really not nearly as bad as the article makes it
out to be at first. There are still likely to be some mistakes made
with presidential campaign emails, but this article suggests there's a
problem where there might not be any.
OpinionJournal - Presidential Leadership
OpinionJournal - Presidential Leadership
08/30/2004 10:14 AM
"The Democrats' patriotism problem." .. doubt their own patriotism ..
Tranto's view .. James
Tarantoopinionjournal.com/pl/?id=110005545
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Democratic Presidential Nomination
Democratic Presidential Nomination
01/25/2004 07:30 AM
campaign to elect Joe Lieberman .. more down-to-earth .. 2004 Campaign
site .. campaign .. Joejoe2004.com
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Let The Web Pick Your Presidential
Candidate
Let The Web Pick Your Presidential
Candidate
01/28/2004 03:25 AM
Because no one can make up their mind any more without the support of
a computer telling them it's okay, there are now a ton of websites
out there where you can answer a bunch of multiple choice questions
and it will tell you who to vote for. Of course, all three
"tests" linked from the article had very bad questions that painted
certain issues in very black and white tones - without getting into
the reasons why these issues are complex issues that can't be answered
with a simple "oppose" or "favor". Also, I wonder how useful any of
them are - since each one gave me very different results. Maybe that
means I shouldn't vote and should leave such things up to those who do
see complex issues as black and white.
American Presidential Politics
American Presidential Politics
01/09/2004 09:47 PM
OK, it's time to start talking some politics here ... American
Presidential politics. I'm a proud Canadian and obviously Canadian
politics is important to all of us, but as a spectator sport it's
boring and amateur. Chrétien, Martin, those right-wing wingnuts
from the prairies ... they're all playing in the CFL of politics.
Sorry, but the NFL is where the pros play: Bush, Rove, Dean, Clinton
(both of 'em), Grover Norquist ... deep benches on both sides
(unfortunately, the Republican bench has been deeper than the Dems for
a while now); that's the game I watch. That's what I'd like...
Web servers of presidential candidates
Web servers of presidential candidates
11/07/2003 07:45 AM
Penguins for President? .. Vote Democrat
Linux!linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=7239&mode=thread&order=0
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Over 50 Years of Presidential
Commercials
Over 50 Years of Presidential
Commercials
07/05/2004 09:02 PM
Yes, the election is still months away, but couldn't you do with just
a few more Presidential campaign commercials? Of course you could.
Especially when the feature folks you haven't...
Grok Description matches for BloggerCon: Presidential Bloggers
GrokA matches for BloggerCon: Presidential Bloggers
Right on to Ross!
Right on to Ross!
05/19/2004 01:22 AM
Is it a coincidence that as soon as Ross Rader starts accusing me
of "whacky charts and diagrams" - he starts to do them himself?
:-)
Here's Ross' response to some 'sceptic'. I inserted comments in maroon.
An Open
Letter to Blog Sceptic.
Dear Blog Sceptic;
You raise some great points and they haven't gone unnoticed
over here. I wanted to respond with something sooner, but last
week was nuts and I'm just digging out now...
To recap, you recommend that we;
- Ditch the reseller route.
- Launch a branded hosting service* that competes head-on with
Typepad, offering more features at a slightly lower cost. Leverage
your robust scalability. MT's home-brew Perl implementation is
probably hurting them right now.
- Offer Blogware to institutions at a reasonable price that
undercuts MT 3.0 significantly. Every company has an intranet. Run it
on Blogware.
- Add friends/ communities for user lock-in through social
means.
- Promote it! Why on earth was there no announcement on
Boingboing when Blogware was launched? You need a marketing guy. Hire
somebody like Jason Kottke to spread the word online. Or Cory
Doctorow. Actually Doctorow would be ideal because he travels a lot
and has a high profile.
- Hire some professional designers. Add some curves, some
shading, some oomph. Right now it looks like a bunch of geeks cooked
something up. This will make a BIG difference in standing out.
Let me peg these off in semi-reverse order...
6. Designers. Tucows has always needed some of that oomph. Point
well taken. We will improve as time passes. I would say that we are
more interested in function than form right now. Not to the point of
creating an insuffereable user experience but rather that the function
of the application needs to be driven by useful features and not
pretty widgets. Pretty widgets can be built over time as we iterate on
the UI. You think this looks like it was designed by a bunch of geeks?
Boy do I wish that I had screen caps of our first alpha ;)
I actually think of all the
'anti-design, Kottke school or thought, bow down to Jakob Nielsen
lo-fi UI's out there - Blogware is the best. But I'm a
broadband sort fo guy and believe in color, shape and form.
Maybe one day we'll get away from straw sipping, dial-up
mentality.
4. Social networking stuff. We recently implemented the start of
this. Its not fully baked, nor am I happy with it fully yet. But the
start is there. Now it just needs some care, feeding and weeding to
make it really sing. You can sign up and check it out at http://www.blogware.com/users
I'd love to get your feedback and suggestions for
improvements.
This is my greatest area of
concern. Wer'e dealing with similar situations with Drupal, Word
Press and Typepad - how much social network is 'enough' for Blog
tools. Many people ask me this question.
Blogware supports a formal concept of a
friend, while TypePad has turned blogroll associations into
friends. Anil tells me Typepad is going through some changes
here - so we'll have to see what comes out. Not sure what Matt
Mullenweg is doing for friends, but I know he's putting in
FOAF.
So what do I think is the right level
fo 'friendship' to put into blogging tools?
Well first of all - all blog tools and
all software in general should adopt basic FOAF 'About me' pages,
which not only display basic profile info to viewers, but also enable
simple export of that profile. The real issue is whether or not
teh blogging tool supports importing FOAF and friends - at
all.
I say What software
ISN'T about people? Why WOULDN'T you want a built-in,
on-line comunity to support themselves, to help you promote your tool,
to keep your customers happy?
Just so we're clear on my view.
:-)
5/3/2/1. Ditch the resellers/launch a hosted version/offer to
specific verticals/promote it...
Never gonna happen.
I knew he was gonna say this - and he's
brilliant in his explanation fo it - read on.....
Here's why: Internet services
providers represent the most powerful distribution channel on the
internet. No single company can compete with the marketing muscle of
30,000
ISPs** who sit right in front of end-users and assist them in
making critical technology choices and guide them as they dive into
the internet - usually for the first time. No other channel can put
you in front of individuals and the Fortune 500 simultaneously and no
channel can better address the fickle needs of their local markets in
a more appropriate fashion.
To get a better sense of this, take a look at our track record with
domain names. In 1997, we were (according to the most liberal
definitions) #85 in the domain name registration market. Today we are
solidly #2 and we've been there for a couple of years. How did we get
here? We dealt exclusively with internet services providers to the
exclusion of all other market opportunities and we nailed their
service requirements. By choosing and sticking to our distribution
model very early in the game (some would argue that it chose us) we
were able to focus on very specific attributes of our products and
processes and build some truly excellent structures around everything.
In other words, because we weren't trying to be all things to all
customers, we were able to do some very amazing things with some very
specific customer segments. And they responded in spades.
Our resellers kick serious ass in the
market place. This because the Tucows way of doing things gives
them the luxury of being able to focus on very specific and
important things. Think of every other blogging company out there.
They each have to a) be technical experts, b) be sales experts and c)
be marketing experts just to one unit to a customer. Now take a look
at the symbiotic nature of the relationship between Tucows and its
direct customers. Our resellers have to be sales & marketing
experts and develop strong customer service skills and Tucows has to
focus on maintaining world-class technical services. Who would you bet
on, the jack-of-all-trades or the team of specialists?
The downside to this approach is that it lacks the glitz and glam
that retail oriented services employ. You will never see a full out PR
blitz from Tucows and Blogware will never be a household
name. All wasted money. Remember, we're not the marketing brains
in this relationship. We're the technical muscle.
I actually slightly disagree here - but
only in scope and target audience. It's important to build the
Tucows brand with the insider crowd - so when someone says "gee I'd
love to private label and brand my own blogging tool" - they go to
Tucows.
Does that mean that our resellers are idly sitting by doing
nothing? Nope. Right now, they are working on developing the right
messages to direct at very specific markets - some are doing the
institutional angle, some are going after telecommunications firms,
others are targetting specific home-user verticals and others still
looking to make quick wins at the expense of those with existing
market share... And what I've seen so far looks great. Think of this
as true "end-to-end marketing" Marketing at the edges. Clue-train
compatible distribution. Teamwork. Focus. Whatever you call it, it
works.
For us, this isn't a question of strategy. We're
fully committed to our wholesale distribution model and we're fully
committed to the blogging market. More importantly, Tucows is fully
committed to winning in this market and we are doing what we need to
do to make it happen. Heads-down, block-and-tackle,
stick-on-the-ice, wholly tactical execution. Execution of our plan to
give our resellers what they need to continue to kick ass in
their chosen commercial pursuits. When they win, we've won.
What Ross isn't saying is that Tucows
has been and will continue to support open standards and help make new
ones happen.
There's also some other exciting news
about Tucows - which we'll be disclosing within a month or so.
These guys are major players in our world - be nice to
them!
*Blogware is a hosted application, not a
standalone tool. "Branded", well that's another matter entirely. We
chose the name "Blogware" because it is the most generic expression
that could be used to describe "weblog management tool". Is that our
brand? Nah. It's just a convenient label we use to refer to the
product. The first thing our resellers do is rip this tag off and
replace it with their own....
**(For the sake of this entry, ISPs should be
read as "ISPs/Web hosting companies". I use the term "internet
services providers" in its truest sense - those companies that provide
internet services...)
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Is Ross Unzipped?
Is Ross Unzipped?
05/19/2004 04:23 PM
Higher costs and inventory problems plague the off-price retailer.
Congrats to Ross et al - keep going!
Congrats to Ross et al - keep going!
04/24/2004 03:25 AM
And as if (on cue) Ross was waiting for the official
battles to commence, here comes Blogware with....
Busy Week in Blogware-land.
It has been an extremely busy week on Blogwareland. The project is
really firing on all cyclinders and I'm starting to get pretty excited
about the upcoming release. Most of my time has been devoted to staff
training. We took 30 or so staffers through hands-on with the service
in a lab environment and the feedback has been great. I really enjoyed
taking everyone through the in's and out's of Blogware and the weblog
market and it is great to see the rest of the team over here finally
starting to understand why I'm so excited by Blogware and the weblog
opportunity. The blogosphere can be a tough thing to grok for one
person - getting 150 people on the same page is even harder ;)
I finally got the nerve up to steal a
page out of Doc Searls playbook
and go outside of the "bullet-snore-click-snore" structure that
Powerpoint forces on Office users. I've had the pleasure of seeing Doc
"present" a few times and he's really taught me that 60 slides in 60
minutes is only bad if the content is bad...
The dev team is also totally in the zone. A bunch of new features
coming out this week and a few bug fixes as well. I can see v1.0 just
over the horizon...
Something old, something new,
something boring and nothing blue...
Something Old...
Comment Notifications v2.0! Weblog publishers
getting comment notifications is old hat. Now, authenticated readers
can also choose to receive comment notifications on a per article, per
category or on a site-wide basis. Publishers also get to choose
whether or not this feature is even available to their readers.
Something New...
Import/Export. Publishers can now get the
important content out of their old weblogs and into their shiny new
Blogware weblog. Also, the Export feature makes your Blogware content
just that much more portable - great peace of mind. Import initially
supports only MT imports with support for the Blogger, Radio and other
formats shortly.
Something Boring...
Bug fixes. Yawn. ;) Publishers will notice that the webstats are
much snappier now - we realized a ton of performance increases with
some of these new fixes.
Nothing Blue...
No, I meant it - there was nothing blue. Well, just this. Literally.
So what's the big take away? It has been impossible for me to keep
up with my email this week. If you've sent me a message and I haven't
gotten back to you, rest assured, I still love you - its just that I'm
currently 300 messages behind where I should be - and
that's after 4 hours of catch up. Problem is, I'm not going to
get through it all today - marketing needs sign-off on virtually
everything that they've been working on for Blogware this afternoon
and unless I wade into it, they are going to hunt me down and kill me
- probably with a bad PowerPoint presentation or something ;)
[Random Bytes]
Congrats to Ross and Elliot!
Congrats to Ross and Elliot!
04/09/2004 10:30 PM
Random Bytes
Where facts are few and experts are many.
New Features: Friends & Addressbook
Blogware users got a small preview of version 1.0 this week with
the release of our new Address Book and Friends functionality.
The Ad
dress Book is a pretty cool mechanism that provides Blogware
Publishers with some pretty nifty tools for managing the relationships
between users and content.
The other new function, Friend
s, is a simple tool that allows users to connect with one
another and will act as the basis for a bunch of cool new services as
we move forward.
Play around with them and let me know what you think (keeping in
mind that this is "pre-release preview beta not-finished yet"
stuff....) [Random Bytes]
I got to be friend #1. Ah the joys of being an 'outside
friend'. One more win for the FOAFnet.
Dell'olio set for Ross interview
Dell'olio set for Ross interview
06/04/2004 05:45 AM
Ananova Jun 4 2004 9:46AM GMT
Ross is at Red Herring Conference
Ross is at Red Herring Conference
12/10/2003 04:35 AM
Ross Mayfield is blogging
from the Red Herring Conference. Sounds like VCs are coming back. Not
sure yet that's a good thing. There's a paradigm shift coming (heck,
even if you don't believe in Microsoft's vision, look at Sun's or
Apple's -- all computing platforms are going to see rapid innovation
over the next few years. Yet the VCs don't seem to care and don't seem
to be building companies to take advantage of the coming shifts.
Here, ask yourself, do you see anything about RSS in his notes?
Anything about the Tablet PC? Anything about new 3D OS's (how about
new kinds of video games, new kinds of business apps? Is PowerPoint
and Excel really going to be how business is done 20 years from now?
Those are three things that are seeing huge changes right now. Today.
Not five years from now. Yet the VCs are off funding Friendster.
Any wonder why there's tons of empty buildings in downtown Palo
Alto?
SocialText and Ross reaps the benefits
SocialText and Ross reaps the benefits
06/03/2004 09:38 PM
Ross Mayfield has written up some results from our usage
of Socialtext's Wiki during our 1UP.com development process.
I was the main guy using the thing, so I got to put Socialtext's
product and services through the paces. In fact at this point -
I'm working with five SocialText workspaces.
So all you knowledge management, workgroup wonks out there (Ray
Ozzie eat your heart out) take a
read.
DAVID GEST + DIANA ROSS?
DAVID GEST + DIANA ROSS?
02/19/2004 06:10 PM
I am picturing an MJ sandwich on wedding night, if you know what i'm
saying, and i think you do
Ross and Rachel Together in 'Friends'
Finale
Ross and Rachel Together in 'Friends'
Finale
05/07/2004 12:45 AM
Ross and Rachel, together again as "Friends" fades into history. Were
you expecting anything different?
Diana Ross gets two days in jail
Diana Ross gets two days in jail
02/10/2004 02:55 AM
Singer Diana Ross receives a brief jail term after pleading "no
contest" to a drink driving charge.
MoviePod: Geoff Ross Is High
MoviePod: Geoff Ross Is High
05/13/2004 07:55 AM
http://www.geoffrossisfamous.com/infodump/index.php">Ah, youth. It's
big thinking, like the meandering, centerless kind NYU film student
Geoff Ross has done about a method for digital music distribution
called MoviePod MovieBox, that makes a great case for why college kids
should stop smoking pot. Geoff wants to build a digital film
distribution system...
Ross on Family Tech Support
Ross on Family Tech Support
12/28/2004 03:40 PM
Ross provides his simple recommendations for the annual family tech
support ritual otherwise known as the end of year holidays. In
summary: Get 'em a Mac with OS X on it Get 'em broadband: it's fast
and nearly always on Get 'em Firefox, 'cause IE is bad for your
security Get 'em a good start page like My Yahoo or Google Get 'em on
Web Mail like Yahoo Mail or GMail Get 'em on Flickr if they want to
share...
SCANDAL Doc reports Gates plagarized
Ross!
SCANDAL Doc reports Gates plagarized
Ross!
05/21/2004 07:01 PM
Raising the
bra.
That's the headline that comes to mind when I read Bill Gates' most famous recent speech. It's like, blah blah networking
blah blah storage blah blah tablets, blah blah RFID, blah blah
templates, blah blah RSS, blah blah spam, blah blah MSDN... Huh?
wtf? Rewind....
That RSS item launches the longest section of the speech: seven
paragraphs that read to me like they were ghosted by Ross Mayfield. I just went to
Ross's blog and he quote
s five of those same 'graphs. Coincidence?
[The Doc Searls Weblog]
Right after 9/11, Berg's Head and Oil prices - comes this
latest scandal - hot on the Technorati wirewatch.
Collector's Collections Gallery: Ross
Williams
Collector's Collections Gallery: Ross
Williams
09/03/2004 12:58 AM
Today's Collector's
Collections update features and update to the the collection of Ross Williams from
UK.
'The Guardian' Interviews Blake Ross
'The Guardian' Interviews Blake Ross
04/07/2005 12:52 PM
Collector's Collections Gallery: Ross E
Lockhart
Collector's Collections Gallery: Ross E
Lockhart
04/01/2005 02:08 AM
Today's Collector's
Collections update features the collection of
Ross E Lockhart
from Petaluma,California, USA.
Ross Mayfield's Webl0g: Media Value
Unchained
Ross Mayfield's Webl0g: Media Value
Unchained
09/19/2004 11:01 PM
Yin is to wikis as Yang is to blogs ..
riffsross.typepad.com/blog/2004/09/media_value_unc.html
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Spiegel Online Interviews Blake Ross
Spiegel Online Interviews Blake Ross
04/14/2005 09:52 AM
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross dies
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross dies
08/27/2004 01:37 PM
I interviewed Dr. Kübler-Ross some time in the mid 1970s for an
article for Maclean's in Canada. At the time, she had gone beyond her
"five stages of dying" meme and was fully into proving that there's
life after death by documenting weird coincidences and poorly
substantiated tales. I was disappointed because, although I am
agnostic about life after death, her methodology was anecdotal and
seemed to me to be aiming at supporting a position she merely wanted
to believe. And yet, she did something remarkable. Deeply impressed by
her work helping Nazi refugees and by a visit to the...
Alex Ross (New Yorker music critic) has
a bl0g
Alex Ross (New Yorker music critic) has
a bl0g
06/28/2004 04:38 PM
goooo, typepad!
Ross Mayfield Talks about VC Funding of
Social Software
Ross Mayfield Talks about VC Funding of
Social Software
11/18/2003 04:40 AM
Ross Mayfield, who is trying to get a business started around
social software, talks
about the latest VC-funding of social software.
Personally the whole market is missing the boat -- Microsoft
included.
The money is in corporate knowledge management systems. Microsoft's
is Sharepoint. But,
let's look at social software. Weblogging has succeeded for five very
specific reasons:
1) It's easy to publish a weblog. OK, Sharepoint has
that.
2) Weblogs are discoverable. Just visit weblogs.com and discover some that
were published minutes ago. Sharepoint doesn't have that.
3) Weblogs are social. Most weblog software has a public
referer log (here's mine). That's important for two reasons. a) Cause
I can see who is talking about me and b) a newcomer to my sphere of
influence can instantly see who is talking about me and how much
traffic they are sending me (ie they can see who the "big fish" are in
my neighborhood). Sharepoint doesn't do this.
4) Weblogs let me point to specific microcontent. Translation:
permalinks. Sharepoint doesn't do that.
5) Good Weblog tools build syndication, er RSS, feeds
automatically. Sharepoint doesn't do that (although someone built an
add-on tool to do that).
One tool nailed all this stuff: UserLand's Manila. But, let's be
honest. How many companies are gonna convert all their intranet data
over to a system from a company with a couple of employees? I was
director of marketing and tried fighting that fight.
But, I am totally convinced of the need for a new kind of knowledge
management system (er, corporate weblogging tool) for corporations.
Yet the VCs and Microsoft's own execs aren't funding major research
into this stuff. Sharepoint is the evidence.
Keep in mind: I'm a hard-core Sharepoint user now. It's a good
product. Its team just doesn't know that it's only missing three
things before it's a great one.
Ross Mayfield's Webl0g: Books Banned on
Flights?
Ross Mayfield's Webl0g: Books Banned on
Flights?
04/18/2005 02:26 AM
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Bloomberg Article on Blake Ross and
Mozilla Firefox
Bloomberg Article on Blake Ross and
Mozilla Firefox
04/09/2005 09:58 AM
Ross-Simons harnesses the web as it
adopts a new marketing strategy
Ross-Simons harnesses the web as it
adopts a new marketing strategy
04/17/2005 02:37 PM
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Ross Mayfield's Webl0g: Disney
Enterprise Webl0gs and Wikis
Ross Mayfield's Webl0g: Disney
Enterprise Webl0gs and Wikis
02/11/2004 04:32 PM
Disney Enterprise Weblogs and Wikis .. how Disney's using MT
internally .. Ross Mayfield explains .. did a nice
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Blogging Camp Wellstone: Day One, Jim
Ross on Creating a Campaign Plan and
Budget
Blogging Camp Wellstone: Day One, Jim
Ross on Creating a Campaign Plan and
Budget
12/17/2004 06:41 PM
The first speaker in the Working on a Campaign series was Jim Ross, a
San Francisco political consultant. He seemed like a strange choice at
first. He did some early work for Representative, now Senator John
Breaux of Louisiana, famous for his statement "My vote can't be
bought, but it can be rented". Ross has successfully managed the
conservative (for San Francisco at least) side of many San Francisco
ballot issues, such as Gavin Newsom's Care Not Cash initiative, and he
was the campaign manager for Gavin Newsom's successful bid for Mayor.
It doesn't take much googling to find some pretty impassioned
opponents of Jim Ross. His introduction earned him some (polite)
hostility from a couple of the San Francisco political activists
present. Last quarter, he was the biggest money maker among San
Francisco political consultants. Upon reflection, perhaps all those
are reasons why Camp Wellstone invited him to speak. He is a very
successful campaign consultant. Clearly, he knows something about
winning elections. It was also a great introduction to the trade or
profession of campaign management -- more on that later. Here are my
notes of Jim Ross' talk, Creating a Campaign Plan and Budget: Step
one, before you do anything, before you decide to run, is to do your
research. You wouldn't believe how many candidates come to see me and
ask me to work on their campaign without having done the most basic
research. The first questions to answer are: How many registered
voters in the district? What is the typical turnout? How have
challengers done against incumbents in the past? How much money was
spent in last election? What are the issues voters care about? If you
don't know what voters care about, do you have the money to do
polling? In some states, you can get a lot of public polling
information for free. The [Pew Foundation ???, California Foundation
??? missed what sources he stated] ... do polls on what people care
about. Research past winning candidates. How did they win? Copy their
strategies. Don't worry about being creative, worry about winning.
Resources: Time Spend your time raising money or reaching people. Time
is the finite resource. People Overhead (Staff) is the most expensive
thing in a campaign. Money Unless you can self-fund, you need to raise
money. Howard Dean proved that liberal candidates can raise money.
Small races, how you raise money:...
Ross-Simons boosts average ticket, gains
new customers with payment option
Ross-Simons boosts average ticket, gains
new customers with payment option
02/16/2004 04:06 PM
InternetRetailer.com Feb 16 2004 8:12PM GMT
If we didn't have such a thing as an
airplane today, we would probably create
something the size of NASA to make one.
--H. Ross Perot
If we didn't have such a thing as an
airplane today, we would probably create
something the size of NASA to make one.
--H. Ross Perot
11/10/2003 10:48 PM
Paperplane.org : Ken
Blackburn holds the World Record for time aloft for a paper airplane.
Visit his site to read how he did it, the history of paper airplanes,
read some competitive airplane flying rules, and learn to fold some
new airplane designs of your own.
Raw 4/19 Basic Cable Ranking; Jim Ross
Trashes Internet Writers & Japanese
Promoters, Thinks Steve Austin Will
Raw 4/19 Basic Cable Ranking; Jim Ross
Trashes Internet Writers & Japanese
Promoters, Thinks Steve Austin Will
04/22/2004 09:29 PM
Wrestling-News Apr 23 2004 1:42AM GMT
Wrestling-News.com Column: Our Response
To Jim Ross Calling Internet News Sites
'Horse Manure'
Wrestling-News.com Column: Our Response
To Jim Ross Calling Internet News Sites
'Horse Manure'
02/13/2004 11:47 PM
Wrestling-News Feb 14 2004 4:06AM GMT
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