Google Blog Search, Still a Work in Progress

Here’s why the revamped Google Blog Search left me unimpressed:

Just how in the hell are they filtering and organizing content if the top stories in the Business category are from Huffington Post, Autoblog, and Daily Kos (there were 2 Daily Kos top stories, the other below the fold)? First impressions are everything for a product [...]

When Web Services Turn Off

Michael Totten is one of the more successful independent journalists and in addition to advertising revenue he relies on individual subscriptions in order to cover his travel and equipment costs. I had subscribed to his site last year and it wasn’t until he posted this note today that I realized I had not been seeing [...]

Maybe Blogging Is Just a Loss-Leader?

But I doubt most bloggers are trying to be the next Arrington. Most of them just want to support themselves blogging, right? This post reminds me of the phenomenon a few years back as the open source movement was taking off.[From SarahLacy.com: Maybe Blogging Is Just a Loss-Leader?]

I get asked a lot why [...]

The A.P. Blogger Wars of 2008-

UPDATE: Here’s an update from the AP on the AP.

If the AP doesn’t want bloggers quoting their stories, why make RSS feeds available?

And insofar as “telling bloggers what is acceptable”… nuh-uh, the AP doesn’t get to define their own set of copyright laws and as any first year law student will tell them, attempting to [...]

Blogs I Like

I clicked on Thomas Hawk’s site recently after far too long an absence, it’s still a kick ass blogs that serves to not only feature his passion - digital photography - but also provide compelling commentary on the tech industry, public policy and other interesting observations.

Hawk is CEO and chief evangelist (redundant titles, I’ve never [...]

Conversations vs. Comments

The issue of comment fragmentation has been rearing up every other week or so since the initial discussion flared up in early April, but of late, I’ve been thinking about the purpose of comments in the first place. When you make a comment on a blog, is it to respond to the blog [...]

The Action Heats Up in Blog Comments

I met up for coffee with Jitendra Gupta and Tedd Corman just a week ago and we talked at length about where they are as a company and the spectrum that includes comment tracking systems (e.g. CoComment) on one end and comment replacement services (e.g. Intense Debate) on the other.

The net takeaway is that blog [...]

NewsGator and APML

There are a growing number of apps that generate APML but it’s a manual process to export this data, just like OPML. We just added a feature to our Sync Engine that enables a persistent APML URL that can be dynamically consumed by applications, and because this is your data, you decide if it’s public [...]

Community Managers and Managing Communities

I wonder how most organizations are handling the role of community manager. I’m curious where a community manager reports. Marketing? HR? Customer service? I wonder how organizations are justifying the cost, and what they believe the role entails for level of effort. How are companies using the role in either direction?

[From [...]

ReadWriteWeb Turns 5

Congratulations to the entire RWW team, they collectively author one of the best new media sites covering technology. Sean Ammirati was over to our house for dinner on Saturday night and we were talking about the evolution of blogs to fully featured new media sites, RWW being a great example of this.

What is interesting is [...]

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