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?
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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 [...]
Gotcha in WP 2.5
This is actually a bigger deal that it would appear on the surface for people who are self-hosting Wordpress, like me, and use widgets. The way it works in v2.3 is that you can use Wordpress widgets or drop script blocks in the template, but apparently you can’t have both approaches in the same sidebar. [...]
Fractured Comments
Back in Jan I wrote about the need for a comment protocol in the blogosphere. This is about much more than just tracking comments, it’s about comment discovery as well. Today, with FriendFeed and other services adding commenting in the meta layer, well the need for comment portability is even more critical.
The bell has been [...]
Twitter Add-on for Ecto
Just found this Twitter add-on for Ecto which tweets when I publish a blog post. Could FriendFeed be a subset of Twitter?
CAPTCHA is Dead, Long Live CAPTCHA!
Whenever I run into a captcha I wonder what the effect is on participation when it is conceivable that a significant percentage of internet users will abandon the effort after a few failed attempts. It’s not uncommon that I will have to enter captcha text 2-3 times before succeeding (typepad seems most problematic for me). [...]
Act 2: Buyer’s Remorse
Yesterday I wrote about the Techmeme blogger reaction to Google Sites, basically critical of it because it’s a pattern that is all too familiar: Google comes out with something new or updated and says it’s x or y and A-list blogger first reaction is to throw the company up on their shoulders and take a [...]
Live Blogging We Media Miami
I am speaking on two panels today at We Media here in sunny Miami. I’ll try to get an @eventtrack going with Twitter, but I’m going to live blog as well.
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