On the WordPress move
May 29, 2006
After many years of using my own blog software, something I had written myself and tended to over the years, I finally threw the towel in and decided to upgrade. Here are a few things that I learned in the process. Making the Decision The first, and probably toughest, part of this migration was to actually make the jump. […]
2006 Predictions
December 28, 2005
Since 1997, It’s been a long running game here at TNL.net central to make wild predictions about the upcoming year that have turned out to be only somewhat off (and, as always, I promise to revisit them around the end of next year to assess how far off base I was) so here goes this year’s edition. Broadband […]
A response to Dan Gillmor
April 10, 2003
Dan Gillmor is writing a book about journalism and blogging and asked people to help him with it. I have just sent an email on the introduction and figured it might be useful to other people interested in this subject. So here it is: You are hitting on the right points but there may be a need here for […]
Blog, Internet, and Marketing
March 7, 2003
For the past week, I’ve been posting a fair amount about the raging cow and about establishing trust in a market where marketers are trying to get in side by side with other bloggers. Chris Pirillo makes some good points about the raging cow campaign: Is it so bad if they are trying to engage us in […]
Trust, truth and networks
March 5, 2003
The raging cow incident shows that there’s a need to establish trust in the blogging (and maybe the web) world. Tim Bray demonstrates that most bloggers have relationships to products, concepts, companies, and other bloggers. His declaration of truth is a good start but there are a number of things that still need to be done. Meanwhile, Scott […]
A declaration of bloggerdom
March 4, 2003
Ed suggested in a Metafilter thread that we come up with a blogging vow of chastity similar to the one Dogme film-makers did in 1995. Here’s my stab at a first draft of this: Declaration of bloggerdom We are bloggers. We are individuals. We are not for sale We are not a target market. We link to sites because we find […]
astroblogs
The ragingcow blog got me thinking about the concept of Astroturf blogs (I would call them astroblogs). A lot of people are saying that a blog like ragingcow can’t work and yet, there is a number of discussions about it all over the blogosphere. Now, if it doesn’t work, how come I now know about a product that I didn’t know […]
Marketer, Marketer, where have you been?
March 3, 2003
There is much discussion about RagingCow, a new site created to market a new Dr. Pepper soft drink. The funny thing is that some say it won’t work but the site is already getting free publicity from bloggers all over. I didn’t know about the drink prior to seeing it on Blogdex so that makes me a successful target […]
What are weblogs?
February 27, 2003
It seems that my bit of navel gazing about blogs has attracted a lot of attention. Among some of the things that came up, though, is that there is no clear agreement as to what blogs are. So in the search for definition, I went back to trying to figure out what people mean when they talk […]
Thoughts on blogging and journalism part II
February 26, 2003
So it looks like my thoughts (see below) made it on Metafilter and are starting to make their way on other blogs with interesting comments coming up in each cases. While I appreciate the accolades, what I find most interesting is that people are divided over whether blogging is journalism. It’s an interesting question and one for […]