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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 […]