Hey, kids! Usability: Jakob Nielsen has a post about Weblog Usability. It is a good article but the headlines which are supposed to be "bad headlines" like "Hey, kids! Comics" and "What Is It That You Want?" actually sound kind of interesting and the headlines that are supposed to be "good headlines" like
"Office Depot Pays United States $4.75 Million to Resolve False Claims Act Allegations" sound boring.
The Truth Laid Bear has a Miers support page. The page lets bloggers say whether they support or don't support Harriet Miers -- or if they are neutral. But it really doesn't matter anymore now that she has been withdrawn. Hopefully they will do it again for the next appointment.
First AdAge and now Forbes is blog bashing. Dan Gillmor calls the Forbes article "surprisingly trashy."
Peggy Hall says Blogs
don't kill people; people kill people." Blogebrity finds more blogs that disliked the Forbes article. The blogosphere also recently slammed a ridiculous AdAge article that said employers would lose over a half a million years of employee work time because of blogs in 2005.
Compareblogs.com has a new experiment. This time the tool allows you to compare the growth of different feed's bloglines subscribers over time. Here is a comparison of Gizmodo and Endgaget.
Xeni Jarden writes for Wired about possible Web 2.0 cracks: "Spam, scams and scatterbrains -- the same problems that plagued the old internet are cropping up again in a new wave of technologies known collectively as Web 2.0. But this time around, proponents say Web 2.0 has been better engineered to withstand the troubles that wrecked Usenet, BBSes and free e-mail."
Splogs are everywhere. Splogs are are also on WordPress.
A Whole Lotta Nothing sees a problem there: "In other words, when the (single-webhost) blogspot problem gets licked, how on earth do we combat the (many hundreds of webhosts) powered-by-Wordpress spamblog problem?"
Blogebrity has an interview with Wordpress founding developer Matt Mullenweg who responds to a question about splogs:
Matt: Well the same thing that makes us attractive to normal people -- it's easy to setup, very scalable, easy to use -- also make WordPress attractive to less savory parts of the blogosphere. If there was something I could do make it harder for them without hurting our normal users, I would. But that's a slippery slope, and Open Source is specifically designed so you can't discriminate in the license against any one party. Even if they're scum.
