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Blogosphere Highlights 7-18-05

  • A BBC journalist has liveblogged reading the latest Harry Potter novel.
  • Mark Cuban continues his podcasting "series" where he crushes the monetary dreams of future podcasters.
  • Rich Meislen at The New York Times has compiled a list of blogs called Blogs 101. (Thx Blogspotting)
  • Blogcritics.org asks is podcasting hot or not?
  • This ZDNet article criticizes Scoble's criticism of Technorati:
    Finally, I'd like to touch on the blogging/journalism thing because this is a real good case study. In a prior blog, Scoble defends his own methodology for writing, saying that he never claimed to be a journalist but that "I do occassionally do journalism here." Perhaps we could use a little icon so we know how to recognize when he's doing it.
    Scobleizer continues comparing the blog search tools and comments on the criticism.
  • Atom 1.0 is cooked and ready to serve.
  • Doc Searls wants industry analysts to compare the blog search engines. Good idea.
  • The Trend Junkie reports that iTunes is now their biggest client or news reader accessing their blog -- even passing Bloglines. Sounds like iTunes is really driving some podcast subscriptions.
  • Jason Sweeney asks the thought provoking question: If you couldn't click on any outgoing links, what blogs would you still visit?
  • The Guardian's Online blog looks at blogging the London 7-7 terrorist attack and whether it could at any point be or become ambulance chasing.
  • Joel Johnson, the Gizmodo editor, has quit to pursue a freelance career.
  • Wired says Technorati has "become a public utility on a global scale." Thanks Wired but we really don't want to be taxed for our Technorati use.
  • OJR compares the different blogging tools in detail and defines commonly used blog tech jargon.
  • Some of Weblogs Inc.'s blogs were hacked. It was reported by Scott Kidder and Blog Herald.
  • ProBlogger reports that he was Slashdotted about his big AdSense check. And he has even received a call from one of the product managers at Google AdSense.
  • Guide to RSS lists lots of places to submit your blog or feed. (Via Blog Brandz)
  • Are bloggers in competition with each other?
  • Blog Soup and Blogebrity have found a New York Post snark of Gawker.com editor Jessica Coen. Coen responded from her blog.
  • New Media Musings have launched a screencast blog at screenvlog.com. This post explains what screencasting is.
  • Thomas Vander Wal at Ok-Cancel gives an overview of tags and folksonomy. (Via Simplebits.com)
  • Daring Fireball explains why podcasting is so important to Apple.
  • Lockergnome continues the "how long should a blog entry be" discussion started by Debbie Weil. There is no clear answer. Some blogs, like link blogs, have short entries. Other blogs are more like columns with article-sized posts.
  • Shai Coggings has started a list of weblogs that have crossed the 1,000 blog post plateau.
  • E-Media Tidbits points out that ZDNet has added a Blog This feature to their blogs that generates code that people can copy and paste into their blog.

    Posted on July 18, 2005



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