Blogebrity has an IMterview with contributor-supported blogger Jason Kottke. Jason told Blogebrity why he doesn't always via every link he finds:
B: Anyway, we do tease at Blogebrity about your lack of "credit" info. Many of your posts can be found on other blogs and tech sites around the time you post them. What's your reasoning behind not posting vias?
K: This has a really lame answer.
K: MT doesn't have a via field and for the remaindered links, I like to keep my data as highly structured as I can. No html allowed in the "extra" text. (This probably makes no sense whatsoever.)
K: I do via links in my main posts, and i just switched how I do the remainders and I'm now doing vias.
B: Very cool to hear.
K: I also think obsessive sourcing of material that doesn't necessarily need it can get in the way of people trying to disseminate it. If your via has a via, do you source that? What about your via's via's via?
K: At some point it gets ridiculous.
B: I know what you mean. I'm also copying that paragraph to paste whenever I forget where I found something.
Massive growth in blog tags. David Sifry's 3rd State of the Blogosphere post says Technorati has tracked over 25 million tagged posts from January to July of 2005 and about 300,000 posts with tags were tracked each day at the end of July. Each day about 12,000 unique tags are discovered.
What's Its Like on the Inside reports on the news that 3,000 educators are blogging. That number sounds far too low.
Law.com describes the legal headache side of the blogosphere:
Derogatory comments about employers and fellow workers, leaks of proprietary
information and other objectionable material broadcast into cyberspace have led to firings and lawsuits in dozens of cases nationwide.
One example was the recent 27 bloggers fired from one company story.
Another RSS reader. Attensa works with Microsoft Outlook. Users can also create blogs from Outlook emails with Attensa. It may be seem like Attensa is late to the RSS party but remember RSS has a rosy future.
Jason Calacanis asks which of the big four search engines will be the first to put blogs on the front page?
Right now the big four are all dancing with the idea of putting blogs on the top level—I can’t wait to see which company has the vision to do it first. Google might do it with search, Microsoft might do it with Filter/Start.com… Yahoo could put a "add Engadget to your My Yahoo page" on the top level, and AOL has got a pretty slick RSS reader and it would be sick if they connected it to AIM and ICQ.
