The Mercury News has a good write-up of the Blog Business Sumitt in San Francisco.
Blogger Jason Kottke is upset with Technorati. (Via Feed Blog)
Chris Pirillo doesn't like blog lists of the top blogs. (Via Blogaholics.ca)
There is a
list of Yahoo and Google employee blogs on Hans Mestrum's blog. (Via
Debbie Weil)
Amy Gahran
reports that Microsoft has gone with the potentially more
user-friendly webfeeds instead of RSS or Atom feeds. E-media Tidbits has
more about Microsoft's choice. Whether you prefer "RSS feeds" or "webfeeds" at least IE7 will be feed friendly.
JenSense talks about "publisher paranoia" and blog publishers being removed from Google's AdSense program.
Amazon.com's Long Tail has been shortened. Apparently, Amazon's tail was innacurate and overestimated by as much as 37%. Instead of 57% Amazon's long tail contribution to sales is really just 20% to 36%.
Darren Rowse, the Australian blogger who runs the Pro Blogger website, comments on a Syndey Morning Heraldarticle that said:
"Nielsen is considering more regular research on the US blogging space as the
market becomes increasingly influential, but revealed that Australian blogging
activity remained too small to measure as yet with a handful of news blogging
sites sitting 'just below the radar'."
D.C. Mayor Anthony Williams has a blog.
(Via News.com)
MSN's Mike Torres says that MSN Spaces is writing a book. It is called the MSN Spaces Book and it "will show readers how they can build their own personal blog using MSN Spaces. It is not yet in publication."
