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Article by Garrett French - WebProNews - 28-02-03

Posted 02/03/2003 under news articles •

Hello Readers,

Last issue I said Google bought Blogger.com to increase pageviews, which in turn increases ad revenue. I still hold that this is their main reason for the purchase, but I’ve had some time to reflect (and read some other opinions…), and I?ve gained a better understanding of blogs as a media tool.

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Google also bought Blogger.com because information - about world events as well as business strategies and the latest Microsoft patch - often hits blogs before it hits anywhere else. And with the introduction of moblogging, blogs that are updated with text, voice, or even photos from cell phones, we’ll see an increasing number of blogs updated on the fly.

Blogs will increasingly become a key source of breaking news on the web as the ways bloggers can add updates increase. Google’s backing what may become the foremost source of up-to-the-minute information online. Now that’s smart.

Meg Hourihan is the former owner of Pyra, which owned Blogger.com before the Google buyout. Here’s her weblog: http://www.megnut.com
Here’s a CNet article on mobile blogging: http://news.com.com
In case you missed last issue’s editor’s note click here.

In more topical news, here’s the first paragraph from an article in MarketingSherpa: “according to US Commerce Department figures released yesterday, online retail sales leapt by 27% to $45.6 billion in 2002.” The article goes on to recap the eTail 2003 conference, and discusses the causes for this enormous increase.

You might want to check this one out: http://www.marketingsherpa.com

Today’s issue features article on business tools by Shahid Izhar, a WebProNews newcomer and tech-business veteran. I sent back the first and second drafts covered in red ink. Shahid persevered. I hope you find the third draft useful to the automation of your key business processes.

Best Wishes,
Garrett + WebProNews Team

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Silicon Valley - Dan Gillmor’s eJournal - Google Buys Pyra: Blogging Goes Big-Time

Posted 18/02/2003 under news articles •

Google’s purchase of Pyra Labs must prove to be a significant event within the Blogging community. The Web’s premier search site and the company that producer Blogger. Read the article and what several key players have to say about the deal.

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Have a personal story to tell? Become a Blogger

Posted 18/02/2003 under news articles •

“Why do people want to read intimate, and often mundane, details about other people’s lives?” is the question posed by journalist with the Naples Daily News, Karen Mann. Anecdotally, this report differs from many others attempting to explain the weblogging phenomenon, however there is no conclusion reached and simliar questions are asked.

By KAREN MANN, Raleigh News & Observer

What’s a blog? Not a new horror movie creature, something that chases Harry Potter, or low-fat diet fad. BLOG is short for “Weblog,” the latest thing in online communications.

When Cleveland native Emil Thomas Chuck, 30, accepted a position at Duke Medical Center in Durham, N.C., in 2001, he found that keeping up with friends and family back home ? repeating the same stories to different people ? was a bit of a hassle.

So he became a blogger ? he started an online diary.

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Blogging for dollars - theage.com.au

Posted 15/02/2003 under news articles •

Melbourne’s Age newspaper reorts that AOL is about to add a blogging tool to the list of options for its customers. Reporter Jim McClellan adds that blogging can earn dollars….

Weblogs are one of the few things online still capable of generating media buzz and bucks. The libertarian blogger Glenn Reynolds turned himself into a marketable political pundit via his hugely popular blog (instapundit.com) and now appears on the news cable channel MSNBC. United States-based right-wing British blogger Andrew Sullivan (andrewsullivan.com) recently netted about $US79,000 ($133,000) in donations from his readers during a “pledge week” in which he appealed for funds to keep his site running.

Given Sullivan’s success, there are signs that the business world beyond AOL is beginning to take a serious interest in weblogs.

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Australian IT - Welcome to bloggers world (Bernard Lane, FEBRUARY 13, 2003)

Posted 14/02/2003 under news articles •

Yet another blogging book review? Yet another attempt to define and refine the term ‘weblog’? Maybe, but Bernard Lane does neatly splice together several of the pitches made in the five books that he has just “ploughed through”. The prices for each book that Bernard has quoted intrigue me a bit so I have added in the amazon.com prices in brackets. Where do you buy your books Bernard? (Bernard tells me that the ‘US’ in front of each price is a glitch and shouldn’t be there - see comments).

Much can be learned simply by browsing weblogs. After a while, the contrast between those that point outwards (filter blogs) and those that turn inwards (personality blogs) may seem less important.

A filter blog selects from among countless websites; that selection reveals personality and thereby draws in readers. And even if personal blogs are too preoccupied to help pre-surf the web, at least they link to other compatible bloggers and social networks form around their comment boxes.

It is all social currency, in the opinion of Douglas Rushkoff, one of many earlier voices of the web competing to be heard in the book We’ve Got Blog. “Content is just a medium for interaction between people,” he says. “The only difference between the Internet and its media predecessors is that the user can collect and share social currency in the same environment.”

And the five books are;

Blogging: Genius Strategies for Instant Web Content
By Biz Stone, New Riders, 309pp, $US63.95 (US$20.99)

Essential Blogging
By Cory Doctorow et al, O’Reilly, 244pp, $US69.95 (US$20.97)

The Weblog Handbook: Practical Advice on Creating and Maintaining Your Blog
By Rebecca Blood, Perseus, 195pp, $US27 (US$11.20)

We Blog: Publishing Online with Weblogs
By Paul Bausch et al, Wiley, 313pp, $US62.95 (US$20.99)

We’ve Got Blog: How Weblogs Are Changing Our Culture
By Rebecca Blood et al, Perseus, 242pp, $US42 (US$14.00)

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Rhizome.org: Rhizome.LA LIVE FROM THE BLOGOSPHERE! Feb 15 7:30pm

Posted 10/02/2003 under news articles •

Yeehah!! Rhizome LA live from the blogosphere!!

Event Date: February 15, 2003 Time: 7:30pm at which time “renowned bloggers and technologists will explore the online phenomenon of weblogs and their impact on American popular culture.”

Panelists: Mark Frauenfelder, Heather Havrilesky, Evan Williams, Susannah Breslin, Doc Searls, Tony Pierce Panel Moderator: Xeni Jardin
Event Location: Electronic Orphanage, 975 Chung King Road, Chinatown, Los Angeles

Recently, blogs have been written about in The New York Times, Newsweek, and The Washington Post, featured in PBS television specials, deconstructed at conferences held at Yale University and the University of California at Berkeley?and new blogs continue to spring into existence every day. So, what’s all the fuss about? Why is the Blogosphere expanding so quickly? How will blogs change the ways in which we relate to each other on and offline? And, what’s a blog anyway?

“Live from the Blogosphere!” brings together six innovators in blogging: Mark Frauenfelder, Heather Havrilesky, Evan Williams, Susannah Breslin, Doc Searls, and Tony Pierce. The panel will discuss the birth of blogging, the emergent tension between blogs and traditional journalism, innovations in blogging such as video-blogging, audio-blogging, and mobile-blogging, the shifting roles of race and gender in the Blogosphere, the state of the blog economy, and the way blogs may be reshaping contemporary media.

In addition, and in keeping with the immediacy and interactivity of blogging, members of the event audience are encouraged to blog live and direct from the Electronic Orphanage using an ad-hoc community WiFi network built exclusively for this event by the Southern California Wireless Users Group.

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Blogs open doors for developers - Tech News - CNET.com

Posted 10/02/2003 under news articles •

Web logs (commonly known as “blogs”), message boards and other online forums are becoming increasingly important vehicles for developers to attract customers—and development talent—well before an application even enters the beta stage.

Mitch Kapor, founder of software pioneer Lotus and creator of its breakthrough 1-2-3 spreadsheet program, started a development blog early on in his quest to build a smarter personal information manager. He said the blog has been a vital conduit for him to communicate with users about the project and to solicit their ideas.

“Some of the world’s smartest software people are interested in this project and communicating with me,” Kapor said. “The more open feedback there is, the better we can incorporate those ideas into the product.”

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Blogs as Disruptive Tech - How weblogs are flying under the radar of the Content Management Giants -

Posted 02/02/2003 under news articles •

so… for the initiated, it seems that content management systems are screwed, at least the ones that cost many thousands of dollars anyway. I’ve often wondered, where do blogging tools finish and CMS’s begin?

The head Sales Guy started grilling my client: how many pages did the site have (in the thousands!), how many users updated it (almost ten!). You could hear the Sales Guy’s mental cash register ringing up dollars signs as he went straight for the close: “And what are your editors using to update all those pages: Dreamweaver or Frontpage? Or maybe you built your own homegrown CMS?”

My faithful client didn’t miss a beat. “Actually, have you heard of weblogs?” he asked the Sales Guy. You shoulda seen this guy’s face fall - it was like he’d been hit by a truck. “Yeah,” he admitted, “So you use blogging software?”

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Blogs open doors for developers - Tech News - CNET.com

Posted 02/02/2003 under news articles •

Blogging enhances the concept of open source software development according to this article on CNet News…

By David Becker
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
January 31, 2003, 4:00 AM PT

“Secrecy has long been a hallmark of the software development process: Let too many people know too much about what you’re working on too early, and somebody might steal your ideas.

But a growing array of big-name software developers are finding they can make better software if they leave the doors open, by sharing information with potential customers from the start and incorporating their feedback into development decisions. While developers of games software have used this method for years, business software makers are now also catching on.

Web logs (commonly known as “blogs”), message boards and other online forums are becoming increasingly important vehicles for developers to attract customers—and development talent—well before an application even enters the beta stage.”

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Salon.com Technology | Use the blog, Luke

Posted 29/01/2003 under news articles •

“The collective future of blogs lies not in dethroning the New York Times—but in becoming a force that can make sense of the Web’s infinity of links.”

An article from May 2002, but timely still today. Read more…

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By Steven Johnson | May 10, 2002

Nearly eight years after Justin Hall uploaded his first hypertext diary entry, weblogging has finally hit the mainstream. Everyone seems to have a published opinion on this not-so-new new thing, and if the attention seems a little belated, it’s not undeserved.

After all, a number of significant developments separate us from pioneering sites like Links From the Underground or Robot Wisdom: The blogging population itself has grown dramatically, and has begun organizing itself into a genuine community rather than a series of isolated sites; software tools have been built specifically to let noncoders create and maintain blogs; and the universe of potential pages to link to has expanded by several orders of magnitude since Hall launched his site. There’s simply more Web to log, and consequently more need for experienced guides.

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