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Long or Short Copy? Part 1 BY Nick Usborne | 1-15-2003
Posted 22/01/2003 under news articles •
A worthwhile article for webloggers….
“In the course of writing for ClickZ, I’ve alternatively praised both long and short copy.
In some columns, I have extolled the personal touch you can achieve through longer, more conversational text. In others I have pointed out that short, active text is your best bet for directing readers and maximizing conversion rates.”
Blogs refine enterprise focus
Posted 16/01/2003 under news articles •
By Cathleen Moore
Infoworld - January 10, 2003 1:01 pm PT
BUILDING ON THE success of Weblogs for personal Web publishing, enterprises are starting to tap into blogs to streamline specific business processes such as intelligence gathering or to augment traditional content-and knowledge-management technologies.Free or low-cost personal tools from pioneering software companies such as UserLand Software, Pyra Labs, Moveable Type, and others have fueled the thriving Weblog personal publishing movement since its emergence in the late 1990s.
Weblogs at University
Posted 10/01/2003 under news articles •
Creating an Intellectual Property Weblog was a final class project at Berkeley last Fall.
BBC NEWS | UK | ‘Why I turned Pepys’ diary into a weblog’
Posted 10/01/2003 under news articles •
If the diarist Samuel Pepys were alive today, he may well have used the web to record his thoughts. So Phil Gyford has turned his daily musings into a weblog.
infoSync : Taking blogging to phones
Posted 10/01/2003 under news articles •
Mobile blogging seems to be creating a bit of a stir;
Ireland-based NewBay Software readies software that will enable mobile network operators to let customers update blogs with text and pictures straight from their mobile phones.
Blogging has become a well-known expression over the course of the past few years, with a steadily increasing number of persons creating websites to share all sorts of thoughts, opinions and other writings with fellow surfers in real-time. Until recently, however, real-time has been synonymous with whenever a user is close to the computer - but now, Ireland-based NewBay Software hopes to change all that.
read article here
Breaking the mold with blogs—The Washington Times
Posted 10/01/2003 under news articles •
by Bruce Bartlett
As the new year begins, I want to start by giving thanks for something that happened last year: blogs. Blog is short for web log, a kind of diary or running journal that people post on the Internet. Although most are purely personal and of no special interest, a few have become must reading.
ElectricNews.net:News:Start-up marries blogs and camera phones
Posted 10/01/2003 under news articles •
A Dublin-based start-up is to offer software to mobile operators that will enable mobile phone users to create and maintain Weblogs or “blogs” using only their phones.
NewBay Software, a privately funded company headed by former Baltimore Technologies executive Paddy Holahan, is aiming to capitalise on the explosive growth in weblogs over the past year. It is estimated that over 500,000 have been created over the past 18 months and are now starting up at the rate of about 5,000 daily.
CMSWatch: Content Management Systems research and analysis
Posted 09/01/2003 under news articles •
CMSWatch? is an independent source of information, news, opinion, and analysis about web content management.
Because I consider ‘weblogging’ to be a form of ‘CMS’ I feel that this site is relevant. In fact, where does weblogging software end and CMS software begin?
DaveNet : Weblogs in Meatspace
Posted 06/01/2003 under news articles •
A weblogging conference - great idea Dave! but Davos?? How about Australia?
(Bloody expensive to get from Australia to Davos) and who needs to sleep?
From blogs to news, Internet watcher sees Web maturing
Posted 05/01/2003 under news articles •
ANDRE MAYER Wednesday, January 1, 2003
For Web heads, the year 2002 was marked by the war over pirated music, the popularity of Web logs and a greater reliance on Internet sites for breaking news stories.
According to Internet watcher Tiffany Shlain, in 2003 we can expect to see the movie industry make greater use of the Web to distribute DVDs, and there will be a reckoning for so-called spam advertising.
As founder and director of the Webby Awards, an annual competition that determines the world’s best Web sites, Ms. Shlain has become one of the foremost arbiters of Internet taste and etiquette. In late December, the San Francisco-based Web guru released a list to recap the year gone by and highlight trends likely to emerge in 2003.
For Ms. Shlain, the biggest developments of 2002 included the rise in instant messaging and the proliferation of Web logs (or “blogs”). Blogs are regularly updated Web journals that address specific issues and offer links to similar sites. Observers estimate there are about 500,000 blogs currently on-line. Evan Williams, who runs Blogger.com, told Wired News that 41,000 new blogs were created last January alone.
