Monthly Archives: November 2004

Blog reposting networks will snowball

A few days ago I noted that Law.com was creating a Blog Network, re-publishing selected law-related blogger’s posts. Along similar lines, Steve Rubel’s excellent Micro Persuasion blog is now going to be re-published within WebProNews, and Steve has posted an … Continue reading 

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Blogging by numbers, 1 2 3

The size of the blogosphere has doubled every five months over the last year and a half, according to Technorati.

Technorati’s chief executive David Sifry says the current number of blogs is now more than 8 times larger than the 500,000 … Continue reading 

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Law.com Launches Blog Network

Law.com launched a new blog aggregating content from other blogs on legal topics. The new Legal Blog Watch is an example of what will surely be a trend for brand name content provider to aggregate blogs on related topics.

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Podcast Research

Podcast Research is a blog by graduate students from the School of Informatics at the University at Buffalo which examines the podcasting phenomena and studies it with an academic eye.

There are various themes the study is interested in such as … Continue reading 

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ComputerWeekly: Google sees benefits in corporate blogging

ComputerWeekly has an interesting article today on Google’s use of blogs internally. The article notes that Google started blogs for staffers in early 2003 and has seen these internal blogs put to a variety of uses:

…people keeping track of meeting … Continue reading 

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GigaDial: It’s like a radio dial, times a billion

Andrew Grumet is amazing. His latest creation is GigaDial, which he describes as follows:

GigaDial.net is a new approach to radio programming. You can use it to create and subscribe to podcast-powered stations composed of individual episodes from your favorite podcasters.

It’s … Continue reading 

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Blogging in Prime Time

From Michael Gartenberg:

Last night blogging hit this weeks episode of the West Wing. This is the first time I know of where weblogs played part in the storyline of a TV show. It was interesting how the weblogs were portrayed.

I … Continue reading 

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Audion retired & Behind the Software

Audion 3, an extremely versatile Mac audio player/recorder/encoder from Panic was retired today and is being made available for download free of charge. Make sure to read the true story of audion, the story behind the story. These guys not … Continue reading 

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G5 only versions of Firefox

Unofficial builds of Firefox tweaked for better speed for specific processors. Users report Firefox is much snappier when built specifically for a G5 or G4 as compared to the release version built for G3+ class machines.

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Managing time

BurnoutMenu 2.0 looks like an interesting productivity application for managing to dos and tasks, it integrates with iCal and your iPod too.

TaskTime3 seems to be a useful $15 app for project timing and billing…

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The RSS Enclosure Exposure

Sean Michael Kerner writes about RSS enclosures in The RSS Enclosure Exposure for internetnews.com.

The RSS syndication format has spread like wildfire through the Internet, permeating most news sites and virtually all blogs. Now there’s a new aspect of RSS ready … Continue reading 

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