Best Web 2.0 Companies of 2004
In 2005 I'll be sharpening my blog's focus some more, onto the topic of Web 2.0. I'll explore what Web 2.0 means in detail in later posts…
Thu, 30 December 2004
Wed, 29 December 2004
MT 3.14 Upgrade
Technical note: I've upgraded to Movable Type 3.14, at the request of my web host. They won't host old MT blogs anymore, because it…
Wed, 22 December 2004
Contextual Ads and Creative Commons
Still on the topic of business models for RSS Aggregators, Charles Coxhead asked a very interesting question in the comments to my…
Mark Fletcher: Boing Boing, Bloglines and Google
Mark Fletcher, CEO of Bloglines, wrote up a detailed response to my two recent posts: RSS Reader Market Share and Contextual Adverts in…
Tue, 21 December 2004
Contextual Adverts in Bloglines in 2005
Fascinating post by Jupiter Research analyst Eric Peterson, which outlines the Bloglines business model for 2005 - courtesy of a chat Eric…
Mon, 20 December 2004
RSS Reader Market Share
There's always a lot of talk about market share for web browsers, which is picking up again now that Firefox is starting to eat into…
Sun, 19 December 2004
Bob Dylan Chronicles and Blogging for the thing's sake
It's probably pushing it to equate Bob Dylan's career as an incredibly successful musician, with my nascent career as a Blogger. But there…
Wed, 15 December 2004
2005 Predictions (and some personal news)
Jupiter Research analyst Michael Gartenberg has some predictions for 2005. The first 4 are of great interest to me, so I thought I'd…
Tue, 14 December 2004
Technorati Issue Solved
Thanks to a link from Robert Scoble (who is always looking out for his readers, bless him), my issue with Technorati not indexing my blog…
Sun, 12 December 2004
What's wrong with Technorati?
What, my links not good enough for you Technorati? ;-) I say that with a wink, but to be honest I'm pissed off with Technorati. My main…
eBooks on Mobile Phones
Russell Beattie's just released a service called Mobdex, which serves up eBooks onto mobile phones. I had the pleasure of getting a sneak…
Fri, 10 December 2004
Weblog Reading And Writing: Always Unfinished?
Jason Kottke on web magazines: "Before weblogs ruled the realm, a typical way to publish content online was in a Web magazine format…
Thu, 9 December 2004
Cut-ups of my Top 10 posts of 2004
Back in the early 90's I used to read William S. Burroughs books and for a while I was quite taken with his "cut-up" method of writing…
Tue, 7 December 2004
Top 24 of 2004
There's a nice meme just started, asking people to list their Top 24 posts of 2004 (via). I decided to check out my web stats and dig out…
Wed, 1 December 2004
PubSub LinkRank
I came across PubSub's LinkRank feature for the first time today. It's an interesting new measurement... Here is the official blurb…
