Blogging Beyond Text Bob Wyman of PubSub has just written a killer post on the future of blogging (or one of them...). An excerpt: "What Kedrosky is speaking of is what we at PubSub have been referring to as "Structured Blogging" and may be what Mark Fletcher of Bloglines/AskJeeves has listed as "Functional Blogging" in presentations he's recently given. The basic… Richard MacManus View comments
Weekly Wrap-ups Web 2.0 Weekly Wrap-up, 21-27 Feb 2005 This week: AP's RSS feeds, Enterprise RSS developments (Newsgator, Nooked), professional bloggers (Kottke, Darren Rowse), Odeo (podcasting), Ajax. p.s. headers in honour of the Oscars. Best Use of RSS Feeds by a News Collective And the winner is: Associated Press! ...um, or Reuters. Because they both have RSS feeds. Hmm, seems the… Richard MacManus View comments
web Serious 'Journey to the (Revolutionary, Evil-Hating, Cash-Crazy, and Possibly Self-Destructive) Center of Google'. That must go down as the silliest title for a tech article this year, nevertheless GQ's profile of Google was an interesting read. After that I happened to browse around the GQ website and saw an interview with Russell Crowe. He was named by… Richard MacManus View comments
Design Blog Branding: About.com and Kottke First, some context... Jay Rosen, in the "after matter" of his article on the New York Times purchase of About.com, posts an email response from Jakob Nielsen. Nielsen said: "The real secret of About.com is that they have figured out a way to get 500 domain experts to work for peanuts, in return for the exalted status as "guides." But… Richard MacManus View comments
Business Call For Non-Techie Web 2.0 Stories One of my readers Taewoo Danny Kim recently compared Web 2.0 to the Semantic Web and I think he hit on an important point. He wrote in an email that Web 2.0 and the Semantic Web are... "...basically moving towards the same thing (web as platform) from two different directions: web 2.0 more from the business side and the Semantic Web more from… Richard MacManus View comments