Humor Top Ten Signs You Spend Too Much Time Thinking About Web 2.0 In the tradition of David Letterman, I've come up with my own topic-focused Top Ten list. Top ten signs you spend too much time thinking about Web 2.0: 10. When arranging to meet with your friends in town, you suggest a "point of presence" instead of a meeting place. 9. Your child asks you for a raise in pocket money and you tell him to… Richard MacManus View comments
Blogging MSN: Bloggers Wanted MediaPost reports that Microsoft's MSN portal is advertising for bloggers. At first glance, this is right up my street. I've been trying to get an ongoing and secure 20 hour/week writing gig for months, with no success - i.e. I'm still at my day job! So my first thought was: is this potentially my breakthrough gig that will enable me to go… Richard MacManus View comments
RSS & Feeds Microsoft about to make a move in RSS-land I have a feeling this is going to be hugely significant. Dave Winer wrote today: "On Friday you'll see how deeply integrated RSS is in the architecture of the browser. But that's just the tip of what may turn out to be a very big iceberg. The people at Microsoft noticed something that I had seen, only peripherally -- that there were applications… Richard MacManus View comments
Blogging How to make money by making your content illegible Apparently tiny font size means more Adsense revenues. Sad... and how the heck this promotes "greater Reader participation" is beyond me, unless by that they mean squinting to read the blog's content and shading one's eyes to avoid the glare of the ads. [via] Richard MacManus View comments
web More on AOL portal - promising talk of RSS and topic-focused content More news is filtering through about AOL's re-design. AOL is probably second behind Yahoo in terms of the number of users it has, although it's far behind Yahoo in terms of marketing itself as a media company. If you look at AOL.com's homepage right now, for example, you'll see it still largely promotes itself as an ISP (Internet Service Provider… Richard MacManus View comments