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  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...

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  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...

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  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...

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  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...

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  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...

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  Web 2.0 Weekly Wrap-up, 14-20 Feb 2005

  A look back at the week that was in the world of Web 2.0. This week: Google's AutoLinks feature, IE7, NY Times buys About.com, more Big Media blogging coverage, Bloglines...

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  5 Book Reviews

  It's been a while since I've published a book review on R/WW, so I'm going to briefly review 5 books that I've read during the past few months. Four of...

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  What Is The Data Matrix? Machines and Humans Coexist

  Andrew Nachison from The Media Centre raises some interesting issues regarding RSS content aggregation. He boils it down to these 3 questions:1. Machines vs. humans? [in regards to aggregation]I agree...

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  Weblog Authoring Tools Market Share

  Elise Bauer has posted a comprehensive analysis of Weblog Authoring Tools market share. As with RSS Aggregator market share stats, there are a lot of caveats. But much can be...

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  Web 2.0 Weekly Wrap-up, 7-13 Feb 2005

  What's been happening in the world of "Web two dot oh" (as Jeff Bezos pronounces it) this week? Let's find out.Bloglines Sale (my last comment on it, I promise)The Bloglines...

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  Aggregation Advertising Aggravation

  Try saying that three times fast! Jupiter Research analyst Eric Peterson recently had another chat with Bloglines CEO Mark Fletcher. The resulting post from Eric pretty much confirms my theory...

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  Oliver Stone Turning My Blog Into A Movie?

  Andrew Watson suggests that my post about Bloglines being scared off its advertising strategy would make a great Oliver Stone movie :-) Heh, I won't sell my screenplay to Stone...

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  Blogging 2.0

  You may be getting sick of '2.0' being stuck onto the end of everything, but I can't resist pointing to this excellent post by VC Fred Wilson. He characterises the...

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  Bloglines Was Scared Off Advertising Strategy

  Provocative post by Jason Calacanis on the Bloglines sale. He says it's "a horrible business and it will never make money." The reason? He reckons "95-99% of the RSS reader...

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  How To Subscribe To Topic Or Tag RSS feeds

  Last week I wrote about topic/tag/remix feeds. I think these may in future become more popular than people feeds. So to follow that up, here are some practical tips on...

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  Web 2.0 Weekly Wrap-up, 30 Jan-6 Feb 2005

  Here's my summary of what went on in the Web 2.0 world this past week. Headlines inspired by tabloid newspapers.Bloglines Shocker! Butler Buys Master of the Blog Universe!The big news...

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  Bloglines acquired by Ask Jeeves?

  Mary Hodder has the scoop, which if true is huge news in the Web 2.0 world. Also quite eerie given what I wrote yesterday! Here's what Mary blogged:"Ask Jeeves Buys...

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  Flickr CEO talks about Google threat

  Richard Koman over at SiliconValleyWatcher gets the scoop from Flickr CEO Stewart Butterfield, on whether Google will replicate Flickr's photo-sharing service (as suggested by Om Malik). Stewart is quoted as...

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  PaperBlogs

  Anybody with an interest in the publishing industry will be familiar with the dream of Print On Demand, whereby you order a book from a kiosk or similar service and...

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  Finding Gatherers (human tag feeds?)

  Alf Eaton has come up with a neat little de.icio.us hack. It lists out the "speediest gatherers" for your del.icio.us page (last 100 items), based on the posting date of...