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  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 Bloglines in 2005. In his post, Mark...

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  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 had with Bloglines Chief Mark Fletcher. Eric wrote:"The...

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  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 Internet Explorer's huge lead. But...

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  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 were a couple of extracts in the...

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  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 list them here along with some brief...

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  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 came to the notice of...

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  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 weblog, Read/Write Web,...

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  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 preview of Mobdex near the end of...

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  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. Suck, Feed, Netly News, Smug, Stating the Obvious,...

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  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. The cut-up technique...

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  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 the most-visited...

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  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, comparing it to Google PageRank:"Unlike Google's PageRank system, LinkRanks...

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  Schwartz on Network Services

  Listened to the latest Gillmor Gang Show, with Jonathan Schwartz as guest. Sun's Schwartz is one very smart cookie and a very effective speaker. The following quote in particular stood...

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  First eBook Purchase

  A couple of weeks ago I was bitching that none of my favourite authors had their most recent books available in eBook format. Well as luck would have it, Tom...

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  Combined Subscriber Stats for Aliased RSS Feeds

  This is a copy of a suggestion I've just sent to Bloglines Support. It was inspired by a Feedburner Forums thread I started a few days ago, regarding whether Feedburner...

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  Branding Microcontent

  Well here I am blogging in my pyjamas. Not literally, but metaphorically. Chillin'. Taking stock. Thinking about goals for next year. I've also been thinking about my Design for Data...

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  Blog Aid Successful

  To wrap up what has been a busy week, yesterday I finally got some momentum going in the blogosphere with the O'Reilly interview. Thanks to Jason Kottke, Robert Scoble, Phil...

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  Tim O’Reilly Interview, Part 3: eBooks & Remix Culture

  In this final instalment of my interview with Tim O'Reilly (see also: Part 1 & Part 2), we discuss eBooks, social networking, collaboration and Remix culture. This is probably my...

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  Summary of Bill Ives’ KM Storytelling Posts

  I recently did a dump of content from my PDA to my linkblog - things I'd been reading offline and not yet recorded in my 'Ideas Database' (aka my linkblog)....

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  Tim O’Reilly Interview, Part 2: Business Models & RSS

  This is the second in a 3-part interview with O'Reilly Media CEO, Tim O'Reilly. In part 2, we discuss business models for Web 2.0 and the future of RSS.Business Models...