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  Don’t all link to me at once…

  In a recent post I floated the theory that Content Creators need Media Companies to help them attract mass eyeballs to read their carefully-crafted content. It would be a symbiotic...

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  Tim O’Reilly Interview, Part 1: Web 2.0

  Welcome to the second in my series of Web 2.0 interviews, in which I interview people in the Web community who are building or shaping Web 2.0 - i.e. the...

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  On Influence – Media Interest in Blogs

  Summary: Let bloggers focus on getting the content right. Delivering that content to a large readership is another business altogether and one which media companies are best suited to provide.My...

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  Gettin’ Paid: A Future for Content Creators?

  UPDATE 12/11/04: An interesting conversation has developed in the comments to this post, spurred on by Phil Jones who disagreed with my position. Joshua, Liam and Matt Scofield also contributed...

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  Living Data & The Momentum of Webfeeds

  I'm exploring the Design for Data thread and later in this post I'm going to get arty on ya'll. I think tomorrow I'll begin to investigate Atomflow, but for now...

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  Design for Data III

  Oh boy, this gets better... check out this extract from the latest issue of Fortune magazine (hat-tip Susan Mernit):"The latest version of MyYahoo! allows its users to create custom home...

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  Design for Data II

  Quick follow-up on my post from last night. Over the past week James Enck has been writing a series of posts about 'analyst blogging'. Ross Mayfield called it a "blog-based...

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  Design for Data: Thoughts

  Nearly a month ago I left a comment on Jason Kottke's weblog, in response to a post about his upcoming Web 2.0 conference workshop called Design for Web 2.0. He...

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  US Elections – Global Mind

  My fellow bloggers: like a lot of you, I'm disappointed that Kerry lost. FWIW here are some quick thoughts from a non-US citizen:- I watched the coverage on CNN and...

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  How to build a Web 2.0 company

  Jeremy Zawodny has written a terrific post about what makes a successful Web 2.0 company. It all comes down to ubiquity, according to Jeremy. The themes he covers dovetails with...

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  Asymmetrical Analytics

  Interesting line of thought inspired by Ross Mayfield's post Blog-based Research Model, where he talks about research services shifting "from the end analysis product (.pdf) to the open process of...

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  The Larry King of Blog Interviews?

  Nothing like a Slashdotting to bring out the warm fuzzies. Marc and Lucas both have nice things to say about my interviewing style:Marc: "The process is fascinating - an interview...

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  Joel’s Best Software Essays of 2004

  UPDATE 6/11/04: I decided to nominate The Fractal Blogosphere and Evolution of Corporate Web Sites for the Best Software Essays of 2004 book that Joel Spolsky is editing. If you...

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  Interview with Lucas Gonze of Webjay

  Welcome to the first in a very special series of Web 2.0 interviews I'm conducting on Read/Write Web. My goal is to interview at least half a dozen people in...

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  Us and Them

  This is about as political as I'll get here on Read/Write Web, but I couldn't resist posting this cartoon by fellow kiwi Tom Scott. It also reminds me of the...

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  Web 2.0 book idea update / Moneyball review

  This post doubles as an update of my writing goals and a short review of Michael Lewis' book Moneyball. First, my goals. Lately on Read/Write Web, I've been exploring options...

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  Top Ten Blog Post Titles I Want To Use

  It's Friday afternoon where I live, so time for a less serious post. There's an art to creating good weblog post titles and most of the time I craft my...

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  Blogging as Marketplace and Ecology

  Jason Kottke wrote today that the blogging revolution will be commercialized. He said that "out of Technorati's top 100 most-linked weblogs, only 16 don't feature advertising or are otherwise noncommercial."...

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  Feedburner and Blog-Centered Stats

  As a follow-up to my previous post, I decided to take the plunge and sign up with Feedburner (hat tip to Cristian!). Feedburner is a third-party service that generates an...

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  Bloglines Subscriber Stats Redux

  Remember my post 3 months ago that analysed Bloglines subscriber stats? Well I thought I'd review the numbers. You can blame Seb Paquet for this ;-) Why? Because he's just...