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Yesterday I posed the question "is knowledge gained through social networks decreasing the number of web searches?"  Are people no...

I finally got a round to reading Wikinomics . It was a best seller for months and widely discussed, and I thought it would be a valuable rea...

Google launched a new site to follow the 2007 Australian Federal Election , reports TechCrunch. It allows users to track news for specific ...

Doc Searls has a new blog covering his efforts in VRM ... check it out .

Laurence Hooper, a very talented director of products who was at AOL, is blogging. As customary for bloggers, he takes a stab a defining We...

To me, there is no other issue as important as global warming. While terrorism, education and healthcare loom, nothing is as important to h...

Since I obviously haven't kept my word at staying at this regularly, I started a Tumblelog here . I still plan on getting this blog goi...

It's been far too long since I've posted on this blog. I took a deliberate break over a year and a half ago because of a number of ...

One of the things missing here is an influence measure. Prediction: ComScore buys Inteliseek by end of year (perhaps Technorati, but that ...

Jason Kottke points to this hysterical posting on Flickr about the "World's Largest Computer Virus" in the USAToday. From...

Business 2.o recently gave a snapshot of Raytheon CEO Bill Swanson's Unwritten Rules of Management. Gadgetguy.de has a more complete l...

Noah Glass and Evan Williams (co-founder of Blogger) new project Odeo has launched in Beta . I haven't played around with it yet, but i...

Searching for an article I read a while ago referencing Ogilvy's " I do not regard advertising as entertainment or an art form, but...

Burried in John Battelle's weekly recap is this gem: CraigsList/GoogleMaps mashup .

Steven Johnson has a thought provoking post on how he a pproaches writing books versus how he approaches blogging (hat tip: Kottke ): What...

These large storage free email accounts are making me increasingly lazy. What happens when I hit 99%? Delete all my emails? hmmmmm

more for me, but the communications school from back at Ithaca College has started a blog to interact with the outside world. They're ...

.... was the name of a blow-off class that turned somewhat interesting when I was a senior in college. Anyways .... A friend of mine passe...

Pigskin bloggers , for all your Super Bowl blogging needs.

Kelsey Group launches a blog to cover local media with all of their analysts as contributors.

Since the introduction of Tags by Technorati , there has been much buzz about this new application and the step it takes towards the Semanti...

which is part of what Doc Searls argues in comments on a post by copywriting extraordinare Bob Bly on what he feels is the ineffectiveness o...

Dan Gilmor posts a working document stating that the need for objectivity in jounrnalsim is antiquated . He makes the case for four tenets ...

Jason Kottke points to a Slate feature this week that has The Wisdom of Crowds ' James Surowiecki and Tipping Point and Blink 's M...

This one came through my referrers and is from Google Answers. A writer wants to know the history of blogging from "everyday" blog...

Kevin Spacey is playing Lex Luther in the upcoming Superman remake ... now that's pretty cool.

Expect this phrase to pop up quite a bit in 2005. Joshua Wood has created a blog dedicated to the subject. In his 2nd post he examines Go...

Merry Christmas !

I usually don't like to do predictions because, as an optimist, they end up being just a wish list. But finally some things on my wish l...

Lisa Stone traces the origins of spin and the history of how journalists have dealt with it . A long, but good read. The bottom gets really ...

Scientific Linguist Scott Kiesling is publishing a scholarly paper on the origins of "dude." Historically, dude originally meant...

ahh ... I love a good fight in the courts against censorship .... Fox is the latest challenging the FCC's authority over fining "in...

mean to link to this earlier .... the value of the long tail .

Blogads weblog : "Isn't disaggregation -- not just of content but of bodies -- the trend?" (Henry Copeland's response to ...

.... claims to have the world's largest blog index. Technorati probably still holds that title (as David Weinberger points out ). But...

Welcome to the new world of branding, Sony . This is what your overzealous legal team is doing to your brand. And This doesn't help ...

Lots of good stuff out there today and no time to comment on all of them so I will just link: Jeff Jarvis challenges broadcasters to figh...

This piece by Halley Suitt on the Alpha Female Blogger has something to do with my last post . Still formalizing what that it is. But read ...

The Literature Network posts an essay by George Orwell in which he gives a look into why he and others write. There is an element of truth...

Kevin Sites, who was responsible for video taping a marine firing on an unarmed Iraqi insurgent, tells the full story on his blog . He...