Blogosphere

In a first-of-its-kind study, UC Irvine researchers have provided new insight into blog readers’ online habits and experiences, as well as how they perceive their roles in blog-based communities.
The research, led by Eric Baumer, doctoral candidate at UCI’s Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences; Mark Sueyoshi, international studies and East Asian cultures undergraduate [...]

I’m still amazed at this situation. Edelman PR, one of the premier public relations agencies in the world and a company that not only hired sharp blogger Steve Rubel but prides itself on really understanding the new world of Web 2.0 and the blogosphere, screwed up royally, and no-one seems to be particularly upset.
The situation: [...]

As bloggers and blogging have raised visibility in the media landscape, and as us bloggers have become thought and opinion leaders, to a greater or lesser extent, it should be no surprise that we’re smack-dab in the middle of the radar screen for Public Relations firms and individual companies seeking to gain “buzz” or visibility [...]

There’s a school of thought in the blogosphere that suggests once a Weblog article is written and published for the world to see, it’s done, cast in stone, and never to be touched or modified again. You can produce more recent updates or corrections, but there’s a sense that the “historical archive” is more important [...]

I’m always on the lookout for stories about bloggers who get into trouble with official government agencies, because I think that the freewheeling and fairly tolerant blogging community is one that’s hard to understand when you’re a government official. It’s kind of like “command and control” meets “out of control”.
When we add MySpace to the [...]

I’ve spent a few weeks thinking about Chris Anderson’s The Long Tail, the premise of his popular new book and his suggested implications for business in the future. Finally, a few days ago I read Lee Gomes’ terrific column in the Wall Street Journal where he debunks some of Anderson’s statistical analysis, which really helped [...]

Maybe it’s just that I’m a huge fan of the World Cup and have been known in the past to shut down my business during the last few games of what is easily the most popular sporting event in the world, but I am appalled by the sophomoric response of the Boing Boing team to [...]

After two weeks soaking up the Hawaiian sun on holiday, it was pretty hard for me to remember the Internet, let alone worry about blogging, but once you start focusing on business communications, it’s impossible to completely let go.
As a result, when we started hearing so much about the international Merrie Monarch hula [...]

“It’s just like your own custom newspaper, where you get to pick your favorite wire services!”
That’s what I’ve heard about RSS for years now, and while I have become a big fan of RSS and the many things it lets you do (like Pirillo’s spiffo gada.be service), I have to say that I’m becoming more [...]

You’re telling me that a country run by crazed, overzealous theocrats would be loathe to let people have opinions that may vary from its “official” doctrines and act to put a stop to them? I’m glad I live in a place where church and state are (mostly) separate (at the time of this writing, anyway). [...]

I am having a bit of a ramble around the demise of mass media, why it happened in the first place and how our digital world is impacting on what we consume and how.
So I came across an interesting book by Lizabeth Cohen - Mumford Jones Professor of American Studies, Dept. History Harvard [...]

Paul Gillin of “BtoB Magazine” is earnestly seeking non-tech company bloggers who are using weblogs for market research, specifically to collect research about customers and markets for an upcoming column. I know that there are companies whose blogs serve as market research - indeed, don’t just about all of these weblogs end up being customer [...]

This is one of those great “some companies really ‘get it’” stories, the kind of thing I love to hear about as someone riding the very tip of the technology rocketship (think Slim Pickens in Dr. Strangelove and you’ll have my mental image exactly). Prentice-Hall Business Publishers have the same challenges that any company today [...]

We are drowning in a sea of information.
It’s a growing torrent that no single person can possibly drink.
In the book, Amusing Ourselves to Death, Neil Postman identifies a turning point in the history of mass communication, the invention of the telegraph. Prior to the telegraph, most of the information people took in was [...]

Kent Bye is the author of a unique film documentary in progress that may become a future model for grassroots citizen journalism while showing how to invest filmmaking skills and ideas in a production that has some real informative values and developing the first Web-based collaborative video editing approach to build Open Source movies and [...]

Up among the A-list top ten of international independent bloggers, there is a new name. A name that, if you are not from Italy, you may have never heard before: Beppe Grillo. Presently at position ten on the Technorati Top 100, Beppe Grillo’s blog is fast moving up the ranks and, at the speed it [...]

Michael Santo of RealTechNews writes
Whoa! If this is true, it’s really bad news for many sites, including ours. It seems the IE7 Beta breaks Adsense. The ads just don’t show up, according to the Inside Google blog.
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I admit it, most bloggers seem to really like the blogosphere tracking site Memeorandum, but don’t count me as one of that group. I admit that the concept is interesting, in the same way that Google offers interesting results based upon its academic reference citation model, but there are some fundamental problems with any site [...]

The big discussion right now in the blog space is whether the recent comments from Yahoo’s Chief Financial Officer Susan Decker mean that Yahoo has “given up” on the search space and “conceded” it to Google. The problem is, I think everyone’s misinterpreting what Decker said because they’re all succumbing to the “win or die” [...]

It’s a question I hear with some frequency; how can you add an RSS feed to the pages of your own web site, home page or weblog? Many of the solutions are pretty complex, but it turns out that Newsgator Online - a free RSS aggregator and tools service - makes it incredibly easy [...]