Two kings of blogging meet; what more can I say?
Robert Scoble and Mr Brown:
Thanks to Jeremiah for the heads up!
[This embed code is really screwing up my standards compliance. No time to fix it, can’t be bothered actually. Just won’t embed stuff from this site again.]
Since I can’t sleep, I’ve decided to try upgrading this blog to Movable Type 3.0 (the free version). Lots of funny things may be happening, so please forgive me if you’re unable to post any new comments or search the site. Or if it looks funny. Their new styles don’t look very inspiring!
First we had blogs. Then, blog directories. Then, blog popularity indexes. And then, a blog stock exchange. Now, we have blog sweepstakes. Blogstakes, to be precise. Soon we’ll be taking out blog insurance, and collecting blog miles. Somebody, stop me. How can I win a Blogstakes? If you have a blog (i.e., a Weblog or…
I just discovered that Yahoo allows users to import their favourite RSS feeds (beta), which will be displayed on their personalised homepage alongside the usual news headlines. Cool. In other news, Reuters have just announced they are publishing their headlines into RSS format as well. View the full list here. Not just that – they…
On Friday I was on the blogger perspectives panel at Ogilvy’s Verge conference. Went OK though feedback was we tried to cover too many different topics in a short space of time, thus it was a bit disjointed. I felt I tended to be more anecdotal in explaining a certain trend, compared to the others….
As you may have noticed, the war has taken on a new form: Weblogs. Not American blogs against Iraqi blogs but more collectively, pro-war blogs against anti-war blogs. [ Update: There was a debate between bloggers of both factions which you can read over at Truthlaidbear (pro-war) as well as at Nowarblog (obviously anti-war). Actually…
To those who are curious about upgrading to MT3.0, don’t do it yet. That’s what I think, at least. Apart from optional comment registration through Typekey and a tweaked up, more accessible user interface, there really aren’t any significant changes. Well actually the main thing that’s changed is the platform, but to me (and other…