" On Sunday, I got a visit from BrainMedia, which uses compression-decompression technology to deliver streaming music so compressed that it sounds awesome over a cellphone (as long as you use good earphones)."

I'm looking into streaming at the moment. This sounds very nice

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Other title(s) for this story: Esther Dyson's Release 4.0

All sorts of magazines are hurting right now. The publishing industry isn't healthy. What's my thesis?

The Web is killing publishing.

Think about it. Why would I buy a magazine on Windows development when I can read a weblog like this ... [The Scobleizer Weblog]

Though there's a few that are doing OK too. And some will be linking up with blogs, soon.

 Source: The Scobleizer Weblog; 27/04/03; 9:45:28 pm.
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Other title(s) for this story: Magazines are hurting with little advertising

"Our facilities and services are fantastic, too. They include:

• our private chef who cooks 5 dinners and 3 breakfasts every week
• a TV room with a big screen television, surround sound, and stadium seating
• a game room with pool, foosball, air hockey, and ping-pong
• our own computer cluster with 6 terminals
• a large, newly-remodeled party room"

I followed a link from NTK "first against the wall when Valenti is president" to an about me, I presume it's a speaker at the Emerging Technologies conf. Absolutely staggering when I look back to my degree level education. Beans, beans and bloody lentils. Rest of my money went on booze, and the attempt to get women. It was the young ones.

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"Can you imagine a campsite of bloggers? ...it's hard to imagine that this won't break down into a consensual circle-jerk. Such is the world of blogdom, which relies heavily on its own, synthetic consensus." A list" blogging, looking up each other's arse holes. Been around for a long time. These new netNewsWire " encourge consensus, and clumping. Or, what appears to me to be brown-nosing.

But, there's still plenty of old goat still to come into the blogospere, yet.

Danny O'Brien (and wife) of NTK: "The sizeable British invasion sat around cackling "bollocks" if anyone even for a second tried to pull that Americanocentric ... well, bollocks." and: "From a dazed Esther Dyson, to the feral teenhackers scavenging on the sidelines, you could smell the fear: that they were about to turn up a year late and several hundred dollars short."

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Other title(s) for this story: The Register: Emerging Technology conference, (review?)

"It's important to remember that there's more than one sort of TrackBack..."

Swimming out deep in trackback land.

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"...The internal weblogs I've seen work are those that track an idea's progress from offhand notion to fully matured proposal. I have seen three such blogs, always-on virtual whiteboards that have sped development and kept the status of projects clearer than they'd been before..."

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Other title(s) for this story: Management by Blog?

"...there will be a million weblogs of communities that are very distinct and very strong."

Blogging communities, that's what it's all about.

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"This appears to have been one of the primary motivations of TrackBack"

The new blog readers like netNewsWire are turning the comments and linkage into a Usenet type of conversation, whether that's a good thing? Who cares? Some will, some won't, There's so many blogs out there, some will need it, some won't.

One thing they will be used for -- powerBlogging.

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Other title(s) for this story: Cohesion

Using Radio I can post everywhere, anytime.

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Other title(s) for this story: My blogging environment

"...the delayed Worldwide Developers Conference is expected to see the launch of 64-bit Mac OS X and 64-bit development tools. At this stage we'd put more money on AMD than on the likelihood Motorola can pull a 64-bit G4 out of thin air...

No, the PowerPC 970 remains the chief candidate. And we'd caution against reading too much into the AMD official's comments. But we think it unwise to rule out the possibility of co-operation between Apple and AMD, particularly at the HyperTransport level."

Nice to see the old OS looking to the future.

Apple: WWDC 2003 Get an in-depth look at the future of the Mac platform and a preview release of the next major version of Mac OS X, codenamed "Panther", at Worldwide Developers Conference 2003, June 23-27, in San Francisco.

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"...The purpose of this project: to challenge people's assumptions (both our readers' and our own) about what's really involved in revealing oneself via the blog medium, and to examine our own hang-ups about exposing ourselves on the Web."

And I thought sexblogs was the height of the genre.

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""These organizations are just risk averse," says Joshua Micah Marshall, whose 2-year-old blog TalkingPointsMemo.com is a daily stop for more than 20,000 political junkies. "What good does it do them to have someone they are identified with saying things that they can't control, that by the nature of the medium are going to be provocative?""

I'd have thought that they would have started to understand it by now. The journo refs and praises the BBC Iraqi blog, which is dull as dishwater, I also skip the Guardian's weblog, which is also sterile. The Kevin Sites blog showed promise before it was shut down, but I wouldn't say it was a compelling site, just that there wasn't much out there.

The best Iraqi war blog? It would have to be Where's Rael? still I visit hoping that he's OK. Of course the Agonist was useful though very US biased, and the hiccup over pointing to stratfor was a storm in a tea cup, blogs or war showed promise too but became limited and mechanical with not much in the way of commentary, or thought.

Yahoo's directory lists loads of 'war web logs' as they call warblogs.

I've always liked DEBKAfile, though not a blog, more a news site, but I hang on their every word (with my pinch of salt ";->").

Anyway I digress, why haven't media companies got the handle on blogs? Because they aren't real people! They're androids, scared of their lawyers, and shareholders.

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Nice little resource.

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Other title(s) for this story: Joi Ito's Moblogging, Blogmapping and Moblogmapping related resources as of 3/21/2003 9:00

"Corporate Weblogs aren't exactly sweeping the marketing world, but early adherents say they offer real power to connect with increasingly message-wary and message-weary audiences in a new and engaging way."

The B2B Power of Blogs adds to the story with more links.

I've been saying the same for years. One day everybody will have a blog. One day, every company will have as many blogs as they have employees, more blogs than employees, in fact. Those companies that do will be pushing out all sorts of boring posts as well as fascinating meme inducing posts, about their products and services, and we'll all be interested in those items that rise to the top of the blogosphere.

Of course, it's dangerous for companies to allow employees free reign but essential if they are to make their 'news' interesting enough for you and me to want to read. It's a risk. Sometimes companies will win, sometimes they'll lose. The trick will be in expecting and planning for both. [Via Doc Searl's blog]

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"Mountain View (CA) April 1, 2003 (Routers) - In a move that surprised citizens throughout Blogistan, Google continued its acquisition spree today. Spokesmen for Google confirmed the acquisitions of Seven Together (makers of the popular weblog application Movable Type) and Userland (creator of Radio Userland). Plans are to combine the operations of the two companies into the existing Blogger operation. The combined entity will be known as Movable Bloggerland."

Goodness! What time is it? Hey, this ain't legal here in the UK! Such deals are only allowed before noon.

"Asked whether this was a shot across Microsoft's bow, VP of Microsoft's Platform Group Jim Allnose said "Absolutely not. People are already blogging with Microsoft software. You just download the .NET framework, install some service packs, grab a few things from MSDN, install Sharepoint Team Services, and upgrade everything to Office 2003. Once you do that and upgrade to Windows Server 2003 which ships in the next few weeks, you're ready to go. It's simple, and we think it represents the future of consumer-based blogs.""

Hee Hee!

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"Less of interest here than the IraqFilter context itself - which amounts to the question "Is blogging to Gulf II what TV was to Vietnam and cable was to Gulf I?" - is an established medium caught in the act of visibly sizing up this comer, this new kid on the block, this parvenu we know as "blogging."

Is it a valid new medium of reportage, fit to take its place alongside print and broadcast? Or is it merely parasitic, interstitial, even marginal? Inquiring minds want to know. (Note O'Donnell's hedges and his final & bizarrely misplaced condescension: "Maybe Allbritton will start a trend - bloggers no longer dependent on the mainstream for their material." WTF?)" [And discussed in MetaFilter]

 Source: MetaFilter; 2/04/03; 6:45:12 am.
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Other title(s) for this story: None dare call it blogging. Superseding the mainstream media, or "quirky parasites"?

has begun as stratfor has accused the owner of the agonist of plagiarism of news blurbs. This thread is his response along with comments by his readers. While Sean Paul seems to have done his best at sourcing on the fly, I am curious how my fellow mefiers feel about it. Are short news reports copyright protected? Could legal action truly result? How will this affect future blog projects? [And discussed in MetaFilter]

To steal from one source is plagiarism. To steal from many sources is blogging. Someone had a blog button site with that on once.

 Source: MetaFilter; 2/04/03; 9:45:17 am.
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Other title(s) for this story: Blogtroversy! Trouble in Blogistan!

"...As certain as the sun will rise in the morning, and as bloggers and blog-readers everywhere can attest, media is nothing without criticism and commentary about media."

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Other title(s) for this story: Best Media Blogs

"The five bloggers we've selected here are gleaned from an already short list of famous people who post their personal writings on the Web."

Only five? Mind they said they discounted those that haven't updated in the last month. Great for hardened fans looking for detail.

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Other title(s) for this story: Best Celebrity Blogs

"Tired of WarBlogs? Most blogs are people whining about their life, computers or the war. Not sexblogs. " [MetaFilter]

Well, it had to happen. I was the one who started the original sexBlogs.com nearly 2 years ago. I ditched it because too many were taking out blogs and not paying, traffic was immense and not the right sort, and, well, I got bored of sex, I mean porn. I think there's a burn out period of about 3 months. After that it all starts looking the same, 'seen one lesbo couple, you've seen 'em all.'

 Source: MetaFilter; 1/04/03; 7:45:17 am.
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"Most importantly, at all the companies we studied, the key issues in building a good intranet portal were political and organizational -- not technical. Basically, buying software won't get you a good portal unless you also manage internal company politics."

May as well get somthing very cheap then? Nope, companies feel comforted by spending millions on software.

 Source: Tomalak's Realm; 31/03/03; 8:45:17 pm.
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Other title(s) for this story: Intranet Portals: A Tool Metaphor for Corporate Information

"The average cost for a three-year SAP deployment is $10m, with consulting accounting for $3.6m, personnel soaking up $2.5m, software licenses another $2m, and related hardware and training costs picking up the rest of the tab."

 Source: The Register; 1/04/03; 12:45:49 am.
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Other title(s) for this story: SAP costs too much - customers