Archive for the 'blogosphere' Category

Technorati Tags

Saturday, December 31st, 2005

I’ve added a wordpress plugin for Technorati tags. Technorati organizes and keeps track of what’s being said around the web. By clicking a Technorati tag, you’ll see a page full of related content.
Technorati Tags: Technorati, blog, blogosphere, tags, tagging

U of M offers Podcasts

Friday, September 30th, 2005

The University of Michigan has become the only professional school in the country to offer Podcasts of their material to students. In a pilot project with Apple Computers, the U of M School of Dentistry plans to offer certain materials to registered practitioners in continuing dental education courses. Unfortunately, students must use a [...]

State of the Blogosphere - Part 2: Posting Volume

Thursday, August 4th, 2005

Technorati has a nice graph showing various memes throughout the blogosphere. At the end of July, there were about 900,000 posts created each day. That’s about 37,500 posts every hour, or 10.4 posts per second. It peaked at just over 1.1 Million posts per day. Posting volume has more than doubled in [...]

Odeo - Discover, Create, and Subscribe to Podcasts

Friday, July 22nd, 2005

“Discover, Create, and Subscribe to original audio content for your iPod or MP3 player”. Odeo is a podcast directory of sorts. It allows content creators to easily add their podcasts and tag them (similar to del.icio.us). The site offers one-click subscription which is great! No more searching for RSS feads, XML, [...]

c|net does “tag clouds”

Friday, July 1st, 2005

Tag clouds are all the rage these days… The website TagCloud.com is dedicated to the phenomenon. I first saw the concept at Flickr. Del.icio.us and Technorati also uses the technique, and now even c|net is getting into the game. I can’t figure out if tag clouds are just a fad or [...]

Microsoft, RSS, and Ethics

Thursday, June 30th, 2005

Nick Finick has “had a few discussions with Robert Scoble, Nick Bradbury, Jeremy Wright, Tristan Louis, Andru Edwards and others about the announcement of the [Microsoft] RSS Extension”:
What Microsoft is doing is pretty much inevitable. RSS is big game today and Microsoft needs to be a part of that for survival. I do not [...]

Inside Personal Tech

Monday, June 20th, 2005

The Detroit Free Press, Philadelphia Inquirer, San Jose Mercury News, St. Paul Pioneer Press and the Miami Herald recently started their own tech podcast called “Inside Personal Tech”. Check it out!
Inside Personal Tech HomepagePodcast (RSS)

Wall Street Journal Still In the Dark About Blogs: “Measuring Blog Impact”

Thursday, May 26th, 2005

Vaspers the Grate: Wall Street Journal Still In the Dark About Blogs: “Measuring Blog Impact”
Steven Streight provides a nice rebuttal to a Wall Street Journal article which downplays the importance of blogs. Interesting read.
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NewsGator Buys FeedDemon

Tuesday, May 17th, 2005

NewsGator - Business
FeedDemon has purchased Bradbury Software, the makers of my favorite RSS Aggregator FeedDemon. What does it all mean? Here’s the gist of it.

FeedDemon will integrate more tightly with the NewsGator online service. Users will be able to maintain the state of their feeds (what’s unread/read/deleted, etc.) across multiple PCs!
FeedDemon customers [...]

Pubsub: 10,000,000 blogs and counting…

Sunday, May 15th, 2005

Pubsub, a great blog monitoring site just surpassed the 10 million mark with over 54% considered active. Is blogging just a fad? Robert Scoble doesn’t think so.
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