What is bigger than a…

What is bigger than a blog?. Mike Wilson rants from his pulpit at The Universal Church of Cosmic Uncertainty. The sermon: 24 things he wants from his blog desktop. He wants it to be a fat client so he gets local storage, integration with other desktop apps and voice mail, tickers. A few quotes: 4. To use a blog ……

Auto-content [1]. Why does this…

Auto-content. Why does this cite-link-quote (“hit-and-run”) style of weblogging need to be a manual process at all? Why can’t I just click an “auto-content” button and have my software automatically generate a list of, say, a dozen interesting links and quotes culled from my aggregator subscriptions, “neighboring” sites, sites discussing the hot topics of the day, and mainstream articles reporting…

[ClickZ] What Price Content? [1]….

[ClickZ] What Price Content?. “The result when the difference between the sellers’ and the buyers’ prices is too vast? A malfunctioning market. Like the online periodical market targeting consumers. Like their music industry counterparts, periodical publishers view the Web as both cannibal and kitchen. Publishers worry placing content online will cannibalize their print sales, yet hope to use the Web…

Lynch Moblogs [1]. Someone who…

Lynch Moblogs. Someone who prefers to remain nameless points out that Business 2.0 has now caught onto the whole “mobile blogging” bandwagon (anyone else think it’s sad that “moblogging” has caught on as the name for this)? Unlike other articles on the subject that seem to just say “gee, look at that”, this article points out just a hint of…

Another viewpoint…

Another viewpoint… Office Surfers May Face Wipeout. Companies that create software products that block people from surfing the internet from work have always been good at getting press coverage. The part that amazes me (though, I guess it shouldn’t) is that the press seems to buy what they say without any critical thought. This next article could have been entirely…