Rygtet bekræftes
Six Apart køber LiveJournal. Brad Fitzpatrick gør i sandhed, hvad han kan for at imødegå de bekymringer, der har huseret blandt LJ'erne de sidste dage. Mens bekymringerne rettede sig mod kulturen, er forsvaret rettet mod trust. En eksemplarisk case om to af nettets store buzzword.
NB. den enorme diskussion, Brad Fitzpatrick' annnouncement affødte på sitet!

Mena (Six Apart) har også i Mena's Corner et langt indlæg om handlen. Hun omtaler eksplicit hierarkiet og fordommene bloggerne imellem, men hun har jo også erfaring med, hvilke konflikter, der hurtigt kan hvirvles op i det miljø...... (Mena's Shocking Baby Scandal! I, II)

Også Mena ved præcis, hvad Branding and Affiliation is all about in the times of Risk Society: Earning Your Trust
"Change is scary and we can certainly expect LiveJournalers to worry about what this acquisition means for them. While we certainly can't just say "trust us" and gain all 5.6 million users' trust from day one..."

[day in the life] gør sig nogle interessante overvejelser over det billede medierne (læs journalister) giver af bloggere, og slutter med:
"I'd love to do a content analysis of major mass media outlet coverage of blogs and bloggers over the past couple of years - what is the non-blogging public hearing about blogs?"
Hvem kommer først? :)

Fairvue Central >> Bloggies >> Fifth Annual Weblog Awards

Bloggerne fusionere. The 'Tribes' protesterer.
Rygterne fortæller at Six Apart er i færd med at købe Live Journal:
Om Malik on Broadband - Six Apart to buy Live Journal
apophenia er ikke begejstret og begrundelsen er ret interessant:

"Live Journal is a culture, not simply a product or commodity that can be bought. From an outsider's perspective, it might appear as though they are similar properties - they are both blogging tools, right? Wrong. [......] Movable Type is a product; LiveJournal is a community. Six Apart is seen as a community that provides tools, not culture. [.....]While many bloggers love to talk about LJ with disdain, as a low-brow version of the culture, i adore LJ from the bottom of my heart and i'm truly concerned that LJ's culture will be corrupted by an acquisition. It is not like any other blogging service and the needs that it serves are fundamentally different."

Om LJ, se.....

BBC NEWS | Technology | Blog reading explodes in America

Americans are becoming avid blog readers, with 32 million getting hooked in 2004, according to new research.

The survey, conducted by the Pew Internet and American Life Project, showed that blog readership has shot up by 58% in the last year.

Endnu en interessant rapport fra Pew Internet/American Life Project!

Computerworld Online - Danske internet-junkier kan afvænnes

Tja.... har man mistet formuen på dot.com krisen, kan man måske hente dem hjem igen på terapi.com karusellen ;)

Pew Internet & American Life Project: Blogosphere

Many-to-Many: A Really Simple Chat, v3.0b: Back Channels 'R' It

Måske skulle jeg se at få skiftet min sørgelige chat ud........

Blogs: powerful people, or people power?

Social bookmarking - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
se også artiklen om metadata: Folksonomies - Cooperative Classification and Communication Through Shared Metadata samt
Delicious (social bookmarks manager)
Flickr (photo management and sharing web application)

Og debatten om Metadata, der udvikler sig i Blogospheren:
Flickr and "folksonomies"
Mob indexing? Folk categorization? Social tagging?

Mere om Wikipedia på Many 2 Many, January 04, 2005:
Reagle on the Wikipedia (posted by Clay Shirky) og Academia and Wikipedia (posted by danah boyd) og January 05, 2005 samme sted.

Internet use cutting into TV viewing and socializing | CNET News.com
Ny Internet undersøgelse i USA.
New York Times On the Web skriver
Selve undersøgelsen ligger på SIQSS

TIME Person of the Year 2004: 10 Things We Learned About Blogs

Blogging er i sandhed blevet et begreb: www.freewayblogger.com.
se også bloggen af 'Scarlet Pimpernel', motovejsaktivist og blogger:
FreewayBlogger Weblog

CorporateBloggingBlog: Free Corporate Blogging Primer: "CorporateBloggingBlog"
indeholder mange interessante link (se f.eks. Clippings) - via den kom jeg f.eks. til Blogwise

Børnetegninger af blogs: Blogging

Daypop Top 40 Links: "What are the hot topics in the weblogging community today?
The Daypop Top 40 is a list of links that are currently popular with webloggers from around the world. Check out the Daypop Top News Stories for the top news articles of the day. The Daypop Top Word Bursts is an indicator of current events of interest that are not usually accompanied by links. If you want to follow the conversations happening specifically in the blogging world, the Daypop Top Posts page is your best bet. If you want to know what the buzz was last year, check out the Daypop Archives."

Bloggers: Nobodies with laptops - karakteristik af den moderne forbruger?
Why There's No Escaping the Blog
Freewheeling bloggers can boost your product—or destroy it. Either way, they've become a force business can't afford to ignore.

"According to blog search-engine and measurement firm Technorati, 23,000 new weblogs are created every day—or about one every three seconds."
Til sammenligning blev der i 2003 solgt 3 Barbiedukker hvert sekund :)

Reklamer og 'the blogging ecosystem'
Se f.eks. Intelliseek Marketing BlogPulse og blogwebinar og

Manolo blogger med Blogger!
Special treat til den moderne forbruger (og fans af 'Sex and the City'): i tilfælde af mangel på en P(ersonal)S(hopper), så læs Manolo's shopping råd, Manolo's Shoe Blog eller "Talk to Manolo": manoloshoes@hotmail.com.
"Manolo says, the Manolo and his readers they are indeed the setters of the fashion trends." - "Manolo says, the fashion mania for the poncho, it is now over." Uundværlig viden i my home town, hvis strikkebutikker alle lige nu er ramt af ponchoen ;), så jeg har selvfølgelig straks e-mailet Manolo og bedt ham tilføje en RSS feed til bloggen - Manolo's blog er et must i min 'Bloglines' :)

incorporated subversion - The Edublog Awards 2004 Results

Blogarama - The Blog Directory - Blogs and Blog Resources!

En gruppe indere har startet en community blog om jordskælvet i sydøstasien:
The South-East Asia Earthquake and Tsunami
se også:
Conversations with Dina og Wikipedia.
‘Blogs' give first-person accounts of disaster