Fortune (January 2005) features 10 tech trends to watch in 2005. Trend No.1: Why you can't ignore bloggers: Why There's No Escaping the Blog (via Smart Mobs).
Like It or Not, Blogs Have Legs Wired News.
Ifølge PubSub er der nu 8 mill. blogs

Danmarks Journalishøjskole om Weblogs:
DJH multimedier: Fokus på netjournalistik

Google, msn og Yahoo bekæmper comment spam:
Working Together Against Blog Spam
Yahoo! Search Blog
Mere om commentspam:
SpywareInfo
Wikipedia

Klastrup's Cataclysms forudser at valget vil få blogging til at blomstre i DK.

Et gæt på Yahoo's modtræk til Googles opkøb af Blogger:
The Internet Stock Blog: Yahoo to acquire Six Apart?: "Yahoo to acquire Six Apart?

Six Apart, the owner of hosted blogging service TypePad and publisher of blogging software Movable Type, just acquired LiveJournal. Within six months Six Apart itself will be acquired by Yahoo!."

The blogospere vil nok hoppe i stolen over artiklens begrundelse for gættet:
"Because the blogging platforms are the largest generators of new Web content, they are a natural target for the providers of PPC ads. Many bloggers dislike the notion of advertising on blogs, but they're in for a shock. Blogger, TypePad, LiveJournal and the other blogging platforms will make it much easier for Web publishers to profit from ads. They'll build contextual ads into Web site templates, and use the publishers' sign-up information to open simultaneous advertising accounts."

9:12 am virker LiveJournal stadig ikke....... Status Rapport
Se også SixApart

Næppe har SixApart købt LiveJournal før første ulykke indtræffer 7:35 pm PST:


Temporarily Unavailable
LiveJournal is currently down due to a massive power failure at our data center. We'll provide updates at /powerloss/ as they're available.

Our data center (Internap, the same one we've been at for many years) lost all its power, including redundant backup power, for some unknown reason. (unknown to us, at least) We're currently dealing with verifying the correct operation of our 100+ servers. Not fun. We're not happy about this. Sorry... :-/ More details later.

Archinect : School Blog Project

Social software in education
Resources
Flere 'klassiske tekster', men også en del konkrete eksempler. F.eks. et link til Wiki In Education, et indholdsrigt site.

Blogrelaterede emner fylder godt på årets Top Technology Trends: Free Range Librarian: Top Technology Trends Solicited
Se også LITA (The Library and Information Technology Association) om Top Technology Trends.

Deconstructing Technorati
A good week for Technorati: Corante > Strange Attractor >

BlogBib
En fin, lille annoteret bibliografi om Weblogs og Blogging med fokus på Biblioteks- og bibliotekarblogs.

Commentspam
Så nåede Spam bloggospheren.

Nogen tager det meget alvorligt CommentSpam, CommentSPAM.org
På Services siden ligger to - hm, døde - links til lister og spammeres IP adresser.
Nogen er meget, meget sure, Attention Comment Spammers
Commentspam findes i forskellige genrer ifølge Concerning SpamComment Spam Manifesto
Mange skriver meget: En Google liste om Commentspam
Baggrunden er Googles Ranking system, så Google får også et par rituelle hak: Wired, 12.03.04

Bortset fra irritationen og belastede servere er bekymringen også betydningen for kommunikation:
"Howard Rheingold, a futurist who predicts always-on communication will revolutionize public discourse, is worried that all these new forms of spam could freeze the revolution in its tracks. There will be no great social transformation if cell phones are turned off, instant messenger programs shut down or blog comments disabled to halt the flow of offers for online porn or cheap drugs.
“It forces you to either turn off the comments and lose some of the value of the medium, or spend your time deleting spam,” said Rheingold, who runs his own blog." (Spammers now clogging blogs, IM, Personal Web journals grow cell phones, instant messages)

Og så er der da også afballancerede meninger: Comment spam arms race

Det nyeste nummer af LORE (An E_Journal for Teachers of Writing) har en lang række spændende artikler om Blogs som studieredskab.

E:M | No blogging, no social networking: "No blogging, no social networking

Friends in Iran, journalists and technicians, are saying that judiciary officials have ordered all major ISP to filter all blogging services including PersianBlog, BlogSpot, Blogger, BlogSky, and even BlogRolling.

They have also ordered to filter Orkut, Yahoo Personals and some other popular dating and social networking websites."

Da jeg har boet i Indien i 3 år, kan jeg selvfølgelig slet ikke stå for The IndiBlog Awards
en konkurrence om bedste indiske blogs :)

Serendipity - min yndlingsbegreb :)
- kontrolfreaks på arbejde.... igen!

Whatever happened to serendipity?

Kommentar til Jonathan Abrams' beskrivelse af Friendster som services som "proactively influence serendipity."
Serendipity and Self-Selection with Social Software - The Social Software Weblog - socialsoftware.weblogsinc.com: "Serendipity and Self-Selection with Social Software"

Mens jeg er tilbøjelig til at give Judith Meskill (thesocialwareblog) ret i hendes skepsis overfor det proaktive, synes jeg nu ikke begrebet serendipity står helt klart i Judith Meskills kommentar. Ligesom serendipity næppe kan 'proaktiveres frem', kan det vel heller ikke siges at Google/ensøgemaskine er 'serendipity værktøj', men blot et værktøj, hvor - under brug af hvilket - serendipity kan forekomme.

Technorati + blog = ?
WebMink: "Threads of Conversation
Tim has added tracking 'bubblets' to his blog, and Boing Boing may have started a trend by adding Technorati searches for each article. - Dave has added them to his blog and to PlanetSun for example."

Linkssamling om blogs og biblioteker:
Hovedoppgaven

Interessant projekt
Conversations with Dina foreslår en sammenligning af Technorati og Feedster og PubSub