Archive for April, 2008

How do we decide who makes up the celebrity A List?

I’m going to go slightly off-topic here this morning.
Last night, while listening to the Howard Stern show (you can listen to the show 24 hours a day now thanks to Sirius Satellite Radio, which is wonderful), I heard mention of someone referred to as an “A List celebrity.” You hear this all the time, […]

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

Twitter, Friendfeed, and conversations versus information streams

Michael Arrington wrote something that I related to in the comments section of a story about Twitter’s recent technical problems: “Friendfeed is great for keeping track of an information stream. Twitter is about conversations. very different things.”
Somewhat by accident, or so I thought, that’s how I’ve come to look at my use of Twitter and […]

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008

Why does ABC News hide The Note?

ABC News has produced a daily column simply called The Note since the beginning of 2002, according to Wikipedia. For political junkies and Washington’s inside-the-beltway “chattering classes,” it’s an essential read that takes a Big Picture look at the nation’s political state of affairs, and then drills in and links out to the must-read stories […]

Monday, April 21st, 2008

Tracking a Techmeme meme

I love Techememe. It does a pretty remarkable job of collecting the top and hottest stories going on in tech, Internet, online media, and all the business, cultural, and social issues surrounding those worlds. It uses an algorithm based on links and “influence” to find top stories and lays out those stories and the surrounding […]

Monday, April 21st, 2008

ReadBurner impressively creates community around Google Reader shared items

I’ve written a few stories about Shyftr over the last week. In short, Shyftr pulls full text RSS feeds published by websites and creates community around them on its own website. Although they’ve changed how the site works (in part due to an innocent question I asked on Twitter over the weekend, which set off […]

Friday, April 18th, 2008

Lollerskates reign at the Commenter Business Meeting

A semi-cerebral look at the strange phenomenon of YouTube fame on Slate makes mention of Commenter Business Meeting 2, by College Humor.
This was produced last fall but is definitely worth a watch if you haven’t seen it. Think of it as what Slate refers to as Internet commenting as its own “special form of […]

Friday, April 18th, 2008

Fast five sites: Disqus, Plaxo, LinkRiver, Diigo, fav.or.it

Almost everyday, I’ll read something on the web that refers to another website, online service, or application that makes me think: I need to check that out when I get a chance.
Thought it might sense to roll out a semi-regular column where I take a look at these sites. Hopefully the idea will be […]

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

I’m firing Valleywag

So it looks like Jordan Golson, the Valleywag writer who boldly (and perhaps foolishly) published his misgivings about his employer’s changes in payment policy, got fired.
Maybe Golson got fired because he outed Valleywag’s pay-less-for-more-work scheme, or maybe it was due to the mysterious “something elses” that Paul Boutin alleges.
Either way, I’ve decided that I’ve […]

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

The Twitter story goes worldwide, helps save US grad student from Egyptian jail

It’s often been said by myself and others that Twitter, amongst many other uses, is a great tool for live event coverage and for keeping groups of people informed during an emergency.
Now in what could become a story that makes Twitter much better known throughout the world, we’ve learned that it has helped rescue […]

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

The shifting Shyftr debate

I expressed some pretty strong concerns about Shyftr over the weekend, a site that (until Sunday, at least!) creates community around full text RSS feeds.
There are pretty strong opinions on both sides of the debate. One of the best counter-arguments to my stance came from Scott Karp, who believes strongly in “information disintermediation” (a let […]

Monday, April 14th, 2008

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