What the internet does really, really well is connect things through hyperlinks. The outcome of hyperlinks is connecting people. When people are connected, there’s a relationship. Websites are an excellent marketing tool. Like any tool, they need to be used correctly. To do so, they need to build a relationship between the company and it’s [...]
Chuck Olsen’s Blogumentary was screened at the U tonight. As an added bonus, Dan Gillmor was part of panel discussion on citizen journalism afterwards. Also in the conversation: Shane Nackerud, the maintainer of the UThink Project (imagine TypePad for all students and faculty at the U). Here’s some cool things about UThink: it falls within [...]
Like peanut butter and chocolate, on February 3 head over to the U of M St. Paul campus’ Student Center and catch a screening of Blogumentary and grassroots journalism promoter Dan Gillmor. I’ll be there representing. You should to. Here’s the info at Chuck’s blog.
Local (in?)famous blog Powerline and opinionated Strib Columnist Nick Coleman are in the midst of a juvenile slap fight. *sigh*.
I’m really late to this party, but I just discovered that Google has had a blog up since May: Google Blog
Another quote to add to the bag of goodies. This one came out a few months ago. I remember reading it, but forgot about if for a while until just recently, when I was discussing CMS solutions again with some people. This is from Jefferey Veen: Open source content management software sucks. It sucks really [...]
We all love to use various characters as bullets or separators for our links. Common ones are |, > and » (the latter being read as ‘right double angle bracket’). Unfortunately, for those using screen readers, these can be a bit cumbersome to sit through. Standards Schmandards has taken the time to list out how [...]
Scott McMullan has been thinking about events, self-discovering systems, semantic tagging, and the future of date-based web content. Riffing on Flickr, Del.icio.us, and a couple others, he sees, ultimately, meta-tagged events flowing from web publishers through various tools, right down to your calendar app of choice. Cool stuff. I tag my web links with Del.icio.us, [...]
A couple of random local web site news items: I’m not entirely sure why, but Power Line, a local right-wing-leaning blog written by two Twin Citian lawyers won Time’s blog of the year. It appears it’s mainly due to their finding the CBS National Guard Memos regarding Bush’s service to be fake. While that, in [...]
There’s a huge thread over at kottke.org on RSS advertising and if feedreaders will be blocking ads. (um, yeah, some of them will). David Winer says advertising in RSS is boring. Boring because if the RSS feed is only summaries: “the RSS feed is itself an ad.” Yes, that’s exactly it. Plus, summary-only feeds are [...]