Don't judge this spam...
Just got a spam: "Don't judge this e-mail by its subject". More like
"Don't judge this spam by its spam". At least it was in the King's English
(though I'm not sure he'd approve of Paris Hilton).
Posted at 13:59
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Where is Google's Weblog Search?
When Google bought Blogger, I thought for sure they would develop a weblog
search engine. Where is it?
Posted at 13:50
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Group Blogs, Blog Communities I think he's onto something, but I think the terminology is wrong (Dave's
comment about using RSS to dynamically assemble group blogs by category is
also interesting).
There's a difference between a blog aggregation, which I would call a
"blog community", such as JavaBlogs or the
Daily Kos diaries and a "group
blog". A blog community brings together content from people with related
interests. They tend to be insular and mostly read by the other members of
the blog community. It a slightly more distributed discussion forum. A
group blog is when a couple of people come together on one blog to write
about the same topic, for example En Banc
(legal), or Not Geniuses (politics). The
distinction may seem pedantic, but I think it is important. A group blog
is not insular; it is a part of the larger blogosphere. Group bloggers are
often experts or well-reknowned in their own right before the join
together. A group blog allows people who might not have enough time to run
their own site a chance to create something that's bigger than the sum of
its parts.
(P.S.: I am writing for a group blog which I
started. Currently, there is one other author, but as the traffic to the
site heats up and the 2004 campaign gets more underway, I am going to need
more help, because I won't be able to keep up with the time demands of
indexing every campaign ad.)
Dave Winer links
to a piece by
Robert Scoble about why he doesn't like group blogs.
Posted at 01:30
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