I'm finding it more and more interesting that all the features that people have had or wanted to have in websites for the past five years or so are rapidly being added to blogs. Blogging seems to be spurring a whole new wave of online innovation. This has got to be a good thing. I…
I think Jon has summed up why blogging is important. I think is it a fair question, maybe cynical, to ask, “Well they said that about the whole web thing didn't they?” Yeah, they did. The problem was, and still is, that building websites stopped being easy. When I started building sites, when you had…
Blogging is not just for hobbyists and online journal writers anymore. Businesses large and small are taking advantage of this simple, convenient, and compact communications tool. Business blogs can be used within your firewall to help virtual teams collaborate or to keep employees up to date on company announcements. On the public Internet your business…
As the American election approaches, I think political blogs are going to be quite influential. We've already seen how they are a force in the Democratic primary. As more politically active bloggers report, passionately, on their politics, the real battle is going to not be in the blogsphere, but the “Googlesphere”. Who can get their…
A newspaper in Spokane, WA is successfully selling ads on it's blog and recruiting local bloggers (by posting a bio and link to their blog). This could be start of newspapers and other traditional media using blogs to gain online readers. Rick E. Bruner's Business Blog Consulting: Poynter: Newspaper Blogs and Making Money
Although I signed up to view the BlogOn 2004 webcasts, I never did. I have been tracking the posts from the BlogOn blog, though. This morning both eWeek and C|Net had articles on BlogOn. The big story is that businesses are blogging. Microsoft has the very successful Channel 9 and most every new software company…
Interesting stats here showing the popularity of blogging world-wide. The only (small) flaw in the logic is Blogspot might be considered American. And while the company is American, non-Americans do use it. Like I said, small flaw. The important point here is the power of blogging in freedom of information and democracy. Since it is…
Amy Gaharan with a collection of more Furl tips and tricks. Oddly enough I flip-flop between Furl and PDF. I often PDF whitepapers or articles I've found. I just went up to Furl and found how many interesting articles I had stashed up there. I need to work Furl more into my whole knowledge management…
