blogging
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Congrats, Tom
Congrats to my friend Tom Biro for landing a great new gig with MWW. Biro, one of the ‘bloggiest’ people I know, is now Director, New Media Strategies for the New Jersey-based PR firm. Here’s his announcement. I first ‘met’ Tom via our mutual friend, Bob Cox, and since have had the pleasure of working…
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Various housekeeeping notes
In keeping with my recent rail against Technorati, I just updated the part of this site that automatically linked Technorati search results from the post (it was right over to the left there, under “Comments”). Now, I’m linking you to results from Icerocket, a search engine. It’s just a trial, so let me know your…
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A humble request
Dear Blogosphere, Please, please, please, STOP using the word “mashups”. It’s a stupid, ugly word, much dumber and lamer than the word “blog.” And you’re using it way, way, way, too much.
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Hotlinking: when is credit due, and how much?
My former high school speech club coach Mike Daisey was “busted” by a blogger for hotlinking to one of the images on her blog- and Mike responded with a reasoned rebuttal. At first glance you’d probably side with Martha, the blogger whose image Mike re-posted on his site. But that’s why it’s often fun to…
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New blog watch
Two new blogs to keep an eye on, both of them written by my office mates: Alex Jerome
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Congrats to the Award-Winning PressThink
Hearfelt congratulations to Jay Rosen for winning the Reporters Without Borders Freedom Blog Award for sites “defending freedom of expression” for his blog, PressThink. A much deserved honor for one of the best blogs (and most thoughtful people) out there.
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Oddjack: insert gambling pun headline here
So, it appears that Nick Denton has reached into my brain, plucked out another idea, and slapped a semi-realized site design around it: The other day, his Gawker Media empire launched Oddjack, a gambling blog. One notable element of the too-grey-heavy-site is the two choices of RSS feed: If you scroll allllll the way to…