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Technology

  • A better Flickr badge and a late scoop

    Last week, I was messing around with this site and stumbled onto what might’ve been a scoop had I actually posted it in time. Here’s what I wrote then but never published: Tired of that pretty limited “put Flickr photos on your site” widget that Flickr calls a badge? Well by accident last week, I…

  • Dang, that’s a nice site!

    Via Glenn, we learn that Tennessee Governor Phil Bresden is now blogging at his state’s official website, Tennessee.gov/governor. (Too bad they didn’t call it tennesse.gov/ernor, right?). A couple of thoughts on this: * Did Bill Hobbs get Gov. Bresden blogging? Or was it his state’s larger (and surprisingly larger) blogging community that got him started?…

  • Winer UNleads a BlogNashville session

    During the final track of BlogNashville today- in a session titled “A Respectful Disagreement” – Dave Winer combined with cartoonist John Cox and a few others to create what became, at times, quite a contentious, un-respectful discussion. Near the middle of the frequently awkward hour and forty-five minutes- after a couple of flare ups- Dave…

  • Off to BlogNashville

    I’m headed down to BlogNashville– if you’re going, be sure to stop over and say hello.

  • Weblogs, Inc. network now serving ads within RSS feeds

    Reading through my RSS inbox today, I noticed that Tom Biro’s excellent AdJab– a member of the Weblogs, Inc. network- is sporting Google’s all-new AdSense-In-RSS feature. A quick check at Jason Calacanis’ (Weblogs, Inc. founder) blog revealed that the entire Weblogs, Inc. network- more than 70 blogs- is now one of the earliest adopters of…

  • BlogNasvhille in the news

    I’m happy to see BlogNashville in the press again– this time it’s the Knoxville News Sentinel on the beat.

  • More on blog advertising

    Jessica Mintz has a great article in today’s WSJ on blog advertising.

  • Yahoo buys Flickr

    Flickr’s announcement here.

  • A sneek peak at Odeo

    Jason Calacanis sat in on a presentation and gives a long, interesting report on the new Odeo “podcasting portal” (my phrase) coming soon from Blogger co-creator Evan Williams and others. Update: Much more on the del.icio.us tag ‘odeo’. Another update: Make magazine has photos, including some screens from the Odeo site/app.

  • More from Blogads founder Henry Copeland

    John Hawkins at RightWingNews interviews Henry Copeland of Blogads. See my interview (conducted a few weeks ago) with Henry right here.