Amy Gahran posted today at Poynteronline about How Bloggers Might Supplant Major News Organizations. You can go there to see why she thinks this might happen. Seeing her headline sparked another thought for me. Yesterday, I heard a comment on the news about how the LA Times had laid off a large number of employees [...]

“I felt a great disturbance in the force, as if about 3000 weblogs suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.”
By now you’ve probably heard about the sudden death of weblogs.com and the roughly 3000 blogs that had been hosted there. I’ll admit my initial reaction was to [...]

When you visit some people’s blogs, you’ll see a list of links to the blogs they read running down the side of the screen. How useful is this list? How could it be improved?
Educating the world on which digests are the most worthy to get a share of their time is one of the big [...]

The latest issue to arise on the Atom syntax mail list could almost have been inspired by my entry two days ago: Should Atom handle today’s problems or tomorrow’s? The question is whether to create a group within or connected to the Atom community (or whatever standards organization Atom goes with) to keep an eye [...]

One phenomenon seen in blogging is that when someone posts something that resonates with lots of people, lots of people link to it from their blogs, and if the original blog allows trackback pings, lots of trackbacks show up in the comments. While this does bring more attention to the original entry and to the [...]

Moblogging: Moh ‘ blah ging n. 1. Mobile web logging. Web logging from a mobile device, esp. a mobile phone. 2. Another term that I don’t like.
The problem with the term moblogging is that it’s too easy to misread it “mob logging”. It sounds like some kind of activist activity–artificially spontaneous crowds forming and blocking [...]

Part of me wants blogging tools to explicitly support cross posting (posting the same item in multiple blogs), and part of me is afraid of what will happen if they do. I hope they do it, carefully.
Of course, anyone can copy their entry from one blog and paste it into another. And many blogs support [...]

The response to my recent posts, Why you shouldn’t offer a newsfeed and Why you SHOULD offer a newsfeed illustrates an issue suggested by a post last month on Blogs as serious news media: the potential for bloggers with skewed opinions to skew the opinions of readers. “Why you shouldn’t offer a newsfeed” generated a [...]

Some of us blog because we’re full of ideas we’d like to express. But is blogging really smart? Lots of smart people don’t blog. Which side do the smartest of the smart come down on? Do we blog because we think, or because we’re not thinking clearly? Am I stupidly wasting my time at this [...]

In the beginning, weblogs were little personal pages where you wrote whatever you felt like writing, and a few of your friends, an odd family member, a crazed stalker and other people who were into blogging read it. Many blogs are still little personal pages read only if you’re lucky by friends, family, bloggers and [...]