Archive for the ‘Link Love’ Category

Interesting little tidbit from Gavin over at Ostranenie

Technorati reported the average number of blog postings is again on the rise, having dipped briefly last winter. There were 900,000 posts created each day by the end of July, working out at 37,500 posts per hour or 10.4 per second.

Gartner has done one of those Hype Cycle things in which they look at podcasting and blogs… No time right now to analyze the analysis… here it is… Although I gotta say this is about the weirdest analysis/statement on blogging I’ve seen for a bit:

Corporate Blogging. This involves the use of online personal journals by corporate employees, either individually or in a group, to further company goals. It reached the peak of hype in 2004 although mainstream firms have not yet got involved. Its impact will be on projecting corporate marketing messages primarily and secondarily in competitive intelligence, customer support and recruiting.

Great piece on rocketboom… And here is the site… Why more companies aren’t jumping on the Vlog bandwaggon and creating their own news shows is baffling. Get going gang… And, for all you naysayers, listen to Mitch….

As these videos flow into the living room, they will reshape what we think of as television. "TV will be transformed," says Mitchell Kapor, the founder of Lotus Development Corp. (IBM ) and now an investor in Participatory Culture, an online video startup. "People will look at it as historically quaint that you had to watch something that others chose for you."

Here is all you need to know to get going with Google messsaging…

Linus, creator of Linux, really gets at the value of Slashdot… not… (care of Good Morning Silicon Valley)

"Gaah. I don’t tend to bother about slashdot, because quite frankly, the whole _point_ of slashdot is to have this big public wanking session with people getting together and making their own ‘insightful’ comment on any random topic, whether they know anything about it or not." — Linus Torvalds, in an e-mail elaborating on his defense of a Linux trademark.