Monthly Archives: July 2002

How Weblogs Keep the Media Honest

Howard Kurtz, media critic for the Washington Post writes about how Weblogs are influencing big media organizations "It's called influencing the debate, in real time."

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Hit Spam companies where it hurts!

Heh … This actually sounds like a good idea … SpamBattle.com : Using cost-per-click search engines to make spammers pay!

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Safire on the origin of Blogs …

From NY Times Magazine, William Safire traces the etymology of Blog.

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Blog HOT or NOT

Is your Blog HOT or NOT ?

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Using Blogs in Business

OMG, I actually agree with Cam … a quote from a quote on Blogroots : "Where I work, much of the company-wide memorandums and communication is done via e-mail, with some e-mails containing numerous attachments that sometimes weigh in at … Continue reading

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Building XML Portals with Cocoon

You all are probably aware of this and excuse me if someone mentioned this before, but I found a new and interesting article on XML.com by Matthew Langham and Carsten Ziegeler, which describe the portal components they built and donated to the … Continue reading

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Web journals could have business value

Quotes from an InformationWeek article on Blogging's business value [Thanks John]: "weblogging will be a grassroots movement in business in the same way that, say, instant messaging has been." "… there's built-in motivation for people to participate in blogging: They get credit … Continue reading

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Blogging hits the mainstream, for better or worse

Quote from an article in the SF Gate: "… the blogging world hope that blogging's personal, collective, man-or-woman-on-the-street approach to newsgathering might breathe new life into stale mainstream media. Clearly, the hundreds of thousands creating their own blogs, as well … Continue reading

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Porn goes “Open Source”

I found this while paging through the new releases on SourceForge: "You would like to have your own erotic-porno-sex web site but you don't want to spend time on it? This project will create it for you, it will browse … Continue reading

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Armstrong takes Stage 12 of the Tour

On the second day in the mountains, Armstrong takes another win at Stage 12, with his amazing Postal teammate Roberto Heras taking second after setting the pace on the climb to the finish for Lance. Kudos to Joseba Beloki for … Continue reading

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All kids love Ren & Stimpy!

"Happy, happy, joy, joy! The Ren and Stimpy Show is coming back to TV!"

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From TIPS to RATS

Why am I not surprised that soon after Operation TIPS   [aka Terrorism Information and Prevention System], was announced, Operation RATS [aka Retrograde Activities and Treachery System], was announced [funny :]

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Traction: Enterprise Weblog System

Quote from a review of  Traction in InfoWorld "THERE IS STILL NO sure-fire recipe for KM (knowledge management) success, but the ingredients must include the staples of the knowledge worker: e-mail, the Web, and Microsoft Office. With Traction Software's KM solution, … Continue reading

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PeerCast

"PeerCast uses the Gnutella protocol as the basis for all communications, and complies (mostly) to the Gnutella 0.6 protocol. It works in much the same way as other Gnutella clients except instead of downloading files, the users download streams. These … Continue reading

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Janis Ian speaks out about free music download …

Interesting article : "Every time we make a few songs available on my website, sales of all the CDs go up. A lot…"

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