Year: 2005
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I’ll Be Checking For Cluetrain Tickets Later
A quick note to anyone following the Edupodder Censored thread: I’m a Journalism student, and I fully intend to talk to his boss and find out what the rationale is for not allowing Steve to talk to students on his podcast. I will tell both sides of this story. If you’re the boss in question,…
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Information Overload Regeneration
If anyone knows a good zombie, send them my way: My Brain Is Full. Things I’ve Sort Of Been Paying Attention To: Adam Curry recorded the 200th episode of his Daily Source Code podcast (mp3) live on stage at Gnomedex, blasting a Paradise City/Sgt. Pepper mash-up which has inspired me to dump all my hard…
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SJSU Staff Member Forbidden To Talk With Students On His Podcast
Steve Sloan, Interactive Technology Consultant at San Jose State University, has been podcasting since November 2004 and blogging since at least October 2003. Steve writes about how Emerging Technology can, will, and should affect our traditional models of education. Steve is on the Cluetrain. Steve’s Edupodder podcast has featured interviews with Photojournalism Prof. Dennis Dunleavy,…
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MIT Blogger Survey
MIT has a quick survey up. Check it out if you are a blogger. Hard to tell what they’re up to, but it looks like good stuff. Wait a minute: if I quote from whatever research is published from this survey, do I have to disclose that I was a participant? [UPDATE: BoingBoing explains all.]
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RSS hearts MS: What will happen when Microsoft takes subscription Mainstream?
Longhorn hearts RSS. Geeks in a frenzy, hashing out the technicalities and business models and possibilities, but what does it mean for the incredibly large number of people that don’t know now and won’t care later whether it stands for “Really Simple Syndication” or “Renew Subscription, Sonny” ? (HINT: Wouldn’t “Really Simple Subscription” be more…
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Spelling Test
For all the geeks blogging about Gnomedex now that you’re out of the convention hall where the wi-fi didn’t work because every single one of you attempted to use it: The surname of the brothers Dan and Steve is spelled G-I-L-L-M-O-R. There is no E. I’ve never seen so many people get it wrong in…
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Sniffing the Gluetrain
Of course, if 95 is your preferred number of things in a list, check out the Gluetrain Manifesto, circa 1999. 15. In just a few more years, the current homogenized “voice” of business—the sound of mission statements and brochures—will seem as contrived and artificial as the language of Internet manifestos. via Cluetrain co-author Chris Locke,…
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100 Piece Puzzle
If you’re still stumbling around the blogosphere in the dark, tripping from link to link, but not sure how everything fits together, check out the AO/Technorati Open Media 100. It’s not just another blogroll or ranking system – it’s a list of Pioneers like Doc Searls, Trendsetters like Mary Hodder, Practitioners like Mark Cuban, Toolsmiths…
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Chinese Democracy and Other Corporate American Friendliness
On the continuing issue of How American Technology Corporations Should Treat Not-Very-Nice Governments: The Online Journalism Review holds a roundtable discussion on the issue of Chinese censorship and regulation of weblogs. Mark Glaser writes: A recent report on China’s filtering efforts by the OpenNet Initiative called the government’s scheme the most sophisticated one in the…
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Bisy Backson
Today, on the first full day of Summer, I played the Bisy Backson, jogging to catch the bus this morning, dizzying myself by reading feeds and email on the bus, picking up forms at Student Services to drop and add Summer classes, calling professors, getting forms signed at offices, finishing the reading for today’s Anthrolpology…