Posted on June 18, 2008 by goodmind
Stranger things have probably happened, but McDonald’s, of all corporate entities, has actually elevated the status of the blogger in the professional hierarchy. (In stark contrast to the AP’s best efforts to prevent bloggers from re-publishing excerpts from their articles).
While internal employee social network sites to promote “ownership” are nothing new, Station M made good [...]
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Posted on May 19, 2008 by goodmind
Social networks are largely feud-al societies, in the sense that they facilitate a good deal of communal fighting. BuzzMachine describes the eco-system which backs all this healthy debate as a feudal society of lords, vassals and fiefs;
“So Glam is a content network. But they don’t create all the content. They curate it. So [...]
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Posted on April 17, 2008 by goodmind
Web 2.0 has arguably made Renaissance men of us all, meaning your prototypical internet user can dabble in a variety of disciplines (writing a blog, producing short films, or microfinancing entrepreneurs), and belong to numerous social networks and that span several distinct niches. Perhaps most importantly, these same tools which enable such Jeffersonian range also [...]
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Posted on March 24, 2008 by goodmind
The relationship between author, text, and reader has never been more dynamic, and consequently, has never been more unstable. Try reading just a small part of the extensive body of commentary and in-depth analysis of Steve Jobs’ Yogi Berra impression. Each piece links to an additional half a dozen or so other articles [...]
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Posted on January 28, 2008 by goodmind
Though we have often alluded to the day when the distinction between bloggers and journalists would at last disappear (and the “citizen” could be dropped from the odious phrase “citizen journalist”), we never thought that it might actually happen in our lifetime.
The approaching collapse of this once powerful divide is being facilitated by the [...]
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Posted on August 15, 2007 by goodmind
If tabbed browsing cannot contain your world wide web ramblings, then Walk2Web is perhaps the macro view of the internet you have been waiting for;
“You begin by entering a URL and then you are presented with a visual map of all the websites which are linked to it and from it. From there you can [...]
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Posted on August 6, 2007 by goodmind
In addition to being a great relief from a hectic work day, design blogs and the “blobjects” they feature are useful in that they categorize a virtual collection of the very latest in ornamental technological gadgets.
For professional purposes only, we are wont to admire the fluid design of what essentially often amounts to decadent plastic [...]
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Posted on July 10, 2007 by goodmind
When you write a blog for so long, you start to feel pretty good about the power of the written word. There are plenty of times however, when it is necessary to present some information visually, in order to ensure that the message is properly conveyed. So, when searching for an an accompanying image for [...]
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Posted on June 25, 2007 by goodmind
A recent BBC poll revealed a rather startling fact about current realities in Russia. No, it was not that 90% of Russians “regularly” drink anti-freeze to ward of the frigid bleakness of those long Siberian nights. Rather, these “findings” emphasize an interesting trend; Russian bloggers are a force to be reckoned with.
BBCRussian.com ran a story [...]
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Posted on January 9, 2006 by goodmind
Over the last couple of years, Blog Carnivals have proven to be a unique way to make the blogosphere just a little bit smaller.
A Blog Carnival is a group of high quality blog posts on a given topic. Some examples are: the Carnival of Cars, the Carnival of Satire, and the Carnival of Recipes.
We [...]
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