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Monthly Archives: April 2006

not called MySpace for nothing, says Hammersley

Tuesday, April 18, 2006

Guardian techie Ben Hammersley was scathing recently about the assumption that bloggers are a captive market for advertising. This link, from his blog, Dangerous Precedent, speaks for itself:
The Media Guardian podcast this week has Emily Bell, editor in chief of Guardian Unlimited musing on the madness that is Rupert Murdoch’s buyout of MySpace, and ITV’s [...]

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blogbursts for old media

Wednesday, April 12, 2006

And speaking of Doc Searls – just noticed a mention of the old Cluetrain Manifesto on a library blog, and decided to drop into the Rageboy’s site, and found this interesting titbit (when did Chris Locke get a news section? and a site makeover? it’s looking great!). On Business Week Online , an article about [...]

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what’s going down the ‘tubes’

Monday, April 10, 2006

“Show us your blog, and we’ll tell you what books to buy.”This link from Chekhov’s Mistress has something to do with why I’m not comfortable with Gnoos, a new service looking for Australian blogs to index – the contact, Andy Howard, has posted recently on guerrilla marketing using bloggers and there’s nothing at the homepage [...]

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at e-tech, clay shirky has had enough already

Friday, April 7, 2006

“Intellectual activity consists mainly of various kinds of search”- Ian Turing.
Over the month of March there were plenty of reports on the O’Reilly E-tech conference, over at the Wired blog Monkey Bites. This report on a presentation by George Dyson, author of Darwin among the Machines, caught my eye. Says Dyson, “We think we’re searching [...]

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