Richard MacManus

I love to read Steve Gillmor’s posts – he has a unique way with words and it’s fun (OK sometimes frustrating) to decipher his messages. But I really wish he would look beyond his Silicon Valley-tinted glasses and mention/link to some new blood now and then. Take this extract from his latest post, referencing what … Read more

Doc Searls grabs the Web 2.0 meme by the horns and gives it a good shake. He’s posted a thought-provoking piece in which he frames Web 2.0 in the following way: “I propose a goal: Make Web 2.0 the best possible commons for supporting free markets and free culture.” I’m glad Doc has weighed in … Read more

I’ve resigned from my day job, so in 4 weeks time I will be fully self-employed. I’ll be doing freelance analysis and writing work, plus an exciting project which I will advise you of soon. I’ve been extremely busy lately, hence the relative lack of blogging. But soon I’ll be back into it and writing … Read more

– Google does RSS… sort of (you can now add RSS feeds to your Personalized page by clicking ‘Create a Section’. It’s made with cool Ajax, but this is no RSS Aggregator folks… come on Google, you can do much better!)- Attention Trust is a project led by Steve Gillmor and others that is the … Read more

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– IDG CEO quoted in Wired: “Every blogger is a rock band without a record contract.” (I guess I’m supposed to dislike that comparison, but strangely it agrees with me… because indeed I am looking for “a record contract”, to use that analogy) – Jason Dowdell and Pete Freitag created two mashups using Findory’s API … Read more

– There are 1.12 million feeds in Bloglines that “matter”, says Ask Jeeves Blog (meaning at least 1 person subscribes to it. nb: SEW and Niall both point out that some blogs have multiple feeds) – Feedburner begins to expand into “major media accounts and global relationships” (fulfilling all the hype I lavished onto them … Read more

I’m making yet another attempt at a regular branded list of Web 2.0 links. Let me admit straight up that I’ve copied the following format from Ypulse, Anastasia Goodstein’s excellent site that covers New Media for Generation Y. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, as I have discovered, so I thought it’s worth giving … Read more

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You’ve got to hand it to Technorati, they sure know how to get media and blog attention. A recent Wired article makes the extraordinary claim that Technorati is “a public utility on a global scale”. With no mention whatsoever of other blog search engines, Wired compares Technorati to Google – as if Technorati is as … Read more

A bit of admin before I start. The Web 2.0 Weekly Wrap-Up is looking for a new sponsor, now that ThePort Network has completed its sponsorship arrangement with me. Dan Backus from ThePort Network told me they had a lot of positive feedback to the sponsorship and their product offerings – which I was very … Read more

I know it’s the weekend and not the ideal time for a blog conversation, but there’s a great one happening in the comments of my recent post On Bots and Content Creation / Aggregation. I’d like to get more points of view on this discussion, which is focused on the moral aspects of automatically-generated websites. … Read more

Sometimes I get confused by the Remix Culture and its various shades of grey. For example: A good planet is hard to find Planet Web 2.0 “aggregates the weblogs of the Web 2.0 community. Web 2.0 is about sharing rich data through open, loosely coupled services, enabling new and exciting applications and modes of collaboration.” … Read more

Technorati has gotten a little bit of heat recently from Marc Canter and Dave Winer, which prompted me to take a look at how Technorati stacks up against its competition in the blog search space. Hat-tip also to Josh Hallett, who pointed me to a relevant post of his the other day. Alexa is an … Read more

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