Richard MacManus

Alf Eaton has come up with a neat little de.icio.us hack. It lists out the “speediest gatherers” for your del.icio.us page (last 100 items), based on the posting date of items. I think this means it lists out the people who linked to the same thing as you, but got there before you did. So … Read more

I’m trying to figure out what ‘Web 2.0’ means to people. These are the reasons why I’m trying to figure this out: * I want to define it so that my tagline makes sense to people 🙂 * Web 2.0 is my niche topic. It’s my little piece of The Long Tail and I want … Read more

In lieu of a weekly Web 2.0 wrap-up (because nothing much happened this week), I did a cut-up of a recent blog post by ex-Microsoft employee and now Google employee Mark Jen. This is the guy who recently started a job at Google and is blogging about his experiences there. He pulled his blog off-air … Read more

Nearly 2 months into my 3-month Marqui sponsorship, so I thought I’d write down some of my thoughts at this point. There’s been a fair amount of controversy about it, notably from two people who run publishing businesses using weblogs: Jason Calacanis and Stowe Boyd. Jason went so far as to unleash a flock of … Read more

Jay Fienberg wrote a very interesting post regarding the future of RSS aggregators and blogs: “Now (today), it’s so easy to publish blogs that there are tons of them, and the effort to aggregate them is beginning to again attract editor-like and writer-like functions, i.e., merely mechanical aggregation of sites is seeming too read-only-passive, and … Read more

Interesting edition of the Gillmor Gang this week, focusing on RSS and Web content models. The guests were Stephen O’Grady from analyst firm Redmonk and Rafat Ali from the excellent PaidContent.org. Event-driven Jon Udell launched into an interesting spiel around the 18 minute mark. He talked about some of the usage scenarios for RSS in … Read more

This year I’ve been focusing on Web 2.0 themes in my posts, but yesterday I received two emails from people responding to a couple of older Read/Write Web posts. Those emails reminded me of the personal nature of blogging and that it’s about keeping it real. The first email was from Debi Smith, in response … Read more

Some of the Web 2.0 trends and talk I tracked this week… accompanied by some dodgy Austin Powers subheaders. Oh and this post doubles for my Marqui shout-out this week. Thanks to Marqui for sponsoring my blog for 3 months. Oh behave! Tagalicious, baby, yeah! Flickr and del.icio.us made tagging cool, now every social software … Read more

To follow-up on my rather bold prediction for RSS in my previous post: “in the not too distant future, more people will subscribe to topic/tag/remix feeds than feeds of actual people.” One of the reasons I think this may eventuate is that blogging is and always will be a minority sport (as I’ve referred to … Read more

Amazon DevCon is happening right now and happily the Amazon Web Services Blog is blogging it in “near-real-time” (hat-tip to Greg Linden for linking to it). I haven’t browsed through all the notes from day 1 yet, but I feel compelled to post about Rael Dornfest’s speech on the subject of “remix: beyond rip, mix, … Read more

Here are some notes taken from John Doerr’s talk at the Web 2.0 Conference, held October 2004 in San Francisco. Thanks to IT Conversations for recording it! John Doerr is a well-known venture capitalist, who apparently had the foresight to back Google in 1999 when few others did. His Web 2.0 speech had a lot … Read more

Pegasus News is a self-styled “Journalism 2.0” company that I’ve been enjoying reading about. In fact the whole “grassroots journalism” movement is interesting, because there are a lot of experienced journalists throwing themselves into the Read/Write Web (the philosophy, not my blog) with incredible gusto. Jay Rosen and Dan Gillmor are two in particular that … Read more

Looks like the first salvo has been fired in what is sure to be an ongoing controversy over contextual advertising using RSS. Martin Schwimmer, a trademark lawyer, has asked Bloglines to remove his RSS feed from their service – and Bloglines has complied. Schwimmer publishes his website using a Creative Commons non-commercial attribution licence and … Read more

Time for a look back at the week that was in Web 2.0. In no particular order… 1. Gizmodo‘s 4-part interview with Bill Gates ended with Bill insisting that DRM is a good thing because it protects your medical records (or something like that). In part one of the interview, Gates mentioned blogging – said … Read more

Internertnews.com quoted me in their article entitled Benchmark For RSS Client Market Share?, a news story covering Feedburner’s RSS Aggregator stats. It’s the first time I’ve been used in the media as a source, so I’m quite chuffed. They didn’t contact me, just quoted from my blog – which is fine by me. It’s a … Read more