My fellow bloggers: like a lot of you, I’m disappointed that Kerry lost. FWIW here are some quick thoughts from a non-US citizen: – I watched the coverage on CNN and BBC yesterday (yes we get both tv networks in New Zealand). CNN seemed to be very cautious about predicting results… a bit like Kerry’s … Read more

Jeremy Zawodny has written a terrific post about what makes a successful Web 2.0 company. It all comes down to ubiquity, according to Jeremy. The themes he covers dovetails with my next Web 2.0 interview (coming soon!), so I’ll review his main points here in anticipation of that. Jeremy starts by noting that the main … Read more

Interesting line of thought inspired by Ross Mayfield’s post Blog-based Research Model, where he talks about research services shifting “from the end analysis product (.pdf) to the open process of research”. That is, instead of relying upon bulky and expensive PDFs from the traditional analyst companies (Gartner and so forth), we are seeing blogs form … Read more

Nothing like a Slashdotting to bring out the warm fuzzies. Marc and Lucas both have nice things to say about my interviewing style: Marc: “The process is fascinating – an interview where you get to decide what’s talked about, an intelligent discourse happens at your pace and you even get to read it before it’s … Read more

UPDATE 6/11/04: I decided to nominate The Fractal Blogosphere and Evolution of Corporate Web Sites for the Best Software Essays of 2004 book that Joel Spolsky is editing. If you enjoyed either one of those articles, please leave a comment on Joel’s discussion board to support my nominations. Click here to second my Fractal nomination, … Read more

Welcome to the first in a very special series of Web 2.0 interviews I’m conducting on Read/Write Web. My goal is to interview at least half a dozen people in the Web community who are building or shaping Web 2.0 – i.e. the Web as Platform. My first guest is Lucas Gonze, creator of the … Read more

This is about as political as I’ll get here on Read/Write Web, but I couldn’t resist posting this cartoon by fellow kiwi Tom Scott. It also reminds me of the Getting paid for blogging controversy that is polarizing bloggers right now. For the record, I think it’s a worthy experiment by Marc Canter… why does … Read more

This post doubles as an update of my writing goals and a short review of Michael Lewis’ book Moneyball. First, my goals. Lately on Read/Write Web, I’ve been exploring options for my future. eBooks and Knowledge Management storywriting are a couple of things I’ve been researching. And one thing I passionately wrote about on this … Read more

It’s Friday afternoon where I live, so time for a less serious post. There’s an art to creating good weblog post titles and most of the time I craft my post titles after I’ve written the post. However some post titles are just too good NOT to use, because they’re witty or amusingly cliched or … Read more

Jason Kottke wrote today that the blogging revolution will be commercialized. He said that “out of Technorati’s top 100 most-linked weblogs, only 16 don’t feature advertising or are otherwise noncommercial.” NB: he had some provisos on who in the top 100 really qualifies as a blog. There are a lot of issues to consider in … Read more

As a follow-up to my previous post, I decided to take the plunge and sign up with Feedburner (hat tip to Cristian!). Feedburner is a third-party service that generates an enhanced RSS feed for you. What’s enhanced about it? For starters it enables you to track RSS statistics for all RSS Aggregators (not just Bloglines). … Read more

Remember my post 3 months ago that analysed Bloglines subscriber stats? Well I thought I’d review the numbers. You can blame Seb Paquet for this 😉 Why? Because he’s just posted something on his weblog for the first time in over 3 months, which got me thinking about how his time away from blogging affected … Read more

After my Dave Snowden grokking last week, I’ve been reading up on storytelling in KM. Bill Ives has some fantastic reading on this subject and I intend to read Steve Denning too. I was thinking this morning about how people have different niches and specialist talents. For example, I’m a better writer than I am … Read more

Last night I proclaimed we’re in a Content Renaissance and this morning, what do I stumble across but a bunch of articles saying the very same thing! It’s either a case of ‘great minds think alike’, or there really is a content renaissance happening. 🙂 For example, Robert Scoble wrote a rah-rah article about “the … Read more

Is it just me, or is CONTENT making a comeback on the Web? I’ve been reading a lot of the Web 2.0blogging and I sense, even from across the other side of the world, that the Web is entering another bubble of optimism. Frankly, I wish I was over in America soaking it up. I’ve … Read more