Tech analyst, AI & the web
I founded the tech blog ReadWriteWeb in April 2003 and ran it until October 2012. During my time running the business, it was well known for its cutting edge content (“What’s next on the Web”) and its influential global audience. At its peak, RWW was ranked among the top ten blogs in the world by Technorati.
This category contains all of the articles I personally wrote for RWW, now archived on ricmac.org for easier browsing and search. If you’d like to explore the original context, you can also view a year-by-year archive with links to the Wayback Machine
– 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
sponsored by: This week: The future of RSS, Amazon turns 10, Yahoo HotJobs, big bucks for blogging, techie post of the week – RSS systems. New Sponsor & Special Offer For R/WW Readers I’m pleased to announce Onfolio as the new sponsor of the Weekly Wrap-Up! To celebrate, Onfolio has a special offer for Read/Write … Read more
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
sponsored by: This week: Grokking Yahoo! My Web 2.0, What is Where 2.0, Entrepreneurs start your engines, RSS VC fund fever, Techie Post of the Week – Attention. Thoughts on Yahoo! My Web 2.0 Yahoo’s unveiling of a “social search engine” called My Web 2.0 got almost as much tech blogger coverage as Microsoft’s RSS … Read more
sponsored by: This week: Grokking Yahoo! My Web 2.0, What is Where 2.0, Entrepreneurs start your engines, RSS VC fund fever, Techie Post of the Week – Attention. Thoughts on Yahoo! My Web 2.0 Yahoo’s unveiling of a “social search engine” called My Web 2.0 got almost as much tech blogger coverage as Microsoft’s RSS … Read more
Good, Dave Winer has returned to text format (at least for today) for his morning coffee notes. That means I can link to it. He wrote this morning: “Every company, not just tech companies, needs to have a presence in the blogging world, someone whose feet are planted both in the network outside the organization … Read more
In my podcast with Alex Barnett the other day, I mentioned that the Read/Write Web (the theory, not my site) isn’t just about writing as we usually think of it on the Web – blogs, wikis, etc. It can also be interacting or transacting with websites and apps. Participating in the Web. This was one … Read more
I’m doing the rounds on the podcasting circuit. Tonight I did an impromptu podcast with Microsoft International Program Manager Alex Barnett. We were chatting via Skype and it kind of just turned into a podcast. Skype can record calls, which I didn’t know until Alex told me – he has instructions on his blog. Alex … Read more
I did a podcast with Roland Tanglao early this morning my time. My first real ‘chatty’ podcast, so it was enjoyable. Roland is more of a natural podcaster than me. I was all “um”s and “yep”s and coughs and halt–ing speech. But that’s what podcasting’s about – it brings the real live person behind the … Read more