I’ve been following a fair bit of WordCamp coverage online today, and I can’t help but think: is this the start of the new blogging elite? and I mean that in a positive way, not a negative, after all, there’s no Dave Winer, Robert Scoble or the other usual suspects at this conference. Sure, you’ve got the newly VC funded Om Malik, but if anything Om is new guard, not old guard. Wish I could have been there, some great speakers, people I’ve been following in the Blogosphere but aren’t part of the old guard like Prince Campbell (chartruse)…..it’s bloody great stuff. Viva la new guard! Lets just hope this is the first of many new guard conferences to come…I might even be able to eventually discover how to get on a plane and attend one 🙂
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Steve Rubel reports that China has blocked ALL Feedburner feeds into China….that’s a heck of a lot of people who all of a sudden can’t read your feed if you’re using Feedburner.
Tags: Feedburner, China
Gordon Gecko may have said Greed is Good, but in Kevin Rose it’s bad. J-Cal say’s it all for me, but when a bubble get’s this big it’s bound to eventually burst. The question remains of course: how long? Don’t think that J-Cal and Netscape will the last to pay for top “social networkers” either, with all the cash about and a zillion startups, the money is going to start flowing to users, and the ludites like Kevin Rose are going to be worth $60 instead of $60 million within 12-18 months unless they wake up. So do we start taking bets? Is there a site out there offering odds on the Digg implosion yet? Wait till there are 5 other companies offering to do as Netscape is, and instead of paying $1k a month they pay $5k…or even $10k a month. Kevin won’t be smiling on the front page of Business Week then.
Tags: Digg
This has become the bane of my life. Every 3-4 days…same thing, about 20mb+, I’m on 2mb Cable but I’ve still got to wait, I’ve noticed some days it’s a matter of 5 minutes, over days its 50 minutes, either way, does Linden Labs really need to update SL so often???!!!!
Tags: Second Life
I subscribed to a new Web 2.0 blog…well probably better described as a anti-Web 2.0 blog Dead 2.0 about a month ago, and I will add I’ve been enjoying it….as much as I’ve become a minor (well very minor…outside of Australia at least) celebrity player in Web 2.0, I can still see the futility in many startups being launched, however, I got this today in my email (click for enlargement)
Thing is, when I visit the post here, I can’t find ANY reference to my post here, to which the trackback was sent to. I’d like to really wish it wasn’t so, but it looks like Dead 2.0 is really Spam 2.0 in terms of trackbacks. Sad really.
3pointD.com reports the launch of SL Business Magazine (pdf). It’s not the first publication I’ve seen of this sort on Second Life, but it’s certainly got to be one of the best ones in terms of layout and reading…a must for Second Life fans.
Tags: Second Life
Remember the rants from Google recently about Microsoft building in MSN search into IE7…how it was anti-competitive and all that? well looks like a case of do as I say, not as I do for Google, with ZDNet reporting that the newest release of the Google toolbar blocks attempts by the competition to modify the default search engine in IE….do no evil my you know what….
Tags: Google, Google Toolbar
Great news from the Western side of Australia: PerthNorg from Bronwen Clune, who I had the privilege of meeting a couple of months back at a Perth blog meetup.
Question though is how to describe the site. It’s sort of Digg meets Newsvine..but in a one newspaper state I can only hope to god it takes off.
Techcrunch reports that a Top 100 Digg profile is up for sale on eBay here…current bidding at the time of writing was $305USD with 6 1/2 days left on the auction. So much for all those people who said that these profiles and position weren’t worth diddly squat..question is though, if you buy the profile does that qualify you as a potential applicant for a Netscape gig?
Tags: Digg
The commentator says it all: the first part of Recognition is Rec…as in trainreck :-)….
