Seth Godin posts that he doesn’t have comments on his blog because it’s all too much work. So much for being a new media evangelist when he won’t allow his own readers to participate in the conversation. And as some of the trackbacks would indicate, people aren’t particularly pleased with Seth on this one either, and as one person rightly points out: can you really have a proper blog without comments, after all, a blog without comments is just another website.
Tags: Seth Godin
Read on TechChrunch earlier today that Fold.com had….well…folded, and noticed that domain was up for sale at Sedo.com, so I put an offer in, apparently the first offer they had received. I guess given the response that I won’t be buying Fold.com anytime shortly 🙂
Tags: Fold.com
Seems there is no longer an Australian Idol competition, just an Australian “American Idol” contestant. This story made news here last week, but I think Millsy never thought he’d be getting this much attention, just for fleeing Australia because he’s become more known for shagging Paris Hilton then his unremarkable singing career.
Tags: Robert Mills, Paris Hilton
Reports coming in that Adbrite is sick, that sites serving Adbrite ads are taking for ever to load and even then aren’t showing ads. I’ve just stripped the Adbrite code here from duncanriley.com and the site is now loading nice and quickly, however being the Foundation Day public holiday here (and with the family at home) I’m not totally up to speed on the issue, but Darren does report that it’s affecting everyone using Adbrite, including Gawker Media Blogs. Anyone using Adbrite seeing the same thing??
Tags: Adbrite
Makes sense really, massive user base, many non-blogging users. Steve Rubel reports that eBay is to launch user blogs powered by SixApart’s TypePad. I’m not aware of any great success from other ecommerce firms in providing blogs to users, but if anyone is going to do it, it will be eBay.
Just went to view a video at YouTube, and got this screen:
There also appears to be music playing at the site as well.Not sure of the extent of it, whether accounts have been compromised or not, but certainly someone must be asleep at YouTube HQ at the moment.
Tags: YouTube, YouTube hacked
Update: the music was on another page, not YouTube.
Further Update: it looks as though the hacking was a very poor attempt at humour by the YouTube team with this being posted:
UPDATE: No, we haven’t been hacked. Get a sense of humor.
UPDATE 2: Apparently we can’t spel.
UPDATE 3: Please stop calling the office, we’re trying to work in here
That’s the way to keep yourself onside with your users, put up a spoof hack attack. Any one for Yahoo Video??
Reading this post at Problogger, and click on the link to this blog, and I find Stuart Robinson, from Busselton, WA, about 30 minutes down the road. That makes 3 South West (WA) bloggers I know of! Maybe on day we can get to 10!
For those people who read my earlier post about Blogdesk and love it as much as I do (it’s the first time I’ve ever used a 3rd party blogging tool for longer than a day, and it’s been 6-8 weeks now!) I’ve done up a button you can put up at your site to help Johannes out in promoting the product:
There are some smaller buttons here as well on the BlogDesk site, but I was looking for something bigger, so I made it!
If you are running Windows, blogging, and haven’t given BlogDesk a spin yet, get it here. It’s by far the best blogging tool I’ve ever used, and until now I’ve pretty much disliked 3rd party blogging tools full stop. Image editing, Technorati Tags, spell check and much more. Trust me on this one, even people who don’t like me (Hi Martin!) have agreed with me that this is a bloody great tool! And yes, I’m NOT being paid for this, nor have I been asked to promote it. Honest to god truth, this tool saves me 30 minutes minimum every day by NOT having to use Photoshop to edit photos. Give it a try.
Tags: Blogdesk
Ive never been a huge fan of buzzwords, but Cameron Reilly has introduced a new buzz word that I think has very, very long legs (potential): Nanomedia:
What is “nanomedia”? It is media that is produced for a niche audience, often on a low cost basis, either for the love of it or for commercial profit and I suspect the vast majority of nanomedia will be produced for the former reason. Nanomedia will mostly be copyright free or produced under a fairly open Creative Commons license. Nanomedia will be play on iPods, portable media devices like PSPs, mobile phones, computers or TVs and will increasingly start to consume higher and higher percentages of the average person’s entertainment time.
The long post is worth a read in terms of Cam’s suggestion on the death of old media. You’d note from the comment that I don’t totally agree with his suggestion that old media is dead, but I do agree over time that it will be replaced by consumer friendly (ie push/ lazy) nanomedia.
Tags: nanomedia
