Andrew Sullivan has some interesting figures on the decline in readership of US political blogs this year. The question is though is, have political blogs had their day? I can see some arguing that the drop off is because the US is half way through the Presidential cycle, and yet I remember reading last year, when the slump started, that it was only a slump due to there being no elections in 2005…and yet the US has mid-term elections this year and the figures keep dropping. I’d guess that there will be some pickup in the lead up to the next US Presidential elections, however I think the glory days of political blogging and bloggers has passed.
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Oh God, please no! plus something odd going on at Techcrunch
A new service for backing up photos: Backupr. Another wankr name. I feel sick.
What’s really odd though is that the post I saw in Bloglines about it at Techcrunch has oddly been deleted from the Techcrunch site:
to this:
It’s also not on the main page at the time of writing either…which can only mean that someone has taken it down…I wonder why?
Tags: Techcrunch, Backupr
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AOL Data, OMG!
Check this and this out…both awful and extremely funny at the same time.
PS: no pics but content NSFW.
(via BlackHat-SEO Blog)
Tags: AOL data
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Is Web 2.0 actually a vicious circle?
Steve Rubel makes a very, very brilliant observation on Web 2.0 today…
Quietly, an entire Web 2.0 economy has blossomed. The Web sites and blogs that cover Web 2.0 – sites that I really love – are largely supported by ads from startups that also are hoping to capitalize in the rising interest in online advertising. This creates a vicious cycle that’s unhealthy for the earning potential of bloggers who cover Web 2.0.
Once again I turn to history as my guide. Back in 2001 Yahoo faced a similar problem. It was too dependent on dot-com advertisers…what’s not different is that startups advertising on startups spells trouble. You can’t sustain momentum. If the economy hits a speed bump it will upset the apple cart enough to cause the Web 2.0 advertising economy to sink. And while it won’t spell the demise of these popular blogs, it might mean these bloggers will need to return to their day jobs.
History is a guide, and with a pile of money going into Web 2.0 reporting blogs it really puts the gamble into venture capital funding, doesn’t it.
Congrats to Steve though for being the first to observe this, it seems obvious…indeed one of those thinks that makes you scratch your head and wonder why didn’t I notice this and articulate it in a blog post..and yet I think Steve is the first with this as a posted observation.
Tags: Web 2.0, Steve Rubel
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Digg over Dugg?
There’s trouble afoot at Digg today, I keep getting this message:
Perhaps it’s time Kevin Rose sold out and let someone with some extra server capacity take over 🙂
Tags: Digg, Digg down, Digg not working
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Sure, it’s a storm, but there’s lots of bubble activity out on the sea
Grouper purchased by Sony for $65m USD, roughly $70 – $120 USD per user. This is seriously, seriously, nuts. The company that does it’s best to ruin music for all of us with its crappy rootkits and DRM technology buys a video sharing service….wonder how long it takes till Grouper dies….6 months, 12 months? with Sony’s track record it will only be a matter of time until they make the site so unworkable, unusable and undesirable that it will die an inglorious death.
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Screw You…and your trademark
From The Register:
“A businessman has failed to win the right to register the term “screw you” as a wide-ranging European trademark because it is offensive. It can be used, but only for goods sold in sex shops, the European trademark authority has ruled.”
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Watch the Chicken Noodle Soup Video
According to Greywolf, the Chicken Noodle Soup Video is the next big thing in the States…can’t say I’ve heard of the Chicken Noodle Soup Video or Chicken Noodle Soup song for that matter, but here it is, the Chicken Noodle Soup Video!
Sort of Chicken Dance comes rap..sort of…bizarre.
Tags: Watch the Chicken Noodle Soup Video, Chicken Noodle Soup Video, Chicken Noodle Soup
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The 10 ways Australia would be different if we were an American State
Inspired by Darren’s recent list making competitions, I present some facts for those who think Australia is nothing more than an American State:
The 10 ways Australia would be different if we were an American State
1. Our currency would be made out of paper and would be green. Not only would it be really easy to forge, North Korea would be one of the worlds largest producers of it.
2. We’d be one of only 3 countries in the world that don’t use the Metric System.
3. We would only have been on the winning side in major 20th century wars if we’d turned up late.
4. We’d drive on the wrong side of the road, mainly because we decided to do so to spite the British.
5. We’d also wouldn’t be able to spell in English correctly, and hence we would have adopted our own version of English spelling which we would then try to impose on the rest of the world.
6. Our murder rate would be at least 4 times higher, and most of those murders would involve guns, which many of us would own and keep at home.
7. Instead of having a $10 billion+ Federal Government Surplus, our Federal Government would have a trillion dollar defecit.
8. Terrorist attacks on home soil wouldn’t just include the Hilton Hotel Bombing, and yet we would never have been attacked on home soil during a war.
9. English would not be our official language (the US doesn’t have one). Everyone in Victoria would speak Spanish, although we’d still call them Mexicans.
10. McDonalds would include pickles on their McOz burger, and instead of serving Sausage and Egg McMuffins for breakfast, we’d be eating Burritos.
