Inspired by Darren, and also because I forgot to do it earlier, I’ve turned on the full feed here at duncanriley.com. It’s going to hurt what little traffic reads my personal rants, but to be honest….I don’t really care. As they say in the for love or money stakes, I’m blogging here because I want to (love) and I’m not really all that concerned in terms of traffic and dollars from this site. What I do have to do now is pull out the proforma DMCA notice because I’d guess it will take no more than a few days to start getting all the content ripped now 🙂
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I had the opportunity of speak to a local Rotary Club last night about blogging, and interesting experiment in itself given I had no laptop or audiovisual support so it was a matter of trying to explain the whole blogging thing to people who didn’t know anything about it…without pictures.
Afterwards I was talking to some people: I’d apparently made some people interested in blogging. One person asked me the best place to start a blog for his business at low cost. I talked roughly about free blogging services (such as WordPress.com, Blogger) but after recognising that he’d need a fair bit of support, I recommended TypePad as his best option…..god dammit! Anil would be proud. I even went onto explain how by paying the little bit of money to Mena and friends meant that he’d get a lot of support which would be useful should he get stuck………ok, someone buy me a bullet :-). Who knows, I might even get back on the SixApart Christmas Card list yet!
Love Dave Sifrys reports. Hate the fact that there are soooooo many people out there who don’t know the difference between tracked and actual and use these reports as being indicative of the entire blogosphere, like Mark Evans:
The latest installment of Dave Sifry’s State of the Blogosphere has appeared with few surprises – the blogosphere continues to double every six months (35.3 million and counting),
(Insert gong noise here). Nup, 35.3 tracked, not total. Try 200 million.
SEJ has more here yesterday. Looking like Matt and the team are still having problems:
Once More
We had a pretty bad hardware failure yesterday, and though it took longer than we liked everything was restored and has been running the past 6 hours or so just dandy.
We did some proactive maintainence whil the site was down, but we need to take things down one last time and do one more bit. Everything should be done by roughly 1:30 AM PST.
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My favourite domain tool online: whois.sc, have been renamed to domaintools.com with a redirect. Good on em…I think, but I already miss the old fashioned whois.sc service.
Gotta love these stats. And it’s true. Aside from playing Club977 on the dedicated PVR box when I want to listen to some 80’s music, I’m listening to podcasts….well I was before the iPod got packed in a box…anyone know what box it’s in 🙂
27% of people 12-24 attribute their reduced use of radio to MP3 use; 22% attributed it to tired radio programming; 3% attributed it to podcast listening.
“The days of top market – top station margins in the 40% range are numbered. Expect those hot stations to fall into the 30% range and the entire industry on average to fall lower,” adds Van Dyke. “Wall Street and corner offices will be readjusting their expectations on performance and having to swallow that pill happily knowing it is the only real operational option left.”
Congrats to Matt and the Automattic team on the news that they’ve taken some funding. It would be a lot easier for all of us if we could operate without angel or VC funding, but sometimes that little bit of funding helps.
Of course, in my absence away from the online world, Jeremy hinted that b5media is also exploring our options. There is nothing more I can (nor want) to add to what Jeremy has said, only what I said a in the last paragraph. A little bit of funding helps. In terms of cash flow b5media has never really been in a better position that it has now, we’ve sorted through a lot of our growing issues, we continue to attract new partnerships, and despite the occasional rumour to the contratry, we are paying our bloggers. We’ve exceeded every target we’ve aimed for so far, and often by a country mile, and we continue to grow. We’ve got the most amazing group of bloggers on board…I could joke to some extent that these are the fish that people like Weblogs Inc would reject, but you know… our bloggers aren’t in it just for the money. They blog because they love what they blog about. Their geographic diversity would also mean that they might not qualify to write for other blog networks as well, because if there is one thing I can single out about what we’ve built at b5media, is that it’s truly a global diverse blogging network. As I use to say at The Blog Herald: geography is no longer a limitation.
I couldn’t help but call it this way, this quote from Jason Calacanis (unfortunately I think I signed away all the rights to cute pictures of cats doing kungfu when I sold The Blog Herald).
Denton calls out SixApart. I’m so glad I trusted Brian when he insisted that we create Blogsmith as the foundation of Weblogs, Inc. If we had put our faith in those guys we would still be on blog number 10 or 15–like Nick is!
Steve Rubel points to eponym, another new blogging service, although Steve hypes this one as a SixApart competitor. It looks nice, and the blogs look a bit like MT blogs, which is interesting. There are what…100’s of these services out there now. It’s not a market I’d be looking to enter.
