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BusinessWeek Rolls Out Blogspotting.net
hackajar wrote in to mention a development on BusinessWeek. Their weeklong discussion about blogs and blogging in business has culminated in a new website: Blogspotting.net. From the site: "Before anyone asks, we didn't pick the name because we have an urge to speak in Scottish brogue or fall headlong into the seamy side of questionable drug usage. It seemed to fit what we intend to do with this blog--track the phenomenon of how media, business, and blogs meet head on." They appear to be using Movable Type.
Due to the shortage of blogs about blogs and blog related information! good idea!
Starsucks
we're the scum of the fucking earth. The British.., well, they're just wankers. We, on the other hand, have been colonized by wankers.
oh, gods, it's suits reading our blogs! they'll know what we're thinking! well, at least they still won't know what the hell we're talking about..
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
If you want a true democracy, it has to begin with people's rights to say whatever they want. While US has the "freedom of speech", let's face it... the poor, minority and steretyped always struggle with this freedom.
Where Blogs come in HUGE is... you don't really know if the person doing the speaking is rich or poor. The status can be a complete mystery. That's true democracy.
I am going to keep an eye on them with blogspottingwatch.org.
except the webpages look marginally better, the content is still the same except now its called a "blog" and not a "home website"
This must be one of those press hits.
Slagheap
First against the wall when the revolution comes
Tommy (looking at the hills): Doesn't it make you proud to be Scottish?
Renton (drunk, 'clean,' and pissed off): It's shite being Scottish! We're the lowest of the low! The scum of the fucking Earth! The most wretched, miserable, servile, pathetic trash that was ever shat into civilization! Some people hate English. I don't! They're just wankers! We, on the other hand, are colonized by wankers! Can't even find a decent culture to be colonized by! We're ruled by effete arseholes! It's a shite state of affairs to be in, Tommy! And all the fresh air in the world won't make any fucking difference.
Well, Dont know the future of blogging, but the nature of it surely resembles something like what Rent-boy Renton describes : "I don't feel the sickness yet, but it's in the post. That's for sure. I'm in the junkie limbo at the moment. Too ill to sleep. Too tired to stay awake, but the sickness is on its way. Sweat, chills, nausea. Pain and craving. A need like nothing else I've ever known will soon take hold of me. It's on its way. " and KABOOM! You start blogging!
(Of course, Paul Graham retracted this claim when BusinessWeek informed him today the article was sponteneous, uninfluenced by a PR firm; but I'm sure BusinessWeek had his article foremost in their thoughts when they announced their new blogging site.)
Happy Birthday Sarey. Woo. go Sarey.
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Please don't look at any of the weblogs. Their sanity-destroying power is like concentrated goatse.
there's more than one way to do me.
I chose not to choose life. I chose something else. And the reason? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when you've got a blog?
This sounds like a blatant ripoff of blogspot.com, which is owned by Blogger. Trying to benefit from the name maybe?
Its amazing how much content in the blogosphere has to do with...the blogosphere.
Being against $current_media_darling makes you so cool.
there's more than one way to do me.
You best mind your p's and q's, young man. blogspottingwatchwatchers.com is on your case....
eat shiat and bark at the moon
why every one is using Movable Type. I know it is best know out there but is not the only one even after bait and switch tactic See Netcraft
Other are very good tested e.g. Drupal at Spread Firefox
http://blogs.businessweek.com/mt/mt-check.cgi
http://blogs.redhat.com/cgi-bin/mt-check.cgi
Slashdotters who frown upon the blogging phenomenon should realize that Slashdot is considered a blog and tracked by websites like Daypop (at http://www.daypop.com/blogrank/), so if you're merrily whipping these comments out, you are considered a blogger as well, only you're doing it on a community blog.
Blogspotting sounds hip, but it's a shock (yeah, falling-off-the-chair shock) to see the photos of these two Businessweek bloggers who look like they were sent straight from Hollywood Central Casting for "corporate cubicle type"; I mean, put on some Goth makeup or something.
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when a major business magazine writes an article on how it's such an important trend.
Happened with Sigma-5 (or whatever the lame GE methodology was), happened with dot coms, now it's blogging.
Well, it was fun while it lasted.
-- Tigger warning: This post may contain tiggers! --
Soon you'll be able to use your PC to control the lives of your very own artificial humans as they Blog away in their very own Blogs.
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Watch them type on the keyboard when you click on them to Blog. See them take bathroom breaks when they've been blogging too long. Make sure their motives are kept high by ignoring the doorbell as Real Life tries to intrude on them.
Upgrade their blogging skills, learning new Social Interactions like Flamewar (hostile), Befriend A Blogger (friendly), Icon (greeting), and Blog Link (allows you to track their friends Blogs).
Have them access Facebook from their college or university to find out what parties are going on - and have them show up at Blogparties!
Coming soon to a gaming store near you!
[darn, where's the irony button when you need one
-- Tigger warning: This post may contain tiggers! --
Wait a minute... blogosphere? Where is that, exactly? And can I get there from cyberspace?
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is the word trainspotting SOLELY associated with the movie in the states now? i wonder how many people actually realize that trainspotting is a past time where people actually spot trains. damn...
sig.
they're in denial.
Tech Public Policy stuff
Im starting [URL:http://www.anologger.com] a anonymous blogger directory site. I promise to not check the log files to see where you are coming from :)
by TheSpoom (715771) Uncaring Linux user here. I have nothing to add to this but please continue. *munches popcorn*
I work right by the major east west mainline of Norfolk Southern. Trainspotting is the coolest.
What do Slashdotters find acceptable in terms of blogs that accept payment for publishing content?
How much disclosure is required before you say "ok, they weren't trying to slip this one by me, I accept it, I'll still read"?
What should a company do if they've accepted money for a a paid blog entry, not disclosed it, and got caught?
Blogging is going to become a larger and larger part of the business world, and especially advertising and PR, whether we like it or not. I'm just curious on what Slashdotters thoughts on acceptable practices for this behavior are. And please don't say "don't do it" or other unconstructive things, I'm asking some honest "best practice" questions.
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Do most of the corp blogs use MT?
A "community blog" you say? Who came up with this term? Sounds like something the mass media latched onto to ensure ratings continuity with the already hyped up topic of blogging.
A blog is a personal public journal.
Slashcode sites facilitate public discourse, among many members, on an ongoing stream of stories and topics.
Forums facilitate public discourse, among many members, on a mostly static set of major topics.
So where is the relation between the later and the former two? Should all sites that let individuals post messages publicly, in any form, be considered some form of blogging? I am curious who first coined this "community blog" term. I have a feeling that most people who have participated in these sorts of sites, before the advent of blogging, don't see them as blogging sites. So why let the term be pushed on us? I for one don't want to be called a blogger in the blogosphere. The natures and origins of blogs vs. slashcode vs. forums vs. even usenet seem to be quite different to me. Thankfully no one has called usenet a blog yet, but who knows. The use of the word blog strikes me as a form of stereotyping that I try to avoid. After all, content is what matters over format.
In America, if you are on the Internet often enough to keep a blog, and you are technologically savvy enough to know what a blog is, you are probably not economically poor. You MIGHT be, but it is FAR MORE LIKELY that you are middle-class or rich.
Globally, if you have a blog, you are almost certainly in the top ONE PERCENT on any realistic economic scale -- probably in the top one-half-of-one-percent, or even one-quarter. It means you can read and write, you have a computer and know how to use it, you have some kind of Internet access, and you are probably not starving to death or dying of disease.
So please clarify what you mean by "rich" and "poor".
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