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Google Answers has been closed while Yahoo! Answers goes from strength to strength. The key difference between the two is that Google’s service paid vetted ‘experts’ to produce results, while Yahoo allows anyone to pitch in. The whole thing leaves a lot of questions. I’m not sure whether the stats prove an Going to any conferences soon? I am sharpening my pencils for a trip to Online Information 2006 tomorrow followed by a bit of Word of Mouth Communications on Friday, perhaps seguing into Robert Scoble’s “pissed as newts” session. In case I find no-one to talk to, I am grateful to the estimable Ed Lee for devising Update: Toulmin was apparently quoted out of context in the original story and the BBC has changed their story to show a more balanced opinion. The Press Complaints Commission director Tim Toulmin thinks blogs should be covered by a voluntary code of practice like that for UK newspapers. The BBC reports that he made the remarks The online academic journal Reconstruction has a special issue devoted to blogs and blogging. It includes a paper from one of my favourite Aca/Fans, Danah Boyd, entitled ‘A Blogger’s Blog: Exploring the Definition of a Medium’. What follows is a summary/simplification with a tiny pinch of comment. She’s talking about the difficulties involved in defining the medium, Ewan McIntosh has been good enough to provide his notes for a talk giving an introduction to blogging he gave at an LTS event. Archly titled ‘Just because you can blog in one click doesn’t mean you should…’, his talk covers seven main themes: Authenticity: Don’t make your people take the 5th Amendment Some (mild) outrage about the Jackie Danicki post about her tube attacker here and here and here. There’s talk of lynchin’s in them there blogs. I find that quite bizarre. Jackie — who I don’t know — was verbally and physically attacked during a tube journey and posted about it, together with a picture of |             | |||
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