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Or rather, here. Interesting news that Shiny Media is launching its own Web 2.0 blog, Techscape. Following the familiar Shiny format of lots of shorter posts, rather than lengthy dissertations into the nature of folksonomy, the new site (so far) covers site and service launches from around the world. Don’t think Techcrunch UK (RIP), but Attended the third meeting of the London social media club last night. It’s always good fun to meet like-minded people who are coming at the same issues as you from a different perspective. The group last night had a good mix of developers, PR professionals, hacks and consultants. Lloyd Davis led the session, which led A very big Yay! for the eminent Doctor Duncan Barnes who has used the clever screen-scraping technique that he employed to create full feeds from the BBC to produce an RSS feed for the NMK website! The feed should probably be described as ‘beta’, since we’re still tweaking and I haven’t yet Press release distribution agency PR Newswire and blog search engine Technorati have signed a deal to put a Technorati button into press releases distributed through the PR Newswire services. So what? you may well ask. Well, it will apparently allow companies to very swiftly measure the impact of any release because any links to them We often go on, don’t we, about the sharp division between old and new media? About the wailing and gnashing of teeth that characterises the shift from one to the other. So it’s nice to see a new product that perfectly marries the two. And with footnote, we’re talking about very old media. Excerpts from Hugh MacLeod’s Random Notes on Blogging: 8. So you a read lot of A-Listers. Congratulations. You now know a lot of stuff everybody else knows. 9. It’s damn hard not to read a lot of A-Listers. They got to where they are for a reason. 24. You think A-Listers are arrogant bastards? You should meet the B-List. |             | |||
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