Don’t Get It

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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Something for the Weekend

I was intrigued to read the headline ‘Widow PC Caters to World of Warcraft Fans’ on Gizmodo. It turns out that it’s a high-​​​​end PC with a very fast network card to optimise your con­nec­tion to the game. Boring.

However, it made me think, and I’d like to register my copy­right on the BlogWidow PC

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My Mate Megite

I have a bit of a love/​​hate rela­tion­ship with Techmeme. It’s very useful for days when you haven’t got time to read through your RSS sub­scrip­tions (viz. most days) and just want a snapshot of what the techies in the blo­go­sphere are talking about.

On the other hand, it tends to focus very heavily on the supposed

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Blogebrity…

The recent ‘state of the blo­go­sphere’ report from Technorati’s David Sifry has ruffled a few feathers because of the inclu­sion of a new semi-​​​​scientific ranking system to group bloggers into four distinct groups. Let’s call them A-​​​​D. (Aside: find out where you stand using this handy tool)

The report describes the four groups

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Be Good

A great article in the FT this week by Sarah Murray (behind their paywall) about the power of the internet to make con­sumers powerful broad­casters. It ends with four quick tips for com­panies planning to join the social media space:

See what’s out there. New services can help com­panies analyse their online repu­ta­tions. Blog-​​​​focused search

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57 million and … nah, not counting any more

David Sifry posts on the state of the blo­go­sphere. There are more than 57mn blogs, and amaz­ingly, more than half of them are active: “About 55% of all blogs are active, which means that they have been updated at least once in the last 3 months.” The blo­go­sphere has very slightly slowed in growth, doubling

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