By Ian, on September 25th, 2006 Techcrunch’s Marshall Kirkpatrick reveals an interesting new technology development designed to improve the podcast format: Seattle based podcast discovery and management service Pluggd is unveiling a major new feature at DEMO this weekend that combines speech recognition and semantic analysis to let users search for and skip to parts of an audio file Continue reading Watching Your Words By Ian, on August 16th, 2006 What did I expect when I called Robert Scoble, perhaps the best-known blogger to have become famous for blogging? I wasn’t sure. Maybe someone very Californian. In the bad way. Anyway, he isn’t. Yes, he’s laid-back and he did use the expression ‘real good’. We only had a short conversation, but I can imagine him being a big hugger. I like that Continue reading The Robert Scoble interview By Ian, on August 10th, 2006 Updated statistics. Following the Bivings Group report into US newspapers’ adoption of Web 2.0 approaches such as blogging and podcasts, which I wrote about here, BBC English Regions Community Producer Robin Hamman has compiled a similar survey for the top eleven UK dailies. The results are as follows (click for bigger): Continue reading The newspaper story, UK edition By Ian, on August 4th, 2006 Mark Glaser offers a great summary of a new report about the online offerings of America’s top 100 newspapers produced by the Bivings Group, a Washington PR company. The full report is available for download here (PDF file) and offers an insight into the ways the papers have, and haven’t, embraced Web 2.0 technologies. Rather than Continue reading The newspaper story | About this BlogSocial tools, devices and web evolution are creating epochal change in media, society and business. The plan is to hide under the floorboards till it’s all over document some of the interesting parts of that change. More…. |
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