Watching Your Words

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

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The Robert Scoble interview

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

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The newspaper story, UK edition

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):

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The newspaper story

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

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