Tag: blogging
WordPress plug-in brings blogging to iPhone
Blogging from an iPhone? You’d need to be pretty ninja typing on the on-screen keyboard, but I guess there’s a market for it. If you’re salivating at the prospect, you’ll be wanting a new Wordpress plug-in called WPhone, which lets you blog from Apple’s handset.
Burmese authorities block the bloggers, pics and videos of attrocities go online
If there was ever a story to prove that blogging is not always about the mundane, fickle things, it's that of those in Burma who have been trying to get words and pictures out about the atrocities in their country….
Sketchcasting: It's like Pictionary for bloggers
We've had podcasting, and webcasting, and (to extreme) lifecasting, but for those gifted types who are both artistic and can draw live using computer hardware, there's now sketchcasting. Sketchcasting is a way for people to embed videos of themselves drawing…
Nintendo employee sacked for content of personal blog: anonymity fails
In one of the latest cases of employees being fired as a direct result of their blogging activities, a Nnitendo employee was sacked last month allegedly for content posted on her personal blog. Jessica Zenner's “Inexcusable Behavior” blog, though written…
Six Apart launches Typepad blogging for iPhone and iPod Touch
How d’you fancy blogging with an on-screen keyboard? iPhone users are about to find out, thanks to Six Apart’s launch of an optimised version of its Typepad blogging platform. And guess what? It’ll work on the new iPod Touch too.
Are these the 30 most popular blogs in the world today?
According to one research firm, other blog popularity-ranking services are flawed because they only use one or two measurements to calculate the most popular blogs.
They, on the other hand, use a schmorgasboard of statistics including inbound links from the likes of Yahoo and Google, Alexa (does anyone normal actually use their toolbar?), plus US unique monthly visitor data.
Spotting a fundamental flaw in this already?
Or, in other words, how many of those blogs are not US-based?
Daily Tech Hotlinks for 13-Aug-07: Google Video, PS3, Twitter, Ministry of Defence, Facebook
– Google Video closes, users’ paid-for videos now unavailable, money not refunded (Tech Crunch)
– 9-year old boy saves father’s life, demands a PS3 in return (Engadget)…
Opinion: Facebook is killing personal blogging
Stuart Dredge writes…
I signed into Vox the other day, for the first time in months. It looks like everyone in my personal neighbourhood has been similarly lax too – only one of my friends has blogged in August, and several last posted in May. It’s like a Web 2.0 graveyard.
Opinion: Elton, how much digital music will you sell before you try to "shut down the whole Internet"?
Andy Merrett writes…
Despite his rants and raves, I’ve got a fair amount of time for Elton John, but his latest idea is just plain crazy.
According to an interview in The Sun, he’d “shut down the entire Internet for five years” in order to “see what sort of art is produced over that span”. He’s concerned that too many people are sitting at home using the Internet to blog rather than getting stuck in to good old-fashioned face-to-face communication.
That, apparently, has led to the death of long-term artistic vision.
Yours, perhaps, Elton, but c’mon – are you serious?
Blogging is ten, maybe twelve, or twenty-four years old
The Wall Street Journal ran an interesting article over the weekend suggesting that blogging is now ten years old.
According to the article, the first blogger is “regarded by many to be Jorn Barger”, who “began his business of hunting and gathering links to items that tickled his fancy, to which he appended some of his own commentary, on Dec. 23, 1997.”
What appears to be closer to the truth is that Jorn Barger was the first person (or one of the first people) to coin the phrase ‘blog’, because other sites reckon that blogging has been around for much longer than a decade.
