A few ideas grabbed here and there: From Jochen Wegner, Germany, Technology Editor Focus Magazine. There are 100 000 weblogs in Germany. A very tiny blogging phenomenon, with not one impact blog. Why? Because Germany is a reputation-driven country of...
Doc Searles Author of the Cluetrain Manifesto. The FCC can regulate broadcasting, defined as "moving content". On the other hand "speech in a place" is protected by the first amendment. So the way we define blogs, the words we use,...
Is the blog a media phenomenon? It might not be after all, because blogs belong to a larger family which is social software.As Yossi puts itThe real killer app on the internet are people ICQ was founded by 4 israeli...
Ideas grabbed here and there: From Stowe Boyd, US, Corante - Corante is a traditional media in blog clothing. It is a federation of independent like-minded consultants (the Corante network) using one single blog platform as their collective publishing medium...
Ideas grabbed here and there from Ross Mayfield, US, Socialtext (10 people - founded in 2002). Socialtext sells wiki infrastructures to work behind corporate firewalls. Traditional Enterprise software is too rigid and basically automate business practices, whereas exception handling is...
Ideas I grabged here and there: From Darren Barefoot, Canada, InsideBlogging and Capulet.com. PR is changing. Bloggers are becoming a middle layer that the PR guys need to go after. Blogs consistently break the news one or two days earlier...
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Ideas I grabbed here and there: From Meg Hourihan, US, Co-founder blogger.com: Blogs are moving beyond text. They are about democratization of media. Content was produced and manipulated by intermediaries. Now we give the ability to people to communicate without...
Joi Ito, Japan, Six Apart japan, Technorati Joi made a quick presentation - quick meaning not short, but fast ;-) - about the new paradigm of communication born with the blog phenomenon. The break even point of publication has been...
Cécile Moulard, Vice-President, Club Sénat introduced the convention and pointed out that we had 22 countries represented among the 300-odd people in the room, gathered here only through word-of-mouth and blogging, and no advertising. She pointed out that French is...
The Paris Quartier Latin was the center of the blogging world today. I went to Loïc's Les Blogs event today. It was quite amazing 300 people and 22 countries represented, and with "la crème de la crème du blogging world"...
In one of his latest books, Re-imagine! Tom Peters talks about a depressing moment when he was called to a participate in a three-hour meeting of one of the top 50 American companies. To quote:Presentation after presentation spewed forth. The...