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Monthly Archives: December 2007

links for 2007-12-25

Spam Filter / Spam Firewall / Web Filter / Spam Appliance / Load Balancer / Content Filter / Email Archiver
“based on an analysis of more than one billion daily email messages sent to its more than 50,000 customers worldwide, found that 90 to 95 percent of all email sent in 2007 was spam, increasing from [...]

links for 2007-12-23

BuzzMachine » Blog Archive » An exchange of networked journalism apps
“Wouldn’t it be great if news orgs of all sizes and shapes could share applications that would enable networked journalism? Imagine if any news org could get their hands on that crowdsourcing tool to start mobilizing their audiences to get info.”
(tags: crowdsourcing tools news+biz journalism [...]

links for 2007-12-22

(iverson’s) currentbuzz: Information Just Wants to be Free
“As a lawyer, Lawrence Lessig talks about what it does to the legal system and the moral climate of a society based on laws, when the system starts making things illegal that most of its citizenry don’t find *wrong*.”
(tags: copyright law morality problems)

The Generational Divide in Copyright Morality [...]

links for 2007-12-21

It’s a girl thing | yelvington.com
“Get this: 35% of all online teen girls blog, vs. only 20% of online teen boys, according to the latest report from the Pew Internet & American Life project. If you have any lingering notions that the Internet is a place for geeks and guys, get over it.”
(tags: gender blogging [...]

Vegetative State

Zesmerelda, via Flickr (CC license)

Oh, this looks very familiar…

Forwarded to me by Tom Vilot…
Last night, my friend came to visit and we were talking and I said to her, “I never want to live in a vegetative state, dependent on some machine and fluids from a bottle. If that ever happens, just pull the plug.’
She [...]

links for 2007-12-20

Facebook: More Popular Than Porn - TIME
“This reshaped online landscape leaves me feeling old and out of the loop. It seems that social-networking sites have not only usurped porn in popularity, but they’ve also gobbled up time Gen Y-ers used to spend on traditional e-mail and IM”
(tags: culture generations social+media trends conversational+media)

Tweet Scan - Real-time [...]

How and why to get started with blogging: The REAL answer

afkatws, via Flickr (CC license)

Don’t just start blogging. Spend some time scoping things out first.

Almost daily, people e-mail me to ask me for advice about their online-media careers. I just got such an inquiry this morning. It started out pretty typically:
“I found your Contentious.com recently. I’m very interested in online writing as a career. Can [...]

links for 2007-12-19

Tragedy of the Commons: Lane Hartwell vs. Richter Scales | ::HorsePigCow:: marketing uncommon
The post is good, but the comment thread is even better. Definitely read the thoughtful comments to this post. This is one key read why I love blogs — and one big advantage they have over non-conversational presentations.
(tags: community copyright law ethics diversity [...]

Social Media Up, Porn Down? Hmmmmm….

I was just watching the first episode of Buzzlogic Vino Diaries, a pretty good vidcast where people get together in a wine bar to talk about social media. Just my speed on both counts!
Here, Buzzlogic’s Valerie Combs talks with Bill Tancer of Hitwise about several intriguing online-media topics — over a fine glass of tempranillo. [...]

Stupid Strategic Commenting v. Smart Engagement

Maggiejumps, via Flickr (CC license)

Clumsiness makes for cute fountains, but horrid blog comments.

One of my most popular posts is: Stategic commenting: No blog is an island. It’s popular for a reason. Lots of people want to learn how to attractive more positive attention through conversational media (including, but not limited to, weblogs). That’s fine. Some [...]