Bloomberg asked for comments on the Dow Jones-Rupert Murdoch saga, and I explained that I had no special insight into the situation. Rupert Murdoch offered a lot of money for Dow Jones, and so far no one else has offered more or come up with a business case for doing so. See: Burkle, Greenspan eye group bid for Dow Jones - Newsday.com
This could be today’s list of links from us:
Web 2.0 Workgroup - A network of Web 2.0 resources
Recent Links [rebelpixel productions]
I’ve been “wandering” online a bit more lately, rarely with a destination in mind, and rarer still to reach one. This morning (it’s Saturday - boys in the basement getting their fix of KidsWB) - Jon Dube’s Technorati cosmos and tagcloud caught my eye during a brief stop at CyberJournalist.net, which led me to wander over to Six Apart to browse the MT plugin collection there, and then on to Wordpress to check out the plugins there. No conclusions - it looked to me like MT had a bigger collection, but that may be wrong - WP has plenty. And, at any rate, I somehow wound up here, and intrigued by Markku Seguerra’s Recent Links plugin, which I hope to play with. So far I’m pleased with WP, but the default Links generator for the sidebar is NOT one of its strengths. Meanwhile … I’m liking Diigo more and more - it’s also a hnady way of collecting links and then posting a few in a daily “links” post.
Wired 14.06: The Rise of Crowdsourcing
From the June issue of Wired, which, sorry, I did not devour as soon as I got it. … The strength of weak ties is the value of a broad, expansive network that includes many different skills, capabilities and perspectives. This fits precisely the goals of the We Media Network, and it’s the exact opposite of what happens through traditional professional and trade associations, in which networks may be large but are also homogenous - monocultures vs. communities or ecosystems.
From Techcrunch:
Odeo Releases Twttr, which is a sort of “group send” SMS application. Each person controls their own network of friends. When any of them send a text message to “40404,” all of his or her friends see the message via sms…People are using it to send messages like “Cleaning my apartment” and “Hungry”. You can also add friends via text message, nudge friends, etc. It really a social network around text messaging - and is very similar to another service called Dodgeball.
I’m testing Tony Perkins’ new corporate social networking platform, called Going On. It includes blogging features that allow me to cross post to a blog on his service - and on my own blog. But I’m still looking for the network membership tools - to see if this has any utility in launching a network, or if it’s just a hybrid profile/publishing system.
Preface: Am I going to blog, personally, for real now? I don’t know - this one sucked up 20 or 30 minutes. Still, playing with Furl just now reminded me that I really like it.
I just had coffee with Dale and Rick Robinson at Greenberry’s in Reston. I seem to spend more time in Starbucks even though I like Greenberry’s much more - and it has free wifi. Starbucks is a little closer to my office.
Well, coffee for me, cafe au lait for Dale (just back from Paris, hence the departure from his usual latte), and a Diet Coke for Rick.
Everyone loves del.icio.us - except me. I can see how fantasically wonderful it is, or should be - I just can’t get into it.
Furl seems more my speed.
And here’s my first test:
I’m playing with blogger again. Just found the
Googlebar -an open source/Firefox version of the Google Toolbar for IE. I wanted the “Blog This” button.
Something good - citizen journalists on MSNBC.
All in all, not much to cheer about in media land - the past week has been one long drool, reporting good for nothing but a wipe and a flush.
I’m demonstrating Blogger’s Blog This button - and here’s a link to our Typepad test at The Media Center.
Microsoft is finally getting into blogs, and they’ve recognized the mobile connection, and they’re testing first in Japan - all smart moves. I still hear media people brag about Microsoft’s entry and retreat from local publishing, via CitySearch. The brag is that Microsoft learned how difficult it is to be successful with local media. Maybe.
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Jenny is in Boston this weekend and I’m sure it will come as no surprise to her that I’m up late in front of the computer, playing. And truly, this is as much play as anything else - games with digital toys to test-retest-prove how it works, where it goes, what I can do with it. But the bigger question always looms: once I’ve mastered the rules, the techniques, the geeky bits - then what? What will I do with it? What will I create? What will I say?
I should really get to sleep.
Which means I can post from my mobile, from around the world. Hello world. Hello. You. Here’s a link to where I work.
… so let me start mid-sentence, because although this is the beginning of my Daily Me, it picks up in the middle of a story about e-mail, babies, war and travel.
E-mail: I get too much. I can’t keep up. I have more than 1,000 undread from sources I’ve requested - newsletters, discussion groups, etc., and I’m never going to read them. What critical information have I missed?
Babies: Jenny is due any day now. We thought it was happening Saturday night, but the strong contractions faded away.
War: We’re in one, bombing Afghanistan yesterday and today in retaliation for the Sept. 11 World Trade Center/Pentagon attacks. Strange time to focus on babies and e-mail.
Travel: I was in Florida last week for one of my convergence seminars, during which I teach media executives that media companies are getting bigger and accumlating “assets” across multiple platforms, and that the days of the single-platform newspaper or TV company are numbered, we’re all multi-tasked, multi-platform consumers. Or so the story begins. I’m glad I made it back from Florida before the baby was born.
Lucy had been gone for three days, off to see her mother in Los Angeles. They were to plan for our wedding. In this short time I had accomplished next to nothing and my studio had become oppressive.
I had been useless before she left. The canvasses perched ready for paint on my six easels had been poised, ready, blank, weeks before she left. Now the house was empty, and sitting alone in my studio I too felt empty. Read the rest of this entry »
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