The Obvious?

Hoots mon!

Off to Scotland tomorrow with the family for a week. I hope to climb some hills so expect photos upon my return.

Look after yourselves while I am away.

Hoots mon!

Off to Scotland tomorrow with the family for a week. I hope to climb some hills so expect photos upon my return.

Look after yourselves while I am away.

Hoots mon!

Off to Scotland tomorrow with the family for a week. I hope to climb some hills so expect photos upon my return.

Look after yourselves while I am away.

Jon Udell on Old Media

Happily, we're entering a world in which expertise isn't merely an assertion, it's a transparently discoverable reality. The skills and knowledge of reporters, writers, and editors, like the skills and knowledge of their sources -- the folks whose ideas and experiences inform publications -- can be and will be documented on the public web.

[snip]

If you're a lawyer or teacher or city planner or scientist, why would you invite such scrutiny? That's the wrong question to ask. Think about it like this instead. On your blog, you can document your public agenda better than anyone else can. If you've ever been interviewed by a newspaper reporter, you know the drill. An hour of careful explanation may be reduced to a quote that makes you cringe. What hasn't occurred to most people yet is that you can publish that careful explanation yourself. Or that, when you do, the web's aggregation engines will surface your words in appropriate contexts, and will help people measure their impact.

Great stuff and more here.

Jon Udell on Old Media

Happily, we're entering a world in which expertise isn't merely an assertion, it's a transparently discoverable reality. The skills and knowledge of reporters, writers, and editors, like the skills and knowledge of their sources -- the folks whose ideas and experiences inform publications -- can be and will be documented on the public web.

[snip]

If you're a lawyer or teacher or city planner or scientist, why would you invite such scrutiny? That's the wrong question to ask. Think about it like this instead. On your blog, you can document your public agenda better than anyone else can. If you've ever been interviewed by a newspaper reporter, you know the drill. An hour of careful explanation may be reduced to a quote that makes you cringe. What hasn't occurred to most people yet is that you can publish that careful explanation yourself. Or that, when you do, the web's aggregation engines will surface your words in appropriate contexts, and will help people measure their impact.

Great stuff and more here.

Jon Udell on Old Media

Happily, we're entering a world in which expertise isn't merely an assertion, it's a transparently discoverable reality. The skills and knowledge of reporters, writers, and editors, like the skills and knowledge of their sources -- the folks whose ideas and experiences inform publications -- can be and will be documented on the public web.

[snip]

If you're a lawyer or teacher or city planner or scientist, why would you invite such scrutiny? That's the wrong question to ask. Think about it like this instead. On your blog, you can document your public agenda better than anyone else can. If you've ever been interviewed by a newspaper reporter, you know the drill. An hour of careful explanation may be reduced to a quote that makes you cringe. What hasn't occurred to most people yet is that you can publish that careful explanation yourself. Or that, when you do, the web's aggregation engines will surface your words in appropriate contexts, and will help people measure their impact.

Great stuff and more here.

Flame comments

Picking up on Joi's concerns about flame comments Halley has been expressing her concern about the effect they have on bloggers. The irony is that when I went to leave a comment - it was about grammar - I couldn't because in order to leave a comment on Halley's blog I have to be on here team. I am not and the result was I didn't.

IMHO it is much better just to leave comments open. OK I don't have the volumes of readers some bloggers do and apart from spam don't normally get many problems with commenters but even if I do it takes seconds to deal with them and in the process I don't put legit commenters off. This is my space and I reserve the right to deal with comments the way I see fit

Halley wrote "Maybe it's all about the rude level of comments the blogosphere has sunked to" - never mind concerns about commenters - I am more concerned about the level of grammar bloggers are descending to. Where the hell does "sunked to" come from!

;-)

Flame comments

Picking up on Joi's concerns about flame comments Halley has been expressing her concern about the effect they have on bloggers. The irony is that when I went to leave a comment - it was about grammar - I couldn't because in order to leave a comment on Halley's blog I have to be on here team. I am not and the result was I didn't.

IMHO it is much better just to leave comments open. OK I don't have the volumes of readers some bloggers do and apart from spam don't normally get many problems with commenters but even if I do it takes seconds to deal with them and in the process I don't put legit commenters off. This is my space and I reserve the right to deal with comments the way I see fit

Halley wrote "Maybe it's all about the rude level of comments the blogosphere has sunked to" - never mind concerns about commenters - I am more concerned about the level of grammar bloggers are descending to. Where the hell does "sunked to" come from!

;-)

Flame comments

Picking up on Joi's concerns about flame comments Halley has been expressing her concern about the effect they have on bloggers. The irony is that when I went to leave a comment - it was about grammar - I couldn't because in order to leave a comment on Halley's blog I have to be on here team. I am not and the result was I didn't.

IMHO it is much better just to leave comments open. OK I don't have the volumes of readers some bloggers do and apart from spam don't normally get many problems with commenters but even if I do it takes seconds to deal with them and in the process I don't put legit commenters off. This is my space and I reserve the right to deal with comments the way I see fit

Halley wrote "Maybe it's all about the rude level of comments the blogosphere has sunked to" - never mind concerns about commenters - I am more concerned about the level of grammar bloggers are descending to. Where the hell does "sunked to" come from!

;-)

Curly tails

Clay's charts are accurate depictions of his data, but they have a mythic power that's misleading: The long tail looks like, well, a long tail when in fact it's a fractal curlicue of relationships. It's more like a squirrel's tail than a monkey's. When marketing folks don't understand that, they confuse the long tail with an opportunity to do one-to-one marketing, treating each person as a "market of one," instead of seeing that the ones are in conversation with other ones.

David Weinberger: The shape of the long tail