anyone who cares has probably already seen the new yorker article entitled you’ve got blog, which is about, well, blogger.
i’m dumping it into the annotated bookmark bin so i can remember to take a look-see at a later date.
is plastic a corporate metafilter?
write the web rightly wonders where are the blogger clones?
“Blogger has a loyal following, demonstrated clearly by the enthusiastic response to its plea for contributions to pay for a new server.
But a long time ago, Mosaic was the only cool browser to use, and then came the browser wars.
A year from now, could we be seeing the Blogger wars, as a gaggle of newer (but not necessarily better) content management / web publishing services come along to grab their share?”
i like blogger, but it has been a mystery to me as to why there aren’t more viable competitors. why doesn’t yahoo buy them? and is there any real first mover advantage, other than the fact that there is no clean interoperability between blogger and would-be competing systems:
“I think that the single aspect of Blogger that prevents a large number of clones is the lack of simple import/export functionality which could be utilised by other applications.
A competing webapp, to compete on features, would have to provide detailed instructions to help novice users get their data from Blogger in a machine-readable format. It’s currently not worth it, and there’s little if no incentive for the Pyra guys to provide a one-click export process.”
XML Matters #6: A roundup of editors :
“In this column David Mertz gives an up-to-date review of a half-dozen leading XML editors. He compares the strengths, weaknesses and capabilities of each — especially for handling text-heavy prose documents. The column addresses the very practical question of just how one goes about creating, modifying, and maintaining prose-oriented XML documents.”
see also: superopendirectory > xml editors
i don’t know. i was beginning to think maybe my sense of wonderment and perspective had taken a break this week. i just never really got the whole it [a.k.a ‘ginger’] phenomenon. that is, until i discovered that sun was involved in creating the ginger bubble:
“”I don’t want to reveal too much, but let’s just say we put the Gin in Ginger,” boasted Scott McNealy, CEO of Sun Microsystems. McNealy later conceded he hasn’t found out what Ginger is, exactly, but argued that like the Internet, “it isn’t what you know, but whether or not people perceive that you know.””
the cut-backs at the new york times are already beginning to show, since they are resorting to doing a story on the continuing woes of cuecat.
“When the Digital Convergence Corporation introduced a device called the CueCat last summer, it promised to “revolutionize the way people interact with the World Wide Web” — specifically, through
technology designed to link print and broadcast media to relevant pages on the Internet.But as with many Internet ventures with lofty goals, Digital Convergence has run into a few roadblocks.”
me thinks they dug into the bin of stories that didn’t make the cut when they had a little more money and personnel. i can’t see one morsel of new news in the whole story.
sweet jesus! this poll, which attempts to gauge americans’ general knowledge levels, is a little old – and i know you can get polls to say whatever you want them to say – but i still think it explains alot :
“When Americans are asked to identify the country from which America gained its independence, 76% correctly name Great Britain. A handful, 2%, think America’s freedom was won from France, 3% mention some other country (including Russia, China, and Mexico, among others named), while 19% are unsure. ”
“Probing a more universal measure of knowledge, Gallup also asked the following basic science question, which has been used to indicate the level of public knowledge in two European countries in recent years: “As far as you know, does the earth revolve around the sun or does the sun revolve around the earth?” In the new poll, about four out of five Americans (79%) correctly respond that the earth revolves around the sun, while 18% say it is the other way around.”
i now no longer have to wonder why certain people win political races.
we get the politicians we deserve.