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 Wednesday, May 10, 2006
started 5/10/2006; 12:56:05 PM - last post 5/10/2006; 6:12:36 PM
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Doc Searls - Wednesday, May 10, 2006 
5/10/2006; 4:56:05 PM (reads: 7057, responses: 2)
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Time(s) to check your referer logs 
| | Guess which little local newspaper is creating a New York politics blog? |
| | Now guess who got into their blog last night, just as easy as signing in through their WordPress login page? |
| | And guess who is now an approved writer of said blog? |
| | Daily Gotham publisher Liza Sabater discovered an unreleased New York politics blog being developed by the New York Times's website. How? The new blog includes a link to Sabater's site and she found it by checking her referrer logs. (If you publish a website, you *do* check your referrer logs on a daily basis, right?) |
| | Actually, not in months. But now I'm curious... |
| | What should The New York Times do now ? Use this "instalaunch" and build some community now. |
| | The future of local newspapers is local bloggers. Simple as that. Call them "stringers" if you like. But if you're going to build a bridge from the past to the future of journalism, you'll need bloggers to help build it. |
Necking
| | Maybe some kind of mash-up, perhaps? |
Links without chains
| | Linking also brings value to your readers by making your blog a portal into a much broader web experience. It makes your blog part of a conversation, not a lecture. |
| | It's called internetworking for a reason. |
| | Also, from Ed's first column on blogging, four years ago in the Greensboro News-Record: |
| | Beyond the rush of publishing in real time, blogging adds an extra element to the process of composing your thoughts. It's like writing in 3-D. The ability to link to other sites from within your own work can enrich whatever you have to say with context or counterpoint, and it also guides you to new subjects to write about. |
| | Not to say gestures don't do that too. Just to say links still do the job just fine. |
| | Or more than fine. I had been writing for thirty years before I started doing it in 3D, in 1995. For the first time I felt like I was writing with two hands, seeing with two eyes. I no longer felt trapped behind my own lectern. Eleven years later I'd still rather write (and read) linky text than linkless text. |
| | What I want to learn about gestures, from Steve and others, is how they further unchain my reading and writing. I'm wide open. I just don't know yet. |
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Gerry Humphrey - Re: Wednesday, May 10, 2006
5/10/2006; 8:35:38 PM (reads: 668, responses: 0)
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Regarding the "Necking" images.... four words...
Image copyright Space Imaging
High res images are available... but does Google want to pay for them?
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Mike Warot - Re: Wednesday, May 10, 2006
5/10/2006; 10:12:36 PM (reads: 672, responses: 0)
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I have my own problems with the "page view model" of measuring attention. I'm sick of sites that force you to click a link (thus moving a counter somewhere) before you can read a story. It's a value subtractive process that needs to get quashed, along with partial RSS feeds.
I'm still waiting for enough access to GestureBank to be able to see some of the data that is accumulating. I'd like to be able to know how long people read my web page, for example... and as long as I'm a silo of one (thanks to the page view model), I'll never be able to find that out. I'll never know where people were before or after my site... I don't get any context.
The reason Napster took off like a rocket and scared the snot of of the RIAA and major labels isn't because of the pricing, but rather the context.... It was trivial to find music you like by viewing the collections of others, and seeing what other things they liked... in context with them already having the music you know you like. I must have bought 100 CDs in the year or so before it got killed off. I've purchased maybe 1 per year since then.
Context is where the value is... lose it in aggregation, and you've subtracted 99.9% of the value.
--Mike--
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