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27th of January 2005 Darren Rowse

Visualization of Blogs

Anjo is doing some very interesting work on Visually representing blogs. The picture to the left (click to enlarge) is a partial visualization of Scobleizer over a year. Anjo describes what you’re looking at by writing: • Size of a blob is determined by the number of words in the ...more
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26th of January 2005 Darren Rowse

NYT Online Advertisign is up 32%

ClickZ reports that Online Ad Revenues Up 32 Percent at New York Times Co. its not a blog – but I figure its representative of what is happening in the wider online community. ‘Advertising revenue for The New York Times’ online unit increased 32.2 percent for December 2004 compared with ...more
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25th of January 2005 Darren Rowse

Searches on “Blogs” and “Blogging” up by 10% on Yahoo

Yahoo Buzz Reports that blogging has continued to climb the most search for words rankings: Blogging continues its march on the mainstream. It’s considered essential to consume a steady diet of weblogs to keep up with what’s hot on the Web. Searches on “blogs” and “blogging” are still surging and ...more
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23rd of January 2005 Darren Rowse

PicturePhone.com For Sale – $1 Million Start Bid

Do you want to buy a domain name? Got a spare $1million dollars? Then PicturePhone.com might interest you! It isn’t a blog and therefore isn’t quite relevant here but I couldn’t resist linking up. You see PicturePhone.com will be auctioned off to the highest bigger on January 31 to the ...more
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21st of January 2005 Darren Rowse

Returning to Blog Ethics

Jeff Jarvis is taking another stab at the blogging and ethics question and this time tries to take a different approach –‘Some of us have been looking at this ethics question the wrong way: The starting point is not to impose a code of ethics on a medium but instead ...more
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14th of January 2005 Darren Rowse

I’m taking Questions….

Just a reminder that on Thursday (20th) I’m blogging for 24 hours straight in my annual blogathon to raise money for victims of the Tsunami. I’ll be asking for donations on the site during that day and hope to beat last year’s $540. Last year the main reason I got ...more
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11th of January 2005 Darren Rowse

Blogger traffic soars due to tsunami

‘Traffic to Blogger.com leaped 73 percent (to 1.3 million unique visitors) in the week after the tsunami hit Asia, according to Nielsen//NetRatings. ‘ Read more at CyberJournalist.net: Blogger traffic soars due to tsunami
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10th of January 2005 Darren Rowse

Blogathon 2005: Blogging for Victims of the Tsunami

I believe that Blogging can make a difference not only to the hip pockets of those doing the blogging but the wider community. This is your chance to join me in such a project. On Thursday 20 January I will be blogging for 24 hours straight with at least one ...more
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8th of January 2005 Darren Rowse

Bill Gates on Blogging

Gizmodo got a bit of a scoop with a face to face interview with Bill Gates. They’ve posted the first part of the interview which largely focuses upon blogging. Here’s a snippet: ‘I think blogging is super-important and we’ve got to do a lot more software. The phenomena for us ...more
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