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Excerpt from a blogging reality check
The back-and-forth between bloggers resembles the informal chats, in university hallways and coffee rooms, that have always stimulated economic research, argues Paul Krugman, a Nobel-prizewinning economist who blogs at the New York Times. But moving the conversation online means that far more people can take part. Admittedly, for every lost prophet there is a crank who is simply lost. Yet despite the low barriers to entry, blogs do impose some intellectual standards. Errors of fact or logic are spotted, ridiculed and corrected. Areas of disagreement are highlighted and sometimes even narrowed. Some of the best contributors do not even have blogs of their own, serving instead as referees, leaving thoughtful comments on other… Continue reading: Economics blogs: A less dismal debate | The Economist
Not a Currents fan…
You could also call it the sterilization of the social web. Just like today’s new Twitter redesign makes things nice and pretty for non-technical users – Google Currents is infinitely friendlier and more accessible than any RSS reader – even Google’s own Reader. Unfortunately, in the current application that ease of use comes at a great cost: Google Currents does away with many of the best parts of the social web. It sings a catchy tune, but there’s far less life inside the experience. It’s not just a bummer, either – it’s a threat to what’s great about blogging.
Google Currents is to Social Media as Justin Bieber is to the… Continue reading: Google Currents is to Social Media as Justin Bieber is to the Beatles [ReadWriteWeb]
Facebook officially kills a syndication feature that, at least in my limited experience, didn’t work well anyway. If this is representative of Facebook’s strategy, and if Google does a reasonable job of integrating Blogger and Google+, my blog will eventually migrate to Google+
Until the upcoming kill date, Facebook users have been able to automatically import content from their website or blog. This was achieved by going to the Notes app, clicking on the Notes Settings option, choosing Import a Blog, entering the appropriate URL, and clicking on Start Importing.
So, what’s the alternative? There really isn’t one, according to the following Facebook Help Center entry: “My blog isn’t importing to… Continue reading: Facebook to kill RSS support for Notes | ZDNet
Excerpt from a critically important reality check
Privacy advocates have been busy this past week.
Facebook’s announced changes, including the Facebook “Timeline” and Amazon’s Silk browser, which is slated to be offered on its new Kindle Fire when it’s released in November, have raised a number of privacy concerns. The objections raise the question of whether we can continue to innovate digitally without releasing more of our personal information. Should the Web be an inherently private or public place — or should we refrain from entering further into the cloud until each of us is guaranteed a padlock for our personal information? (Full disclosure: The Washington Post Co.’s chairman and chief… Continue reading: Amazon, Facebook and the evolution of privacy – Ideas@Innovations – The Washington Post
Being different by being more traditional, in terms of collaborative workspace models?
That might make you think “Google Circles,” but what Posterous is doing is different, because there is no secret Spaces management dashboard, where only you know who gets placed in which category.
“Versus Google Circles we think we’re building for normal people,” said Posterous CEO Sachin Agarwal in a recent interview. “We use the analogy of email [where you know who you're sending to and they know who they're receiving it from] — everything is symmetric groups.”
Posterous Reshapes Its Blog Product, Renames It Spaces – Liz Gannes – Social – AllThingsD
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