Thu 27 Jan. 2005

Yet Another NYT Article on Blogs

This time in the Home & Garden section: Gossip and Design Guidance

As an indication of how far things have advanced, the article actually dispenses with the hitherto obligatory explaination of what weblogs are. Instead we’re down to a mere “blogs, or Web journals“…

Yay!

(via Topix.net)

Bob Parsons’ 16 Rules

Following a mention of Serendipity, I came across the blog of GoDaddy’s founder, Bob Parsons. His last post describing the 16 Rules he tries to live by is well worth reading:

I came to accumulate a number of rules that I look to in various situations. Some of them I learned the hard way. Others I learned from the study of history. I know they work because I have applied them in both my business and personal life.

(via Artima Web Buzz)

Synchronicity and flickr

If you’ve ever wondered about Carl Jung’s theory, then here’s a new kind of food for thought!

(Kudos to dose magazine) ..a great post, Hugh!

Picking a Platform- Blogging Engines Compared

A presentation at the Blog Business Summit on the pros and cons of various blogging alternatives.

Having tried a few of them myself, I can highly recommend Blogsome to anyone looking for a first class, easy hosted solution.

(via Blogosphere News)

ANT’s Not Television

ANT screenshotANT:

ANT is freeware that lets you subscribe to RSS 2.0 feeds with enclosures… automatically downloading them when you want…. then letting you arrange a playlist and watch the videos a cool viewer. We were basically scratching our own itch …wanting to keep up with the videos from our videoblogging group…but we think its got potential. Daniel did a brilliant job developing the tool in a matter of a couple months. we loaded default feeds from our friend’s videoblogs into ANT… so just download ANT… click the REFRESH ALL button… and watch. you can add any feed you want….we’ve found about 40 video feeds so far….non-commercial of course.”

ANT seeks to build opensource software tools to enable an emergent, grassroots, bottom-up, video distribution network based on exisiting technology such as weblogs and RSS.

‘ looks like a super little application to track the growing number of vlogs out there.

Go ANT!

(via MacSlash)