Peter Cook: Weblogging

Flock Beta 1 Review

Fri, 23 Jun 2006 01:49:43 GMT

In an effort to give new web browser Flock a proper chance, I’m using it all day instead of Firefox/Flickr/WordPress/Del.icio.us.

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A good review of a new browser which integrates with various tagging and blogging tools. Looks pretty interesting. I'll probably check it's further along in development.

Welcome to the Lynchmobosphere

Mon, 05 Jun 2006 03:08:29 GMT

It looks that while the blogoshere is growing at an amazing speed and the collective intelligence is not keeping up, getting diluted in the process. More and more people seem to be happy jumping from cluetrains to bandwagons. Apparently being part of the mob feels good, especially there are tomatoes (or sometimes stones) to throw at some very visible target.
[Via Paolo Valdemarin: Paolo's Weblog]

Welcome to the Lynchmobosphere

Sat, 03 Jun 2006 04:33:02 GMT

Find out who's reading your blog

Wed, 10 May 2006 02:41:21 GMT

Blog: Blogging pioneer Dave Winer hopes to bring order to the blogosphere with a new project dubbed Share your OPML. ...
[Via CNET News.com]

Iraqi bloggers weigh in

Wed, 10 May 2006 02:41:06 GMT

Blogging is providing ordinary Iraqis with a chance to vent and reflect on the changes reshaping their country
[Via The Globe and Mail - Technology News]

How about the readers?

Thu, 27 Apr 2006 18:10:02 GMT

I don't think that this huge number of blogs is competing with mainstream media in terms of credibility (only a few blogs are), but sometime they will start competing in terms of time. For example today I'm spending much more time reading my friends sites and less time reading mainstream media sites. Considering that we all have only a limited amount of time available, will we get to the point where we will spend most of our time reading stuff written by people we care for? >
[Via Paolo Valdemarin: Paolo's Weblog]

I'm always startled by how right Paolo's posts are. I'm exactly in sync with him again and again.

New Trends In Online Traffic (Washington Post)

Sun, 16 Apr 2006 22:14:44 GMT

While growth is slowing at most top Internet sites, it is skyrocketing at sites focused on social networking, blogging and local information.

The dramatic success of those Internet categories is apparent from a recent online-traffic analysis provided by market research firm ComScore Media Metrix, which examined visitor growth rates among the 50 top Web sites over the past year. Full article here.
[Via LEARNING THROUGH WEBLOGS]

Critic's Notebook: Now Playing on YouTube: Web Videos by Everyone

Tue, 04 Apr 2006 04:56:59 GMT

Short, loud adolescent messages dominate the most-viewed list at YouTube.com, the popular clearinghouse for homemade video.
[Via New York Times: Arts]

The State of Online Feed Readers (Frank Gruber/TechCrunch)

Sat, 01 Apr 2006 04:02:53 GMT

The State of Online Feed Readers' —' Syndication is undoubtedly the heartbeat of the web 2.0 movement.' A feed reader, the most common solution to consuming synidcated content, saves the user time by monitoring countless sites and sources and providing near real-time updates to one location.

[Via tech.memeorandum]

I've been following the mixup...

Fri, 31 Mar 2006 18:16:28 GMT

To me, asking why you should use blogs is like asking why you should answer the phone. It might be a customer, a developer who wants to use your services, or a reporter who wants to write about the company. Your competitors answer the phone, so you should too.
[Via Scripting News]

4 blog birthday

Tue, 28 Mar 2006 17:45:06 GMT

4 years don't sound like a lot of time from here: it's about 12% of my life. Then I start reading what I was writing 4 years ago.

Back then I was still a bubble 1.0 CEO with a couple of VC on my board still hoping to go public. So many things have changed since then and a big part of what has happened is related to blogging.

I started this weblog because of Dave Winer. I had been reading Dave for a long time, we were using Frontier in our company and Radio UserLand had just came out. But this was not about technology, it was the thrill of writing for a public, the excitement of being part of a big conversation. To be honest for the first few months I was writing mainly for Dave: I would try post something at the right time of the day, hoping to get noticed and get linked on scripting.com. Quite often Dave would link and he literally put me on the map.

Blogging allowed me to meet the most interesting people of my life, to get an infinite number of ideas, to develop new products, find new partner, new customers, to learn more then I had ever learned before. It changed my life.

I'm not blogging much anymore on the English part of my blog, I write a little bit more on the Italian side. I'm not involved in many conversations or I don't feel I have much to add to what is discussed. The atmosphere is changing, pretty soon you won't even be able to say that blogging is not "mainstream media".

The world will just keep evolving, it's hard to say where we will be in 4 more years. So far thank you to everybody for the last great 4 years.
[Via Paolo Valdemarin: Paolo's Weblog]

My experience is similar to Paolo's. And I found his blog because of Dave. I wish Paolo were writing more because I've always enjoyed his writing and most particularly his perspective.

Blog, Atom, RSS, XML and Syndication/Aggregation ! ?

Tue, 28 Mar 2006 17:44:51 GMT

Blogs, Blogging, XML, ATOM, RSS explained in simple Words.
Written for the regular people using the Internet and not for tech-savvy Geeks.

[Via Feedster Search: opml wordPress Tool]

stickam . add audio and video to...

Fri, 17 Feb 2006 05:20:06 GMT

stickam. add audio and video to your blog. ok, i think stickam stands to be one of the coolest web apps ever.
[Via Donovan's thoughtStream]

Holy crap.

Create fully customized iWeb templates

Tue, 14 Feb 2006 03:03:56 GMT

I've written up extensive, easy to follow, instructions for a not-so-easy task. Everyone knows it is poosible to get into the iWeb template files and mess with them, and everyone knows what a nightmare the XML files are.
[Via macosxhints]

leslie m. orchard: "Man, if I thought...

Mon, 13 Feb 2006 02:10:12 GMT

leslie m. orchard: "Man, if I thought that Movable Type moved like a barge for me, and WordPress was a quicker ship, blogging with the OPML Editor is like steering a cavitating torpedo." i couln't put it better myself
[Via Donovan's thoughtStream]

BBC NEWS | Technology | Podcasts reach Peruvian villages

Wed, 08 Feb 2006 05:36:15 GMT

In Peru's remote Andean mountains, villages like Chanta Alta only have electricity for two hours a day. Despite this, a new pilot project is using podcasting to get important agricultural information to farmers.

Use iWeb as a NetNewsWire Weblog Editor

Wed, 01 Feb 2006 18:08:03 GMT

Thanks in part to this hint, I was able to build an AppleScript which creates a new iWeb blog entry from the currently-selected NetNewsWire (NNW) news item. Here's how.
[Via macosxhints]

NY Times on RSS as an...

Mon, 30 Jan 2006 19:40:27 GMT

NY Times on RSS as an advertising medium for travel.
[Via Scripting News]

Fantastic. Travelocity.ca does not yet support this but the US site is in beta. You can chose to fly out of TO but only into US cities. Of no interest to me!

Web skeptics, take note: The sky hasn't fallen

Thu, 26 Jan 2006 18:45:37 GMT

Internet doesn't destroy relationships, a new study finds, it strengthens them
[Via The Globe and Mail - Technology News]

CNNMoney.com: Smartest Technology: RSS

Thu, 26 Jan 2006 15:58:34 GMT

At long last, really simple syndication, or RSS, came into its own. Developed by Silicon Valley technologist Dave Winer, RSS makes it easy for popular sites such as CNN, Reuters, and Yahoo -- and tens of thousands of bloggers -- to distribute online text, audio, and video worldwide. RSS has been around since 1997, but it got a big boost in the past year as Microsoft announced plans to integrate it into Windows, letting RSS do for online media what the Web did for the Internet.

Congratulations Dave.

12/12/05 : "Yahoo doubled their share of...

Wed, 18 Jan 2006 01:13:22 GMT

12/12/05: "Yahoo doubled their share of the online news market by adopting RSS and sending readers away as fast as they can. Who to? Their competitors, of course."
[Via Scripting News]

iWeb: Only publish to same .Mac account from one user and computer

Thu, 12 Jan 2006 21:13:21 GMT

Publishing iWeb sites or pages to the same .Mac account from several computers (or multiple users on the same computer) can result in various issues, including sites with similar names overlapping, or an incorrect default site. Do not publish from more than one Mac OS X user or computer to a single .Mac account.

Jon Udell : "A blog can be...

Thu, 12 Jan 2006 18:26:53 GMT

Jon Udell: "A blog can be used to narrate the key events and accomplishments in your professional life, to establish your reputation as an authority on subjects in your areas of expertise, and to educate the world about your company's products and services."
[Via Scripting News]

Participatory Culture Foundation | DTV: Internet TV On Your Mac

Thu, 10 Nov 2005 17:04:43 GMT

The Participatory Culture Foundation is building software and websites to create an independent, creative, engaging, and meritocratic TV system for millions of people around the world.

DTV is a new, free and open-source platform for internet television and video. An intuitive interface lets users subscribe to channels, watch video, and build a video library.

Cool things are happening. I've noticed since iTunes began managing video downloads I've been watching a lot more video material downloaded from the web.

NY Times : "57 percent of all...

Thu, 03 Nov 2005 14:51:05 GMT

NY Times: "57 percent of all teenagers between 12 and 17 who are active online - about 12 million - create digital content, from building Web pages to sharing original artwork, photos and stories to remixing content found elsewhere on the Web. Some 20 percent publish their own Web logs."
[Via Scripting News]

This post is from Dave Weiner, a man who years ago started building tools enabling us to write for the web and who more recently built the foundation for podcasting. Thanks and congratulations Dave.