Recovered from the Wayback Machine. There has been considerable discussion this week on Techmeme about weblogging tool as social networking platform, based on Six Apart’s release of Movable Type Pro 4.2. The announcement was still wet from its birth when the WordPress folks started touting BuddyPress, a variation of social networking based on WordPress. Among the […]
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Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I gather Al Gore is joining the lineup for the Web 2.0 Summit in September. In his weblog, John Battelle writes: Those of you following my posts around the theme of this year’s Web 2 Summit already know that we’re expanding the scope of the conference this year, and asking a core […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. The sparkling new Tor.com site has coverage of the Dr. Horrible panel at the SDCC (Comic-Con). All the cast members showed up, including “Penny” who spent the first part of the panel Twittering under the table—an event sure to follow her throughout her career. Whedon has hinted that there will be […]
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Wikipedia: less wiki more pedia
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Interesting. Wikipedia may be instituting an approval system. If the current experiment detailed in the Times article expands to all of Wikipedia, any change made to an article by a person who hasn’t made 300 or more previous edits will be held in moderation until approved. Contrary to the juicy exclamations of delight, […]
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Mobs 2.0 and the AP
I’ve withheld writing before on the AP fooflah, primarily because writing counter to the Mob is about the same as throwing a sandbag on a levee that’s already broken. Now the Mob is descending on the Media Bloggers Association because Rogers contacted that organization for legal advice, and the organization’s lead knows the AP folks. The noise is […]