Part of me says that this – Electric Venom:Blogging Thoughts and Philosophies – falls into the ‘angels on the head of a pin’ school, but the categorisation seems pretty apt.
There’s a category (or maybe a subgroup) missing, though – the “me, me, me” contingent who are in love with the sound of their own keyboards…
The one that started the debate – Shirky: Power Laws, Weblogs, and Inequality.
The tipping point, and how it works with blogs.
First mover advantage in the blogosphere…
It’s actually about marketing your blog, but the advice is sound for marketing anything else.
Something about this story – BBC NEWS | Technology | Mafia turns to 3G video phones – on the BBC website makes me suspicious. Either the BBC is being more than usually technically-illiterate, or someone is feeding them press releases. Using 3G phones to send pictures of the ballot papers? 3G phones? 3G? Have I mentioned 3G enough yet?
Assuming that the Italian mobile market is reasonably similar to the UK, and 3G is so far – ahem – less than successful, it seems a tad unlikely that 3G is being used for this rather than bog-standard 2.5G MMS.
Which means that either the BBC hack who wrote this piece has got hold of the phrase 3G and is using it to death because they like the sound of it, or the story originated from the PR department of Hutchison. The copious details about the rollout and breathless plans certainly lends a bit more background than was strictly necessary.
Cynic, me?
A taxonomy of blogging insight?
Upper third = the mavens and the bloggopseuds
Middle third = the missing link between upper and lower
Lower third = the random white noise of “”what I had for breakfast today”.
Wonder which one I fit into?
Power laws and Clay Shirkey, or why one blog becomes the centre of gravity. Now try finding a commercial exploitation of that phenomenon…
Sick, but perfectly formed: 04: ClayKittenShooting
Lifted from iamcal:
SAEED AL SAHAF – Iraqi Head of Information
The chicken did not cross the road. This is a complete fabrication. We donot even have a chicken.
GEORGE W BUSH
We don’t care why the chicken crossed the road. We just want to know if the chicken is on our side of the road or not. The chicken is either for us or against us. There is no middle ground.
COLIN POWELL
Now to the left of the screen, you can clearly see the satellite image of the chicken crossing the road.
TONY BLAIR
I agree with George.
HANS BLIX
We have reason to believe there is a chicken, but we have not yet been
allowed to have access to the other side of the road.
DR SEUSS
Did the chicken cross the road? Did he cross it with a toad? Yes, the
chicken crossed the road, but why it crossed I’ve not been told.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR
I envision a world where all chickens will be free to cross roads without having their motives called into question.
GRANDPA
In my day, we didn’t ask why the chicken crossed the road. Somebody told usthe chicken crossed the road, and that was good enough.
TRICIA
Isn’t that interesting? In a few moments, we will be listening to the
chicken tell, for the first time, the heart-warming story of how it
experienced a serious case of moulting, and went on to accomplish its dream of crossing the road.
JOHN LENNON
Imagine all the chickens in the world crossing roads together – in peace.
ARISTOTLE
It is the nature of chickens to cross the road.
KARL MARX
It was an historic inevitability.
RONALD REAGAN
What chicken?
SIGMUND FREUD
The fact that you are at all concerned that the chicken crossed the road reveals your underlying sexual insecurity.
BILL GATES
eChicken 2003 will not only cross roads, but will lay eggs, file your
important documents, and balance your checkbook – and internet explorer is an integral part of eChicken.
ALBERT EINSTEIN
Did the chicken really cross the road, or did the road move beneath the chicken?
BILL CLINTON
I did not have sexual relations with that Chicken.
THE BIBLE
And God came down from heaven, and he said unto the chicken THOU SHALT CROSS THE ROAD. And the chicken didst cross the road, and there was rejoicing.
COLONEL SANDERS
Did I miss one?
HOMER SIMPSON
Mmmmmmmmm . . . . c h i c k e n
Uh oh – someone’s got a point. This is a bit unidirectional. But isn’t what this suggests just a usenet with distributed hosting? Does that solve anything?
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