Jay, JD, and I have been having a running conversation about tags – not html, rfid, or pet ID tags, but user generated categories for things like blog posts, web pages, photos, etc. I think that some kind of Folksonomy will replace, or at least enhance the way the we now currently google [...]
So, I was talking to JD and Paulie the other day and, as it sometimes does, the topic turned to media and how our current system is still so 20th Century. I mean TV channels are an antiquated notion, no? Why do I need some suit at NBC deciding what I get to [...]
While the word “blogs” gets thrown around allot, it is mostly misunderstood and often mis-represented by the mainstream press. Blogging software, the blogosphere, and bloggers themselves represent nothing short of a shift in the paradigm of how regular folks use the web and of how news is published.
Back in the old days (the nineties) [...]
Over the last few weeks I have been accused of proselytizing for WordPress, and while I do speak of WP’s virtues to whoever will listen or whenever someone brings up a competing content management system, it is not proselytization because my arguments are based on facts: I have reviewed and used a number of the [...]
For those of you who know me, you know that I am not a Microsoft apologist. I would never run a web server with their software on it or trust mission critical applications to Windows but I do give credit where credit is due.
I think they have nailed it with Windows Live OneCare. [...]
We have been writing online since 1994, but we didn’t know that we were blogging until around the year 2000
Wikipedia says:
The term “weblog” was coined by Jorn Barger on 17 December 1997. The short form, “blog,” was coined by Peter Merholz. He broke the word weblog into the phrase “we blog” in the [...]
One thing we have learned in over a decade developing web sites is that the Net is continually changing, and to keep up you need to change with it. One of the more recent developments in web design is the use of CSS and semantic markup. CSS and semantic web design has several [...]
I wrote my first SEO article way back in 1998. A lot has changed since then, but my approach has stayed pretty much the same and my results, while not 100%, is usually satisfactory and often better than that.
Search engine optimization may be the most abused topic in the history of the web. Much (too [...]
There is a lot of talk these days about the emergence of media published by regular folks as opposed to the walled off “news organizations” that have provided us with “news” over the past few decades. Jeff Jarvis’ Buzz Machine is a blog that covers this issue fairly well from a unique perspective. [...]
