Saturday, May 07, 2005



Some time ago, Kim Weatherall opined that “publishing on a blog … is not really something that I can get any recognition for, in academic-land”. I’d like to think there’s some prospect in this changing Blawging and scholarship

The Blog, The Press, The Media: How we built our home on the web
On April 25, 1995, The Sydney Morning Herald took its first steps onto the World Wide Web with the launch of Computers Online, an internet version of its weekly Computers & Communications section.

From 1995 to 2004: the web marks some key dates in The Sydney Morning Herald's life on the World Wide Web. The Sydney Morning Herald's first website was designed in a Glebe boatshed, home to pesky pigeons and the office of Thomas Ashelford, who explains all in an interview with Des Devlin


Nowadays it's much harder to get noticed
An experiment whose time has come [ Anti-Corby hackers attack website ; UK media wins web awards ]
• · Robert Scoble is meeting with the Target Corporation this morning and is asking the blogosphere for advice for the retail giant Blog Advice: Target Should Find, Listen, Engage And Empower ; Italian Wog Blog: Australian Soprano Defined: Moderno Benito Mussolini Amore Dim Blair; Marty: Behind the Blog
• · · Mike Malone, ABC's Silicon Insider, discusses Pajamas MEdia today in an interesting column: Blogs - the New Tech Boom, Zeitgeist of the Future? ; Strange, he never actually challenged Margo on anything of substance, it was usually her hair, her looks, a misplaced comma or semi-colon
• · · · Press freedom celebrated, but still a long way to go ; Traditional media are increasingly eyeing off Internet blogs as a way to increase profits and keep up to date with consumers, Yahoo News reports today Traditional media: blogs are the future
• · · · · Now and then we all run across things that make us think or say the equivalent to “Are you freaking kidding me?” -- like when one of those nanny shows “spun off” a new series about marriage counseling Now What: A daily blog on choice issues ; Google: Big media companies weigh blog marketing strategies ; PluggedIn: Big media companies weigh blog strategies
• · · · · · The blogosphere is growing at an estimated rate of 40,000 weblogs per day and, after 50 minutes of browsing rather aimlessly in search of food, I was beginning to suspect that most of them originate in New York Block by blog ; It seems like the fans of Google are taking its features to a whole new level. They are affecting everything from Gmail, to Blogger, to Google News. Here is a brief synopsis of what is happening throughout the world of Google Google Hacks (The Next Generation)