As promised, here's part 2 of some of the stuff I didn't get to blog about in 2006. (See part 1 here). We're into the second quarter here:
April:
* Dan Gillmor in BBC News: "Why we are all reporters now"
* Hollaback NYC [Language Warning], fighting street harassment (via Village Voice article about "Little Brother" as in "Big Brother is watching you", except we're watching each other.)
* The launch of Blogging Stocks blog (see the CNN Money article and Jason Calacanis's entry about it.)
* Ugly Web Design That Works
* Blogs: Good or Evil?
* Web 2.0 Meets the Enterprise (companies starting to use social media -- there were a lot of these kinds of articles in 2006).
* Using Kittens for Authentication -- using pictures of animals to beat spammers; check his contact form (it's running a little slow) to see an example; someone else has a variation that's a bit more controversial, since it uses photos of hot chicks/guys (which is open to more interpretation)
* Three Links from Bob: The great, late Bob Wooldridge sent these to me: MappedUp, a blog feed aggregator that displays new blog entries on a map; a CSS Menu example; a Death Row blogger (he's not on Death Row for his blog, if you were worried).
May:
* Speakers at AOL: Influential blogger Om Malik, senior writer at Business 2.0 at the time, came to AOL to give a talk about blogs and Web 2.0. I was going to blog my notes. I failed.
Also in May, Alex Gibney, who wrote, directed and produced the documentary on Enron, 'Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room', talked about his movie.
June:
* This Space Intentionally Left Blank
July:
* Prominent blogger Robert Scoble quit as Microsoft's representative to the blogosphere (see his "exit interview" in Wired)
* A Brain Game (via Fark) -- here's why it works (when it works)
* Another "busted for blogging" type article (via Slashdot), and another one (via Mavarin)
* Feeds Summit: I was at an internal AOL Feeds summit, talking about feeds. Check out some different feed reading products, including My AOL, Protopage, NetVibes, and Pageflakes -- there are some cool drag-and-drop interfaces in there to play with, as well as the pure feed stuff.
* A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy, from 2003 and sent to an mailing list I'm on. Slightly pointy-headed but a good read.
* Would-Be Viral Advertising... busted after a day.
* Another blogging survey from the Pew Internet & American Life Project.
* Wired said A lot of blog writing sucks.
* Busted for blogging, CIA edition -- I also had a story from an AOL Journaler, but I wasn't going to blog it without explicit permission, which I never got.
* An AOL Expressions Profiler Quiz
* Put on stereo headphones first, then try this link (explanation of Holophony. And it's actually a box of matches.)
* An interview with Fark founder Drew Curtis (strong language warning)
* Tutorials and more tutorials for GIMP, a free photo editing program
* E-mail: The e-mail you write is half as funny as you think it is and 7 Deadly Sins of E-Mail
* The risk of Pay-per-post blogging
I actually had a lot of carryover topics in July from earlier in the year; some of it will even be good in 2007 (once I revisit the topics and freshen the links, of course).
Will probably have one last slush pile purge entry tomorrow.
Thanks -- Joe
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Excellent Links Joe. I read many of them. I prefer nowpublic much more than Fark. They just recently redesigned their site but its really hard for me to post because I havent figured out the RSS feeds yet and uploading videos. I used to get almost 100-200 readers per article but they did change the layout so fewer bloggers get noticed. Nowpublic is an easier site to browse and a bit classier than Fark. ~Raven
Heh. I thought you forgot about that UA prof. Better late than never! - K.
Dear Joe, ummmm wow!
How did you manage to put allof that in one entry?!!!!
hugs,
natalie
Writing it was the easy part -- the tough part is for everyone else to read it. -- Joe
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