Holy Spiking Charts!
Sometimes I visit Alexa to see how my blog is doing according to the Alexa elves and while I'm there I check out Blogger.com to see how they think we're doing. Today I noticed a huge jump towards the end of March.
Video Blogging?
There's a little Thursday morning debunking going on over at Shellen.com. Specifically on the video blogging front. Blogger is not launching video posting this week. Believe you me, we'll point to Google's video submission experiment when there's something for you to try out.
Not a fad
I like this quote from the latest Knowledge@Wharton piece:
Wharton legal studies professor Dan Hunter puts blogging right up there with the printing press when it comes to sharing ideas and disseminating information. "This is not a fad," says Hunter. "It's the rise of amateur content, which is replacing the centralized, controlled content done by professionals."
Strong words, but then again perhaps Dan Hunter would make a good blogger.
Wild Wacky Stuff
The Annotated New York Times tracks blog postings that cite articles published by The New York Times. (Via Waxy)
Us Road Trip 2005
Digital postcards from a mobile phone: "While I recognise that some people have a tremendous range of opinions on a wide variety of topics, as well as a burning desire to see those opinions published online, I have been much happier as a blog reader than as a blog writer - until now."More and more people are discovering that blogging is just an easy way to share with friends and don't think of themselves as "bloggers." It seems the term carries with it some preconcieved notions. Nevertheless, US Road Trip 2005 is just the sort of way I'd expect people to make use of Blogger.
Good afternoon! I'm cuddly!
Apparently inspired by Clocky, the robot-clock for people who have trouble getting out of bed, ibiblio ProductLabs have invented Bloggy, a mobile, autonomous blogging robot.
Are you too tired to blog? Do you not have enough to say? Bloggy solves all your problems by blogging for you! From the moment you wake up to the moment you fall asleep, Bloggy will follow you around and record all of your events to share with the world! With Bloggy, you'll never again worry about having a boring blog.Here's Bloggy's blog. It's so cute and cuddly! (via Waxy)
House of D
Eric posted this link to our Blogs of Note blog which only gets published in the sidebar of the Blogger dashboard: David Duchovny is blogging about his new movie, House of D. I thought it was worth another mention. Here's the film's description at IMDB:
By working through problems stemming from his past, Tom Warshaw (Duchovny), an American artist living in Paris, begins to discovery who he really is, and returns to his home to reconcile with his family and friends.David's posts are long for my scattered brain but worth focusing on if you like behind the scenes type stuff. He's also using audioblogger to speak directly to us through the miraculous power of phonetronic sound.
