Journo vs. Blogger: are we STILL having this argument?: Scott Rosenberg attended O'Reilly's Emerging Techology Conference, coming away with another journalism versus blogging experience; Scott thought we were over this false dichotomy. Jeepers. I really thought we'd all moved on, too. On the otherhand, there's still fallout from the Washington Post's so-called ombudsman's initial interactions with the blogosphere. She was... ()

One man's lonely fight against comment spam: Scot Hacker offers to explain why he has resorted to requiring comment registation on Birdhouse-hosted blogs: birdhouse.org: Field Notes on Comment Registration... (Weblog Concepts)

Almost nanofamous: I was playing around with some of the implementations of Steven Johnson's "googleshare" concept (What's xian's googleshare of 'blogistan', 'mediajunkie', 'nanofame') and I found I had to exclude a word (starts with nanot--) to avoid references to a nanotech research site called NanoFAME and get a more meaningful measurement. The good... (Nanopublishing)

Kinja is alpha testing: I spy in my referrer logs with my little eye an incoming link from alpha. kinja. com/ user/ nick. You may recall that Kinja (née Lafayette) is Gawker Media's "blog of all blogs" projects headed up by Meg Hourihan. They must be getting close to having something useful to decloak. I... (Nanopublishing)