Category: Blogging

  • Weblogs Inc to be bought by AOL

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    Tom Raftery
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    I see PaidContent.org and Reuters are reporting that AOL are about to buy Weblogs Inc. network for $25m! Weblogs Inc was set up by Jason Calacanis two years ago as a network of blogs and includes under its umbrella titles such as Engadget and Autoblog. According to Calacanis, Weblogs Inc earns in excess of $1m…

  • Scoble switches to WordPress

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    Tom Raftery
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    I see Robert Scoble is switching to WordPress as his blogging engine of choice – way to go Robert! His new WordPress-powered blog will be on the hosted WordPress site WordPress.com at the address http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/. Although this site uses WordPress, I haven’t tried the hosted version of WordPress so I can’t comment on how different…

  • Subscribe button II

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    Tom Raftery
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    Ok, FrankP and Alan (from Spoiltchild) had a great discussion in the comments of my post about using a Subscribe button and between them came up with the idea of combining a Subscribe button with a Help button – the Help button to lead to an explanatory page about Subscribing and RSS. Frank designed a…

  • Subscribe button

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    I posted yesterday about an RSS event I am organising and in the comments for that post I mentioned Dave Winer’s suggestion that we should use a “Subscribe” button on our blogs instead of “RSS” or “XML” FrankP read that comment and decided to run with that suggestion – Frank created a cool little white…

  • What exactly is Web 2.0

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    Tom Raftery
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    Web 2.0 is a term which is being used more and more these days but what exactly is it? It seems to be kinda like beauty, in that it is “in the eye of the beholder” – i.e. its definition depends on who you ask. Obviously it refers to some kind of next version of…

  • RSS event in IT@Cork

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    I am organising an IT@Cork event around business uses of RSS to be held in the NSC on October 25th at 6pm. The provisional title for the event is: RSS for non techies: Advancing brand and market awareness using simple internet technologies. More details as they become available.

  • Stormhoek guilt

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    Tom Raftery
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    I’m feeling guilty. Hugh sent me a bottle of Stormhoek wine (with no obligation) and I haven’t done anything about it. The bottle is in the fridge, unopened. Why? It is white wine and both Pilar and I prefer red. So it sits there in the fridge, with its personalised label (nice touch), unmolested. It…

  • The lighter side of blogging

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    Tom Raftery
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    The cartoon below by Alex Gregory appeared in the New Yorker on Sept 12th and is now doing the rounds of the blogosphere. Bob Mankoff, cartoon editor of The New Yorker and president of the Cartoon Bank service, which is owned by the New Yorker said of this cartoon: While many cartoons on blogs have…