Tag: technorati

  • Do you still think blogging is a fad?

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    I see Dave Sifry (who I interviewed on PodLeaders.com a couple of weeks ago) has published a new quarterly State of the Blogosphere. Dave’s main findings are that the blogosphere is still doubling in size every 6 months – so it is maintaining its rate of virtually exponential growth. The blogosphere is over 60 times…

  • Technorati tag search broken?

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    I did a couple of tag searches on Technorati this afternoon – but they came up empty – I wasn’t so surprised with one or two of the more obscure ones I tried but when my search for the tag Google came up with the following message: There are no posts with that tag yet.…

  • Any questions for David Sifry?

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    I will be interviewing David Sifry, founder and CEO of Technorati this weekend for a podcast on podleaders.com – as always, if you have any questions that you’d like me to ask him, feel free to leave them in the comments or emil them to me at tom@tomrafteryit.net.

  • Salim Ismail interview podcast

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    Salim broke my head in this interview! This was one of the most informative podcast interviews I have yet done – Salim introduced me to the concepts of structured blogging, and the feed mesh. Structured blogging is a whole new concept in web publishing which literally blew my mind – PubSub will be officially announcing…

  • Riya being bought by Microsoft?

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    Riya is a company I have mentioned previously – they have an incredible application which combines text and facial recognition with photo uploading, so that once you tell Riya who is who in your photo albums, it will recognise those people from then on out in any photos it sees! Riya also has tagging built…

  • 10 blogging tips

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    Steve Rubel has written a Ten Blogging Hacks post. There are some interesting suggestions there like using Writely as your blog editor (I have written about Writely before) – Writely has a spell checker and allows for online collaboration in writing so if you want to collaborate in the drafting of a post, Writely could…

  • A lynch mob of 20 million?

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    Technorati recently announced that they are now tracking some 20 million bloggers and the number of bloggers is doubling every 5 months! Now Forbes Magazine has a cover story titled “Attack of the Blogs” (registration required but thanks to Steve Rubel’s article I found that the bugmenot login/password “forbesdontbug” worked for me). The article almost…