Thursday, March 4, 2004

> Dave Winer: A milestone case study from the Shorenstein Center was released today. It tells the story of Trent Lott, his talk at Strom Thurmond's birthday party, and how the news flowed through professional channels, to the blogosphere, and back, ultimately resulting in Lott's resignation as majority leader of the US Senate. I first met with Esther Scott, the author of the case study, in May 2003, and met with Alex Jones, the director of Shorenstein, who commissioned the study, a couple of weeks ago. A personal note, it's gratifying to see the study is available publicly, this makes it available for review by bloggers, as well as being useful in classrooms, and as a reference to scholars who will study weblogs in the future.
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> Steve Gillmor: I'm pleased to announce the first eWEEK blog is now live at http://blog.ziffdavis.com/gillmor. Although I've been posting pseudo-content via the content management system, this post represents the first micro-content unencumbered by CMS limitations. Please subscribe to the new RSS feed here. We'll continue to operate the old Blogosphere feed for a few days...
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> Don Park: I have been hearing a lot about Bloglines lately so I checked it out today and found this blog in their list of Most Popular Blogs. Cool! Here is the Bloglines page for this blog where you can subscribe via Bloglines.
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> Mike McBride: Had to do some meetings this morning and deal with some issues so I've been busy. A recurring theme seems to be problems with email delivery. For example, one of our users sent an email to about 100 people late yesterday, with a 25 page .pdf attached. All of these people are on one of our committees and would have been expecting things from us, but only about 65 of them actually got delivered, the others bounced. I told someone that the idea that we could have a list of 100 people, in 100 different organizations, each with their own filters and ISP's, and that they would all manage to get the message, is dead. Perhaps it's time to publish each committee's "notices" to their own portion of the website and let them either get it there, or for the more tech savvy among them, subscribe to an RSS feed? That solves the problem of undeliverable email, but I wonder how many of them would be willing to do something new, or if the howls of protest will keep us from trying anything so cutting edge? :)
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> Rogers Cadenhead: Anyone who is mystified by sudden changes in Google results should check out Google Dance, a technical discussion of how the search engine's index is updated...
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> David Watson: I started writing this as a comment to Don Park's piece which is a reaction to ESR's piece on open source UI. I thought ESR's piece was really good in that it patiently unearthed the difficulties of such software. Sam Ruby covered John Udell's investigation into the problem as well. My reaction got long and complicated enough that I didn't feel like a comment was the right place for it...
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