Friday, December 26, 2003

Moblogging goes Videoblogging Moblogging goes Videoblogging. The free moblogging solution TextAmerica now offers the possibility to post short videoclips (via phonecams) to a moblog. You can see there the first videoblogging posts on some moblogs. [Smart Mobs] 4:54:51 PM  comment []    trackback []     "I'm talking ABOUT you, not TO you".... I like the way Joi Ito describes the present blogging community process "How many people who blog know that many blogs automatically send trackbacks or send pings to pingers sites like weblogs.com? How many bloggers know that these pings trigger services like Technorati to include their posts in an index and that any mention of my blog in their private diary cause a link to their diary to show up in my sidebar within minutes? " Joi makes a good point.  Sometimes you want to limit the community conversation down to a small subset.  Not always pinging the whole blogoshere.  Maybe as the blogoshere adds layers like topics and categories that refining of signal attention will start to happen.   "I'm talking ABOUT you, not TO you".... Joi Ito's Web: How many people who blog know that many blogs automatically send trackbacks or send pings to pingers sites like weblogs.com? How many bloggers know that these pings trigger services like Technorati to include their posts in an index and that any mention of my blog in their private diary cause a link to their diary to show up in my sidebar within minutes? One of the things that some of us forget is that it's not all about attention. Most people want a little more attention than they get, but they usually want it from the right people and only when they feel like it. One of the problems of using the "big time bloggers" to design the technology is that we often forget that many people would rather NOT have their contexts collapsed.... 7:40:03 AM  comment []    trackback []     Hypocrisy That Turns My Stomach Dare Obasanjo says "Now let's pretend this is true and the only people who have to bear the burden are aggregator authors like me who now have to add support for yet another syndication format".  To add to that, authors of new feed functionality will now have to support 2 feed formats. Hopefully this year, the blogoshere as a community will get past the core of both feeds and learn to build and expand together the next level as a community. Hypocrisy That Turns My Stomach. Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life: Mark Pilgrim's most recent entry in his RSS feed contains the following text The best things in life are not things. (11 words) Note: The "dive into mark" feed you are currently subscribed to is deprecated. If your aggregator supports it, you should upgrade to my Atom feed, which includes both summaries and full content. A lot of the ATOM vs. RSS discussion has been mired in childishness and personality conflicts with the main proponents of ATOM claiming that the creation of the ATOM syndication format will be a good thing for users of syndication and blogging software. Now let's pretend this is true and the only people who have to bear the burden are aggregator authors like me who now have to add support for yet another syndication format. Let's see what my users get out of ATOM feeds compared to RSS feeds....  7:04:27 AM  comment []    trackback []

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