Monday, December 23, 2002

Wired: Blogs Make the Headlines ...And they kept focusing on Lott's hateful past -- until the national press corps finally had to take notice. "Joshua Marshall, whose talkingpointsmemo.com is must reading for the politically curious, (is) more than anyone else, responsible for making Trent Lott's offensive remarks the issue they deserve to be," noted Paul Krugman in his New York Times column. OK, so blogs are much different than websites that brought the Lewinski scandal to a boil, but as blogs as tools empower far more people to observe and comment. Big brother has been democracized. 9:36:42 AM

Scott Rosenberg's Salon article on SuperNova. Modest amounts of cash injected without major disruption may allow blogging systems to reach a wider audience: improved reliability and scalability; serious user experience testing, redesign and reengineering; off-the-shelf training and other enterprise adoption materials; increased integration with Microsoft software, Sony cameras, Nokia phones and other leveraging products; and BigCo-ready sales and support teams. How do you go from 1 million users to 10 million? to 100 million? Are the needs of the many reflected by the pioneers? Or does the toolkit need to change at its core? I'm reading The Chasm Companion: A Fieldbook to Crossing the Chasm and Inside the Tornado. This seems like one of those times. [Phil Wolff: klogs] I need to brush up on "Crossing the Chasm", because blogging is definitely at the precipice. Tools like NetNewsWire Pro definitely address the UI portion. Setting up a blog is easy, I guess it is like email or web hosting... most people don't set up their own servers. And the settings for a editor/aggregator or no more complicated than email settings. Perhaps we're closer than we imagine... 9:03:44 AM