Wednesday, November 12, 2003

Winer prunes blog and plants a tree. Dave Winer's transformation of Scripting News from a weblog to a directory makes more sense if you look at his categories page and an example category such as the one devoted to Howard Dean. Apparently, the new slogan of Scripting News is "plant a tree." I don't know if I like the idea yet, but I'm glad he's trying to jump outside the form we've all come to expect from weblogs and see what he discovers on a new frontier. As I learn more about Winer's distributed knowledge tree, I wonder if there's an opportunity to benefit from RDF rather than using OPML at its core. [Workbench] 3:49:50 PM    Trackback []

Paid Subscription Blogging, Part 2. The second part of our article examining the feasibility of paid subscription blogging was published today by JupiterMedia's ClickZ.com. It also features the opinions of Hylton Jolliffe of Corante, Steve Outing of the Poynter Institute's E-Media Tidbits, Henry Copeland of Pressflex and BlogAds, and Nick Denton of Gawker, Gizmodo, and the recently launched Fleshbot. The article elicited this response from one reader: Hello I love your piece - but what exactly is a blog? Showing that you can't take anything for granted when writing an article about this subject.... [Digital Deliverance] 1:00:26 PM    Trackback []