Jim Flowers' Radio Weblog

	Monday, August 04, 2003

Visitors coming and sites a mess

Technorati shows that Doc is playing with a new report (shows only today's new inbound links, hmm...) and which shows I plucked some items from his latest posts. Course, I have been in "pack rat" mode the last few days as I am clipping pieces to write about later but am too busy (one project Doc and Weinberger will both enjoy) to write...

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Another list of reasons weblogging is here to stay.

The ongoing death of publishing as usual

Robin Good: The Death of the Webmaster — Why Weblogs Bring a True Revolution to Internet Publishing. A sample:

Before the "blogs" era,we were all slaves of our webmasters . Unless you were yourself one, most people, companies and organizations who wanted to have an online presence called a Web site, needed sooner or later someone technically skilled to take care of it for hir (him+her).

It has never been to no-one enjoyment to have to go through through lengthy, and not intuitive procedures to simply make some new text appear on a certain page of your site. Though the Frontpages and Tripods have attempted to come to our rescue we have further understood that Microsoft didn't have a clue about what we needed and how it should have been built and that advertising banners are really the most obnoxius partner of an information page.
[Doc Searls Weblog]

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VM Standards

More Calls to Vet Voting Machines. Some organizations and members of Congress are beginning to push for stricter standards to stop people from tampering with computerized voting machines. The move comes after a report exposed the machines' weaknesses. By Louise Witt. [Wired News]

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