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FirstGov has posted a new website that includes the following topical areas which in turn include numerous useful links: What To Do If You Are A Victim; How To Help Victims; and Disaster Cleanup and Agency Resources. NOAA Atlantic Hurricane Searchable Database, with interactive maps of Atlantic hurricanes since 1900 From National Geographic, A Photo …
WSJ free feature: Blogger Faces Lawsuit Over Comments Posted by Readers.
“Gartner…released its 2005 Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies, assessing the maturity, impact and adoption speed of 44 technologies and trends over the coming decade.” [press release] Key collaboration technologies in the “hype cycle” include: Podcasting, Peer to Peer (P2P) voice over IP (VoIP), Desktop Search, Really Simple Syndication (RSS), Corporate Blogging, and Wikis.
Modernizing the Newspaper Editorial Page is an expansive, informative article that discusses how the Seattle Post-Intelligencer has embraced technology applications and new mechanisms for interacting with readers that have resulted in innovative changes to its publication style, its impact on the community, and the subject matter of its content.
How journalists use blogs.
Microsoft exec defends RSS rebranding – Renaming to ‘Web feeds’ spurs debate among bloggers Another day, another story…Microsoft Rethinks RSS Name Change
From BBC News, Berners-Lee on the read/write web: “In August 1991, Sir Tim Berners-Lee created the first website. Fourteen years on, he tells BBC Newsnight’s Mark Lawson how blogging is closer to his original idea about a read/write web.”
Press Release: “50 Million Americans Visited Blogs During the First Quarter 2005, According to New comScore Study.” Behaviors of the Blogosphere: Understanding the Scale, Composition and Activities of Weblog Audiences Related reference: Will Blogs Go Bust?
“With over 50 M audio files available, Yahoo! Audio Search is the most comprehensive audio search product on the Web. Now you can find, learn about and listen to a diverse selection of audio spanning popular and hard to find music, interviews, speeches, newscasts, podcasts, and even sound effects.” [FAQ] From the Yahoo! Search Blog, …
State of the Blogosphere, August 2005, Part 1: Blog Growth, Posted by Dave Sifry on August 02, 2005. “As of the end of July 2005, Technorati was tracking over 14.2 Million weblogs, and over 1.3 billion links.”
From Inc.com, The Top 10 Things You Should Know Before You Blog offers practical and sound tips to assist small businesses in the effective and successful creation and maintenance of blogs to communicate with consumers.
“Slaw is a co-operative weblog about Canadian legal research and the impact of technology on it. Our audience includes practicing lawyers, legal librarians, legal academics and students anyone, in short, who uses IT in researching the law. The aim is to share information, offer advice and instruction, and occasionally provoke.” [Connie Crosby]
