Publishing & Content

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Jimmy Wales, Stewart Butterfield, joshua Schachter and Clay Shirky (Wikipedia, Flickr, Academia, delicious) talk folksonomies, tagging and taxonomies within large groups at O'Reily's ETech gig earier this year.

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KCTipton, one of the ODP's best known meta editors has resigned, without explanation. Whereas the comings and goings of ODP aren't generally of interest at Threadwatch, Keith was one of the better guys over at DMOZ, and particularly kind to Threadwatch last year :)

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I'm sure this doesn't apply to anyone who reads here, but if someone you know is creating fake blogs and engaging in tag spamming watch out Dave Sifry of technorati is coming to get you ...

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Google's Chris DiBona just announced that Google News finally has RSS feeds - In Atom and RSS2 format, you can get both categories and custom searches.

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I know where I go when I want to find the 50 Coolest Websites, straight to Time Magazine, don't you? To proove how hip they are they have included list of cool blogs too.

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You have probably noticed that after a major news story breaks, (example London bomb attacks and Asian tsunami) the cry goes out on the web for photographs. The BBC is running a story considering the moral and other issues involved.

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Remember a while back we mentioned (sorry, can't find the link) that MS were hiring bloggers? Well, filter.msn.com launched yesterday according to Duncan. You can see various channels, using MSN Spaces including TV, Technology, Lifestyle, Music and Sports

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I find Topix.net a great news source, and a facinating business model. On that basis, i thought the article about Topix by Mark Glaser at OJR was superb. Quite revealing as he talks to Rich Skrenta, ex of ODP fame.

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Copywriting is difficult for me. Especially if it is redundant or isn't something I really want to write about. One motivator I have to keep me going is: "As soon as I get it done, I won't have to do it anymore", but that's wearing thin.

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Last night we brought you the rumour that AOL would work with Feedster to provide RSS Search, now that seems to have been borne out. MyAOL beta now brings a fully fledged RSS reader straight to the SCREAMING; ALLCAPS HORDES of AOL'ers and "promises" a world class RSS Search shortly.

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I've been using Del.icio.us more and more lately for storing general intrest stuff. I noticed today they have added 'recomended tags' when you add something, and there are also predictive tagging suggestions going on. Seems to be limited to the tags you've used in the past, so YMMV.

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Google have, untill now, been almost entirely absent from the RSS game. They've lagged behind rivals MSN, Yahoo! and ASK for a long time, but finally we see them make at least one small step towards the future. They've integrated RSS along with bookmarks into their personalized Google beta. I'd take it for a spin but I'm getting just a blank white page when i visit, weird...

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Pheedo have released RSS Feed Metrics and Trends that provide some interesting reading. Tuesdays are the busiest days for RSS publishers it seems.

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The Future of RSS is not Blogs says Sharon Housely, at the same time that Jeremy Zawodny is asking When will Blogs Peak?. Sharons post is a gem, and it's hard to find the best paragraph to quote, but i'll give it a try..

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One of the first, if not the first online versions of a print newspaper to put ads in their RSS (free sub req'd) is the Washington Post according to the adage story linked above.

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SearchViews alerts us to a new Corante blog, Rebuilding Media. To say the the inaugural post is inspirational would be an understatement...

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By DMOZ Effect i mean "initially well intentioned project, become an outdated spam riddled pile of stinking filth", or something like that... Gary comments a newspaper piece that tells the story of Zenome: Like the ODP, but they pay their editors a share of the ad revenue from their sub categories.

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The BBC have just launched a new Open Source section to their main site, it's designed to centralize the many projects the beeb release to the community for free - nice stuff...

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Threadwatch member grnidone launches her new blog with 7 tips for writing good web copy among several other entries. Grnidone is a bit of a usability/copy kind of girl, and knows her stuff - so on that note, grab the RSS!

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Our own kpaul has launched a citizen journalism project called Muncie Free Press - i've no idea what muncie means, but i'm sure he'll fill us in....