Technorati have released the beta of their newly spruced up site for us to all go play with. It’s a vast improvement on the old design, with some cool new features too. I particularly like the way that your watchlists now show you the latest hits. The tag pages have been nicely tidied up too.
Anyway, pop over and have a look, then give them feedback!
(Disclosure: I do stuff with Technorati.)
Michael O’Connor Clarke does a great job of fisking a particularly clueless article about blogging from Jesse Tayler on AlwaysOn, thus saving me the effort. Thanks Michael!
Old news that Google Maps now has a UK version – I meant to blog about it when it launched but never got round to it. I am amused, though, to see that whilst the UK now exists, Google has lost the rest of Europe. Give you a hint, guys – it’s down and to the right a bit.
I mustn’t mock. Progress is progress.
I love a blogger who tells it how it is, and it’s even better when they are laying bare the oh so shiny world of PR and advertising. Michael O’Connor Clake is back. Prepare for a good fisking.
Mark Brady, a PhD student at the University of Essex and a friend of mine, is doing some research into blogging. He’s put together an online questionnaire to gather some basic data, so if you have 20 minutes to spare, please do pop over and fill it out for him.
Lawrence Lessig asks for your thoughts about the BzzAgent alliance on his blog, after the issue got picked up by MetaFilter. I’ve given him mine, and I encourage you to give him yours.
Just in case you were wondering why I’ve written so little here over the last month, it’s because I’m up to my eyeballs in deadlines. One rather unexpected event was that I got myself a literary agent, so suddenly had to put together a book proposal. More news on that as I get it. I’m also working on some stuff for this blog which I think you’ll find worth the wait, so bear with me!
This is only funny because it’s true. Somehow, I find myself hoping this Adobe/Macromedia merger doesn’t go through. Monopolies are no good for anyone.
Up in London again today, this time to see Mark Thompson, Director General of the BBC at the London School of Economics. Should be an interesting evening. Will attempt, if not actual live blogging as I’m not sure what the wifi situation is in the Hong Kong Theatre, then at least some rabid note taking. Give Thompson a taste of just how fast and accurate bloggers can be. And, of course, I’ve got my question planned…
Jeff Jarvis blogs Rupert Murdoch’s speech to the American Society of Newspaper Editors in which he encourages them to take blogging more seriously and to start working with bloggers. Whilst technically this is good, it does give me the screaming heebiejeebies.