The three bloggers being sued by Apple for publishing leaked information now have the support of eight US newspapers and the Associated Press, who are concerned about a dangerous precedent being set regarding the protection of journalists’ sources.
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Six Store opens
Six Apart launch a range of merchandise for their devoted fans with the tagline ‘The Brits call it a spanner’. Not ‘You’re a…’?
Microstructure in the long tail
Great post from Chris Anderson, asking whether the blogosphere’s long tail is made up of lots of little microblogospheres, each with their own long tail structure, or whether that structure breaks down on the micro scale.
Warner Bros sponsor podcaster
Podcaster Eric Rice has managed to wangle some sponsorship from Warner Brothers for his podcast The Eric Rice Show. The deal includes exclusive interviews, banter and impromptu jams from The Used, a band on Warner Brothers’ Reprise label. Question is, is he just a jammy git or is this the way forward?
Blogs in Action
Six Apart have organised an event on 24 March at 6.00 PM in London called Blogs in Action, which will examine how individuals and companies are using blogs in business. The panel includes Neil McIntosh from the Guardian Online, Dominique Busso CEO of Vnunet Europe and Charlie Schick of Nokia Lifeblog, John Dale from the University of Warwick and Business Blogging award winner Paul Dale.
State of the blogosphere
At the risk of Strange Attractor turning into a sort of TechnoratiWatch, Dave Sifry has posted his latest round-up of Technorati stats in the first part of his State of the Blogosphere address. Read the comments too, though – lots of good points and questions, particularly about the quality of the data.
Business blogging primer
Steve Rubel writes a long and thorough primer on business blogging as a marketing tool, but ignores the use of blogs internally for knowledge sharing, project management, team building etc. He’s not alone – it seems that more and more the focus in business metablogging is on external uses. Stick around – I’m going to change that very soon.
Tagwebs
Jakob Lodwick discusses how tagging reflects how humans process information and how tagging tags (metametatagging? metatagtagging?) would allow us to build an emergent ‘tagweb’ which would allow for visualising and understanding relationships between tags. It’s a long article, but the movies help and it’s worth the effort because it might even change the way you view the usefulness of tags.
Spreading your meme with del.icio.us and Technorati
Great post from Bud Gibson at The Community Engine on spreading and tracking your meme using tags in del.icio.us and Technorati.
Flickr Graph
Flickr Graph – visualising the social relationships within Flickr using ‘the classic attraction-repulsion algorithm for graphs’. Neat!