What is a Blog? blog is a personal website that contains content organized like a journal or a diary. Readers catch up with blogs by starting at the top and reading down until they encounter material they’re already read. Blogs are connected to each other to form what is commonly known as the ‘blogosphere’. Bortree, D.S., MORE >>

That tweeting it is a private breed of microblogging verges on irrelevance. Look at four other social things you can do on the Net (along with the standards and protocols that support them): email (SMTP, POP3, IMAP, MIME); blogging (HTTP, XML, RSS, Atom); podcasting (RSS); and instant messaging (IRC, XMPP, SIP/SIMPLE). Some still are. MORE >>

I have lost track of my blog readers, buffeted by eddies of excess digital content. stumbled back upon D’Arcy Norman’s blog this afternoon with pure delight. It has been a long time since I visited D’Arcy’s blog. Here are a few chocolates from D’Arcy’s recent blogs. Kismet. Serendipity. MORE >>

am knocking the fact that we haven’t come up with the open Internet-based (rather than silo-based) way of microblogging. Berkman Blogging News Places problemsThe above, in order (1,2,3) is what I went through this morning when I searched for “emancipay&# on Twitter. Not knocking Twitter here. That’s a tease. MORE >>

We would hardly have blogging or online journalism without it. At this point in history, Twitter soaks up nearly all the oxygen the microblogging room. Thus there is no widely adopted open infrastructure for microblogging. Tags: Blogging Cluetrain Ideas Live Web infrastructure problems Fast indeed.). Identi.ca MORE >>