Archive for the “Blogging” category

Does Going To A Conference Make You A “Real” Blogger?

by Tony Hung on September 16, 2007

So I’m a tech blogger of the new media persuasion. And there’s a conference that many new media bloggers are going to — perhaps you’ve heard of the one Mike Arrington and Jason Calacanis is putting together, TechCrunch 40. Now, (…)

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Pimp Your Blog With Whitelabeled Video

by Tony Hung on August 9, 2007

VideoCafe is rolling out an invitation only beta which will allow bloggers to seed their blogs with raw video footage.  Its almost like VideoCafe is whitelabelling the service, the usefulness of which will be determined by the actual footage they (…)

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Google News To Change Online News As We Know It. Here’s Why.

by Tony Hung on August 8, 2007

Really interesting development over at Google News: apparently they are making a move to introduce a comments type system to its news.  Currently, its only available with a subset of readers, and they are only allowing certain individuals to post (…)

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Preventing Conflicts of Interest: Good. Violating Charters of Rights And Freedoms: Bad.

by Tony Hung on August 5, 2007

Over at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), it seems like they’ve put together some sort of short guideline about Facebook.  Something to the effect that you shouldn’t “friend” sources for a variety of pragmatic reasons (don’t want to let others (…)

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“Asides” Are A Kind of Procrastination Dash for Blogging

by Tony Hung on August 4, 2007

Found this oldie-but-goodie article on procrastination-slaying.  I read it ages ago, but it has new relevance for me.  Read it now if you have ever had a problem with procrastination.  Back yet?  So, for me, “asides” (or micro-blogging) are kind (…)

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Jakob Nielson — With The Humblest Respect? You Don’t Understand Blogging, Sir.

by Tony Hung on July 10, 2007

Jakob Nielsen is probably the furthest thing from a Johnny-Come-Lately. The man started his blog site in 1995, back when domain registration cost $70. He is the Original Gangsta of usability. Which is all the more sad that he decides (…)

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A Deep And Flawed Misunderstanding of A-Lists, Blogs, And Social Networks

by Tony Hung on July 5, 2007

… is being propagated by Hugh McLeod, who, once again, has decided to raise the egalitarian “Es Gibt Keine Einliste Es gibt keine A-Liste” (Or, “There is no A-list”, for our non-German reading readers). This issue seems to raise its (…)

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