Friendfeed seems to be doing little more than gathering dust, following Facebook’s acquisition. Even their most highly followed user, Robert Scoble, has said; “I can’t keep focusing on a site that isn’t getting developed. Sorry. That’s not what I do.”
Is this the end of the line for Friendfeed or a new beginning?
CNN’s poorly-advised coverage of the balloon boy hoax story, could mark a change in the way mainstream news is reported. By trying to take on services such as Twitter, by releasing ‘news’ super-fast, the reliability of stories is suffering. Here’s what I think is happening…
Once again, hundreds or maybe thousands of people, attending the SAME event at the SAME time are ‘live blogging’ the SAME content to (mostly) the SAME people. So-called ‘live blogging’ was once a useful practice, where a small number of people attending an event, would send key messages via Twitter, to their targeted followers.
However, today – when almost every attendee at these events is tweeting everything they hear, live blogging has become (at best) a nuisance for Twitter users.
Gary McKinnon is to be sent by the UK government to the United States for trial, following the failure of his latest appeal against extradition.
McKinnon has a form of autism, which his legal team and doctors claim will lead to “disastrous consequences” for his health, including possible psychosis and suicide; if he is extradited. He faces a 60 year prison term if found guilty – read on…
So, bloggers failing to declare that they are taking money or freebies for writing reviews / posts, could soon be fined up to $11,000. Whilst this may stop a few smaller blogs writing undisclosed posts for PR firms, it’s hardly going to stop the big blogs – which are rewarded very highly for the coverage they give certain favoured brands. Here’s why!
Cisco’s report into global broadband speed has been published and the findings confirm what many users know; that typical broadband speeds in their country are crap.
The top 10 countries for broadband quality are:
When Matt Mullengweg announced that Wordpress.com was installing RSS Cloud on it’s 7.5 million blogs, something amazing happened!
All of a sudden, blogs on the Wordpress.com platform became almost real-time. In other words, posts will be broadcast almost immediately; allowing bloggers to both deliver real-time content to their RSS subscribers AND potentially share real-time comments with their readers. Here’s why I think this is such a big deal!
Blogging is experiencing (yet another) resurgence it seems. However, this time, it looks like the very sites that were accused of killing blogs, are now responsible for making them more popular than ever.
That’s right: Twitter, Facebook and co are actually making blogs more popular than ever before. Read on to find out why!
Wordpress users, who have not already upgraded to the latest version (2.8.4) are vulnerable to a serious, active security threat. Respected Wordpress blogger Lorelle, explains that there are two clues you should look for, to see if your Wordpress blog has already been attacked.
So, the tech news blog has been on holiday for the past couple of weeks. In that time, quite a bit has happened. Clearly, the BIGGEST story in tech news during that time, was that I got to name the title of last week’s Windows Weekly podcast with Leo Laporte; “bing is my back end”. Yeah, I’m a fan of the show (thanks Leo.)
Here’s the news I missed…
