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Steven Berlin Johnson provides some background info on his latest project (which I bookmarked last week)
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lists the pros and cons of each of them, including their methodology for how each search engine “ranks” their searches.
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Highlights Sifry: “It’s still in the low thousands. Most bloggers don’t make much money… But there are hundreds of thousands of bloggers who do make enough to pay their bills for bandwidth.”
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Democratic candidates with blogs had a record of 11-5, while Republicans were 3-8.
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But Jarvis reckons special-interest magazines — community magazines, to put it another way — have a brighter prospect — if they understand how to enable that community.
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I particularly like this one: “mbrace and encourage blogs as a mechanism to foster creativity, team-spirit, and problem-solving, allowing personnel to make postings in their own names on company time and to link those postings to the website.”
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Key elements are 1) profile, 2) Traversable, publicly articulated social netork, 3) Semi-persistent public comments