"2008 Weblog Awards: Open for Nominations
2008 Weblog Awards: Open for Nominations
What makes a web award a success? There are many factors that we could consider, but I still think that the traffic and exposure that it attracts are the main ones. If that is the case, the Weblog Awards (also known as Bloggies) is certainly one of the most important blog awards.
The fuel of the Internet
Give me back my hierarchical media system! Print journalists live in fear of the death of "good journalism" through Web 2.0 and yet a blogger was nominated Germany's journalist of 2007. While the discourse rumbles on Google is noiselessly earning 3 euros a month from millions of German users. By Robin Meyer-LuchOnline social networking frenzy points to Internet's future
Online social networking websites saw their ranks swell and values soar this year as everyone from moody teenagers and mellow music lovers to mate-seeking seniors joined online communities.
Russia threatens to build a separate Internet
In the latest issue of FP, I wrote (subscription required) about the efforts of ICANN, the group that gives out Internet domain names, to "internationalize" the Web. Starting this year, ICANN will allow users to use non-Roman characters in top level domain names. For example, Arabic-speaking users will no longer have to end Web addresses in ".com"—they can register the last part of their Web address in their own native language....
Bhutto son victim of Facebook hoax
Facebook's lack of parliamentary procedure
Facebook has become a popular platform for public figures to reach out to supporters and fans. Presidential candidates, for instance, can use the hugely popular social-networking site to build official profiles and post updates from the campaign trail. The Facebook gods therefore frown on pranksters who attempt to impersonate celebrities by creating a fake profile. They also encourage legitimate users to report alleged impostors in order to maintain the integrity of the site.
Happy 10th birthday, weblog!
Passport would be remiss this year if it failed to mention that December 2007 is the 10th anniversary of the coining of the word "weblog."
Jorn Barger (the man in the photo) is widely credited with inventing the word "Weblog" on Dec. 17 or Dec. 23 (the exact date seems to vary depending on the source) of 1997 when describing the list of links he had posted on his Web site Robot Wisdom. This list logged sites he stumbled upon while surfing the Web. According to the Wall Street Journal, Barger wrote on his site on Dec. 23, 1997:
2008: Another Big Year for Blogging
I am pretty sure that 2008 will be another big year for blogging and new media in general. Online ad spending is booming, web applications are affirming themselves, new communication platforms and business models are emerging by the light of the day. It is a very exciting period for everyone who is connected to this global network.
What businesses learned in 2007 about the digital race
Web 2.0 can be a treasure trove and a minefield.David Harsanyi / Reason:
The Amateurs' Hour — Is the Internet destroying our culture …
Internet Cookies Aren’t Evil: 6 Myths Busted
Viruses, Trojan horses, worms, phishers, spam e-mails, and online fraud; these are the perfect ingredients to scare the unaware users of the Internet. And I am not talking about a certain group or country here. It seems like anywhere around the world, people have heard of such threats and have become more afraid to the point that they even take too much a precaution with (or against) their most trusted websites. Sadly, innocence played the bad guy’s role this time, and one of its victims is the tiny little chunk of data we call Internet cookie.
Google Products You Forgot All About
Googling Yourself writes "Lifehacker has an interesting blog post on the "Top 10 Google Products You Forgot All About" that includes stalwarts like Google Trends and Google Alerts and a few others that may not be quite so familiar like Google Personals, Google's WYSIWYG web site creation tool, and Flight Simulator for Google Earth."2008 Predictions from CenterNetworks
It's that time of the year -- prediction time. Most of the blogger heavyweights have listed their predictions and I thought I'd share mine after being pinged by James Thomas. I have decided to offer some predictions that might be considered a bit non-traditional. With that said, here are some of my thoughts for 2008:
