Blogosphere

Climate change comes under heavy fire in the blogosphere

Letters From A Tory (Free subscription) | yesterday

“If you looked through any organisation’s emails from the last 10 years you’d find something that would raise a few eyebrows. Contrary to what the sceptics claim, the Royal Society, the US National Academy of Sciences, Nasa and the world’s leading atmospheric scientists are not the agents of a clandestine global movement against the truth. [...]

• Climate sceptics seize upon leaked emails - The Cult of the Dead Fish
• Climate sceptics claim leaked emails are evidence of collusion among scientists - The Guardian

Biotech in the Blogosphere

Advanced Biofuels and Climate Change Information Center (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009

Wow, what a blog post title, “Synthetic Biology: Why Not Pursuing Crazy Biotech Is Dangerous.” The the crew at Gizmodo who came up with that title talks with Michael Spector who covers science for the New Yorker and is the author of Denialism: How Irrational Thinking Hinders Scientific Progress, Harms the Planet, and [...]

Around The Blogosphere 20 November 09

Dave Lucas (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009

Rihanna called into the Bert Show in Atlanta and discussed her ex, Chris Brown. Miss Info has the DL Young Mister O ::: "As you may know, the girls at Occidental College liked to dress up young men and take their pictures. There are some famous pictures of the young Barack Obama while he was at Occidental College in Los Angeles, CA floating on the internet. Posted above, I have the rough equivalent...

Why Nobody Cares About Your Blog

ProBlogger (Free subscription) | yesterday

A Guest Post by David Risley Except yours, of course. ;) However, there are a lot of bloggers who feel this way. You write. You write some more. You don’t feel as if you’re getting the traction that you want. What’s going on? There is plenty to be said about issues like proper market selection, search engine optimization [...] Post from: Blog Tips at ProBlogger . Why Nobody Cares...

More thoughts on in-Tweet advertising

Scobleizer (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago

I believe that people who produce content should be able to make a living for producing that content. If we want journalists, bloggers, photographers, and videographers to bring us interesting stuff that makes our lives richer, we gotta figure out a way to get them paid. That’s why I care deeply about the topic of [...]

Twitter.com traffic down? Seesmic Web is +30%/month

Loïc Le Meur (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago

There are many reports that the traffic from Twitter.com would be going down. We see the opposite on the app side, at least for Seesmic. Seesmic Web is growing very strong as you can see the number of Tweets posted...

Best. Gift. Ever.

TypePad UK News (Free subscription) | yesterday

My mom prints out some of my blog posts and emails to save, and for my dad to read. While that's adorable, it's doesn't hold a candle to how happy my folks would be if...

Questions for Apple

blackrimglasses.com (Free subscription) | yesterday

How are you going to reboot the AppStore? It needs an overhaul and refactoring to be a scalable architecture for innovation. It’s obvious now that the AppStore has grown out of control as a managable architecture. It needs a fundamental rethinking on how approvals and the ecosystem itself works. Would you crowd source approvals out? [...]

21 Link Builders Share Advanced Link Building Queries

blackrimglasses.com (Free subscription) | yesterday

Articles like this make me feel kind of dirty for reading them. [From 21 Link Builders Share Advanced Link Building Queries]

The beauty of simplicity

MYBLOG by Ouriel (Free subscription) | yesterday

via www.ommwriter.com Going to give this tool a shot. hard to focus writing and thinking with all those streams and features around

Talk about Motion. Learn how to Django

TypePad UK News (Free subscription) | yesterday

Six Apart's talk about TypePad Motion to the Django-NYC group.

Use mod_wsgi for large TypePad Motion sites

TypePad UK News (Free subscription) | yesterday

So you've tried out the new TypePad Motion and now you're ready to run a large public community site. That is great news and we're here to help you! We just added a guide on...

Social Media & Government

Global Neighbourhoods (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009

I had a chapter in Twitterville about government in Twitter. My research for the book took place in about February. At the time I saw great promise in government using social media to get closer with constituents, mostly in the day-to-day conducting of government government business and information distribution. Two examples of this that I used in Twitterville were the San Diego Metro Transit System,...

An open letter to Google

Scripting News (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009

I had an interesting but somewhat disturbing exchange with a Google guy on Twitter today. It reveals a bunch of disconnects, that I'm going to try, in this post, to address. 1. Please take these statements at face value. 2. I am just a person, I am not in competition with Google. 3. I am a Google user. My primary email account is on GMail. I just bought a Droid, and started a Droid blog to help other...

Why Google Chrome OS has already won

Scobleizer (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009

Today InfoWorld’s Randall Kennedy says that Google’s Chrome OS will fail. What he is missing is he’s looking at the wrong field. Google is playing a different game. Google Chrome OS is NOT about killing Microsoft or Apple. What is it about? Developers, developers, developers, developers, developers. See, what happens if the world goes to Microsoft’s Silverlight, the way [...]...