It's News to Me

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Originally uploaded by pt.

This picture was uploaded to Flickr on Dec. 4, 2004, by PT, a.k.a. Phillip Torrone, who has a terrific blog called, Engadget.

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Shel Israel says in a post this morning that his search at technorati shows that there are now more than 5 million bloggers; that over 12,000 new blogs are started each day; and that 10,000 weblogs are updated every hour.

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If you've got a few minutes to kill, go play with this new toy from Google. Google Suggest (beta) Just start typing some word on which you want to search, and watch as Google suggests possible completions for your search. Once you see the word you want or if you are distracted by another more interesting term, just cursor down to the one you want and press Enter. Very cool!

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Shel Israel has published the proposal he and Robert Scoble plan to shop around to publishers for their book, The Red Couch. The proposal itself is interesting, but the comments by the readers are equally fascinating. They demonstrate how a community becomes involved in a blog, and in fact, I would suggest that they illustrate one of the most important indicators of how significant a blog is. The more active the comment area to a blog's posting is, the more vital and alive the blog is.

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This news item from Indianapolis only serves to prove that «time and the tides wait for no man.»

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In this thread, Joel on Software - blogging and representations of the professional self, one writer says: «I recently was rejected for a job, because I don't have a blog. Er, at least I think that was why I was rejected. The job involved producing blog-making software at a startup, so the company had a right to be concerned about my 'lack of internet presence.' « A number of others replied to this post and that resulted in some interesting dialog about this person's dilemma.



That snippet from the discussion section of the Joel on Software blog provides an entirely different perspective on the discussion that Darrell Beasey and I had in the comment section of my post from Saturday. Darrell had pointed out that he had read in other blogs that a few people had been fired because of things they had written on their blog. I had heard that too, and the thread on Joel's site provides a link to one such instance. What's different in this thread though is that the primary focus is on why NOT having a blog can be a handicap. Like everything else, I suppose there are pros and cons to blogging, and you are «damned if you do and damned if you don't.»

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Robert Scoble has begun a project with Shel Israel to write a book on corporate blogging by using his new MSN blog to write it. This is really an innovative way to try to write a book, and he has just begun it. I have subscribed to the RSS feed for that blog so that I can keep up with the project and see it as it develops.

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Flickr continues to get praised from all quarters, and I have to agree.

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