http://www.blogpi.net Putting the blogosphere under a magnifying glass Tue, 18 Jan 2011 13:48:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Cross-posted from The Wikipedian, with minor modifications. Post title inspired by Another Portland Blog. Wikipedia's tenth anniversary occurred this past weekend, on January 15th. Alas, I did not make it to the local meetup in Washington, DC, where I live, but I did something else, something as fun as it was ... http://www.blogpi.net/wikipedia-anniversary-william-beutler-ukraine-tv-interview Over the past few weeks, the White House has been sending its Council of Economic Advisers chair, Austan Goolsbee, out onto the Internet circuit with a series of videos to explain the current economic situation and the talk up president's economic policies. They're called "White House White Board" and represent ... http://www.blogpi.net/austan-goolsbee-celebrity-wonk Imagine my surprise, glancing at the right-hand advertising column on Facebook this morning, to find a Facebook ad encouraging the site's users to learn more about the real person portrayed by Justin Timberlake in the hit film about the website "The Social Network" (perhaps you've heard of it)? Here it ... http://www.blogpi.net/sean-parker-vanity-fair-facebook-ads John Gruber writes the widely-read Apple-partisan weblog Daring Fireball (DF) and it's a daily stop for anyone who follows the Cupertino iMaker closely. His blog has never allowed readers to post comments, drawing a challenge from sometime rival blogger and columnist Joe Wilcox, in a perhaps overly-aggressive post titled "Be ... http://www.blogpi.net/connecting-the-decline-of-blog-comments-to-the-rise-of-social-media-and-finding-the-way-back While in Austin last week, I wrote a blog post for New Media Strategies about what I saw there: For better or worse, the just-concluded SXSW Interactive festival in Austin, Texas carries the weight of massive geek expectations. The big reason has to do with Twitter: it was at SXSWi in ... http://www.blogpi.net/on-sxsw-and-next-big-things Last evening, about two miles of the office building where I work, a crazy guy named John Patrick Bedell opened fire at the Pentagon Metro station, wounding two officers before being killed by return fire. While police are still sorting through his motives, bloggers are combing through the trail of ... http://www.blogpi.net/john-patrick-bedell-pentagon-shooter-wikipedian A unifying theme of The Wikipedian in the first year of its existence -- and will again be now that its unscheduled hiatus comes to an end today -- has been the lag between the public's recognition of Wikipedia as an important if imperfect information resource and the public's understanding ... http://www.blogpi.net/ten-thousand-editors-in-real-lancashire Tomorrow Apple Inc. announces their Mac Tablet Netbook Thingy -- well, that or Steve Jobs sends Phil Schiller on stage to announce: "Made you look!" -- and today the New York Times is reporting on Jobs' vision for the tablet's probable content partnerships with traditional media companies: For now, at least, ... http://www.blogpi.net/take-one-tablet-and-call-me-on-background The New York Times Sunday Magazine this weekend features a long article about the fallout between Charles Johnson of Little Green Footballs fame and the rest of the anti-jihadist rightosphere. If nothing else it provides a solid overview for anyone who has noticed LGF's change in focus over the past ... http://www.blogpi.net/links-context-and-little-green-footballs Way back in August 2007, I wrote about a blog called Mike Huckabee President 2008. As one might expect, the purpose of this particular was to support Huckabee's presidential campaign. Nothing too spectacular about that, except that Mike Huckabee President 2008, launched February 15, 2005, was almost certainly the first ... http://www.blogpi.net/ing-huckabee-now-more-than-ever