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“I find more and more places that are either outer boroughs of major metro areas, or dense urban suburbs that share a border with metro areas.” Annonsörer är småaffärer. Det är roligare att blogga än att sälja annonser. Tidningar kan inte vara roli

WashingtonPost.com has soft-launched “Local Explorer, ” which allows users to map crime, home sales and school information by zip code. It is a great model for “mapped journalism.”

“Explore Washington-area Communities. Grocery and drug stores, restaurants, bars, hospitals and more, plus:
* Facts & Figures * Local News from The Post * Community Resources * Classifieds”

“the evolution of a reboot participant over several years involves the realization that it’s okay to skip stuff and, indeed, that by skipping stuff you increase dramatically your chance of random conversations with interesting people”

“I have published notes from the sessions I attended in mind map format on flickr, but I am also making the mind map files available for download /…/. The notes are in Mind Manager format”

“I really like Mather’s idea of ‘people like us’, and I think it works, but that group isn’t necessarily valuable in all situations. Not only do each of us assign trust in different ways /…/ but we do so differently in each activity that we do.”

“The value of a social network is that it should facilitate communication between people who want to communicate. Just about everyone on Myspace has made their profile private. /…/ Myspace is now a series of small and private social networks.”

Det behövs tydligare kontroller för att sortera rekommendationer från våra sociala nätverk.

“the communities are starting to move to peripheral devices. /…/ There was a lot of talks about mobile and ways to integrate the web into the first life.”

“ClickComments /…/ är ett kommentarsystem innehållande symboler istället för traditionella kommentarer. Ett klick och sedan har man kommenterat. /…/ Ett enkelt sätt att få mer information om vad läsarna vill läsa om.”

Niklas Jonason går igenom de nya funktionerna i den svenska versionen av Google Maps.

“I love it that his slides are just photos of people he’s got to know through blogging/podcasting.” “everybody’s a superhero. You now have access to tools that can let you do something that’s bigger than what you do in your every day.”

“# You need text. # have mailing lists # Have your first episde available # Give your visitors things to do # Subscriptions have to be one click # Offer both download and direct play options.”

Today, what old media has is a brand which is (hopefully) filled with trust and credibility. /…/ I think they need to leverage that trust and start becoming the hub about what’s going on in the world /…/.”

Svensk punk och postpunk i passande svartvitt.

“Under ett par dagar har jag testat och känt på tjänsten som självklart har som mål att på sikt ge Blocket.se en match. /…/ Här är min intryck och förslag på förbättringar efter att par dagar med Rubbet.”

“Korta beslutsvägar, mod, mycket engagemang och stort förtroende har gett oss en färdig avsiktsförklaring att på rekordfart bygga lokala varianter av grannar.se. De 1 juli förändras förutsättningarna för hushållsnära tjänster radikalt.”

“Here’s the basic premise of the story: What can we learn about a ton of different things when we follow a bunch of economically and ethnically diverse kids through one of the nation’s biggest malls on a single Saturday afternoon?”

“E&P has announced the winners of the 2007 EPpy Awards for interactive media, presented Thursday at the E&P/Mediaweek Interactive Media Conference & Trade Show in Miami. Awards were given in 32 different categories for excellence in online media, both for

“Wedding Web sites /…/ were originally conceived as a convenient way for couples to notify guests of wedding events, provide directions and link to gift registries. Now they are turning into elaborate hubs of matrimonial exhibitionism.”

“From the writers of the St. Petersburg Times, The Buzz offers the latest news in Florida politics.”

Musestorm skapar widgets åt bloggare, medieföretag (bland andra Washington Post) och andra.

The Tribunes politikblogg från Washington.

Chris Cillixxas The Fix är Washington Posts politikblogg.

Lawrence Journal-Worlds sportsajt samlar läsarnas egna sportbilder.

The Indianapolis Stars mammasajt.

The Indianapolis Stars husdjurssajt.

“The real money is in taking existing ideas and twisting the idea just far enough to make it work in a fantastic new way. Think Google vs. AltaVista; Apple vs. all previously existing /…/ mp3 players; YouTube vs. all previously existing video sites.”

“Google Reader with its speed and lack of wasted features is the champ for the seriously addicted.”

“Now every computer in the world is a Macintosh, so we won”.

“Capture. To-dos. Mobile productivity.‭ ‬Reminders.‭ ‬Project planning.‭ ‬Simple collaboration.‭ ‬All lists.‭ ‬‬Log.‭ ‬Personal time. Today.‭”

Lars Östlings och Maths Nilssons konsumentsajt.

“Även om iterationerna är korta /…/ så kostar det att fråga. Jag inbillar mig att det är ‘billigare’ att släppa något som kan utvecklas vidare i någon riktning, snarare än något som måste stöpas om.”

“The printer was spitting out freshly printed photos in plain view and that is how Rodney recognised his uncle in a series of photos, posing in front of famous San Francisco landmarks. Rodney did not know that his uncle was in San Francisco”

“Kevin Rose /…/ reveals that Digg is working on expanding to reviews of restaurants, products, service, images and is also working on improved means of discovery.”

“When are we going to acknowledge that millions of people writing poorly (while slowly improving) is better than millions of people doing the alternative…not writing at all?”

“26-year-old Holovaty /…/ is getting $1.1 million.” “The stated ambition is to produce open-source software ‘that links databases to allow citizens of a large city to learn (and act on) civic information about their neighborhood or block.’”

Oerhärt läckra holländska cyklar.