Will the odd PC user at BloggerCon kindly stand up

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photo from Dan Bricklin’s BloggerCon photos

Earlier on BloggerCon was criticized as being for an elite few by a self appointed elite few, including by the Blog Herald. Whilst Dave Winer did an excellent job of attracting a diverse field of participants, one must wonder whether BloggerCon would be better known as AppleCon given the image above, and others appearing in the Blogosphere, of the conference. Given that less than 10% of the population uses Macs, and although the statistics is slightly higher for Bloggers, the near dominance of Mac Laptops at the conference is bizarre at best. Some may argue that more intelligent people use Macs, but as a Blog edited on at PC, The Blog Herald asks: “why so many Macs, or are we just stupid?”

BloggerCon under way

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The much hyped BloggerCon is under way, and if your like the Blog Herald and dont have a spare few thousand dollars and a days plane flight in time to travel there, you can catch all the action at the live BloggerCon webcast here. Be warned though that the sound quality is variable,even on an ADSL connection of 256k, most likely caused by server congestion. For other news see
The Official BloggerCon site
Bloggercon Blogroll
BloggerCon board at Yahoo!Feedsters BloggerCon watch

Blog outfits too expensive, Yahoo! to go it alone

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The Blog Herald’s source inside Yahoo! has told us that the talks Yahoo! has been holding with a number of blogging tool providers, previously reported on the Blog Herald on August 26, have faltered due to the high prices being asked and scepticism within Yahoo! business development ranks as to whether any serious additional revenue can be made from an acquisition.

Yahoo! is now considering expanding its successful trial of blogging in Korea, which already hosts some 10.000 blogs after only 3 months of service, to English speaking markets.

Blog jobs: NewsMonster is Hiring

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A new trend in blog related jobs? Will there one day be a blogging category in the employment guide??
NewsMonster is Hiring | peerfeer.org via mozillazine
The NewsMonster team is hiring! Are you fascinated by blogs? Interested in RSS/RDF and aggregation? Think the next big thing might just be FOAF? Do you dream in Java and or C++? Then you should come work on NewsMonster and help us build a killer aggregator!”

TrackBack: Where Blogs Learn Their Places

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Syllabus Magazine does a great review on Trackbacks for the uninitiated, oddly though they have no trackback facility.
TrackBack: Where Blogs Learn Their Places | Syllabus Magazine

“Someone, let’s say Tom, has written a post on his own Weblog that comments on a post in another person’s Weblog, say Paula’s. How does Paula know or learn about Tom’s interest and reference to her post? Tom could have gone to Paula’s Weblog and posted a note there saying he liked Paula’s comment and wrote about it on his blog at http://toms_log.myblog.com. However, this takes an extra degree of effort, and is just the sort of communication barrier that keeps like-minded people from forming communities. What is needed is a form of remote comment—rather than posting the comment directly on Paula’s Weblog, Tom posts his comment about what Paula has written on his own Weblog, then he sends a TrackBack ping to notify Paula.”

Forbes critiques Sports Blogs

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In what is becoming a more regular, and welcomed feature at Forbes.com Davide Dukcevich has critiqued a number of sports blogs, an often over looked sector of the blogosphere, and an interesting diversion from a regular dose of business, politics and current affairs.
Best Sports Blogs | Forbes.com
“The best sports blogs are those that traffic in polemics. This may be because legitimate news sites aren’t allowed to tally the number of athletes caught with marijuana or the incidents of violence by sports parents. Badjocks.com, our favorite sports blog site, fills that void. F&@*edsports.com offers more of sports stars behaving badly. Look for these muckrakers to flower as the football season, the World Series and the Kobe Bryant case swing into full gear.”

Why blogs could be bad for business

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Why blogs could be bad for business | Guardian Unlimited

“Being able to publish words, pictures and – ultimately – multimedia to the web without specialised geek skills will remain a important advance, and have a broad impact on the nature of online media.

But the nature of how a business communicates – both internally and to the outside world – has never been as hindered by such technical considerations. There are broader concerns that suggest business weblogging will not be adopted in the way being touted today.”