Blogs win the LongNow bet
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Decision: Blogs vs. New York Times. For the last couple of weeks I've been emailing with people from the LongNow Foundation and Martin Nisenholtz of the NY Times, to determine who won the bet.  Ultimately we asked the foundation to consider all the argument and make the decision. They published their decision today. It's well worth reading because it answers some of the questions raised by the bet, for example, what is a blog, and how does Wikipedia relate to blogging. I don't agree with everything in the decision, but I do like the result -- we won.  The beneficiary of the bet? The World Wide Web Consortium. I chose them as the charity to receive the proceeds if I won the bet because web standards are what make it all work and the W3C is central to standards on the web.
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Bloggers race to create compelling content during competition, but only one will survive what's billed as an "Internet cage match."
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By Will Quah  OK, OK. So there's nothing that tantric about blogging (although if you look at some sites, you might disagree), but it makes a great title, and that is, primarily, what a lot of blogs are all about. But I'm getting ahead of myself.  Blogging is a modern day phenomenon.
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Giveaway newspapers and Internet news sites have the traditional print media on the run.
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Although blogs like Daily Kos have demonstrated some possibilities of the medium, political candidates haven't bought into them, and probably won't anytime soon. By Daniel Terdiman.
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Internet bloggers have drawn blood  and American journalism may never be the same.
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Steve Rubel at Micro Persuasion stumbled across Technorati WTF (currently down), which lists the most popular blog stories of the day in a Digg or Techmeme type hieracral system.  It&#8217;s nice to see more niche search engines using the Digg model for gauging popularity via user voting, and this form of social media is slowly growing [...]
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LiveJournal's Blog Network and its 5.6 Million Bloggers To Be Acquired  Big blog news today, Six Apart has plans to purchase LiveJournal. The move has been seen as defensive being that Google and Microsoft have become serious about building blog networks. Why so serious about blogs and why right now? Well, ...
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The alternative search engine buys Bloglines in a move to compete with the likes of Google and Yahoo. Also: Mitsubishi feels the financial pain of repeated scandals.... EarthLink earnings are up and looking good... and more.
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Yes Virginia, there is money to be made in web publishing, especially stock market and trading news! The news will invigorate bloggers and news publishers everywhere.
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By McGuire, Craig  VNRs, b-roll, and other broadcast PR content can also go to traditional media sites. By Craig McGuire  A decade ago, perhaps one in 50 Americans sought their news online.
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Readership is up, but most Web surfers still don't know what blogs are.
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Internet &quot;blogs&quot; ended up with egg on their faces this week after releasing early exit-poll data from Tuesday's vote suggesting John Kerry was on his way to a victory against George W. Bush.
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Blog: Blogs: they're here. They're read. Get used to it.
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Over the last week, I've been writing about the disconnect between flow and rank. Paradoxically, sites that are ranked high don't always deliver a lot of hits when they link to you. On the flipside, there are some sites that are rarely on Top 100 lists, or talked about very much, that deliver substantial flow. Two of them stand out, one a veteran site, and the other a relative newcomer. 1. Daring Fireball is a thoughtful blog written by John Gruber that focuses on the Macintosh. Since I've returned to the Mac in 2005, and have been writing more about Mac issues, I've started getting links from this site, and when I do, they usually send between 1000 and 2000 readers my way. And they're generally interesting people with useful information and ideas. I follow Gruber on Twitter and have learned that he is a Phillies fan and therefore disappointed this year. His posts are interesting there too, and irreverent, which I like of course.  2. A Digg-like memetracker, news.ycombinator.com is in the same league as TechMeme, about 1000 hits for a highly ranked piece. I don't know much about the site, I'm not a regular reader, and I don't know much about the people who visit from this site.
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Could blogging be near the peak of its popularity? The technology gurus at Gartner Inc. believe so.