April 2002

Blogging: An Economist’s View

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James D. Miller writes about weblogs and their future. In many ways he talks in the same way about weblogging and indepentent writers as other have before him about free and/or open source software, claming there is no economics in weblogs. I tend to disagree, still beliving in the economics of attention, best described by Michael H. Goldhaber in Attention Shoppers! in Wired’s decemeber issue 1997. James also makes the mistake of arguing that multimedia will be the killer of weblogs, since the flashier video/sound sites will take the attention […]

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Cool, John discovered me

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John Dowdell has picked me up on his radar, and found some of my comments about the FlashForward conference and the lack of wireless connectivity, he also linked to a very interesting article I should have mentioned here, by Esther Dyson regarding the use of Wi-Fi/Wlan at PC Forum and what it led to. (See one of my past blogs) I really think that conferences can gain a lot from adding Wireless internet access in getting a new dynamic to them, and actually using the brain-capital available. I have a

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Samuel Wan’s weblog

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This is great news, Samuel Wan, one of the great Flash developers that adds so much value to the Flash community has put up his own weblog. Looks like he has been at it for a little while, but he has passed by my radar screen. And now it turns out he has his weblog up and running, and not only that, he is using Moveable Type and he has made a Flash MX interface (source here) for his weblog! (Its still a prototype, so you might want to wait

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Google reveals API

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This is great news for people wanting to hook into the most powerful search engine on the web. Google has released its API (basically an interface towards its huge database of websites) Google Web APIs With the Google Web APIs service, software developers can query more than 2 billion web documents directly from their own computer programs. Google uses the SOAP and WSDL standards so a developer can program in his or her favorite environment – such as Java, Perl, or Visual Studio .NET. Dave Winer of Userland provides some

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Going after spam

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BBC writes about Morrison and Foerster in San Francisco that is going after one of the big spam companies. The San Francisco office of Morrison and Foerster, also known as MoFo, is one of the first outfits in the United States to take on spammers who send out unsolicited commercial e-mail. Why one spam could cost $50 The law firm has recived a lot of support for its suit against the spam company Etracks, one writes: “I hate spam as much as the next guy. Take these jerks for everything

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Flash blogs keep on spreading..

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A couple of new weblogs covering Flash has appeared on the radar, one is John Dowdell’s “JD on MX”. John is a hightly visible guy in the Flash community, he has been working at Macromedia since 1993 and are usualy right in the middle of things going on. His private weblog has become a very interesting read! Samuel Wan has also gotten up his own weblog, actually based upon Moveable Type – but with his own Flash MX interface added to it. Sam is a very knowledgeable guy, and reading

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