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No kidding I really got this fortune cookie Permanent link to this item in the archive.

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New Disqus Permanent link to this item in the archive.

Good to see lots of improvements in Disqus today.

Looking for docs that explain how you export comments for offline archiving.

Followups Permanent link to this item in the archive.

Om Malik followed up with Evan Williams at Twitter and corrected the assumption behind my piece published yesterday about new limits in Twitter.

Also read the comments for more clarification.

A picture named car.gifIn a conference call today with the bit.ly team, we have an instance of laconi.ca running so we can learn how it works, and I had relayed the news that they had federation up and running, and Jay verified that they do. He was able to follow his presence on identi.ca on our instance. He says it's difficult to find the magic bits you need to do it, but he's going to write a howto and I'm going to try to set this up myself. It's a big deal, as I've said before.

What goes around Permanent link to this item in the archive.

On FriendFeed, Andrew Baron notes that, according to compete.com, Mahalo stopped growing six months ago.

Proof that the shut-them-up-with-flames approach to PR doesn't get you where you want to go.

Update: Google Trends confirms the compete.com data.

     

Last update: Tuesday, August 12, 2008 at 3:06 PM Pacific.



A picture named dave.jpgDave Winer, 53, pioneered the development of weblogs, syndication (RSS), podcasting, outlining, and web content management software; former contributing editor at Wired Magazine, research fellow at Harvard Law School, entrepreneur, and investor in web media companies. A native New Yorker, he received a Master's in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin, a Bachelor's in Mathematics from Tulane University and currently lives in Berkeley, California.

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Things to revisit:

1.Microsoft patent acid test.
2.What is a weblog?
3.Advertising R.I.P.
4.How to embrace & extend.
5.Bubble Burst 2.0.
6.This I Believe.
7.Most RSS readers are wrong.
8.Who is Phil Jones?
9.Send them away.
10.Negotiate with users.
11.Preserving ideas.
12.Empire of the Air.
13.NPR speech.
14.Russo & Hale.
15.Trouble at the Chronicle.
15.RSS 2.0.
16.Checkbox News.
17.Spreadsheet calls over the Internet.
18.Twitter as coral reef.
19.Mobs of the blogosphere.
20.Advice for Campaigns.
21.Social Cameras.
22.The Next Big Thing.
23.It's time to open up networking, again.
24.Am I competing?
25.Time to shake up conferences?
26.Bloggers working with journalists.

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