Last night Alex decided that he would create his own ‘best blogs’ list. Too often these ‘best blogs’ lists are merely transparent attempts to generate traffic. Especially in the case of bloggers who will immediately blog about the fact that they were listed as one of the top blogs on the internet. He mentioned that he was going to have one of the developers put the list together today and I really didn’t get it. As soon as I saw that it was a wiki based list I got it. Here is the intro fom the wiki:
Welcome to the 43 Best Blogs Wiki. The following 43 blogs are simply the best. Other ‘best of’ blog lists offer 50 or even 100 ‘best’ blogs, but after painstaking research we have deteremined that there are really only 43 decent blogs at any one time. Feel free to edit, add, remove or reorder any blog listed on this site How do we know that we have the right 43 blogs listed at any one time? Easy, you are the "we" at 43 Best. We are you. You spin me right round. Other lists depend on the work of one or two individuals.
Jeff Clavier was really the first person to get the joke:
Let me tell you: who is actually on the list does not matter, what is actually hilarious is to read through the history page since all edits are logged. As a blogger who wants in, you have to make a conscious decision of which of the 43 names you are going to “nuke”, and which spot you are going to claim. I had an easy task: a Polish dude had claimed three spots so I took one for myself and one for Hornik (as sign of deference to the grand father of VC blogging). But I really LOL’ed when I saw that David Weinberger nuked TechCrunch (not that I mean single out David, who I respect) and a few other interesting “replacements”. A very interesting social experiment indeed Alex.
Other links include: Supr.c.ilio.us and CrunchNotes. (he even made it on the frontpage of tech.memeorandum)
Posted by admin | February 28, 2006 - 11:17pm | 2 Comments
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If Ross Mayfield developed a ‘best blogs‘ list, it might look like this.
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Posted by admin | February 28, 2006 - 4:22pm | No Comments
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Edgeio is now open for business. As we mentioned (here & here), it’s a new service that lets you generate classified ads (job listings, items for sale, offers of advisory capital, etc.) right from your blog. You simply tag something ‘listing,’ and edgeio scoops it up. How can you improve the performance of your listings?
- Claim your blog at Edgeio
- Use the right tags (see what others are tagging similar items)
- Take the time to locate your listings if geography is central to the sale
Lots of folks are writing up the launch this morning:
Om Malik (natch)
Jeff Clavier
Edgeio founder Keith Teare
Fred Oliveira
Russell Beattie
Richard MacManus
Nik Cubrilovic
Techcrunch
Edgeio blog
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Posted by admin | February 27, 2006 - 10:01am | No Comments
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Jake McKee (who ran global community development for LEGO) has posted up some overarching thoughts about how marketers should interact with the communities that form around their products & services: the Customer Interaction Manifesto.
Take a look and weigh in. It’s interactive.
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Posted by admin | February 27, 2006 - 7:17am | No Comments
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We’ve been working on the Big in Japan toolset for sometime now. Big in Japan is a set of tools for prosumer bloggers, making it simpler to combine feeds, serve them up in a variety of ways, and, ultimately, with much better reporting over what is going on with your social media projects. I’ve been digging using a number of these tools, and Alex talks tonight about how he’s been using them.
- First, he points to the number of managed podcasts we support using Podserve.
- Then he mashes those various feeds up into a master feed using Frankenfeed.
- Finally, he gets updates delivered via his IM client over InstantFeed.
We’ll have as many of the Big in Japan tools ready as possible for beta rollout at SXSW. The really cool thing will be to make it super simple to automate a lot of these mashups within the toolset. We’ll get there. Tell us what you think if you get a chance to play with any of the tools.
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Posted by admin | February 26, 2006 - 8:15pm | No Comments
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