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I judge the quality of a weblog by its IDEAS, but it seems some people equate quality with popularity. Is the 'culture of celebrity' that afflicts Western movies, television and

Bill Tancer from Hitwise and Dafe Sifry from Technorati are on stage now, discussing data about the participatory web. The first slide from Bill shows a 668% growth in web

UPDATE 12/11/04: An interesting conversation has developed in the comments to this post, spurred on by Phil Jones who disagreed with my position. Joshua, Liam and Matt Scofield also contributed

The online classifieds edge player edgeio has released an update tonight, that points to the future of Structured Blogging. Now edgeio users don't need to physically do tagging on their

Remember my post last year entitled Gettin' Paid: A Future for Content Creators?. In it I passionately made the case that there is a future for niche writers to make

This is a guest post by Aseem Kishore, a technology enthusiast and lead blogger for Online-Tech-Tips. Adroll.com is not just another ad network, it's a social ad network. There's a

Controversial "word of mouth marketing" company PayPerPost, which we called "a sketchy operation" in a post in October, told users via email that they had reached 100,000 members (or, as

This is about as political as I'll get here on Read/Write Web, but I couldn't resist posting this cartoon by fellow kiwi Tom Scott. It also reminds me of the

One of the biggest topics in the tech blogosphere at the beginning of this year was 'comment fragmentation.' With services like FriendFeed, SocialMedian, Digg, Reddit, and others often creating unconnected

Good, Dave Winer has returned to text format (at least for today) for his morning coffee notes. That means I can link to it. He wrote this morning: "Every company,