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A post on Doc Searls’ blog caught me off guard today. It’s a beautiful spring day in Minnesota lake country. The ice is out. It’s warm and sunny. There’s hardly a breath of wind. Between earth, lake and sky the world is as perfectly blue and green as it gets in this part of the world. Doc’s post focused on Daniel Henninger’s story (Wall Street Journal) about blogs, and the fact that maybe not all things should be shared, even if the Web allows that to be done almost effortlessly.
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When FeedRinse was launched, I was excited because it meant somebody close to home had finally released a Web2.0 app. This past week saw the launch of the first Fargo-based Web2.0 entry, as far as I am aware of anyway. Sidewalk allows you to very easily set up a form and collect the data on a hosted server. Not only do they sport a 2.0 design, but the domain name is something to drool over, captureimportant.info...how great is that?
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John Gruber’s Daring Fireball is one of my favorite blogs, in fact, it probably is. I can’t think of another that I would rather take with me to a desert island. I have religiously read Daring Fireball since discovering it a little over a year ago. He almost exclusively writes about the world of Macintosh, but does manage to sneak in other nerdish topics from time to time. But it is his take on happenings surrounding Apple and the Mac that leave me eagerly anticipating his next post. The problem has been the posts were sparse, maybe two in a week if you were lucky. On Thursday, he announced that he had quit his job at Joyent (they make a pretty nice product btw) and was going to work full time on Daring Fireball. This is great news for the Mac community, but also the blogosphere altogether. Gruber has a great writing style and tackles issues head on, always with an interesting perspective on the topic at hand.
I wish you luck, John. I can’t wait to read you every day.
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I first came to China in the fall of 2002 on a study abroad trip to Chongqing, a city in southwest China on the banks of the Yangtze River. Throughout the course of the semester, we studied and learned, not so much in a classroom sense, but more through the experience of being dropped in a city of 30 million people on the other side of the world. Throughout this time, one of our main sources of information about back home, and the rest of the world outside Chongqing, was the Internet.
At that time, it was uncommon for Chinese people to have Internet access in their homes, so most of the access came from Internet cafes. The Internet cafes were often full of Chinese students chatting with friends, playing games and surfing the net 24 hours a day. I remember going to an Internet cafe at 2 AM with some of my classmates in order to register online for our next semester classes, and we had trouble finding one that wasn’t full.
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A new State of the Blogosphere report from David Sifry shows the number of blogs increasing at a dizzying pace. According to the report, Technorati—the blog search engine—is now tracking 35.3 million blogs. In a previous State of the Blogosphere report released just two months ago, Technorati was tracking 27.2 million blogs. Over eight million blogs have been added in the last two months! It also means, over the past 60 days, an average of more than 5500 new blogs have been created each hour.
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