This comment at Micro Persuation got me thinking. What “Ne0h” suggests is that bloggers can do more to reach the “AOL crowd.” That is, the world of people who aren’t advanced Internet users, but need content handed to them. What restrictions do blogs impose, and how can we overcome them? They’re hard to read, hard to access, hard to organize, easy to abuse, maybe. But the benefits far outweigh those negatives. Human control can’t solve these problems. Isn’t that what Yahoo tried with their original web directory? DMOZ with the open directory? There’s a lot more information than that, and human editors can’t keep up with the pace of the web, at least not the way they’ve been doing it up to now. With better tools, perhaps. Reminds me of the Google Rater Hub. Wikipedia is an example of “Web 2.0″, he says. That’s just a central place for information, though. That seems tob e what the web is all about. “The subjugating of the search engines through powerful community based websites.”
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The one day of the year on which I really feel good about pulling a good prank. You see, I’m not a prankster, but I love good (and harmless) fun. As does Google. Of course, it’s also a good time to release an amazing product, and get lots of free press for it (can you say “Gmail”?) 
I’m glad for that one — out of luck, I got a Gmail invite just one month after its release (May 1, 2004, nearly two years ago now) and that led to creation of Google Community, well ahead of the curve – before GDS, before the IPO, before all the craziness. Yep… what does the future hold? And why don’t I have any ideas for this year’s April Fool’s Day event? What are you doing to celebrate?
the O.C. was filming on the USC campus today, near the bookstore and alumni park. they were pretending this was Brown University. I don’t watch the show, so I wouldn’t know why
I was reading a post at ensight and a lot of thoughts came to mind. I think the conclusion that the entire discussion points to is that there’s an unmet demand for a competitor to MySpace. Although Facebook is an excellent alternative, it’s not perfect. It’s targetted toward college students, and it doesn’t support blogging. You could say that their “wall” feature provides for that self-publishing need, but I think a blog goes beyond that. If you want to make a successful alternative to MySpace, what does it need to have? Read the rest of this entry »
