A snapshot of the changing world of information, media and journalism:
* Technorati now tracks over 27.2 Million blogs
* The blogosphere is doubling in size every 5 and a half months
* It is now over 60 times bigger than it was 3 years ago
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Having at one time been labeled a “loser” in Walt Crawford’s article on the printability of blog postings (a point well deserved ;)), I thought it worthwhile to install the WP Print Plugin to my site (note: newest plugin version *is* compatible with WP 2.x) . If I remember correctly, I think I had actually […]

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Via Library clips :: arxiv: e-print trackbacks :: August :: 2005
An interesting Library Clips post on trackback, spurred on by the enabling of trackbacks for all papers in the popular arXiv.org electronic document repository. I would asume that there is some level of interest from their user community, a likely indication that there is […]

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Lots of blog chatter today about Google Talk — yet another jump forward for the little search engine that could. The next phase of what can now only be referred to as Googlenet (rats, already coined).
Really, is there any Internet trend or technology that Google isn’t working towards becoming involved with or at the […]

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As the following story indicates, Factiva is the newest player in a growing group of developers creating blog monitoring tools. Netimperative - Factiva launches blog monitoring tool
Factiva’s public recognition of the importance of blogging dates back some time, so no doubt ideas for this new monitoring service have been percolating for a while. I’ll […]

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Dave Sifry’s latest report on tags and tagging–part of Technorati’s State of the Blogosphere series–is worth a read.
Summary:
* Growth has been tremendous in the last 6 months: Technorati has tracked over 25 Million tagged posts from January to July of 2005
* About 300,000 posts with tags […]

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It always brings a smile to my face when I hear lightbulbs going off for people in other fields…
The Scientist :: On Your Mark, Get Set, Blog!, Aug. 1, 2005
The life sciences have been slow to embrace blogging. Real slow. The pharmaceutical industry has just about dipped in a toe, but there’s been nothing from […]

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“One blog created every second”.
Wow! How’s that for a stat…

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Yet another shameless plug for a local conference — this one, Netspeed 2005, which follows on the heels of Access (they actually share a day this year).
The Alberta Library is pleased to announce that the 2005 Netspeed Conference will be held October 19-21, 2005 in Edmonton, Alberta, immediately following the ACCESS conference. We invite […]

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News that Six Apart is working towards the launch of a new release of MT, a version that adds significant spam bloking techniques as well as a series of features they hope that will propell MT forward as the enterprise blog tool of choice. Until reading this article, I wasn’t aware that IBM was […]

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