In a surprise move, Twitter have acquired blogging site Posterous. The question of course, is: “why?” The information from the companies is pretty vague. Guess 1: (the view held by my Twitter community) It’s a pure talent acquisition, Posterous…
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A collection of 5 posts
The Merger of Blogs and Social Networks
One of the “joys” of living in the social media world is those days that you wake up, and discover your e-mail in-box crammed with something – comments on one of your posts, Twitter follows or, as happened this morning, a…
3 Posts About The Future of Blogs & Comments
I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about the evolution of blogging, its interaction with social networking, and the role of content-based community on the web in recent weeks. These three posts really chimed with some of my conclusions:…
Innovation in Blog Platforms
Occasionally in recent months, I’ve bemoaned the lack of innovation in blog platforms. However, I’m not being very precise in my use of language there. What I actually mean is the lack of innovation in self-hosted blog platforms…
Weekend Coffee Reading
Lurking around in my browser tabs: - [On Makers and Managers](http://kristinelowe.blogs.com/kristine_lowe/2010/01/on-makers-and-managers-and-how-to-manage-your-day.html) – good look at the tension between these two roles that should be familiar to most people in journalism -…