Follow up to my post on the search-engine exclusive (which was linked to by AtlanticMonthly) … other interesting commentary:
Monthly Archives: November 2009
The Internet Is Unstoppable
Matthew Stringer produced this video as part of class discussion of Benkler’s The Wealth of Networks. Have a look – it’s excellent!
Murdoch Ups The Search Ante
Google holds 71% of the search market; Bing, 10% (chart).
Cory Doctorow has a clear crystal ball. Earlier this month, Rupert Murdoch accused Google of stealing his content and threatened to cut the search giant off. Cory guessed that Murdoch might be angling for a search-engine payment deal: Continue reading
Twitter Retweet Question
I’ve noticed that a lot of high profile (read lots of followers) Twitter accounts retweet their retweets. In other words, personA writes a tweet, personB retweets it, then personA retweets that retweet. What do you think? Tacky? Smart marketing move? Something else?
You should follow me on twitter.
How To Create Themes In WordPress
If you have a blog, you have a theme… You want your blog to say “YOU”, but you don’t want to pay a designer a ton of money to accomplish this… Artisteer ($49.99) makes it simple for you to create and customize your own WordPress theme with just a few clicks of the mouse.
The Mac version is in beta testing; there is a trial version for Windows.
Post first appeared at com495 course blog.
