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A Commentary About Blog Comment Systems

By Mark Evans | Published: March 11, 2010
A few of you might have noticed that I recently switched blog comment systems – moving to Echo from IntenseDebate. The switch was mostly prompted by my frustration with IntenseDebate’s administrative features, particularly the inability to deal with spam on a volume/bulk basis as opposed to individually or groups of 10 at a time. Having used [...]
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Reality Check: Blogs Haven’t Lost Their Mojo

By Mark Evans | Published: January 2, 2010
One of the downsides of the hype about Twitter (aka the glamor girl) is how it makes blogs look downright dowdy. It’s easy for everyone to get all hot and bothered about 140-character (or less) messages because anyone can do it fairly well. Blogs, however, require time, a nugget of an idea, some work and, [...]
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The Challenges of a New Blog

By Mark Evans | Published: September 18, 2009
Last night, I was talking to someone about social media – surprise, surprise – when they mentioned that they had probably missed the boat on blogging. This is a person with lots of enthusiasm, energy and ideas; someone who’s active on Twitter and having lots of conversations – digital and analog (real-life) – to provide [...]
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Is RSS Really Dying?

By Mark Evans | Published: May 6, 2009
Are you still reading blogs? Do you still use an RSS readers such as Bloglines or Google Reader? Or do you get most of your blog fix from Twitter? Many of us who have embraced Twitter have discovered that we spend less time on Google Reader, et al because the people we follow on Twitter are [...]
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What About the GWriter?

By Mark Evans | Published: October 31, 2008
Google’s pushing hard within the blogosphere with Blogger, Google Blog Search and Google Reader. But what about the idea of a blog publishing tool – aka the GWriter? It would be a standalone tool that bloggers could configure to use with Blogger, Wordpress, TypePad, et al. It would feature access to related services such as search, [...]
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How About a BlogBook?

By Mark Evans | Published: October 27, 2008
There seems to be an awful lot of excitement these days about NetBooks – small (miniaturized?) notebook computers that provide users with enough power and features to surf the Web, check e-mail, do word processing, edit photos, etc. I’m personally not in the market for a new laptop but if a computer maker was looking to [...]
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