Comments on: On behalf of blogging, http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2008/10/21/on-behalf-of-blogging/ Same old blog, brand new place Sun, 29 Nov 2009 22:17:54 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Jeff Guenther http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2008/10/21/on-behalf-of-blogging/comment-page-1/#comment-216825 Jeff Guenther Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:24:26 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2008/10/21/on-behalf-of-blogging/#comment-216825 The noise-to-signal ratio of Twit-land, Farcebook, etc., is huge. They have some use, but can't compete with a garden variety blog. Too much non-information. TMNI. The noise-to-signal ratio of Twit-land, Farcebook, etc., is huge. They have some use, but can’t compete with a garden variety blog. Too much non-information. TMNI.

]]> By: Maria Reyes-McDavis http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2008/10/21/on-behalf-of-blogging/comment-page-1/#comment-99570 Maria Reyes-McDavis Wed, 29 Oct 2008 22:15:24 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2008/10/21/on-behalf-of-blogging/#comment-99570 Doc, I agree with david, blogs have an amazing ability to form purpose based communities. With the technology now available in open-source platforms like Wordpress - blogs, as they are, contribute to the online community in ways Twitter and Flickr never will. Doc, I agree with david, blogs have an amazing ability to form purpose based communities. With the technology now available in open-source platforms like Wordpress – blogs, as they are, contribute to the online community in ways Twitter and Flickr never will.

]]> By: Doc Searls http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2008/10/21/on-behalf-of-blogging/comment-page-1/#comment-96686 Doc Searls Wed, 22 Oct 2008 09:16:50 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2008/10/21/on-behalf-of-blogging/#comment-96686 Thanks, Don. Good point about "the tool of choice for big-picture coordination between projects" for the free software community. Thanks, Don. Good point about “the tool of choice for big-picture coordination between projects” for the free software community.

]]> By: david cushman http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2008/10/21/on-behalf-of-blogging/comment-page-1/#comment-96659 david cushman Wed, 22 Oct 2008 07:44:35 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2008/10/21/on-behalf-of-blogging/#comment-96659 I still love the blog for one simple reason - it is the least silo'd of all the ways we can form communities of purpose on the web. Facebook, twitter, flickr, huge as they are, just don't have the sheer connection potential of blogs (via rss and search). I won't be giving up on mine until someone comes up with a better way of sharing my metadata. ;-) I still love the blog for one simple reason – it is the least silo’d of all the ways we can form communities of purpose on the web. Facebook, twitter, flickr, huge as they are, just don’t have the sheer connection potential of blogs (via rss and search).
I won’t be giving up on mine until someone comes up with a better way of sharing my metadata. ;-)

]]> By: Don Marti http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2008/10/21/on-behalf-of-blogging/comment-page-1/#comment-96601 Don Marti Wed, 22 Oct 2008 05:05:47 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2008/10/21/on-behalf-of-blogging/#comment-96601 Doc, I remember your earlier point about blogging as answers to email, only public. If you're going to write an answer anyway you might as well paste a copy into a blogging tool. Every communication tool seems to have a boom, a bust, then a set of steady users. In the free software community blogging seems to be the tool of choice for big-picture coordination between projects -- you can't be on the mailing list of all the projects whose work interoperates with yours. Doc, I remember your earlier point about blogging as answers to email, only public. If you’re going to write an answer anyway you might as well paste a copy into a blogging tool.

Every communication tool seems to have a boom, a bust, then a set of steady users. In the free software community blogging seems to be the tool of choice for big-picture coordination between projects — you can’t be on the mailing list of all the projects whose work interoperates with yours.

]]> By: vanderleun http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2008/10/21/on-behalf-of-blogging/comment-page-1/#comment-96550 vanderleun Wed, 22 Oct 2008 02:59:23 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2008/10/21/on-behalf-of-blogging/#comment-96550 Facebook boosters might want to consider this droll estimate of Facebook's carbon hoofprint: === Hence on an estimated ballpark - Facebook daily consumes 924,000 KiloWatt-Hours with per capita of 3.08 KWh . Annually the per capita figure would be 1124 KWh /year or equivalent to emission of 0.75 ton of green house CO2(Carbon footprint) which is half of NY city’s carbon footprint. ===== Other amusing stats at http://www.trendsspotting.com/blog/?p=487 Facebook boosters might want to consider this droll estimate of Facebook’s carbon hoofprint:
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Hence on an estimated ballpark – Facebook daily consumes 924,000 KiloWatt-Hours with per capita of 3.08 KWh . Annually the per capita figure would be 1124 KWh /year or equivalent to emission of 0.75 ton of green house CO2(Carbon footprint) which is half of NY city’s carbon footprint.
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Other amusing stats at

http://www.trendsspotting.com/blog/?p=487

]]> By: Sean Reiser http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2008/10/21/on-behalf-of-blogging/comment-page-1/#comment-96538 Sean Reiser Wed, 22 Oct 2008 02:08:01 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2008/10/21/on-behalf-of-blogging/#comment-96538 Came to the same conclusion earlier today (http://seanreiser.com/content/blog-dead-long-live-blogging). I agree with the concept that I'll never compete with the media companies, that's not why I do this. I secretly suspect that Calacanis retired from blogging because competing with them and was a victim of his own success. Came to the same conclusion earlier today (http://seanreiser.com/content/blog-dead-long-live-blogging). I agree with the concept that I’ll never compete with the media companies, that’s not why I do this. I secretly suspect that Calacanis retired from blogging because competing with them and was a victim of his own success.

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