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I am working with Federated Media Publications (John Battelle and others) on a number of activities, not the least of which is an advertising network. In order to better understand who the community is that is reading what I am babbling about here at /Message, we have put together a short survey that I hope you will participate in. It will help in a number of ways.
Here's the link.
I went over to see who might have linked to /Message recently, and discovered that Technorati has lost its mind, at least on my account page. A rank of zero... is that better than a rank of one?
On other pages, things appear normal.
Sorry to say I can't attend next week's Innovation Journalism conference next week at Stanford. John Furrier has a great write-up and links to register. There is no fee to attend.
Mary was one of the visionaries interviewed in this week's Newsweek cover story on Web 2.0, so the timing of this interview with her couldn't be better. Mary is one of my favorite people, and a human dynamo. She's the sort of person that makes everyone else feel smarter just by chatting with her. And while her new product, Dabble, still has not launched, we know it is a social video community from this interview, a great example of what Mary characterized as "the live web" in the Newsweek piece.
Or download this episode only as a small .mov, large .mov, .m4v, mp4, or .divx
The New Visionary series is sponsored by podcast.com : the home of podcasting.
The folks at SixApart have announced Typepad widgets, which they define this way:
A widget is a piece of content or functionality provided by a third party that you can place in the siderail of your TypePad blog. Technically, it's a snippet of HTML and/or JavaScript that you can manage like any other sidebar content module on your blog.
Great! I have been using the current "Notes" form of Typelist in Typepad to allow me to embed my own widgets at /Message, like my eventful calendar, and various reformatted RSS feeds. But I have had some lumps doing that.
But then... the small print:
However, Widgets are not supported on blogs that use Advanced Templates, nor are they supported on Mixed Media layouts.
Yikes. But we all know that to do anything serious with your blog template you just have to push it to Advanced. For example, you cannot delete the metatags for various RSS feeds unless you promote the blog templates to Advanced, which means -- even if you use a Feedburner feed -- autodiscovery of RSS feeds at your blog will go to the prdefined feeds, not the feedburnerized one.
I am using Typepad because I don't want the full-up hassles of MT or Wordpress -- hosting, fooling a database, etc. -- but there has to be something better that this never-never land of Advanced templates at Typepad, doesn't there?
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