• Everyone believes that one of the points of blogging and the internet in general is to connect with other people, right? That’s why we pay attention to things like LinkedIn connections, Technorati rankings, BlogPulse conversation trackers and other tools that let us see who’s connected to who and who’s talking about what, with whom and where. Well, think again. Isolatr – the first anti social-networking site according to GMSV – has other ideas and offers a click-through alternative for where…

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  • An evolutionary development in mainstream media engagement with readers and others by The Guardian in the UK, which has launched Comment is free: Comment is free is a major expansion of Guardian comment and analysis on the web. It is a collective group blog, bringing together regular columnists from the Guardian and Observer newspapers with other writers and commentators representing a wide range of experience and interests. The aim is to host an open-ended space for debate, dispute, argument and…

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  • I can’t imagine how I missed Time for the last post, a story in the Financial Times last month (I read the online paper daily) – a lengthy commentary on blogs, blogging and bloggers. It’s not the usual mainstream media blog-analysis guff. Written by Trevor Butterworth, it’s a sharp and perceptive view of past, present and possible future. For instance: […] blogging would have been little more than a recipe for even more internet tedium if it had not been…

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  • I had dinner last night with an old friend who’s in town for a few days on a business visit. Much of our conversation centered on social media, technology and the results of some of the developments we’re likely to be seeing in the next few years in areas such as reading, consuming and interacting with news and information. That part of our conversation wasn’t so much about the obvious things like newspapers and other dead-trees media (which we did…

    Full story: Getting my interactive kettle online
  • Two interesting business events that might appear separate but are in fact closely related: From BBC News: Shares in the London Stock Exchange (LSE) have jumped by 30% on Monday following speculation of a bid war. On Friday the LSE rejected a £2.43bn ($4.2bn) bid from the New York-based exchange Nasdaq. This sparked speculation that the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and Euronext would table counter-bids. >> Full story. From the Financial Times: Corporate America is becoming disenchanted with the…

    Full story: Stimulating change in financial communication