links for 2007-05-10

Robert Scoble thinks so.  He argues that Bloglines beats out Technorati because it has more links.  Now, Bloglines may indeed be better than Technorati — I simply haven’t examined it carefully enough to comment.  But you can’t focus solely on quantity at the expense of quality.  All the links in the world don’t matter if…

BL Ochman has gone on the warpath against the BlogOn conference and its PR firm, Porter Novelli.  First, she was irked that Porter Novelli’s rep refused to grant her a press pass to cover the event.  Then she seemed insulted when BlogOn’s marketing rep suggested a trade in which BL would agree to promote the…

The LA Times’ Ron Brownstein offers his view of the Internet as a possible launching pad for a national candidacy: The Internet could allow an independent candidate to more easily identify an audience and financial base, just as it has allowed blogs like the liberal Daily Kos or conservative InstaPundit to find a community of…

Reuters: It took just minutes for the Vatican to alert the world’s media of Pope John Paul’s death — using text messages and email so the 2,000-year-old Church could meet the new demands of real-time news. The Vatican isn’t exactly known as a bleeding-edge technology center, so any large organization who isn’t prepared to use…

Topix.net “announced the availability of its NewsRank(TM) categorization technology across the 177 newspaper and television station Web sites of Gannett Co., Inc. (NYSE: GCI), Knight Ridder, Inc. (NYSE: KRI) and Tribune Company (NYSE: TRB).  Articles on Topix.net powered sites provide links to related, categorized content, discovered through their NewsRank(TM) technology.” 

Henry Copeland of BlogAds goes ballistic on those who call blogs consumer generated media: Calling blogs consumer-generated media is like calling sex the "clothless generation of heat, musk and mucus." The essential excitement and motivation just doesn’t come through, does it? He certainly gets wound up on the subject.  And he has a point —…