Movable Type: Blogs Not Social Enough
Moveable Type from Six Apart has a new incarnation out that aims to take blogging in a more social direction. As Om malik points out, blogging has always been a social form of media. On the flipside, sites like MySpace incorporate blogs into their profile pages. But where platforms like Wordpress miss the boat, this new Movable Type incorporates the ability to set-up networks into it.
Playing Video Games Has Benefits
Some video games can have beneficial effects, improving gamer’s dexterity and their ability to problem solve according to research from the Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association.Fordham University psychologist Fran C. Blumberg, PhD, and Sabrina S. Ismailer, MSED, looked at 122 fifth, sixth and seventh-graders problem solving behavior while playing a video game they had not been previously exposed to. They found that playing video games can improve cognitive and perceptual skills.
Pandora Reaching Its Epilogue?
Pandora.com, an Internet radio site that I am personally quite fond of is hitting a rocky patch (if you’re not familiar with Pandora, Murdok recently chatted its CEO Tim Westergren, so check that out).
Journalist/Blogger Leroy Sievers Passes Away
Leroy Sievers passed away on Friday. He won quite a few awards for his journalism and news production efforts over the years, working with NPR, CBS, and ABC.
Google Defamation Suit Sparks Blogging Controversy
The Wired Blog Network, revealed the mystery behind the Google defamation law suit in India.
Google Tops of Top 50
For whatever kind of internet list, which company do you think is the odds-on favorite to be at the top of it? If you bet on Google, you’d bet wisely. Google sits at the top of Comscore’s Top 50 Internet properties list, reaching 141.5 million US Internet users out of 189 million counted. But that’s not the interesting part. . .
Are Search, Web Traffic, Indicators Of Offline Value?
I was out of the country when Heelys hit the scene, so learning about them later, as a novelty shoe line that reminded me of the KangaRoos I wore when I was five, was more of a mental pop culture note than a personal world-changing one. Had I been ten when they became popular, they likely would have shared Reebok Pump status in my personal must-have shoe history. Then again, I also hadn’t noticed the rise of Uggs and Crocs, either; the thigh-high black boots traversing Japan’s rail system I found a dozen levels more interesting, but for entirely separate reasons.
Google’s Android Phone Slated For Autumn Arrival?
Waiting for the Google phone is like waiting for the birth of a child. In fact, the most recent rumors have it arriving about the same time as my daughter, as early as September 17, as late as mid-October. My daughter, currently in private beta, will likely be more exciting, to me at least.
Battelle: Google Ad Planner Underreporting Site Traffic
Google’s keenly anticipated Ad Planner should be delivering an accurate look at traffic going to websites, but as John Battelle learned, Google is a bit on the low side.
CBS Storms Into Mobile Weather Alerts
Severe weather details for hurricanes and other conditions in near real-time form the eye of the latest CBS digital initiative.