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Re: I’ve redesigned

Joshua — Wed, 07 May 2008 04:50:08 -0000

Finally, this day has come!

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DP Dan — Tue, 06 May 2008 15:21:08 -0000

Glad to hear it Robert!

I just used the Seagate competitor as one example. There are a variety of scenarios where you might blog or converse with a spectrum of conflict involved, including financial and non-financial gain/loss. In fact, the Disclosure Policy at your blog is a great one-stop place for readers to learn about your conflicts and disclosure practices across a variety of services. Imagine including in your DP how you intend to disclose on your blog, comments elsewhere, Twitter, FriendFeed and others with less real estate involved -- the emergence of such a cross-service standard would move the whole transparency topic into the post-blog era.

I care less about what your specific policy is -- that's a personal decision. I do, however, believe that posting a DP and linking from every page with anchor text "Disclosure Policy" will help users -- and possibly encourage other social media early adopters to do the same.

Therefore, my follow-up question is: Did you intend your comment above "I plan to disclose every bias I have." to be your Disclosure Policy or do you plan to create a specific Disclosure Policy page, linking it from your footer or sidebars? My suggestion was the latter...

Given your integration of blogs, twitter, friendfeed and the like in this redesign; I'd love to highlight your Disclosure Policy as one example of how to increase transparency across services.

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Venu — Sat, 03 May 2008 13:00:07 -0000

The design looks great and loved the font. Any reason for avoiding the navigation menu in the header ?

Interesting to see that no pages are hosted locally except "archives" !

Also loved the way you've linked "About Me" linking to Wikipedia only that the wikipedia page needs to be updated (It doesn't say that you are currently working in FastCompany :) )

Re: I’ve redesigned

jack — Fri, 02 May 2008 15:59:02 -0000

it looks good..too bad we can say the same about the content

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Robert Scoble — Fri, 02 May 2008 10:54:56 -0000

A disclosure policy is smart. I plan to disclose every bias I have.

The problem isn't what happens when I blog about a Seagate competitor. If there was a real bias I just wouldn't blog about the competitor at all.

But, I'd love to help my readers figure out my conflicts in an easier way.

Re: I’ve redesigned

DP Dan — Fri, 02 May 2008 10:17:32 -0000

Hey Robert,

Congrats on the redesign. It's a perfect opportunity to add a "Disclosure Policy" link to the bottom/side of your blog, linking to a brief statement of any conflicts and you policy of disclosing them for readers.

For example, if you blog about a Seagate competitor, do you plan to remind the reader that Seagate is a sponsor of yours? What if you blog about a competitor to FastCompany, who isn't a cash sponsor of yours but you definitely have the potential for financial gain from FastCompany success?

It's easy to think that everyone already knows your interests/conflicts/policy, but the reality is new people stumble across your blog daily and have no idea. Like Privacy Policy links, a Disclosure Policy link on every page provides old/new readers a standard phrase to look for and build trust with the publisher they are reading.

You can create a basic DP at http://www.disclosurepolicy... or you can create your own. Whaddya say?

Re: I’ve redesigned

Greg — Fri, 02 May 2008 07:45:08 -0000

The site looks much better. Good job. Cheers

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chrisbrogan — Fri, 02 May 2008 06:19:42 -0000

Looks really good, Robert. Congratulations on a new, smooth design.

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Robert Scoble — Fri, 02 May 2008 05:12:30 -0000

Believe it or not, the swirls were an accident and we're redesigning the banner to take them out.

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d3vmax — Fri, 02 May 2008 05:03:52 -0000

Although I would like to shout out 'sell out, sell out!'. I refrain as I see that putting an ad does not make a difference and I don't really care but it but it does seem a bit hypocritical (As you were agaisnt it before and made big posts on it) and maybe a sign that you were better off before than today due to a few failed business decisions you made in the past.

Well like the redesign and hope all is going well but I do have one objection. I can see that you have a seagate advert but why the seagate swirls behind your name in the banner? I hope you get some more individuality. If you want a free logo made I wouldn't mind helping you make a kick ass one.

later!

Re: I’ve redesigned

Jim — Thu, 01 May 2008 18:59:29 -0000

I miss the guy next to the tree!

This new design is slick and very polished, but I miss the turn-of-the-century look of your old blog - it was so delightfully simple.

See you on FF!

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Brendan Cosgrove — Thu, 01 May 2008 14:53:55 -0000

Love the redesign. Navigation is nice a easy. Don't listen to the haters about the ad space. Makes perfect sense to me.

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Robert Scoble — Thu, 01 May 2008 13:37:02 -0000

JP Adams: funny, it's the same wording I've had for the past three years.

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JP Adams — Thu, 01 May 2008 13:11:02 -0000

Your "about" section is not only too professional, but its moving into the realm of 'corporate speak'.

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Marc Eisenstadt — Thu, 01 May 2008 12:11:51 -0000

Nice .. great and tidy use of sidebar widget-space, providing useful links without overwhelming the reader! Hmmm... although you'll obviously have your own 'big stats' tools a la Google Analytics, Wordpress blogstats, etc., I'd be interested in your thoughts about a compact 'show em all at a glance' type of geo-hit-counter widget for your sidebar, namely our own ClustrMaps. Despite the shameless self-promotion of this comment, I actually think it addresses a different kind of need (compared to a standard counter widget), and would be in keeping with your new useful-without-overwhelming approach: ClustrMaps shows the rest of your readership where everyone else is, in the most scalable and compact format of any comparable widget now available. Anyway, shout if it's of interest - you can obviously have the no-ads-and-better-maps version, ClustrMaps+, which we can set up for you.

Cheers
-Marc

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Michelle McCormack — Thu, 01 May 2008 10:59:25 -0000

@mitch - are you kidding with that POV on ads on this blog? There are plenty of commercial places on the web for people to "click and learn something". And as far as raising a brands awareness, that's best left to sites that aren't expected to be objective.

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achernow — Thu, 01 May 2008 10:45:25 -0000

Wow... It's totally different.. Threw me off this morning.

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Dan Keldsen — Thu, 01 May 2008 10:42:54 -0000

So is the wide format blog the "HD" of blogging templates? :)

Nice FriendFeed widget - didn't realize it was available. Learn something new every day!

BTW - for those of you with a more enterprise than personal slant, our quarterly research topic for Q1 was Enterprise 2.0 - go get a free copy at www.aiim.org/enterprise20 - pushing 1000 downloads as of now.

Cheers,
Dan

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claysol13 — Thu, 01 May 2008 10:21:53 -0000

I'm really liking the re-design good job!

http://www.clayton-nichols.com

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Steve Poppe — Thu, 01 May 2008 09:14:04 -0000

Dude, you've gone Hollywood.

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fpettit — Thu, 01 May 2008 08:08:43 -0000

Looks great. Love the FriendFeed stream on there. Also with Adblock plus in Firefox the ads are nuked as well. The ads do not bother me because I will NEVER see them.

Re: I’ve redesigned

Jack — Thu, 01 May 2008 07:00:33 -0000

Presumably Haewon Kye knows how "text size" works (or doesn't) in Internet Explorer. So presumably there are no longer enough Internet Explorer users to bother about.... ;-)

Re: I’ve redesigned

Eric Hamby — Thu, 01 May 2008 06:27:52 -0000

alot better :P

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kosso — Thu, 01 May 2008 06:05:27 -0000

good stuff! and about time too! :))

btw: I dont like how friendfeed doesn't pick up the author's name of a post. It's just "posted a blog post..." - tested with a feed containing the author tag. still didn't work.

anyway. great stuff! You were looking a bit young in the old pic! lol

looking forward to showing you what I've been working on - but I'm still sorting code for what I call the 'scobleizer effect' :)) heh - hey! you're a feature!

Re: I’ve redesigned

Matt Mullenweg — Thu, 01 May 2008 04:20:57 -0000

This looks really good.