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Re: Is Microsoft really the largest blog vendor?

perde — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:44:03 -0000

Im not arguing or anything, just intruiged as to what we now constitute as a blog.

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Çelik Çubuk — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 05:45:44 -0000

nice article and its really true.

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marcel reischnitzer — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 00:45:02 -0000

Hi, everyone. I am new to blogs and wants some advice on how to use the technology and RSS feeds for my site more effectively. I have a gallery: http://www.artbank.ch/Galle...

and want to add the most tech advanced blog on this page. What is the best way to do it? Shall I do it on the same page or add another?

Cheers

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Tasarim — Mon, 05 May 2008 14:16:44 -0000

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Re: Is Microsoft really the largest blog vendor?

nakliyat — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 09:19:03 -0000

I don't agree with you ..Sorry.I like microsoft.

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Can Bulut — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 18:34:30 -0000

Thank you

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kenandogulu — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 12:22:25 -0000

Im not arguing or anything, just intruiged as to what we now constitute as a blog.

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sohbet — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 12:21:54 -0000

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Re: Is Microsoft really the largest blog vendor?

Nathan — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 22:34:39 -0000

I think MSN Spaces goes after a completely different type of blogger than wordpress or blogspot. The MSN Spaces blogger is typically into sharing their own personal experiences with there friends and family, where I think the wordpress (and blogspot to a lesser extent) are used more by people that have something to say to the world (e.g. scoble, seth godin, gladwell, search engine watch... or the influencers). In that sense, I think spaces completes with flickr and Yahoo 360, much more than they compete with wordpress (or blogspot).

Re: Is Microsoft really the largest blog vendor?

Sue — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 21:59:58 -0000

Hey baby, I'm not anti-MSN. Since they switched to Live, everything has slowed to a snail pace when trying to load pages or move around and they now have made a pain for people outside of MSN to leave a comment. I'm starting to remove things like the weather module to see if my page will load faster.

Sue : )

Re: Is Microsoft really the largest blog vendor?

Doug Kirschman — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 15:50:55 -0000

I just recently started using MS spaces. They have a bata tool called Windows Live Writer that is actually pretty decent.

I can tell you that I did a lot of surfing on spaces, and most of what I saw were not blogs in the strictest sense. I can say that with 70+ million sites, even if five percent are blogs, that's still 3.5 million.

Another interesting thing to note is that this is perhaps Microsoft's only web project that hasn't totally failed. The interface is pretty easy, the technology is pretty decent and now, with Live Writer, one can blog if they wish.

All you anti-MS people need to take some pills. You can hurt yourself that way.

Re: Is Microsoft really the largest blog vendor?

Sue — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 21:57:04 -0000

I don't know if Windows Live is the largest, but I do know when they made the switch over to Live, they screwed so much up. MSN Spaces is a nightmare to deal with now. Many of us have begun our blogs at Blogger and Wordpress. Trying to make the move, but still keeping the MSN space open until we train people to go to the new space. So many Windows Live users have begun the move.

I'm interested in hearing your results.
Sue

Re: Is Microsoft really the largest blog vendor?

Josh Snyder — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 08:31:51 -0000

Spaces missing influentals & business? Could be that some of the influentals have read the Terms of Use which isn't good for anyone who wants to protect their intellectual property.

1. There currently is not a limitation to how long you grant rights to the Public for use of your content.

2. There currently is not a limitation to how or where the Public can sub-licence your content in any medium in any edited form. By posting your content you grant the public this right.

Re: Is Microsoft really the largest blog vendor?

Patrick Havens — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 20:56:55 -0000

Interesting, very interesting. At Wordcamp a few weeks ago this very subject came up. "What is a blog" The best we came up with was:

A Sequential series of posts that try to draw you to conversation through words, pictures, video, and *cast

I see how you rate it as being generous. But I could also see a blog having at least a 50 word post once a month being closer to the truth for a lot of blogs. I'd say 500 words and 2 posts a usuable blog.

Interesting back and forth and as you can guess I'd vote for Wordpress, but I'd guess either Blogger or MySpace as the top blogging sites.

Re: Is Microsoft really the largest blog vendor?

Advisor-Norris — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 16:36:00 -0000

In my opinion Scoble, I believe your definition of blogging is too narrow. A blog is a short web log containing text, photos and/or links to other sites. The term is too broad to narrow down like you have done. However, I will be interested in reading your results and data analysis.

Wikipedia's Definition of Blogging (http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...

Advisor-Norris

Re: Is Microsoft really the largest blog vendor?

bakkouz — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 15:41:57 -0000

hah people defending msn spaces like they own it or something. its quite funny actualy.
seriously dudes, msn spaces as a blogging platform sucks ass, its cluttered, ugly, and slow.
and to claim the spaces is the largest blogging platform that is, is just rediculous.

Re: Is Microsoft really the largest blog vendor?

Jim Benson — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 12:15:15 -0000

Robert,

I agree completely with your definition of a blog.

I also completely disagree that it is THE definition of a blog. Any more than there is A definition of religion.

Part of your book's major message is that its the conversation. If you and I were in a debate, one might mistake our verbal communication as the only vehicle of the debate.

But anyone who watched Al Gore and George Bush would know that presentation is a big part of it.

Deaf people can also debate and not say a single word.

So if blogging is a naked conversation, I'd say it surely can be a stream of pictures. Neither you nor I choose to communicate that way. But others might and it weakens the blogging community to undermine those other forms of communications.

Re: Is Microsoft really the largest blog vendor?

PJ — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 11:04:07 -0000

Nothing comes close to WordPress.

You've got the source, the themes, the plugins, the support, etc. And it's free. I heart WordPress.

Re: Is Microsoft really the largest blog vendor?

David Taylor — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 10:59:28 -0000

Robert,

500 words per month!!!

Even if you just blog 50 words per month...You are still bloging. I think the methadology should be that you blog once per month and 50 words.

Not everyone has the time you do to blog robert.

If the average population wrote 500 words per month there would be low productivity :-)

Re: Is Microsoft really the largest blog vendor?

bananasfk — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 09:41:25 -0000

I hope microsoft get 'class actioned' fined by the eu etc for this monopoly they just admitted - i have privacy concerns about yahoo and microsoft especially if i was in china.

Re: Is Microsoft really the largest blog vendor?

Jason B. — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 08:35:15 -0000

Perhaps the difference between this dialog and the one you would have had a few months ago has to do with the facts you are searching for. Biggest doesn't mean anything if you're not the best for the most people.

Re: Is Microsoft really the largest blog vendor?

Dimitar Vesselinov — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 06:34:50 -0000

The European blogosphere
http://www.eu.socialtext.ne...

China's New Obsession with Blogs and How Companies Can Benefit
"The total number of blogs in China will grow over 200% from 37 million in 2005 to nearly 120 million by the end of 2006."
http://china.seekingalpha.c...

Re: Is Microsoft really the largest blog vendor?

raincoaster — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 06:07:13 -0000

Private blogs, whatever you want to call them, are still indexed by many search engines, just not Google. I know, because I had one at Diary-X for years, and when the server went bye-bye I got my archives from Yahoo caches. Believe me, I didn't choose Diary-X for the privacy; I've always wondered about the brainpower of people who take the most powerful communication tool in the world and mark it "Don't look over here!"

Perhaps I'm too cynical, but is it not possible that Microsoft has simply created a Space for every registered MSN Messenger user? This would account for the inflated numbers, and a quick email to someone at Microsoft should give you your answer.

I agree with most of your criteria, except I do believe that original images, whether photographs or artwork, should count as a blog post. There's a reason it's called multimedia.

Re: Is Microsoft really the largest blog vendor?

Bob — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 04:08:58 -0000

The video of George's keynote is up... http://www.microsoft.com/nz...