Phil Wolff: Blogcount

WBS: Buddy blogging, more numbers please.

Mon, 09 Jun 2003 20:05:02 GMT

Socialization of blogging may be different than browsing or email. Jason Butler suggests adopt-a-newbie. I read his HR Blog regularly.

Attendee Rex Hammock noted the lack of hard numbers and stats. When found, send them to tips @ dijest.com.

Excerpted from a recent Blogcount post on The hidden blogosphere; dark matter.

Enter enterprise blog servers, inside firewalls. These blogs are largely uncountable. They don't, for the most part, participate in public search engines, syndication services, directories, pinged update servers (like weblogs.com), or other open community engines. While commercial software vendors like UserLand may know how many servers are under license, they typically won't know how many blogs have been created or are active on those servers.

Cosmologists calculating the mass of the universe weren't able to make their calculations work without including matter they couldn't see. Blogcount will soon face the same challenge.

Would you be willing to share your intranet blog census data? How about to benchmark yours vs. your industry? You share headcount information now.

Would you share your intranet census with a partner company? With an acquisition target?

DARPA's building access to the matrix.

Mon, 09 Jun 2003 08:31:48 GMT

My second thesis for blogtalk was that machines will blog. DARPA is now funding an engineering research project.

Halvais reports "DARPA is funding the uberblog." Capture everything that goes in someone's life and make that information useful to the user. It is fodder for personal diary. Or for understanding what's going on in a subject's life. The project's real world challenge: wear the unit on a trip to Washington, D.C., and demo it for the brass.

As your physical world is increasingly overlaid by cyberspaces, you need tools to sense it wherever you are. Tools to present its many digital elements for humans. Tools for navigation through and manipulation of the new sensations and history. Tools to distill the information overload through pattern recognition, clustering, semantic analysis and data visualization.

Oh, and make it unobtrusive.

The Information Processing Technology Office (IPTO) of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announcement. The LifeLog Proposer Information Pamphlet (BAA # 03-30).

Get your proposals in by 23 June 2003.

Blogcount.com

Thu, 05 Jun 2003 02:54:46 GMT

Are you one of the blogosphere's cartographers? A surveyor, census taker, geographer? If you have results, I'll report them at Blogcount.com. We try to answer those months' old questions:

How many people are blogging? Where? Why? With what?

How many blogs are there? How are they connected? Who's doing the research?

From Poland to Paris to Portugal, our scouts are sailing the blogosphere's seven seas. Join us.

tips@dijest.com