Why Blog Post Frequency Does Not Matter Anymore : “As the blogosphere matures, the measure of success will shift from traffic to reader loyalty. As Seth Godin says in his post, ‘blogging with restraint, selectivity, cogency and brevity (okay, that’s a long way of saying ‘making every word count’) will use attention more efficiently and ought to win.’”

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• WebBiographies.com – this speace is heating up.
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• HealthVault – “When it’s your job to protect your family’s health, you need every advantage. Imagine if you had a way to collect, store, and share the health information critical to your family’s well-being.”
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• iPhoneDrive – impressive! a phone (style) creates a climate of productivity
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• einestages – Zeitgeschichten auf SPIEGEL ONLINE – Strange blend of images
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• The Story of Sergey Brin – “How the Moscow-born entrepreneur cofounded and changed the way the world searches”
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• Simple Tags – Simple Tags is the successor of Simple Tagging Plugin.
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• Something is rotten in the counters of Feedburner. – feedburner stats are being manipulated
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• Technology’s challenge to privacy – Do you read/understand the terms? “Critics argue that both notice and consent are today little more than legal fictions, as consumers ignore overly complex notices and shrinking technology makes it virtually impossible to obtain informed consumer consent”
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- be it creating/telling/sharing [tag-ice]life stories[/tag-ice] or to support shared [tag-tec]story-telling[/tag-tec] along [tag-tec]a social network[/tag-tec]

Those services support:
- keep a diary
- create stories
- present yourself (profile)
- manage multimedia files
- eternal availability
- fine-grained access control
- connect with others (maintain networks via object-sharing)
- create groups of interest
- many file-formats at one place

Role model for that is: storyofmylife plus the foundation, that secures your access to the data entered over time forever (excellent idea since trust is the biggest obstacle for online services).

Story of My Life: “Story of My Life and its Foundation have an ambitious goal: to collect the life Story of every person who has walked the face of this earth – in the past, the present and our futures; and to keep these Stories preserved and accessible forever.”

A little different are places like dandelife and OurStory – explicitly dedicated to the sharing of life stories. They are set up to use personal events as some kind of social objects that can be linked, shared etc – presented in a timeline like style.

OurStory.com – Capture your stories, save them permanently.: “OurStory encourages deeper sharing and a collaborative process of online storytelling among family, friends and groups. OurStory provides a modern twist on the timeless tradition of telling, sharing and passing stories down through generations.”

What they all do very well is presenting those objects (stories, posts, files), make the accessible and shareable. But still there are things like Facebook, Plaxo, Peopleaggregator out there that can (could) do the same by offering just a place where you aggregate and package you widespread content.

Dandelife – “a social biography network” – has a different twist to that story. They understand themselves as a [tag-tec]mashup[/tag-tec] by connecting to existing services.

Dandelife.com : : “Lifecasting differs from blogging primarily in its contextual approach to organizing one’s publically accessible online content.”

Eachday does it nicely and a little differently by offering publishing options to services (though not implementd yet).

What the two latter apps try to do is to bring together social objects and people that created content at different places.

Do those application cross the chasm that separates early-adopters like me from the rest of the market? Will they encourage the majority of onliners to be creative and publish. We learned that roughly 10% of a community are creative in the traditional sense . Is that going to change? Will my sister now starts telling her stories for herself and/or other? Is the benefit of using that services already comprehensible. Is there enough individual benefit in it for the pragmatists and the conservatives.

Or are those tools a new metaphor of tools that support remixing of existing content publishing to differents places with different permissions etc. Well then I need them on my server – because a lot of (social and personal) data is created. And hence it is about opening the social graph or respectively omit the lock-in.

And just to mention it, isn’t that kind of web-service something that others call ePortfolio.
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Creative Commons We the Media ready for downloadDan Gillmor’s , We the Media was published under a Creative Commons license. You can download the entire book in PDF format on the O’Reilly page. It’s an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 License.

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