Oliver Thylmann’s Thoughts

These posts about RSS might be getting really boring for some but I still think that most people out there and many web sites as well are not really seeing the full implications of this. I am actually starting to wonder if Atom is not going to win as it allows for so much more, but that’s besides the point.

Frank Bajak from AP has a great article you can see here which shows the weight behind it all.

In relation to blogging and rss, M&A has arrived in the field with Tocows acquirering BlogRolling.com!

BlogRolling.com presently tracks over 500,000 weblog links for more than 32,000 users. Each day BlogRolling.com serves over 1.5 million blogrolls to users of all major weblog platforms. BlogRolling.com is a blogroll management service; a list of links that a website or weblog owner can include in their web pages as a public list of bookmarks.

I am personally publishing my blogroll via Bloglines, which I use as my aggregator anyway.

I just registered with BlogBinders.com thanks to a pointer by Jeremy. It allows you, theoretically, to make your blog into a book. The bad thing is that it isn’t available for TypePad if I see it right. I sent in the request because this would be a really nice thing to do with the OUBS Blog once my studies are finished. Not for publishing but just to have.

Loic posted about a nice article from John Battelle about blogging being a potential advantage in your job. Sadly I can’t read the entire article because it is subscription only and I don’t qualify for the Business 2.0 US subscription which is at a good price actually. The European version is just too expensive.

Anyway, back to the article. What John is actually talking about it seems, from the short excerpt that Loic has posted, is the interplay of blogs and rss or syndication in general. I’d probably argue that syndication can already change your reading habbit quite a bit and it allows for it to change even more extensively as you can read lots of individual web sites. Knowledge within the individual is huge but is hard to share and this has changed now. With the people I got into blogging and/or rss they all had to say that they were amazed at how much information was at their finger tipps, how much they could be reading, learning, sharing.

Looking to meet some bloggers? Loic le Meur is doing a small tour through Germany and is scheduling some blogger dinners. Add yourself to the Wiki page if you care to join us.

Yes, it really does look as if she would be pissing on her skirt… Other than that I have nothing more to ad to Heiko’s post about the ad in germany. What a strange ad. Especially because she smiles so weird!