Rise of the mommy bloggers!

Mommy blogging and in general female blogging is one of  the fastest growing blog category.  Maggie Shiels is covering this phenomena on BBC:

In 12 months the BlogHer network has mushroomed from 180 bloggers to 2,200.
According to comScore Media Metrix, community based women's websites are now tied with political sites as [...]

Real Time News (& Opinion) Distribution - Twitter beats Google

It hard to qualify initial Twitter Tweets related to serious topics as 'news'. Like for example this very first tweet announcing SoCal earthquake was made by Nicholas Hawkins. (Though there is bit of confusion on who actually broke the news).
holy shit earthquake in so cal
Now if you were reading this from public timeline on Twitter, [...]

Google has introduced Knol. Let’s bitch about it.

Google has introduced Knol. At a high level this is a great initiative.  I hope this eventually becomes a better avenue for authority discovery and a repository for trusted content.
On the other hand.
Google is big,  they are making tons of money and crushing new companies faster than any other company out there. So let's [...]

Facebook app for iPhone (243,482 daily active users, 45%). Big implications for ad networks?

 In another example of how mobile-app-can-wreak-havoc-with-your-business-model, check the usage statistics of Facebook For iPhone.
There are 243,482 daily active users representing 45% of total. These are high numbers. It's fair to say that 243,482 iPhone owners are now using Facebook for their social networking experience.
Now compare the use % for applications which are higher [...]

Lisa to Bloggers: In the absence of a repressive milieu your societal nature’s been co-opted.

So I get this question from my friend: 'Brij, what's up with blogging slogging?'
This friend got hit by news will find you trap and found this I-quit-blogging announcement by Jason Calacanis unnerving.
There have been rumblings of sorts on where this whole blogging slogging is going. Today also on Techmeme I saw two posts analyzing [...]

Toto, I’ve a feeling we’re not in Kansas any more

As if we are watching movie in slow motion.
Last couple of days I saw lot of bloggers turning sour on the state of Silicon Valley (by extension start-up ecosystem). Lot of this is credited to muddy macro picture. Yesterday's rare gasp by GOOG made some people go home early as well.
Om Malik has great [...]

Hi I Am Mr iOpportunity And I Am knocking!

Never owned Honda cars but always liked their Mr Opportunity campaign. Especially the knocking sound. That knocking sound is getting louder and louder for the Mobile Web.
For any idea to be fully 'invented' it first has to move to Silicon Valley. We finally passed that test for Mobile computing.
After languishing in Nokia and Motorola [...]

Picture is worth thousand insolvencies

Brendan Smialowski, at NYTimes, has a very interesting photo of Fed chairman Bernanke:

Does this mean Fed Chairman is caught in the bureaucratic mess?

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And you thought mainstream media is irrelevant!

Saw this news story in local news section of Mobile News AP ( App Store app). Show how deeply we are tied to mainstream media for managing our civic affairs. “Maybe they should examine their must-publish list” [...]

Depositing recent tweets to blog.

 Last 10 tweets from @brij
 Razor’s Edge/Path to salvation - @pkedrosky interesting discussion http://is.gd/Oel at 07/08/2008 05:47 PM
 Twitter eating tweets. Oh well.. at 07/08/2008 05:38 AM
 Forstmann thinks its not over, because now ‘idiots have made their entrance’ http://is.gd/N66 at 07/07/2008 06:43 AM
 Meyer Lansky was a geek? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meyer_Lansky at [...]