Usingenglish.com has a free text content analysis tool which provides instant feedback on various aspects of a piece of work, including “lexical density” and its “fog index”.
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Monthly Archives: January 2007
Tags 101
Here’s a quick tutorial on tagging and categorizing content on your site, and how they function on TML (The Mu Life).
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Blogs work for Newspapers
New data indicates that blogging is paying off for newspapers. According to Nielsen/NetRatings blogs accounted for 13 percent of overall visits to newspaper sites in December. This is up from four percent in December 2005. Unique visitors to newspapers blogs climbed to 3.8 million. Report from Steve Rubel.
Technorati Tags: newspapers, blogs
Google Reader 101
Steve Rubel points out some interesting resources which show how to extend the power of Google Reader.
Technorati Tags: rss
More human search
Human-aided search gets a leg-up as Amazon boss Jeff Bezos invests in Cha-Cha.
Yahoo! regroups in China
Yahoo! refocusses its China operations as a b2b search business, as intensive local competition forces yet another rethink in China.
Tags without Technorati
TagBuildr is an alternative to Technorati tags. It allows you to create tags (rather clumsily as you have to go to the site, generate the tag, copy the code generated, and paste it into the blog post). However, there is something interesting here: it conforms to the rel-tag microformat which defines a standard for tags wherever they are, pointing to a possible future where tags are genuinely cross-platform.
Google: APIs which bite
Google’s decision to start charging a fee for access to the Google AdWords API comes under scrutiny from John Battelle.
Venture investors would need to be aware of how open Google will be with APIs going forward. Any startup that is working on a mashup that would take information from Google via an API would have an increased level of risk. (What if Google begins to charge for the spreadsheet API, or the maps API?)
Small is beautiful
Steve Rubel, again, this time on the wonders of microchunking, microformats, and the consumption of smaller and smaller units of content. “Media brands that ignore this trend will become irrelevant in a world where aggregation is king,” he says.
Daylife in the spotlife
Steve Rubel takes a look at Daylife, a start up which Jeff Jarvis is involved in. This news aggregator pulls stories together into pages to give the complete view.