rexblog’s neighborhood: Last night I mentioned Findory’s Neighbors, the visulation representation of Findory’s feature, “related weblogs.” I finally figured out how to find rexblog’s neighborhood.

Mac mini review: I know there are lots of folks pointing to this very critical review of the Mac mini, but I couldn’t help myself.

Quote:

If you believe Apple’s marketing department, the new Mini is “smaller than most packs of gum” and weighs “less than four quarters”.  Well, we received our test unit from Apple yesterday, and let me say right off the bat that those claims are a wee bit of an exaggeration.  Far from being Trident-sized, the Mini actually measures about 6.5”x6.5”x2”, about the size of two wonderbread cheese sandwiches stacked on top of each other, or about 50 packs of Bubble Yum.  As for the weight, it feels about three pounds.  Hold a Mini in one hand and four quarters in the other and tell me which one feels heavier.  You could perform this experiment yourself at an Apple store.

He has a point.

NY Times & Topix: Kudos to my Topix friends for signing an advertising deal with the NY Times online. I am a Topix fan via RSS, so I can’t really figure out how this will affect me. I must note the irony of me learning this news through a WSJ RSS feed and not through either the NYT or Topix.

Still, they were anonymous op-ed pieces: Allan Jenkins, who has explored in the past the blogging metaphor as it relates to the authors of the Federalist Papers — corrects something from my earlier post on the topic: He explains they weren’t pamphlets, but op-ed pieces. Fortunately, he does agree with the argument they were “bloggers” and makes some good arguments they had other blogging metaphors: trackbacks and comments. He says I was “inadverdently correct,” which pretty much is the way I feel lots of times.

Re-categorizing: Penn Media has decided to describe its 50 e-zines as “blogs” which, they say, will “(position) them as one of the largest publishers of consumer trade blogs.” (Will someone tell me what the ‘consumer-trade’ blog category is?) When will About.com bite the bullet and say they’ve been the galaxy’s largest ‘consumer-trade blog community’ back when ?

Coming soon: How companies that want to be “the largest” anything related to do with “blogs” are missing the point and power of conversational media.

(via: PaidContent.org and MarketingVox)