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Listed below are comments made by hojomo between Wednesday, 3rd September 2008 and Thursday, 23rd October 2008.

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Is blogging dead? 09:47am on 23 Oct 2008 Saw the fuss, and the Wired article yesterday, heard the piece at 0845, listened to the guests, then, when I tried to look up Kate Bevan on Twitter, that area was "temporarily out of order"!

Blogging is alive and well, but, as mentioned above, is maturing - it is now part of an arsenal of personal media techniques that the lone, or corporate, blogger must use to keep up.

Twitter and Facebook are part of it, yes, and their value has been the subject of much discussion by my own Twitter group, who have been recently persuaded to move over to FriendFeed to merge, and review, several sources of Social Media in one place. (Try using Flock as your browser too, instead of Firefox/IE!)

The beauty of FriendFeed is that you can actually FOLLOW conversations - correcting the point Rory made above, a blog is NOT a conversation in itself, it is the statement, or pre-amble, that may lead to a conversation in the comments that follow. Even then the "conversation" can be disjointed by time.

Many blogs are still informative, and can become addictive - just like Twitter - but with some 1.4 billion internet users out there, you can still hope to attract some attention for your opinions, and find like-minded companions, which, in the end, is probably what it’s all about – our deep down need to look, talk, discover, tell someone, then progress.

Plenty more to say, but I'll curtail for now.

Keep up the good work Rory (in both "Business" and "Technology"!) - I'll certainly be following you on the Blog & the TwitStream!
Chrome - first impressions 07:12am on 03 Sep 2008 Have now read 1-23 above; we must all understand Chrome is a BETA; it's not complete yet!

I avoid IE wherever possible, and have been a dedicated FF fan for years - I certainly wouldn't want to go back from FF3 to FF1.

My Chrome installation imported all my FF3 bookmarks perfectly

However, the most important factors here are Open Source and Convergence - Google admit they have pinched all the good bits from others, and that is clear, with signs of FF, Opera, Safari and Flock - all good in their own right, but bring them together, with the potential that lies in the final version 1.0 and WOW!!!

We tend to be very impatient; so just chill a bit, and watch the next few weeks!

Having just been through a month of live testing on two new software programs, that I think will also change the world (Market Samurai and WordPressDirect), I have seen the value of having a whole stack of real, everyday, users contributing comments and obstacles! I am certain Google will read and digest and implement!!

So FF3 Extensions and skin colours (Chrome?) first please!!!

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