The state of blogging 2008 26. September 2008 – 11:31 by Bengt Feil (TuTech Innovation GmbH)

Blogging has been around for several years now and even with major advocates and early adopters, as for example Jason Calacanis, supposedly giving it up it still growing strong. With the rise of blogging a few years ago the Technorati “State of the Blogosphere Report” was established. In these more or less yearly reports Technorati rakes through all of the data they accumulated about the Blogosphere by offering their weblog registration and search engine service.

The importance of blogging and its integrated forms in social networks, like Facebook, and microblogging, like Twitter, for the fields of eDemocracy and eParticipation has been discussed many times and is well documented. In summary blogging and the related forms of communication do allow almost anybody to build up their own channel to take part in the political and social discourse in a way which in much easier than in the offline world. Therefore it makes sense to keep an eye on the general development of blogging.

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The news of tomorrow – today 28. May 2008 – 17:42 by Bengt Feil (TuTech Innovation GmbH)

No matter if you are a company, a journalist, a politician or a curious citizen – you certainly are interested in knowing which topics will be relevant tomorrow. The reasons for that may vary from the wish to have a competitive advantage to pure interest in a subject.

To reach this goal it seems to be helpful to use a number of tools that make it possible to identify those topics and issues that have not yet reached the awareness of the mainstream. The internet does provide a variety of tools which can help achieving that very well especially if a certain field of interest has to be monitored. I will talk about a few of these tools in this text.

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