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"I bet some of them are there already…" - Adam Tinworth

"And the same could be said of craftsmen - unless they understand the medium they're working, the tools won't help…" - Adam Tinworth

"You can. :-)" - Adam Tinworth

"Ah - OK, I'll go back and update the post to reflect that now." - Adam Tinworth

"Thanks Swanster. :-)" - Adam Tinworth

"I believe they're the same family behind the Courtauld Institute…" - Adam Tinworth

"I suspect the reason the entrance area feels like a television set is because it's been used in so many 1920s-set productions. If I remember correctly, a good number of Poirot episodes had scenes filmed in the Palace." - Adam Tinworth

"I'm a very, very long term user of Delicious (old enough that I can type del.icio.us without looking it up… ;-) But it was Yahoo's announced sunsetting of the service, and the changes that followed its sale that has made me more cautious about trusting everything to a web service without a direct on-my-computer sync." - Adam Tinworth

"D'oh. Thanks, I'll edit it." - Adam Tinworth

"You see, I think there's a germ of a good argument in what you're saying. Let me give you an example: We used our blog platform in my previous employer (broadly speaking) for two things: 1. to publish blogs 2. to publish websites We called category 1 "blogs" and category 2 "websites". Easy. The technology was irrelevant - it was the tone and style of the content that defined the name. A good blog post should be a recognisably different slice of content from a good news article, irrespective of underlying technology. We had both blogs and websites published on other platforms, too. This is the same basic argument that allows me to happily call a magazine on an iPad "a magazine" - the technology delivering it is different, but it recognisably within the confines of what I understand as the magazine concept. Now, it could be this is the basic argument you were setting out to make - in which case, we agree. But that's not the impression I got: I came away with the impression that you were..." - Adam Tinworth

"Andy, you've used the "context" line all through you response to questions - and I got exactly the context you meant. I spent half a decade working with newsrooms on blogging, digital media et al. It's my default context. News is only "traditional" because it's much, much older as a concept…. And the fact that "blog through news" is nonsensical was the point. Your entire post was predicated on confusing a content type: "news" with a delivery channel "a blog". That's the category error I'm talking about. Delivery channels - be they video, audio, blogs, articles or newspapers have characteristics, and doing away with the names does nothing to alter that." - Adam Tinworth

"There's always someone with a lower bar…" - Adam Tinworth

"I had an extended discussion about it on Twitter this morning without linking to it or mentioning its name once. :-)" - Adam Tinworth

"Honestly, anyone who thinks that social media is just going to go away is not taking a broad-sighted view of the issue. Social activity has been prevalent on the internet almost since the start - Usenet, mailing list discussions, BBSes, forums, blogs… The forms keep evolving and developing, but the trend towards social pubishing is marked. The bigger danger, I think, is teaching sites - Facebook and Twitter - rather than the general underlying principles…" - Adam Tinworth

"They were initially promoting a method that went via your own profile pages, if that's what you wanted to do. That seems to have been downplayed since - I'm not sure if it still works." - Adam Tinworth

"Both quite likely I think - but now I'm wondering why Google haven't integrated any second tier players, like LinkedIn, for example. It still feels like there's something afoot that hasn't quite been exposed yet." - Adam Tinworth

"And that, of course, begs the (unanswered as far as I'm aware) of why Facebook and Twitter aren't sharing their data. Indeed, why did the previous deal with Twitter go away? Oh, to be party to discussions like those… (The other question, I suppose, it why has Google chosen this moment in time to start making pronouncements like these?)" - Adam Tinworth

"I'm less concerned with the hard-core companies (who, as you say, will always work around it) than with, say, publishing companies who have drunk a little too deeply from this well, and think that technical tricks beats investing in solid (and well trained) content creators.  Google+? I throughly buy that social recommendation is one way of viewing and presenting search results. I don't buy "and Google's social sharing shall be the only one we use! Bwaaa-haha-haha-haha!". They need to get over that, fast." - Adam Tinworth

"I agree - hence the qualifications in the first paragraph. I suspect, that initially only a handful of sites will be hit, but that the number will increase over time. Google seems to like starting with low impact and turning the dial up over time." - Adam Tinworth

"Ah, yes. That was on our own server pool. You may have a point there… ;-)" - Adam Tinworth

"In my former job I migrated some blogs with way more than 15k comments (IE: http://www.flightglobal.com/bl.... However they were still running on MT 4.x, and the Disqus plugin worked fine on that, allowing automated migration of comments. It took about 24 to 30 hours from them to completely move, though. And then we usually repeated the procedure just to check that we hadn't missed any into the middle" - Adam Tinworth

"I moved my blog (also still on MT) over to Disqus commenting over a year ago, and haven't really looked back. Very pleased with it. It eases most of the problems running MT provides right now." - Adam Tinworth

"I'd be really surprised if Whedon didn't consider it legit, given that he made the thing…" - Adam Tinworth

"Thanks for posting interesting stuff. :-)" - Adam Tinworth

"EOL stands for End of Life, generally, which is, of course, what will happen to you if you EOL at the wrong time or place… ;-) As for the more serious points in your post - it's a fairly human trait to want to simplify complex concepts down to simple explanations or (preferably) numbers. And many people will jump on those ersatz insights because it makes the things they need to do (largely, selling stuff) easier. And thus, they provide the rest of us a handy tool for separating those who are truly engaged with these ideas from the dilettantes… ;-)" - Adam Tinworth

"So would I. :-) As ever, too much anecdote and received wisdom, not enough real analysis around all this stuff…" - Adam Tinworth

"Pompano Beach in Florida." - Adam Tinworth

"Useful, and available on Kindle, too. Thanks - I've grabbed myself a copy." - Adam Tinworth

"Profit. :-)" - Adam Tinworth

"I'm still working on the carrot versus stick approach on hitting my targets, and my new, more, uh, flexible working life is encouraging me to be focused… ;-)" - Adam Tinworth