Newer Media

And so we come full circle. Jorn Barger, coiner of the term ‘blog’, who in retrospect was really writing a linkblog the whole time (though we lacked the context to give it such a relative label), joins the linkblog/linklog fray. Before taking a swipe at boingboing, he rightly points out that the best linklog tool is del.icio.us. And having watched Jorn’s site over the years, growing from manual HTML maintenance, to blogger, via third party RSS scrape-and-bake services, his current del.icio.us-based solution is perfect.

But the linkblog is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the potential of RSS and social networking…