A backlash in the face of threats from ShareThis.com/ Nextumi Inc., owners of the trademarked Share Icon originally promoted as "generic", has prompted creation of the Open Share Icon Project—a free, open, community-driven alternative. The Share Icon has become synonymous with the commercial ShareThis brand & widget (registration terms) & even the "Classic" plugin requires publishers to actively opt-out of "sharing" their data to the ShareThis service. The working design of the new open icon features cupped hands passing/ receiving an item ("pass it on") as well as an eye reference ("look at this").
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Alex King has announced a re-design of the Share Icon Project website, adding a showcase along similar lines to that added to the Geotag Icon Project some days earlier. The Share Icon was inspired by the Feed Icon and OPML Icon. The new Geotag Icon, likewise related conceptually and visually, is not listed as a peer but is nevertheless enjoying a strong show of early developer and user support reflecting its obvious utility.
This blog is published using the iBlog client, an easy-to-use OS X application that makes uploading static pages to the .Mac server simple. iBlog version 1.x has been around for a few years now and despite a number of updates its basic feature set has remained relatively static. However, version 2.x is now in development and promises to add some of the features requested by users in the small but friendly community Forum. Mac fans can now choose from an increasing range of blogging software, and here I take a quick look at ecto, a seemingly popular and well-regarded client.
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This option for sharing a reading list ("blogroll") may be of interest if you use an RSS reader like NetNewsWire than can export your subscriptions in OPML format.
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Tag—you're it! The game of "Tag" has always been popular, and now people who played it as children are reliving their misspent youth on the web by tagging everything in sight. Flickr lets members tag their photos with keywords. Technorati lets bloggers use their entry categories as tags. The "social bookmarking" service del.icio.us uses tags to classify and group shared bookmarks. In each case such "related" tags serve to offer the reader the option to find "more like this", whether it be a photo or an article. iBlog users can get in on the act too...
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