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Links to articles, interviews, or my contributions at other sites— Oregon State Barometer: Blog pioneer wants to foster local voices: I talked with the local college paper about my time at Blogger, weblogs, and the Oregon Weblogs directory ORblogs. Yahoo! Search Blog: Yahoo! Hacks. The Good Kind...: A guest post I wrote at the Yahoo! Search Blog about some Yahoo! features and Yahoo! Hacks. CNET Australia: DIY: Yahoo Hacks: A few excerpts from Yahoo! Hacks, slightly edited. O'Reilly Network: Yahoo! Web Services: An article I wrote introducing the Yahoo! Web Services API, with a quick hack showing how you might use the API. Gazette Times: Blog days are here:
"Bausch, who was blogging before most people had ever heard of a Weblog, was named one of PC Magazine's 2004 People of the Year." PC Magazine: People of the Year:
"The top sites for creating and hosting your own blog—Blogger and Six Apart—each boast more than 1 million registered users. Blogger was created in August of 1999 by Evan Williams, Meg Hourihan, and Paul Bausch, who all then worked at Pyra Labs in San Francisco." MIT Technology Review: Amazon: Giving Away The Store
"Amazon is pouring so many resources into their Web services that it's almost frightening," says Paul Bausch, one of the inventors of the well-known weblogging tool Blogger and, more recently, the author of O'Reilly Media's Amazon Hacks, a collection of tips for tapping into Amazon's rich database. "They are extremely aggressive, and that separates them from Google and from other people who are still just experimenting with the technology. They really believe that this is where their business is heading." University of Oregon Daily Emerald: Web logs transform expression methods:
"...Bausch said people will not always consider blogs to be a unique feature on the Web. 'Just like instant messaging, it will become a part of the fabric of the Internet,' he said." O'Reilly Network: Hacking Books with Safari Web Services: An article I wrote about Safari Books' Web Services API, and how to use it to create RSS feeds that track offline books. South Carolina's The State: Blogs across America:
"That's partially what makes blogging so radically popular — the sense of presence a regular blogger creates, said Paul Bausch, co-author of 'We Blog.'
'Blogging is sort of the global bowling league — it's the alternate place people go for social interaction,' Bausch said. 'I think a big part of it is water-cooler chit-chat, or stuff you might discuss over a beer.'" Eugene Register-Guard: The Blog Connection:
"At first glance, blogging might seem impersonal, since none of the visual and nonverbal cues from in-person conversation come through on the Internet, but Bausch sees that as a positive thing. 'When you strip away some of that external stuff, you can almost connect faster,' he said. 'You're only dealing with ideas and words.'" Corvallis Gazette-Times: Adventures in blogging:
"Bausch writes about a variety of things in his blog, onfocus.com, often about new developments in the online world. He also posts photos that he takes and comments about interesting things he does or sees." Business Journal of Portland: Amazon.com creates a Web of opportunity:
"Bausch himself has created a service on his own site, www.onfocus.com, called BookWatch. It displays the most 'blogged about' books -- that is, books that are currently the most popular in Web logs." Jen's page: Interview with pb: "Paul says doesn't tend to get his news from traditional media sites. Instead, he reads lots of other people's blogs, and things of interest bubble up to the surface that way because he's seeing what other people are talking about." K5M: K5M Attends Blogger Conference.
"Paul Bausch, the founder of ORBlogs.com, mentions the popularity of blogs and the recent rise in reality TV..." Six Log: PGP-Signing Comments:
"I think [PGP-signed comments] will work in the long-run because it feels like the Web: no one interest controls it, and people can adapt/extend the technology to suit their needs." IEEE Spectrum: The Web Within the Web.
"Take Amazon.com, one of the largest databases to be opened up to Web services. For almost a decade now, affiliated companies and weekend programmers have been experimenting with it incessantly. Many of the more successful programs were compiled in a recent book, Amazon Hacks (O'Reilly, 2003). Author Paul Bausch says his favorite program involves an Amazon feature known as the "wish list." As you browse Amazon, you can add books to your personal list, a way of not forgetting them. The hack in question makes the wish list viewable on your cellphone. "If I'm in a Borders bookstore, I can answer the question, what was that book I wanted?" Bausch says." Business Week: Reprogramming Amazon:
"I see them not just as a place to sell things but as a provider of technology," says programmer Paul Bausch, author of Amazon Hacks: 100 Industrial-Strength Tips & Tools, a new book on how to use the technology behind Amazon's site. Washington Post: Early Days Of a Data-Sharing Revolution (TechNews.com):
"There is a new set of standards and layers emerging, on top of existing Internet standards, that people can use to exchange data," said Bausch, who recently wrote a book called "Amazon Hacks" that explains many of the new tools. "Web services are encouraging private people to create their own features with data sets from these big companies. It allows applications to adapt to users, rather than making users adapt to the applications." O'Reilly Network: Fail-Safe Amazon Images. An article I wrote describing how to work with images from Amazon's API.
Technical Editors' Eyrie: Amazon Hacks by Paul Bausch - Review:
"if you use Amazon, whether as a buyer or as a seller, you'll likely find lots of useful tips in this book, far more than enough to justify the (low) cost." Kevin Kelly -- Cool Tools: Junglescan:
"...I picked up this tip from the fabulous book Amazon Hacks, which I feel any serious user of Amazon should read." Six Log: Interview with Paul Bausch:
"PB, as Paul is usually known online, shares that common geek trait of being more inclined to build new things than to spend time on self-promotion, and so a talk with him offers a good opportunity to discuss some less-known areas of his expertise, such as permalinks, weblogs and journalism, and the potential of Amazon Web Services." New York Times: Online Diary:
"book Amazon Hacks by Paul Bausch details creative explosion of ancillary Webs sites and services related to Amazon.com" Requires payment for archive article to read the whole thing. IT Conversations: interview by Doug Kaye:
"In his new book, the co-creator of Blogger says Amazon.com is an application, which he then dives into and brings up its buried treasures. Whether you're just a frequent book buyer, author, publisher, bookseller, or just want to make a few extra dollars referring traffic to Amazon, Paul has it all." Business Week: How Amazon Opens Up and Cleans Up:
"When Paul Bausch goes to the bookstore or mall, he brings along his cell phone -- but not to chat with friends about his purchases. Bausch, a programmer and Web developer by trade, has written a simple piece of software that lets him download onto his handset lists of favorite items on Amazon.com." Guardian Unlimited: The third era starts here:
"Or if you want to know what bloggers are reading, you can check Paul Bausch's Bookwatch. His software checks for books mentioned by bloggers and fetches the covers and other data from Amazon." Kiruba Shankar: Interview with Paul Bausch:
"I caught pb for an interview amidst his hectic shifting from California to Oregon. I shot across some ego-boosting questions clubbed with some none-too-flattering ones about his stint at Prya (Blogger) and his book. I expected him to duck these but he turned out to be a sport giving frank answers." Matthew Rothenberg's Weblog: A Conversation with Paul Bausch:
"I spoke to Paul regarding the implementation of Bookwatch and his views on what types of web services we'll see in the future." Gurteen: Book Review: We Blog:
"This book is an excellent introduction to weblogs. If the idea of creating your own weblog or knowledge-log turns you on—buy the book, choose a product from chapter 5, log onto the web and within 30 minutes you will be up and running and "We Blog" will provide you with all the ideas and support you need to make your weblog a success." |