According to Forbes’ cover story – Attack of the Blogs (signin required, or use bugmenot login/password ‘forbesdontbug’) I’m an “ultimate vehicle for brand-bashing, personal attacks, political extremism and smear campaigns”, or at least my blog is. For a repected publication, I find this story particularly one sided. There’s no balance in the writing and the […]
Marketing and Blogs
Shel Israel comments about the approach of marketing executives to blogs, how “they want to use blogs to extend their integrated marketing solutions, thus extending the brand.” By integrated marketing, they mean another method to push the message. If all they do is push the message, they are not a blog as commonly perceived, but […]
Scott Adams’ Blog
Scott Adams, the creator of Dilbert, has a blog. The tone os being set by his call for people to advise him of spelling and grammatical mistakes: 1. Research the Native American method for sending smoke signals. 2. Set your couch on fire. 3. Stand on the roof and use your “good shirt†to control […]
Linkage and searches
For most of the life of this blog, my most popular search terms appear to have been related to tropical beaches, Daydream Island and things holiday related. This month, for some reason, it appears to be formula1. Which may explain why one of my most common referrers appears to a polish Formula 1 message board. […]
Get Togethers
A preliminary agenda has been posted for LesBlogs in December. I’m off to this and takign the opportunity to visit Paris, which I’ve never done before. And before that,on 24th Nov Ian Forester has pulled together another GeekDinner with Molly Holzschlag. Sign up at geekdinner.co.uk.
I want to play – Budget Cars and Blogs
BL Ochman has been working on a new campaign for Budget Car rental,called Up Your Budget, using blogs to power the campaign – a Treasure Hunt across 4 weeks and 16 US cities. That’s US only – therefore I can’t play, although the rules don’t state I need to be resident in the US. A […]
Posting Volumes
Dave Sifry of Technorati has posted his lastest update on the State of the Blogosphere. The company is now tracking 19.6m blogs, the with the trend of a doubling every 5 months appearing to continue; currently 70000 new blogs are created every day. This time, he’s also included details of splogs, showing they are running […]
Visitor Mapping Service
I’ve been trying out a nice little mapping service from gvisit, that puts site visitors on google maps (the mashup map of choice these days) It’s a short term snapshot over a few hours with 20 visitors maximum listed, but it’s more fun for me being visual than reading the list of countries in the […]
Blog Design Mistakes
Jakob Niekson has published a Top 10 of Blog design mistakes. A must read. Wonder how I do? 1. No Author biography Got one of those – over there on the right. 2. No Author Photo. mmmm – not sure if I want one of those. I’m one of the people in the photo a […]
Bloglines Hotkeys
Bloglines got a new feature this morning – hotkeys. Quicker navigation ;o)
Resignation over blogging
Shel Israel writes about an IBM emplyee in India resigning after the subject of one of Guarav Sabnis’s posts, the Indian Institute of Management and Planning, threated to boycott IBM machines, stage a student protest and burn the Thinkpads. He explains the decision: Firstly, my intention to stand by my posts, since I believe in […]
Blog and RSS studies
Yahoo and Ipsos Insight have released a study on RSS. (In pdf). Looking at RSS usage inthe US, it shows that many people who are using RSS do not know they are going so. Awareness of RSS is quite low among Internet users. 12% of users are aware of RSS, and 4% have knowingly used […]
ReStyle Part 2
OK – i’ve worked my way through the rest of the templates, tested in the three browsers I have and from what I can see it’s working OK. Thanks to everyone who commented – did I miss anything?
Dilbert and Blogging
Dilbert continues to include the world of blogging in strips, today’s being timely with the recent sacking of a publicist for blogging about her work
ReStyle time
I’ve been playing around with the templates and the style-sheet for the blog. So now, hopefully, the layout works in IE. and the colours are a little warmer. I’ll probably continue to mess around for a few days.
Blogging Changing Lives
Via Problogger, a story of how blogging can impact lives. By updating an ad format, a blogger increased her daily income by nearly 400% wh5ch has the potential to really change her life (coming off benefits, etc). So here’s a story of what appears to be an ‘average person’ (who’s not a hairdresser) not only […]
Interaction and Trust
Nicole Simon is over in London, visiting PodcastConUK. A little difficulty with a lost purse lead to her needing a small loan, so after she’d dried out from walking through the wonderful wet London autumnal weather we got together for a meal and a chat. Thinking about the situation in my half-asleep haze this morning, […]
Annoying Milestone
This blog is passed a milestone today; only 10 months old and it’s had over 10000 spam trackbacks and comments blocked by MT Blacklist. (and that doesn’t count the ones that get through before I ban them) I hate them all
BlogDay
By general consensus, it’s Blog Day, so here’s a few blogs I read and like, in no particular order. Josie Fraser’s A Girl and A Gun – one of three blogs she runs, this one focuses on movie reviews. Podchef Show: a podcasting chef who runs a blog and has great Flickr Food photos Billy […]
Stylecatcher
One of the new plugins from MT is Stylescatcher, a simple way to apply new styles to your blog from a library. There’s a simple interface to ebale style choice andit;s obviously easy to add further libraries. However, for me, it’snot working. On first application, when the style sheet is linked from the default library, […]