Category: General

MSN Toolbar are trying to drum up downloads with a competition (hey, this time it’s UK based). It’s investigative based, play a game and find out who kidnapped tha cat. You’re supposed to download the toolbar to play. No real problem I rarely use IE anyway. SO it gives me a toolbar search, popup blocker, […]

Online feedback continues to be a way of responding to bad service from companies. Jeff Jarvis writes an open letter to Dell summarising his feeling todate. Meanwhile, Comcast gets slammed after one of its representatives forgot that certain fields in Customer databases get printed on correspondence; LaChania Govan got to find out what the call […]

Dave Taylor has an analysis of ‘professional’ blogging or the steps towards it. Whether we like it or not, we’re likely to display bias for or against a product based on past history and personal values. If a company is either paying or just providing a product to review, subconciously you are more likely to […]

Interesting snippets. Delaware Supreme Court being asked to rule on identity disclosure of anonymous posters to a blog who allegedly defamed a local council man. Google have stopped copying books for 4 months until they can sort out copyright issues. I’m surprised they could even think about doing this without getting specific OKs from the […]

The second edition of the Oxford Dictionary of English is published this week, with a raft of new words. Of interest are some of the following definitions; – chugger – a person who approaches passers-by in the street asking for donations or subscriptions to a particular charity. – offshoring – the practice of basing some […]

No-one is sure. At the same time as the term “Podcast” (digital recording of a radio broadcast made available on the internet for downloading to a personal audio player) enters the Oxford Dictionary of English, its demise is already being predicted. Forrester Research Analyst Ted Schadler is expecting a boom and then a long tail […]

Must say the MSN Filter leaves me a little underwhelmed. I’m not sure exactly what it is trying to do, the interface/portal just feels a little staid and the lack of personalisation (ie who writes) is annoying. If you look there are posts about who is doing what, but nothing jumps out at you. Interstingly, […]

I finally received my wine as part of Hugh’s offer and, more importantly, finally got time to drink it. First impressions are good- how often do you get drink with your name on. On pouring, the colour is pale and clear; the nose is crisp, lemony, smells fresh and perfect for summer. On tasting, there’s […]

I missed Tom Reynold’s talk on Saturday about Blogging and Keeping your Job; today I see that someone else has lost their job after their online activities got noticed. Nadine Haobsh had an anonymous blog ‘Jolie in NYC’, that gossiped about her job as associate beauty editor at Ladies’ Home Journal. Her first post appears […]

Risk procedures now get rolled out; we all have to report in when we get home and have been told not to come in tomorrow…or ‘work from home’ – so no day off. Wikipedia has a pretty comprehensive summary of all of the days events so far, pulling together information from many sources. Technorati tags: […]

Jonathan Ross (very tongue-in-cheek): Make poverty history and get Robbie laid, that’s the two messages we’re sending out now David Sillito, BBC News, backstage at Hyde Park: Chris Martin is having a chat with the Kofi Annan outside a portacabin with Sir Elton John, Richard Ashcroft and Annie Lennox all looking on. Around 300 other […]

More notes and interpretations. For more stuff, try Technorati, which is pulling up lots of stuff from people here. The afternoon keynote is from Jimbo Wales, from Wikipedia “feeely licensed encyclopedia”. The system is expanding to more than jus thte encyclopedia, covering dictionares, books, news etc. 500 million page views monthly. Wikipedia is almost all […]

Blogging is a faith that drives a cult. A cult that may lead to the truth. So says Jason Calacanis talking about colaborative consumer journalism, where a small pebble can gather enough momentum to cause an avalanche. A journalist may never have the time and the resources to follow the small stories, they are in […]

First day of the conference and listening tothe first 2 speeches – from Doc Searls and Robert Scoble, followed by a short (very short) Q&A session. Very different styles of presentation. The first was from a slideslow, the second from some written otes and very much winging it. But both valuable. Both about conversations, the […]

I don’t particularly like portals. I look at the default pages of excite, or yahoo or the many like them and just get turned off and move along rapidly. When BT upgraded to BTYahoo, I got sent emails and phonecalls trying to get me to upgrade the software to their broweser, with one of the […]

Got sent a work avoidance site today from Lee – The Gematriculator. Using the infallible methods of the Gematria, it looks at words and calulates how good or evil they are. This site comes in at 53% evil; me, however – I’m all of 96% evil!

Fun Nose – far too difficult to wear.

IMG_0372 Originally uploaded by RachelC.

IMG_0193 Originally uploaded by RachelC. Here’s one of the photos I took today, a wonderful. bright day. Love the camera I have (Canon PowerShot s60), it makes taking photos so easy

I love this, Frank Paynter’s collection of responses to Why do You Blog? I’ve been thinking about that as well, although with more of Who am I Blogging To twist to the question. And this survey definitely clarified where my head to at, in that it’s not who but why. For me, I’ve decided I […]