Author: Andy Wibbels

The usual ‘blogging is dead’ hand-wringing as blogging turns a decade old. On page 57 of Blogwild I wrote: Eventually, the hype surrounding blogging will wear off, and everybody will move on to the next bright, shiny new thing. [Which looks like has become Social Networks, for now.] In the future, we’ll all say, “Well […]

Jeremiah writes: A few weeks ago, I had a discussion with my kid sister, in a humerous way she told me that she “Only uses email to communicate with old people like me“. And I’m not even in my mid 30s. Apparently social networks like Facebook, MySpace, and now Twitter are moving up the age […]

I’ve been very lax in my RSS reading lately so I’ve been sitting here watching Minority Report and reviewing my info-flow… Mythbusting: Facebook’s fake revenues The Tagging Toolbox: 30+ Tagging Tools Google to Create New META Tag… Five Ideas That Will Rock the Very Foundation of Modern Computing Consensus: Podcasting Has No 'Inherent' Pedagogic Value […]

Found a bug in the WordPress Trac system. Some are finding that WordPress 2.2 is not posting content when using Blog-by-Email. The patch is in the Trac system.

Heads-up reminder that Problogger Confidential continues tomorrow afternoon with Chris Garrett, blogging and new media titan. Full details: http://probloggerconfidential.com/ 

A few months ago we talked about freakfilters, strategies for preventing the crazy customers from bothering you with their nutty requests. Sprint Nextel follows our lead: Sprint Nextel Corp which recently launched an advertising campaign to attract new customers, is disconnecting more than 1,000 subscribers for calling its customer service lines too often and making […]

(via Master Darren) A new service – which I’m not going to link to – promises to dump your URL on hundreds of blogs for a tidy fee: Blog comments help your site rank better in the SERPs. We hired a few people who go through a list of blogs in a database we set […]

Europe heads to beach, America heads to work: The United States is the only country where employees have no statutory leave, and they get about half as much time off in reality as Europeans get, according to the report, compiled by the Washington-based Centre for Economic Policy Research. “The United States is in a class […]

QDB: Quote #779320 <dsully> please describe web 2.0 to me in 2 sentences or less. <jwb> you make all the content. they keep all the revenue.