Category: General

  • Report from the Pajamas Media Launch Party

    Photojournalist and writer Jim Lowney attended the swanky launch party for Pajamas Media – no Open Source Media – no Pajamas Media. Tidbits: The September 11 attacks quickly became the meat of the conversation. But these nice folks didn’t mention the horror or death or the survivors or the wounding of a city or brave […]

  • Scientology’s Marketing Lessons

    If some consider marketing a religion, why can’t religion be marketing? What can the Church of Scientology teach us about viral marketing and the sales cycle? I’m a bit obsessive sometimes. I’ll learn a new marketing concept and then try to apply it to every facet of my life or world – whether it fits […]

  • Open Source Media in Trade Mark Fight

    Update: It’s back to Pajamas Media. I was wondering about this with Pajamas Media changed their name to Open Source Media (granted, their model has very little to do with open source) when there was already an Open Source Media, Inc. company – that also owns that trademark. Clincher from the Open Source radio company: […]

  • EFF Releases Student Blogging Guide

    Thank God, somebody combatting all of the What about the children?! panic with Electronic Frontier Foundation Student Blogging Guide. Great topics: Do public school students have full First Amendment rights? (and what if you’re in a private school?) What can students say in a school-sponsored blog or public forum? (and what qualifies as a public […]

  • Health Organization Turns to Wikis to Catalog Knowledge

    NHS Direct proposes online social care wiki: [U]sers should not be able to amend clinical advice. But users could input information about coping with illness and services available to those with long-term conditions – such as where patients who have undergone chemotherapy can obtain wigs: “We have to find ways to make patient feel more […]

  • Acne Medication Sponsors Fifteen-Year-Old’s Podcast

    I wonder if she’s getting any flack for the actual product that is sponsoring the podcast, Pizzaface-cast, etcc: Nature’s Cure, a brand specializing in acne treatments, to sponsor Emo Girl Talk, a podcast hosted by Butler. “I hope that my success paves the way for more teens to have their voices heard and that more […]

  • WordPress 2.0

    (Updated: I’m an idiot and confused the new release with 1.6 – this is 2.0) I got curious and grabbed the latest slice of the next version of WordPress. It is nice! Very impressed with the changes between 1.5 and 1.6 2.0. They’ve tamed the TinyMCE editor to include just enough WYSIWYG (though I know […]

  • FEC Declares Blog Exempt from Campaign Finance Law

    The Fired Up! network of blogs has been declared to have the ‘press exception’ to the US federal campaign finance laws. The Commission concludes that the costs Fired Up incurs in covering or carrying news stories, commentary, or editorials on its websites are encompassed by the press exception, and therefore do not constitute “expenditures” or […]

  • Uncover Web-Based Plagiarism with CopyScape

    CopyScape claims to track you content as it makes it’s plagiarized way through the internet.

  • 10 Tips for Using LinkedIn

    From Liz via Dave: Etiquette for LinkedIn and the Professional Networking World