Category: General

Six Tips for Corporate Bloggers Yeah, this’ll go over well in the boardroom. I predict crickets and/or tumbleweeds.

Thomas’s Podcasting Link Roundup…

From the Really Simple Syndication blog: If you’re not willing to have ads in your RSS feed are you going to be willing to pay for the content you get? If not , how will the writers get paid? (and don’t give me that nonsense about writers don’t need to get paid because for some […]

The Red Couch Interviews Mena Trott People did this. People kept journals all through history and it’s important. As soon as you stop, keeping track of what you do, things go by too quickly. This is one of the things we like doing. I should write a post about it. Life slows down by posting […]

Can Blogging Ever Become Big Business? Dubbed FM Publishing, it’s his personal attempt at building a blog confederacy. (The “FM” actually stands for “Federated Media.”) But unlike Denton, who publishes only the blogs he finds personally interesting, or Calacanis, who follows the trails of Google AdWords wherever they might lead him, Battelle intends to partner […]

Escalation in the cookie wars: Delivered by cookie, PIE [Persistent Identification Element] hides in the “local shared objects” feature of the Macromedia Flash Player, a technology loaded on more than 98 percent of computers. It protects other cookies by making backup copies even if they are deleted. Because gathering marketing data is more important than […]

From NY Times: Curry will help choose material for “Adam Curry’s PodShow” from some of the thousands of amateur shows produced in basements, living rooms and dormitories. Sirius subscribers, who pay $12.95 a month for the service, can listen to the show on channel 148, “Talk Central.”

Okay. Deep breath, Andy. And – exhale… Blogs are more than diaries. Relegating blogs to the dustbin of horny teen voyeur-cams and geek-addled techie rants is a huge dis-service to the blog format. Just because you can’t find good blogs to read doesn’t mean there aren’t any. Blogs look like diaries. No doubt. Entries. Archives. […]

“About half of all blogs are authored by teenagers, according to a 2003 study by Perseus Development Corp.; and according to comScore Media Metrix, a majority of the top 15 sites visited by teens 17 and under in January 2005 were either blogs or social networking sites.” wow. socially cool, but kinda scary if you’re […]

(sent this to the newsletter – totally forgot to send it out on the blog!) Since the most prominent bloggers out there are blogging every day – sometimes multiple times a day, many beginning bloggers think they have to match that pace. Lies, I tell ya! I recommend beginning bloggers commit to at least three […]