Category: General

Suspected courthouse slayer, Brian Nichols, came to his senses after his hostage, Ashley Smith, read to him a few passages from The Purpose Driven Life. Why couldn’t she have been reading my ebook? Surely the John Kerry/Herman Munster story would have brought him to tears. As of March 14, 2005 @ 12:15 pm CST, the […]

Full audio of our call with Yvonne Divita (38.9 MB, MP3). 00:00 Introductions – Yvonne Divita of Lipsticking Blog and Dickless Marketing What is Dickless Marketing/Blogging? 03:17 What is a blog? (Yvonne’s answer) A blog is a ‘thin’, interactive website. 04:26 How did you get started blogging? Dragged, kicking, screaming. Built Smart Marketing to Women […]

Robin gives a capsule of his participation in a little bloggin’ payola: The idealist in me cries when realizing that for $200/article I have sold to Marqui permanent space on my site, plenty of valuable links, and even a full category channel for their awareness program. That doesn’t feel good. Full interview: Marqui Mission Completed […]

Dave’s back with a refreshed analysis. The blogosphere is doubling in size about once every 5 months. We are currently seeing about 30,000 – 40,000 new weblogs being created each day. Part of the growth of new weblogs created each day is due to an increase in spam blogs – fake blogs that are created […]

A bunch of lady bloggers are considering a conference geared towards raising women’s visibility in blogging. Sort of like a Lilith Fair of Blogging. Full details… Extra: South by Southwest – First Impression – White. Male.

Confirmed: formerlyROSIE is really the blog of Rosie O’Donnel.

Reflections on a blogs in education project from The Community Engine Blog: My answer is this. By design, blogging allows individuals to raise topics of interest and create threads of conversation without having to ask anyone’s permission. That was an explicit design consideration for this course; I wanted to know what was going on with […]

The more you spend on marketing, the more your messages often seem monolithic, corporate, impersonal, and one-way — streaming out from the ad agency to the consumer with Niagara-like force. A blog is a wonderful counterpoint to this, because it’s naturally small, personal, even quirky. Research shows that consumers get tired of the smoothly polished […]

Rick points to Tim’s post on why blogging is good for your career: You have to get noticed to get promoted. You have to get noticed to get hired. It really impresses people when you say “Oh, I’ve written about that, just google for XXX and I’m on the top pageâ€? or “Oh, just google […]

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