Category: General

Wow – this is really stupid: Verizon Communications… has been blocking e-mail originating from Great Britain and other parts of Europe for weeks, and customers are upset about having their communications disrupted without notice. Verizon customers who are waiting for an e-mail response from Europe should use alternative forms of communication. “If it’s really important […]

I’m starting to see more of these ‘single-issue’ blogs that I think can really help a blogger become the go-to on a certain topic. It’s got the two ingredients of a hot blog: passionate opinion and a daily news cycle. This blog is devoted to further discussion on residential and commercial real estate prices. Is […]

Why fly when you can read the PowerPoint slides at home! http://www.blogbusinesssummit.com/sessions.htm (I’m kidding folks – I wish I were there!)

Molly‘s presentation on the holy trinity of blog traffic: Building Traffic: Positioning Isn’t Enough!

As RSS and feeds started to become more accepted into mainstream use (with still a while to go) the techie types needed a new media format to chaw on. And we got podcasting! Let’s say you love listening to BBC World News online. You listen to it every morning and again at night to get […]

Steve pointed me to Randy Baseler’s blog – he’s a VP at Boeing. His blog seems to lack nearly everything that makes a blog a blog: blogroll, permalinks, comments, trackbacks, archives, contact information. I mean – what’s the point, right? Is this just an ‘attaboy column’ – we’re the best – booyeah – no Airbus-worries […]

Jay Rosen bites into PR bloggers for their silence on the Armstrong Williams/DoE payola scandal – as well as the Ketchum PR firm’s role in negotiating the pay-for-play contract for Armstrong to whore himself out and shill No Child Left Behind.

(via Steve) Gerald Buckley works for AAPG the American Association of Petroleum Geologists and he’s put together a kind of internal communication/diary announcement podcast for them. The combination of heavy technical oil speak and the funky backing track he uses can get a bit surreal, but it’s a great example of what can be done […]

Besides the obvious points about blogging and instant personal publishing changing the way joournalists research and operate, technologies like podcasting are also as useful: What role can and should technology play in contributing to transparency–full disclosure–in the media? After all, given that it’s been such an enabler to the revolution in journalism, shouldn’t it also […]

Dan Bricklin waxes on podcasting positing that it’s less about the ‘reporter’ point of view – of sifting the raw materials from the news sources – and more about going straight to the source: What I like about… podcasts is the depth, the aiming at a narrow audience who cares about the subject and wants […]