Category: General

I’m no big Powncer yet. I just don’t get why it is so damned amazing. I still don’t get why I should drop it for Skype or Adium connecting to my AOL, Y!, MSN and GTalk accounts (I’ve got Twitter pushed through the GTalk alias). I understand that from a geek perspective is uses the […]

Stats and case studies from MarketingSherpa: 43% of consumers use the internal search function immediately upon arriving at a retail site. That’s why internal search tweaks are among the most important — and profitable — tactics you can test. So, it stands to reason that a search button in your email is just as important […]

Reason takes a look at US Presidential Candidate Ron Paul’s online campaigning: Ron Paul is popular on the Internet, too, with more YouTube subscribers than any other candidate, the fastest-growing political presence in MySpace, a constant perch atop the Technorati rankings, and a near-Olympian record at winning unscientific Web polls. But will this translate into […]

(if you don’t subscribe to MarketingSherpa’s ezines, you’re a fool) Calculating your blog’s reach with several metrics: Traffic RSS subscribers Inbound links Search engine rank for relevant keywords Search engine rank for the blogger’s name Voice/brand Full detail…

Remember when that Second Lifer that makes a living selling virtual property was interviewed and was showered with virtual flying penises? I was guessing that’d throw people off. The big dirty secret about all these business making stores on Second Life? Nobody wants to be in them. Ian Schafer, chief executive of online marketing firm […]

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.