Category: General

Bookmark this. Forever. So what’s our advice for email subject lines? This is going to sound “stupid simple” to a lot of people, but here goes: Your subject line should (drum roll please): Describe the subject of your email. Yep, that’s it. Always set your subscribers’ expectations during the opt-in process about what kinds of […]

(via Blog Herald) The Perils of Problogging: The popularity of blogs, coupled with its potential to draw convert visitor traffic into profit, has also led to the make-money-online bubble. This is becoming a turn-off for those who believe blogs are better defined as online personas rather than money mills. Art for art’s sake versus all […]

Wired article: I am so sick of the priggishness. Tired of people making assumptions about a person based on their perceptions of the other’s sexuality — especially when they base those assumptions on the single dimension of online expression. Flabbergasted at the assumption that if you participate in adult activity online, you must lack judgment, […]

Want to really enrage your direct reports? Ask them to do a daily status meeting. There are few things that send me into a blind rage… well actually you know what… there are a lot of things that send me into a blind rage… :p …but one thing in particular that drives me batty is […]

And on the same day it ate all my contacts both on the Mac desktop and the WinXP Vaio laptop! A recent invitation to test a “Skype Enterprise Edition” mentioned five features without defining them. * Enterprise network compatibility. * Company-owned Skype Name creation. * Customisable to your corporate requirements. * Direct technical support from […]

(via Steve) Markdown is a fairly new markup language (a language that combines text and extra information) that is designed to be easy for a human to read and enter with a simple text editor. If you were using HTML tags and wanted to create formatted text, you would use: <em>This is some italicized text</em> […]

Debbie and BL pointed me to this one: Remember back when the blogosphere did the Trent Lott take-down? (Read Dave or Debbie’s accounts) Around that time someone had posted a video of how to open up a Kryptonite bike lock with a ballpoint pen. The blogosphere pounced and the company’s delay in acting hurt their […]

I missed this coming out a few days ago. Nutshell: In response to the death threats and the blogosphere’s (over) reaction to them, Tim O’Reilly (love his books) is proposing a code of conduct. Much handwringing and blogsturbation. To me it all just seems like such a complete waste of time. If you don’t want […]

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