Category: General

Six Apart announces: TypePad Business Class featuring Priority Support. Business Class receives priority technical support. Response times are guaranteed. Enterprise level Bandwidth and Storage are provided. Monthly Invoicing is available exclusively on Business Class. Well it looks like they’ve been listening! and Movable Type Enterprise is a server-based blogging platform used behind a company’s firewall […]

With all the hype about MySpace and how it likes to club baby seals, I thought I’d search for some of Friendster’s old hype and see what their timeline was: First mention – July 17, 2003: Making Friendsters in High Places. First mention of Friendster in Wired archive. Friendster hits 1 million users. 4 months […]

Summary: When you engage bloggers, be sure they don’t cut and paste your stuff without correct attribution. We love conspiracy theories and will read too much into it. Better yet, publish it online so it can be linked and referenced. This week’s big business blog story was Wal-Mart paying bloggers to publish pro-company content. Brian […]

Going totally offtopic, I wrote an essay on my personal blog about a fascinating behavior in my family called the Wibbels Fit. Contains profanity and hilarity.

Margaret Atwood (anyone still reeling from Handmaid’s Tale?) debuted the latest in book signing technology: The award-winning Canadian author, has developed an electronic remote signing device that allows writers to stay at home but sign books almost anywhere in the world.

Dennis Kennedy gets to the point on whether or not companies need ‘blogging policies’: If you have the normal sort of well-drafted employee manual or guidelines, Internet or technology use policies and corporate communications policies, it seems like you should have blogging covered. I just cannot see how blogging raises issues that are any different […]

I wrote a post for Darren’s beginners series on TrackBacks: Summary: TrackBacks automate the interlinking of blog posts, but often don’t contribute to search engine ranking. TrackBacks are notoriously difficult to explain and is an exercise that makes a great judge of the skill of any self-described ‘blogging expert.’ So here I go! You get […]

I told you a few days ago: MySpace Will Eat Your Babies. Remember playing Dungeons and Dragons and how it had all this occult stuff and some parents groups went crazy that it was promoting satanism and violence? And then came along video games? And heavy metal? A Greensboro, North Carolina (USA) parent was mortified […]

There must be something about this time of year – and it doesn’t matter your climate. Everyone I talk to that does this whole work-from-home thing is antsy. I had two colleagues tell me that they are making efforts to get out into the 3-d world. And that’s the word their using. Not the ‘real’ […]

Susannah backtracks a bit: So, really, I wonder about the phrase I’ve used a million times: “Blogs are about building relationships.” Are they really? Don’t most relationships grow, change, deepen? Is there really a chance for that with a blog, or does it just feel like it? I really don’t see why it doesn’t and […]