Category: General

Six Apart points to the scoop on South African wine brand Stormhoek using blogs to promote their wines: Around 100 bottles of the Stormhoek Shiraz 2004 and Sauvignon Blanc 2005 – which both retail at the £5-£6 mark – were sent out via blogger Hugh Macleod ….. in May 2005, in Europe only. The result, […]

Glad I found this since I’m trying to get rid of the ‘pagination’ of the category archives. Recommended solutions to this are the Perpage and Custom Query String plugins. Haven’t taken them for a spin yet in WordPress 2.0. Referenced at WordPress Support Forum.

I’m a little nuts about some TV shows. X-Files, Twin Peaks, Star Trek, The Twilight Zone, Seinfeld, The Simpsons, Lost… and of course, 24. So it with huge anticipation that Ron and I sat down to enjoy the two-night, four-hour premiere of season five of 24. I admire the writers and producers of 24 because […]

The transcript and audio from last week’s call with Yvonne Divita is up and ready for perusal.

Transcript available in PDF (141 KB) and HTML (44 KB) format. Audio recording: As part of the outreach for Blogwild! A Guide for Small Business Blogging, I’m hosting a free series of expert calls with some of the top blogging brainiacs out there. Our second call is with Dave Taylor, a prolific expert and author […]

Heads up for our call Tuesday with Dave Taylor on blogs and search engines. Full details…

The Smoking Gun did an investigation into Oprah’s book club fave A Million Little Pieces by James Frey. Turns out much of the non-fiction memoir isn’t true. Amazon’s Customer Discussions (I didn’t even know they had these) and customer reviews are on fire. Random House, the publisher is promising to accept and refund copies of […]

Argh – my newsletter is late in sending out tonight. Our call with Yvonne starts in an hour and the thing was supposed to send before noon!

The sixth annual Bloggie awards is open for nominations.

Transcript available in PDF (198 KB) and HTML (63 KB) format. Audio: or click to download. As part of the outreach for Blogwild! A Guide for Small Business Blogging, I’m hosting a free series of expert calls with some of the top blogging brainiacs out there. Our first call is with Yvonne Divita from Lipsticking […]