Stuff you should know, stuff I should remember.

In an effort to up my weekly posting of words with the suffix -log: As shown in the charts below pings from blogs average around 8K per hour and those from splogs average around 25K. Clearly almost 3 out of 4 pings are spings! Going back further to the source of these spings, we observed […]

Google launched Google Music yesterday: Right now the music search feature mostly works for artists popular in the U.S. and a more limited number of artists from other countries, but we plan to expand it to classical music, worldwide artists, and lesser-known performers. Our list of music stores will also grow over time.

Mena Trott speaks on ‘civility in blogging’ at the Les Blogs conference: (doesn’t any one else think of the movie Les Girls when they read Les Blogs?) While I think it’s fairly difficult for a single blogger to hurt a company beyond repair by posting inaccurate information, I do believe a single blogger can cause […]

I don’t always cross between my personal and professional blog but last time I crossed from personal to pro I ended up Marketing Blog of the Year. This time we’re crossing the other way: my personal blog, Andymatic, has been nominated as one of the Best Gay Blogs of 2005. Please vote for me when […]

Structured Blogging seeks to standardize microformats across blogs and other media to make things more machine-readable.

Six Apart and Yahoo! join forces: (thnx, Des) Sunnyvale, California-based Yahoo said it will offer commercial blogs based on Movable Type as part of its existing small business Web-site management service. Yahoo provides customers with a unique Web address, blogging tools and business-class e-mail services with spam and virus protections for less than $12 a […]

Watchdog Commercial Alert alleges: P&G, and several smaller buzz marketing specialists named in its complaint, “are perpetuating large-scale deception upon consumers” when people they recruit to promote products by word of mouth don’t disclose that fact, says Gary Ruskin, executive director of Commercial Alert.

(via Seth) acts don’t change people’s behavior. Emotion changes people’s behavior. Stories and irrational impulses are what change behavior. Not facts or bullet points. Think about the most powerful learning moments you’ve ever had. My guess is that they didn’t take place in a darkened meeting room.

BL points to David‘s post about John’s post about Sun blogger Jonathan‘s article in the Harvard Business Review, ‘If You Want to Lead, Blog’: Here are the highlights: Use an honest, humorous, and open voice Show respect for the audience Don’t treat blogging like advertising Don’t micro-mange … communicate the guidelines and let company bloggers […]

Debbie points out a new trend synthetic transparency (didn’t we used to call this bullshitting?) Dr. Carl on the Advanced Organizational Communication blog: Synthetic transparency involves using blogs to give the impression of openness, honesty, and transparency but without really doing so. This notion is based on Norman Fairclough’s idea of “synthetic personalization” which he […]