Stuff you should know, stuff I should remember.

  • Business Week Cover Story: Blogging

    Business Week hops on blog bandwagon: The new issue of Business Week, which arrived on newsstands Friday, includes eight pages about Web logs and how they will change your business. The cover story is written in a blog fashion, with numerous items in a chronological ordering and individual sections describing the phenomenon’s parts. “Call it […]

  • Katie Couric and Brian Williams: New Bloggers?

    The boss says Katie and Brian should start blogging: [they] might do well to check out MSNBC’s TV Web site for a few pointers about Web logging. Their boss, Jeff Zucker, said he’d support NBC’s top talent writing blogs . “I don’t think there’s enough interactivity right now, particularly on ‘Dateline,’ ‘Nightly News’ and ‘Today,’” […]

  • Blogs: Required Reading for Journalists

    Blogs become required reading for journalists: Web logs are causing some TV news people to get less sleep. Jeff Greenfield of CNN told an audience at the National Association of Broadcasters Conference in Las Vegas that he gets up an hour earlier than he used to: “I can’t rely on … traditional news sources alone.” […]

  • AOL Email Addresses Are For Losers

    I’m gonna go out on a limb here. I think that people that are using AOL email addresses for their professional email are complete losers. Maybe I should be nicer and say that they are simply ignorant of how to set up their email. Or they are just cheap. I just got an email from […]

  • Marketing Bastards Set to Whore Tag and Folkosonomies?

    Tagging is a pretty new phenomenon on the web and is the process of allowing users to categorize and organize content without a defined list of categories. The idea is that as more content is categorized in this bottom-up approach, the content will self-organize. You can see it at work over at Del.icio.us or Flickr. […]

  • Investor’s Biz Daily: Um… Companies Use Blogs Now

    Now blogs are moving beyond personal musings and taking on a new role: corporate communications. A growing number of businesses are using the blog format to promote products, interact with customers and shareholders, conduct market research and distribute company announcements. Some company blogs even add “personality” by featuring posts from top corporate officers. Yeah, it […]

  • More Publishers Find Authors Through Their Blogs

    Yahoo! News : Publishers put bloggers between the covers

  • Turning Your Book into a Subscription-Based Site

    (or a clients-only blog) Substitution Value. Can your site visitors find pretty darn similar content for free elsewhere on the Web? The brand name you’re launching a sub site for better be extraordinarily strong to persuade even the casual eye that this site is UNIQUELY worth paying for. Is it already selling in multiple media? […]

  • Group Blog versus Ezine

    The differences between a group blog and an ezine

  • More Blogging Vocabulary

    Understanding Blog Speak (Revised)