Stuff you should know, stuff I should remember.

Big-ass thanks to all the folks that joined Lou and I on the inspiration entrepeneurs call! We ended up talking for 2 hours – I am so hungry now! That special report’s right here, y’all: http://easybakeweblogs.com/what_is_a_blog.php

From SXSW panel: Jeanne Sessum who writes allied.blogspot.com and asked “How white is your blog roll” and bloggers where shocked because they had either not considered it or that the blog roll is all white. Your blog roll is a reflection of what you see day to day in your life. People link to the […]

Jeremy did a post on how many Fortune 500 companies have blogs: My suspicion is that at least 10% and as much as 20% are using blogs in some way.

Rodcorp has a look at how two writers (Cory Doctorow and William Gibson) view blogging: What is it (the author? the subject matter? the writing method?) that makes blogging a writing-inhibitor for one author and a writing-catalyst for another?

From Doc: To those who say (here on page two of that piece) “there’s no economic model” yet for podcasting, what would happen if your iPodder subscriptions routed out through your i-broker , and informed — at your direction — each ‘caster that you are willing to pay $N (a sum you set) per podcast? […]

A lot of us bloggy-types use Microsoft as a posterchild for a monolithic company being made human by its employees blogging. Shel and Scoble have posted a rough draft of the second chapter of their book on corporate blogging – it gives a full overview of the MSFT stuff. Read the draft of their chapter.

Congrats to Flickr for Best Meme (the category I sponsored). Browse the rest of the winners (and nominees).

Suspected courthouse slayer, Brian Nichols, came to his senses after his hostage, Ashley Smith, read to him a few passages from The Purpose Driven Life. Why couldn’t she have been reading my ebook? Surely the John Kerry/Herman Munster story would have brought him to tears. As of March 14, 2005 @ 12:15 pm CST, the […]

Full audio of our call with Yvonne Divita (38.9 MB, MP3). 00:00 Introductions – Yvonne Divita of Lipsticking Blog and Dickless Marketing What is Dickless Marketing/Blogging? 03:17 What is a blog? (Yvonne’s answer) A blog is a ‘thin’, interactive website. 04:26 How did you get started blogging? Dragged, kicking, screaming. Built Smart Marketing to Women […]

Robin gives a capsule of his participation in a little bloggin’ payola: The idealist in me cries when realizing that for $200/article I have sold to Marqui permanent space on my site, plenty of valuable links, and even a full category channel for their awareness program. That doesn’t feel good. Full interview: Marqui Mission Completed […]