Stuff you should know, stuff I should remember.

Another expert call-in! This time with Steve Rubel of Micropersuasion. Steve’s blogging focuses on how participatory journalism and blogs are transforming the way businesses do public relations and marketing. I hope you’ll join me for this fantastic opportunity to pick the brain of a web marketing expert. Call in info: Wednesday December 1 @ 9pm […]

Sheila, you sent me a note on my contact form but didn’t include a valid email address or telephone number to contact you. I tried Googling you but there’s too many of you out there. Please email me at andy [at] coachamatic.com. Thnx!

I am not joking. I had a dream this morning of being at Six Apart. For some reason it was in Chicago and I had left my job at an unnamed insurance company that I had managed to work for again. Got to meet Ben and saw Mena over talking with a fellow employee. Everybody […]

I love this – and I don’t even drink coffee. Day-to-day tracking on the dealings at ‘America’s favorite drug dealer’ – from the corporate level down to the barista and out to the customers. http://starbucksgossip.typepad.com/ Another example of a blog about a company and the company isn’t showing up for the conversation (well, not the […]

Got tons of links languishing in my bookmarks – gotta spit ’em out! Everybody’s going nutty since Seth Godin released Bootstrapper’s Bible for free download. Basic market research. and 50 Way to Save Money in Your Business. (via Biz Opps Biz) Business Weblogs Are [A] Double-Edged [Sword]. (via Rick and Co.) Blogs and Bloggers Gaining […]

Brent suggests that blog tools standardize features. Wouldn’t it be cool if weblog systems supported a standard set of attributes? Forget the API for a moment (though that’s important too)—I’m talking about the features different systems support. The problem with that idea is that systems compete (in part) based on those features. Does system x […]

Wired has an article talking about corporate media gobbling up popular blogs: According to Sam Whitmore, editor of Sam Whitmore’s Media Survey, over the next 12 to 24 months you will probably see big media companies scarf up these cult destinations, where a growing number of people are going for opinions, analysis and community. I […]

Neil’s put together some code for adding TypeKey support to your PHP powered blog. Hopefully this will be integrated into WordPress as a plug-in in the future. PHP TypeKey

This is good idea: A gravatar, or globally recognized avatar, is quite simply an 80×80 pixel avatar image that follows you from weblog to weblog appearing beside your name when you comment on gravatar enabled sites. Avatars help identify your posts on web forums, so why not on weblogs? Cool concept. It ties the image […]

Marketing Studies features a interview with affiliate dood, Shawn Collins: Since it’s increasingly challenging to reach the inbox of affiliates, with Spam filters, ISP black lists, abandoned email addresses, etc., I think RSS will emerge as the preferred tool for communicating with affiliates. Any program with an active blog should expect incremental revenue as a […]