Stuff you should know, stuff I should remember.

I love the title of this essay: Intenet Pigs and How they feed. (via Contentious) Comment spam is invading every interactive and community building functionality on the internet. Here’s what you need to do to protect yourself, and to help stop this unprecedented attack by these “internet pigs.”

Google now indexes 8 billion pages. Dayumn.

IT Kitchen chimes in with: The final result is quite the same, human readers don’t know how these formats are different, it’s just not their problems. Developers create different formats, and your readers read the one you chose. By providing old formats and versions you do not contribute to the Web’s progress because people will […]

IT Kitchen writes: As you will see, the blogroll or my blog is not on its index (I might be the only one doing this). This is because I prefer long extra data not to be on every pages to ease reading and seeking. I feel that displaying a whole page of linkbacks or banners […]

Blogumentary hits the film fests: We live in an age where everyone is a mediamaker. Blogs empower us to tell our story, spout and debate our politics, and share ourselves with the rest of the world – or at least the 5 people who read our blog. What compels us to blog? How does it […]

I’ve uploaded the audio from our call with Paul Chaney of Radiant Marketing Group which includes: The difference between business blogs and traditional personal blogs Multiple strategies for building trust and reputation with weblog The unique uses of blogs for solo professionas and entrepreneurs (versus larger businesses) Key ways to promote your weblog to create […]

The Persian blogosphere is abuzz with the emergence of death threats for bloggers that desecrate the name of Allah, Mohammed and other Shia Imams.

No template this time – wanted to get this to you ASAP: – – – – New rules from ICANN [the international standards consortium regulating domain names] that take effect on Friday making it easier to hijack domain names. Essentially, if someone tries to take your domain, and you don’t answer within 5 days, they […]

A party-girl flight attendant was fired from Delta Airlines for inappropriate content and conduct on her weblog. Before you cry foul – realize she posted pics of her in her Delta uniform in girly stances on a plane. Hello! You’re industry is in the toilet and you’re screwing around with the brand of your employer. […]

I’m not gonna quote – just go read all of it: Corporate Blogging Primer (PDF)