Stuff you should know, stuff I should remember.

Ben and Mena have hit the big time! [C]orporate customers account for about 35% of Six Apart’s revenue, up from next to zero just a year ago.

Adrian on why post-grads should blog: (via Sebastian) Contemporary academics need to be networked academics, in all senses of the word. Blogs allow you to establish a research identity in the public sphere. Blogs allow you to establish and participate within appropriate communities of practice. Blogs allow you to document your research as a process. […]

Fantastic primer from Laura: (via Darren) Do use meta tags, but use them properly! Meta tags consist of the title, description, and keywords, although there are other tags possible. For SEO, the 3 listed are the most important. Keep them simple and brief. The search engines that still use them have character limits, and also […]

Sifry-matic serves up some stats from Technorati: Right now, there are about 12,000 new weblogs being created each day, which means that on average, a new weblog is created every 7.4 seconds. It is important to understand, though, that not all weblogs are regularly posted to – in fact, about 45% of all older weblogs […]

When I converted over from MovableType to WordPress I realized those that receive my site through a newsfeed were going to be left stranded. WordPress uses different names for the newsfeeds than MovableType does. Sounds like a job for RewriteRules! Using the generated .htaccess file that WordPress put together I deduced the following entries: RewriteRule […]

The latest version of the free open-source blogging tool WordPress has been released. Great job y’all! This blog is running 1.2 right now – I’m gonna go check it out!

Via Micropersuasion: You interview someone by e-mail. You write up the story and edit what they said, condensing their quotes to a few saliable points. Your story runs, and that’s that, you think. But to your surprise, your source decided to post all the interview questions and answers on their Weblog, showing the public that […]

Sobering thoughts on comparing content management to distributed authorship: There isn’t any ROI in a CMS by itself. Not one red cent. There is ROI in a publishing process that perhaps uses a system to enhance that process. The process is much more important than the system and should be put into place before a […]

Synesthesia Wiki has a developing document on requirements for blogs in the corporate world: (via CorporateBloggingBlog) Must work in Windows environment User authentication must be transparent Users can keep existing tools Must support multiple clients Store once and only once Must have security profiles Must support Trackbacks Must support offline working

Super-brain Robin’s got a new career path for us. The newsmaster is an individual capable of personally crafting RSS-based specialized information channels by utilizing technologies that allow her to select, aggregate, filter, exclude and identify quality news, information, content, tools and resources from the whole universe of content, news and information available on the Internet. […]