Stuff you should know, stuff I should remember.

Joho on the ethics of blogging. Summary: Correct errors, note changes, provide context, find common ground and generally don’t be an asshole.

Seth is back with his latest ebook, Flipping the Funnel. He tosses Web 2.0 in with his Purple Cow and Ideavirus idears and busts out a take on the current state of talking with (not at) your customers. Turn strangers into friends. Friends into customers. And then do the most important job… turn customers into […]

It’s no secret I’m a bleeding heart and I worry about global economic systems (and lacking the education to understand the nuances). Dave’s new book is coming out Let Go To Grow: Escaping the Commodity Trap, co-written by IBM exec Linda Sanford and he links to this article BusinessWeek. Basically boils down to puncturing the […]

After many attempts by U.S. Congress staffers to correct, revise and remove details of their bosses, Wikipedia is proposing banning IP addresses from the networks the congressional offices use. Idiots! Use dial-up!

This worksheet is inspired by my call with Yvonne Divita from Lipsticking. Audio, PDF and transcript from this call available at http://andywibbels.com/post/958/ Download the worksheet in Excel format (26 KB) or OpenOffice format (19 KB). In that call, she suggests bloggers use an editorial calendar to keep their blogging on track throughout the week: pick […]

Bill Gates spoke out at the World Economic Forum aka Uncle IMF’s Starve-’em-down-to-sweatshops Emporium on Google’s decision to cooperate with the Chinese government in censoring their search results: I do think information flow is happening in China … saying that even by existing there contributions to a national dialogue have taken place. There’s no doubt […]

Transcript of our call with Dave is up in PDF and HTML format. Audio download, stream and podcast available.

Transcript available in PDF (180 KB) and HTML (11 KB) format. Subscribe to the podcast when it is ready through iTunes, Podnova, or Odeo. Or join the newsletter. As part of the outreach for Blogwild! A Guide for Small Business Blogging, I’m hosting a free series of expert calls with some of the top blogging […]

Don’t forget our call with Rick Bruner tonight. Dial in at 7:30 Eastern (New York) to 1-712-432-2323 with access code 60657. Can’t make the call? Grab the podcast when it is ready through iTunes, Podnova, or Odeo. Or join the newsletter.

Researchers in Canada have found: Decisions about a site’s credibility and appeal are made with 1/20th of a second of viewing a page Younger surfers view/evaluate websites faster than older surfers “even if a website is highly usable and provides very useful information presented in a logical arrangement, this may fail to impress a user […]