Dave

I used to work in the same building as Tony Finch who has a blog on LiveJournal here, though we never met. He is remarkable, I am sure, for many things, but the one tat stands out is his email address,…

From Buzz Marketing with Blogs: Google’s Blogger Stumbles InfoWorld’s reporting that Google’s Blogger faces performance problems.  Interestingly, Infoworld got the story how? Because Blogger blogged about it. We have a client who uses Blogger, and has been having issues updating her…

From The Guardian: The strange case of the homosexual necrophiliac duck pushed out the boundaries of knowledge in a rather improbable way when it was recorded by Dutch researcher Kees Moeliker. It may have ruffled a few feathers, but it…

Not much happened over the weekend, spent a lot of time helping out with the Elmcroft Associates website. Other than that, didn’t get near the computer at the weekend. Plenty of stuff to catch up on…

From Scoble. 1) Make sure the “brand” you’re building in people’s heads matches what you actually want people to think about. 2) To have something go viral, you actually need to do something that will make people talk. Games that…

Great article on Wired about Wikipedia. As linked to by Ken Leebow. Wired 13.03: The Book Stops Here

URL. As linked to by Buzz Marketing with Blogs by Travis Smith. Why executives should steer clear of the blogosphere By Lucy Kellaway Published: February 28 2005 02:00 | Last updated: February 28 2005 02:00 The chief executive of a…

The Red Couch blog features a post about the issue of credits. One experienced blogger seems to be annoyed that the spoils of a book deal has elluded him. Richard Tallent, another blogger, sticks up for the Red Couch guys.…

The first chapter and table of contents for a new book, Buzz Marketing with Blogs for Dummies (slightly awkward title) by Susannah Gardner is available for download from Buzz Marketing with Blogs. It makes for interesting reading. Traditional business marketing…

Good article by Bill Thompson on the BBC Technology News Site. The political classes will be surprised indeed if the next General Election doesn’t take place on 5 May. In fact Tony Blair might even lose votes if he disappoints…

I can’t tell you how pleased I am to have said something bordering on the truly reactionary. Is Boris trying to get back in Michael Howard’s good books? Still, a lengthy and serious post from Boris which shows that he…

Is now online.

In that it stopped. Sorry. Was playing with my new toy: It’s pretty good. It can send emails, which is great, and means I can post to this blog on the move. Using Flickr I can even post pictures straight…

Lawrence Lessig on Creative Commons: Creative Commons offers free copyright licenses to artists and creators. The purpose of the license is to enable the artist or creator to mark his or her copyrighted work with the freedom he or she…

I must have a look at Feedview, an RSS reading Firefox extension. As linked to by Steve Rubel.

Ken Leebow links to this article by Radley Balko (!) on Fox News. U.S. News & World Report reported last week that several senior Republican senators — upon hearing that “blogs” had uncovered the Dan Rather scandal, helped to defeat…

I have started to plan a new site which will aim to collect together all the information anyone could ever possibly want to know about blogging, from introductory stuff for the beginner right through to techinical articles for the experienced…

Great article on the use of RSS, blogs and wikis at the BBC. Just a few minutes ago, I got an email with the title “Your blog could cost you your job.” Needless to say, I sat up and took…

…and More Compelling Comments. How To Write Killer Blog Posts Some very good advice here. Here’s the first 3 to give you a flavour: Writing Blog Posts Declarative sentences are good. Web readers demand them. Link like crazy. One thing…

I have made a few changes to the blog layout, all on the strip down the right hand side. Most noticable is the list of recent links from the Link Blog, which is created using FeedRoll. Not entirely happy with…