July 20th, 2007
One of the casualties of the imminent closing of the Soflow social networking site is the excellent Blog Buzz forum there, managed by Jim Turner of One by One Media.
The membership includes a high proportion of very successful, well-known bloggers. The quality of discussion has always been high.
It would have been a pity […]
By Des Walsh -- 2 comments
July 18th, 2007
Shel Israel’s Is blogging passe? post a couple of weeks ago evidently drew him some flak. In his latest foray on the topic Blogging. Not passe, just normalizing he offers some quite pertinent if fairly unremarkable observations to the effect that all new things eventually become old hat, or at least part of how we […]
By Des Walsh -- 6 comments
July 18th, 2007
One of my favorite blogs is that of Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz. But the author clearly doesn’t want to be known as a “CEO blogger”.
His post “The Internet vs. Stone Tablets” was prompted by an enquiry from the media. A reporter asked him, as a “CEO who writes a blog”, to comment on a […]
By Des Walsh -- 2 comments
July 18th, 2007
Easton Ellsworth has launched a new series of posts offering blog help for small business.
Going by the first post of the series, Small Business Blog Help, Part 1: What Is A Business Blog? this will be a series not to be missed.
One of the gems in the post is an untangling of the various meanings […]
By Des Walsh -- 0 comments
July 16th, 2007
This time last year I had the privilege of participating in the Future of Media Summit, organized by Ross Dawson’s Future Exploration Network (FEN) and held simultaneously in Sydney and San Francisco. My recollection of having enjoyed the event was reinforced just now when I re-read the comment I emailed to Ross the following day, […]
By Des Walsh -- 1 comment
July 14th, 2007
On the Today’s Women in Business blog, top blogger Krishna De tagged me for a blog meme on 8 random things about myself.
It’s an interesting exercise.
Here goes.
8 random things about me
My parents were both schoolteachers. My mother, herself the daughter of a schoolteacher, taught in schools in rural communities and in Sydney, in later years […]
By Des Walsh -- 3 comments
July 11th, 2007
The fifth and final news reader to be included in this series of 5 favorite readers, FeedDemon, is no newcomer to the scene and has some great features.
Each of the other readers in the series - NewsGator Online, BlogBridge Desktop, Bloglines, Google Reader - is free. For FeedDemon there is a modest charge of […]
By Des Walsh -- 1 comment
July 10th, 2007
Congratulations to the Small Business Blog Directory on achieving the 1,000th listing.
Given the number of blogs being created every day around the world, 1,000 blogs might not seem such a big number. Except that this is not one of your “come one come all” directories: there have actually been some 6,000 blogs submitted for inclusion […]
By Des Walsh -- 0 comments
July 9th, 2007
I’m sure I’m not the only blogger in the world who is pleased today to hear about the writeup of Read/WriteWeb’s Richard McManus, in New Zealand’s Dominion Post.
Under the heading Hobby leads to career for tech blogger, journalist Reuben Schwarz writes of how, from Richard’s home office in Lower Hutt (pop. 97,700), New Zealand, Richard […]
By Des Walsh -- 1 comment
July 4th, 2007
Every good wish for a very happy Independence Day, to all my American friends and colleagues, regular readers and passers-by.
Tags: Declaration-of-Independence, Fourth-of-July, greetings, Independence-Day, July-4th, USAShare This
By Des Walsh -- 0 comments
Recent Comments