August 28th, 2007
Guest blogger Brittney Gilbert offers some practical advice for companies wanting to guard against bad buzz from the blogosphere.
When widely read blogger Jeff Jarvis of BuzzMachine, AKA Internet Rockstar bought a Dell computer that bit the dust on him, he took to complaining about it on his website. He wrote several entries about “the lemon” […]
By Des Walsh -- 8 comments
August 6th, 2007
Have you been holding off from re-purposing some of your older blog posts as articles because you thought the search engines would identify that as duplicate content and deliver a penalty in the ranking department?
I have.
I understand that submitting articles to other sites is a good way to generate traffic to, and improve the ranking […]
By Des Walsh -- 0 comments
July 31st, 2007
The first post in this two part series took a brief look at the challenge of managing our digital identities - what people see when they find us or our companies online.
Way back in 1999, Sun Microsystem’s Scott McNealy famously said “You have zero privacy…Get over it.”
But “getting over it” does not mean we have […]
By Des Walsh -- 1 comment
July 29th, 2007
This is the first of two posts on the subject of managing our identities - and the identities of our companies - in a Web 2.0 world. This post looks at the challenge.
It is said that Charlie Chaplin once entered a Charlie Chaplin Look-Alike competition in Monte Carlo, Monaco. He came third.
More recently, noted blogger […]
By Des Walsh -- 2 comments
July 21st, 2007
For anyone who wants an up-to-the-minute briefing on blogging as seen in a WordPress world, the WordCamp 2007 event in San Francisco is being live-blogged by several bloggers.
Among others, there are posts by Tris Hussey on the BlogWorld & New Media Expo blog and his own A View From the Isle site.
Stephanie Booth has extensive […]
By Des Walsh -- 2 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 2nd, 2007
Google Reader is definitely easy to use, just like Gmail, which is another Google product I use a lot (yes, as well as that search one).
And while I know that with each of Gmail and Google Reader, there is a very rational system used for organising and displaying the information, I don’t find it as […]
By Des Walsh -- 3 comments
June 30th, 2007
The Bloglines feed reader used to be my reader of choice.
I haven’t been using Bloglines for a while now, since discovering the two readers reviewed so far in this series, NewsGator Online and BlogBridge. I don’t recall actually doing a detailed comparison, but one disincentive for not continuing to use Bloglines was that for […]
By Des Walsh -- 3 comments
June 30th, 2007
BlogBridge offers itself as more than a feed aggregator, styling itself as “the ultimate info-junkie system”.
BlogBridge project leader Pito Salas and his team describe themselves as “a bunch of entrepreneurs / enthusiasts who enjoy living at the edge of technology and social behavior.”
Unlike some other popular feed readers, such as NewsGator Online which was reviewed […]
By Des Walsh -- 1 comment
June 30th, 2007
In this short series on my five favorite news readers, I’m listing NewsGator Online first, not because it’s my daily default reader, which it isn’t, but because it is:
excellent in its layout and usability
a web service, so there is no download required (good for travel)
the reader which served me best for quite a long time
a […]
By Des Walsh -- 12 comments
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