The past couple of weeks have been an absolute whirlwind. I moved into a new place, got married a week later, took off for Italy on our honeymoon and finally got back late Wednesday. Since I’ve been in a new place with no Internet and then on vacation overseas, I’ve essentially not used the Internet [...]
Archive for the 'Web/Internet' Category
On taking a two-week break from the Internet
Published by September 7th, 2007 in General and Web/Internet. 0 CommentsWhat happens when you blog about work and your boss reads it?
Published by July 26th, 2007 in Web/Internet, Weblogs and Workplace. 0 CommentsWork and productivity blog Slacker Manager has brought an interesting dilemma to my attention (via Ask a Manager): An employee is an active blogger, and has recently posted a gripe about her workload on her blog. This employee has shared her blog with her boss in the past, who reads it on a regular basis, [...]
Creating a personal home page as a digital hub?
Published by July 10th, 2007 in Social Media, Social Networking, Technology, Web 2.0, Web/Internet and Weblogs. 0 CommentsThese days I’m finding my attention is split up among so many various Web services that blogging is simply losing out. Not that I don’t love writing, of course, but these days when I find an interesting piece of information worth calling out I’m more likely to share it through Google Reader, post it to [...]
“The (record) labels killed themselves.”
Published by June 29th, 2007 in Music, Technology and Web/Internet. 0 CommentsRolling Stone is running a two-part series on “The Record Industry’s Decline.” They seem to pin the tipping point on the moment the industry refused to work with Napster in 2000, instead launching their own music download services, none of which worked as well as Napster. Soon after Napster shut down, what had been the [...]
Fans protest and bring back “Jericho”
Published by June 6th, 2007 in Marketing Events, Television and Web/Internet. 0 CommentsTo quote Nina Tassler, “wow.” This hardly ever happens, but kudos to these fans, who were able to bring back Jericho, their favorite show, from cancellation: In a letter to “Jericho” fans that opened simply with “Wow!,” the president of CBS Entertainment, Nina Tassler, praised the “impressive and probably unprecedented display of passion” evident in [...]
Wi-Fi not dangerous, say scientists
Published by May 22nd, 2007 in Technology and Web/Internet. 2 CommentsScientists are railing on a BBC program which claims a Wi-Fi laptop puts out “three times” the radiation as a cell phone tower. Sound scary? Naa, it’s just based on a shoddy experiment: Paddy Regan, a physicist at the University of Surrey, criticised the experiment at the heart of Panorama’s claims because the measurements of [...]
Military changes comm policy, bloggers need permission to post
Published by May 3rd, 2007 in Government, PR in the Media, Public Relations, Social Media, Web 2.0, Web/Internet, Weblogs and Writing. 0 CommentsOver the last few years, I’ve really enjoyed reading blogs of soldiers serving overseas- The information comes straight from the source without being filtered through the mainstream media, and as a result I’ve been able to read a number of extremely compelling stories. I empathize with these guys. I see how hard they’re working, and [...]
Diggers are angry, take over site
Published by May 2nd, 2007 in PR Disasters, Social Media, Technology, Web 2.0 and Web/Internet. 0 CommentsDigg is perhaps the most prominent “social news” site, where stories reach the front page based on their popularity. It’s supposed to be a democratic system, but democracies are dependent on the masses to keep them functioning properly. And when the masses are angry, they protest: The power of Web 2.0 is in full effect [...]
MySpace profiles can lead to trouble, but this is ridiculous
Published by May 2nd, 2007 in Education, Social Networking, Web 2.0, Web/Internet and Workplace. 0 CommentsPoor Stacy Snyder. As a Millersville University student, she was nearly within reach of receiving her teaching certificate before it was denied by the school’s administration. The problem is a common one: They were offended by her MySpace profile. MySpace users, for some reason, are notorious for posting photos of themselves engaged in quasi-legal/ethical behavior [...]
Newspaper circulations continue to fall, online readership is up
Published by April 30th, 2007 in Journalism, Mass Media and Web/Internet. 0 CommentsWeekday newspaper circulations have fallen 2.1 percent in the last six-month reporting period, and Sunday circulation fell 3.1 percent. Not surprisingly, more people are turning to reading online newspaper sites: Online readership of newspaper sites continues to grow. The NAA pointed to recently released data from Nielsen//NetRatings showing a 5.3 percent increase in the number [...]
