Today Six Apart announced the release of its “Blog It” application for Facebook, which allows you write a post within Facebook and then broadcast it to up to ten different blog and mini-blog services. And the more that I think about it, this just seems a bit like backwards thinking. If we lived in an [...]
Archive for the 'Weblogs' Category
Do we need a new way to “spray thoughts across the web?”
Published by April 16th, 2008 in Blogs, Social Networking, Web 2.0 and Weblogs. 0 CommentsIf (traditional) media companies saw the writing on the wall…
Published by April 1st, 2008 in Blogs, Mass Media, New Media, Social Media, Web/Internet, Weblogs and Workplace. 0 CommentsImagine if, 25 years ago, a time traveler from the present day appeared to newspaper, television and radio executives to outline the media landscape in 2008. He’d tell them about how the Internet has dramatically increased the number of media outlets and how it’s enabled everyone to opine or present news via text, audio or [...]
What 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 [...]
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 [...]
Are you (or your clients) ready to give up control?
Published by April 29th, 2007 in PR Practice, Public Relations, Social Media, Social Networking, Web/Internet and Weblogs. 2 CommentsAs clients begin to learn more about social media, they’re going to want to learn more about how they can implement technologies like blogs, podcasts and social networks in their PR and marketing plans. The biggest stumbling block, of course, is controlling the message. When a company issues a press release, it’s all there in [...]
Best explanation of RSS I’ve ever seen
Published by April 25th, 2007 in RSS, Technology, Web 2.0, Web/Internet and Weblogs. 0 CommentsEven better: It’s a video! I’ve tried to explain the usefulness of RSS (aka: “The new, fast way to read news and blogs”) to people unfamiliar with the concept, but usually end up mired in technical geek speak. From here on out, I’ll just ask them to take a look at this. (H/T: Open Culture)
Apparently I’m a proud D-List blogger: The Low Authority Group [D-List Bloggers] (3-9 blogs linking in the last 6 months) The average blog age (the number of days that the blog has been in existence) is about 228 days, which shows a real commitment to blogging. However, bloggers of this type average only 12 posts [...]
There’s a chance to slip up around every corner
Published by April 17th, 2007 in New Media, Social Networking, Web 2.0 and Weblogs. 0 CommentsA world where reputations are destroyed with a slip of the tongue is a very perilous world, indeed. Twenty years ago one could make a remark in bad taste on television, or the radio or even in print and chances are, unless it was remarkably offensive, it would go largely unnoticed. Even then, the opportunity [...]
How can newspapers pull themselves from the grave?
Published by March 26th, 2007 in Journalism, New Media, Technology, Web 2.0, Web/Internet, Weblogs and Writing. 0 CommentsRobert Scoble says, “Newspapers are Dead” and that his son will never “subscribe to, nor read, a newspaper.” He’s probably right. Most people my age and younger get their news online or from news/entertainment shows like The Daily Show. I’ll admit to reading papers daily, but that’s because it’s a part of my job- Otherwise [...]
