inCommunicado - eric eggertson

Web seer Robert Scoble claims "ugly design" or "anti-marketing design" works well for web sites, because people have become suspicious of sites that look too well put together.  In a lot of ways, he’s right.
Anyone who has been involved in direct marketing can tell you the most effective solicitation pieces aren’t always the fanciest.  They’re […]

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Two years ago, I cared little about weblogs, except for the trendwatching entertainment of seeing their increasing popularity.
Now, I get more news and information from them than from TV.
Next year, who can say?
Jeremy Wright calls MySpace "the new blogosphere."  Steve Rubel points to sites like YouTube, digg, MySpace and Stupidvideos.com as sites with growing audiences […]

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Okay, our fans may still be hosers, but the athletes in Turin have to be some of the least egomaniacal bunch of athletes I’ve seen in a long time.
Photographer Kris Krug is in Turin as part of a group of Vancouver businesses learning and sharing […]

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Technorati CEO David Sifry spoke at Northern Voice today: spam.corporate extortion using network bandwidth and Google Bowling are threats.

Spam – As Cory Doctorow says, all healthy ecosystems have parasites. The good news here is that in the end it all goes back to a web page somewhere, so in a sense it’s accountable. We still […]

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If something you did in 2006 could make the world a better place, would you do it?
That’s the question Elizabeth Albrycht is asking New Communications Blogzine readers. The European blogger points readers to challenges from the 2005 State of the Future report, issued by an American NGO. Each year the American Council for the United […]

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Prescience from the pundits:

Shel Israel - Blogging Predictions, including "After a few major metropolitan newspapers die, dailies will begin to
understand that blogs are part of their solution, and will start
incorporating neighborhood bloggers into their system." Not Too Geeky responds.
Seth Godin - Internet marketing in 2006 - 1) Inventory of adsense begins to catch up with […]

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The use of GPS location information continues to be applied to web tools that identify where in the world someone or something is.Steve Rubel points to KMaps, a service that allows you to provide and receive location information from a home computer, a PDA cell phone, or a Palm PDA. KMaps can host various directories […]

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U of S ‘Apologizes’ to Wilfred Laurier for Pending Victory - The Sheaf

"I should also warn you to not stare too hard at Huskies’ receiver
Leighton Heron when he catches his third touchdown pass of the game
next weekend.  He only has nine and half fingers, and displays the
missing half-finger on a necklace.  Kind’ve gross if you […]

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We’ve had our new TV for five months now, and when we watch a DVD we still go through a complex procedure that involves changing TV channels, manually flipping through the TV’s menu, and praying that some glitch hasn’t invalidated our cumbersome but effective technique.
The TV comes with an instruction manual and a remote control […]

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Some brief items on the Web, technology, blogging and what-have-you:
Sony uses a "root kit" to embed hidden code on computers of customers who buy their CDs. Can you spell boycott? And Sony flounders in its PR response - items by Jim Horton
Canadian statistics on kids who blog (it’s common, but not as much as in […]

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Using the PubSub ranking tool, Constantin Basturea has set up criteria to gauge the current popularity/influence of public relations blogs. It’s by no means a precise instrument, but it’s fun to visit, and might encourage you to check out some sites they’ve never read.
Check it out:  The PR List -PubSub Community Lists.
Neville Hobson finds some […]

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