Ragan Communications editor David Murray scoffs at my pledge this month to be a bit more understanding about the impact my writing might have on individuals. He wonders aloud (well, as aloud as clacking away at a keyboard gets) whether I ever pick up the phone and conduct an interview for this blog:
"With as little […]
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There’s not a lot pretension among bloggers here in Saskatchewan. We got together for a barbecue in Wascana Park Saturday, and there were more baseball caps and t-shirts than references to social media and Web 2.0.
That’s not to say the IQ level was lower than you would expect among a group of bloggers, or the […]
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Colin McKay no doubt used a very scientific technique for developing this graph:
Blogging During the Dog Days of Summer
A free e-mail newsletter hit my Inbox today (not spam, something I subscribed to), and I applied my usual critical lens while reading it.
Normally, I would write up my thoughts in a blog post, and send it out into the online world to express my thoughts, attract attention, perhaps draw comments from others, and maybe […]
As Gnomedex organizer (with Ponzi Indharasophang) Chris Pirillo notes, there are times when a conference is priced low enough for media to afford the full fee, and organizers don’t need to give them a free or reduced pass.
But anyone who doesn’t have built-in buzz from bloggers (see gnomedex on Technorati), or some other method of […]
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Canada’s biggest credit union has never been afraid to try new things in the realm of community involvement. So it shouldn’t be a surprise they’re going to start "a user-driven blog" that has a community focus.
A recent job posting by VanCity called for a passionate blogger who can "animate an online community where people in […]
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There’s something satisfying about catching comment spam when it’s been on your blog for less than 10 minutes, and slamming it into the Junk bin. Pwned!
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I’ve only met blogger Robert Scoble once, but my heart ached a bit as I read his account of rushing back to Montana to get to the bedside of his mother, who suffered a stroke.
The news today was worse, as doctors explained how much damage was done.
My own mother was hit by a stroke a […]
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Ragan Communications blogger Steve Crescenzo watched a colleague get crapped upon by what he and
some others perceived to be a horde of rabid, hysterial bloggers. He has learned several things from the episode:
Don’t insult people, if it makes you look like a pompous ass (I’m paraphrasing);
Don’t piss off insecure bloggers, or they’ll attack you;
A lot […]
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Microsoft blogger Robert Scoble, who has long boasted about his policy of not censoring comments on his blog, has decided to moderate comments.
About time.
Setting aside the legal implications of giving a wide audience to comments that often get out of hand and sometimes are just hate screeds against various targets, the personal wear-and-tear of reading […]
The huge number of sites adding fund-raising buttons for the tsumanis, earthquakes and hurricanes in the past two years confirm the power of blogs and other sites to enable fund-raising.
Today I came across Blogidarity, an effort to get bloggers to help raise funds for organizations that help people in developing countries. The campaign will choose […]
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