Just ten days after Constantin Basturea started the ‘CEO Blogs List’ wiki, there are now 46 individual blogs listed. That’s impressive growth! The list is now organized by country. Interesting to see more blogs from France currently listed than from the USA. I’m trying to find CEO/business leader blogs from companies in The Netherlands and […]
Month: August 2004
A site for sore eyes
From Wired News – story about a website that contains over 15,000 banner ads of all types, sizes, animations, etc. Great ideas resource. Wired News| A Site for Banner Ad Freaks
The Scream’s quick getaway
The head of the Oslo gallery where armed robbers snatched Edvard Munch’s The Scream has defended its security. — BBC News report. Right. And he has a sense of humour, too. BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Gallery defends Scream security
ChangeThis adds new manifestos
Ten days after ChangeThis launched (see my post), five new manifestos have been added to the library for viewing and download from today. Two in particular caught my attention: This I Believe! – Tom’s 60 TIBs. Tom Peters is back with more Big Ideas for your job, your company, and your life. The marketing and […]
TypePad down – again
Problems again today with TypePad, which hosts this blog. Unable to log in until about an hour ago (error messages spoke of ‘connections refused by server, may be unavailable’). Worse, the blog itself has been offline as well. Not just my blog: I couldn’t connect to a number of other TypePad-hosted blogs either. Among the […]
FT on business blogs as key influencers
The Financial Times published a piece last weekend on business blogging. Originally published by the Irish Times, the article is the latest big-media reporting on this topic. Overall, the article discusses the importance blogs have gained in their role as influencers of opinion. Excerpts: They were once seen as the preserve of the geek, but […]
Windows XP – SP3?
Neowin reports that a Service Pack 3 (SP3) for Windows XP is in the works: “Microsoft also confirmed that its will still be providing updates for XP after SP2, and that there is a SP3 scheduled, tho no further information is available.” However, there seems to be some lack of agreement in the Neowin discussion […]
The search engine belt buckle
The search engine belt buckle is a PDA which shows 24 hours of all the bizarre and banal things people are looking for on the web. Art project or pointless hack? That’s for you to decide, but all we know is that people are searching for some pretty freaky stuff out there, so why not […]
Blogs: PR is far from dead
If there’s one thing guaranteed to get lots of attention and comment from other business bloggers, it’s when someone posts an article that challenges accepted views. Roland Tanglao had done just that on his Streamline blog with a provocative post entitled “PR is dead and blogging killed it.” It would be easy to say rubbish! […]
JOTW gives a helping hand
Great to see a big public accolade in the Wall Street Journal to Ned Lundquist, a fellow professional business communicator and publisher of the Job of The Week (JOTW) email newsletter for communicators looking for new career opportunities. JOTW is much more than just a job-search newsletter with job listings, though. There’s a real community […]
Best times to send marketing emails
Research from Return Path, an email performance management company, shows that delivery date and delivery time are critical to the success of email marketing campaigns, reports Internet Week. In Internet Week’s article, Return Path recommends the following guidelines to improve deliverability rates of permission-based email marketing campaigns: – Send e-mails on weekdays rather than weekends. […]
Microsoft new look depends on your browser
Microsoft has re-designed its public website with a new look. Interesting, though, that the site looks slightly different depending on which browser you use. For instance, the top of the screen has a coloured strip with the Microsoft logo. In Firefox, this is a solid blue colour and the logo background has a visible darker […]
Good review of TypePad
Review in the Chicago Sun Times about TypePad, the service that hosts my blog. If you’re considering using TypePad, or switching to it from another provider, this article will give you a pretty balanced view. […] And honestly, if you haven’t thought of yourself as The Blogging Kind, you should reconsider. As a mechanism for […]
Newsgator: Great RSS add-in for Outlook
I’ve just started trying out Newsgator, an RSS news aggregator that runs within Microsoft Outlook. Summing up my experience so far in one word – excellent. If you want to get a view on all your incoming information – email as well as RSS webfeeds – from within a single program, Newsgator is definitely worth […]
RSS on the mainstream verge
Another good example of how RSS is being used more and more as the information center of choice. Greg Hughes says he saves about 300 hours of time per week because he gets much of his information through RSS webfeeds: I use RSS feeds for practically everything now. Rarely do I browse to a web […]
Political bloggers at Republican convention
The US Republican National Convention (RNC) takes place in New York this week and, as with the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in July, bloggers will be part of the media reporting scene. At Madison Square Garden in New York, the official blogger group will number about 15, a tiny fraction of the estimated 15,000 journalists […]
E.piphany CEO secrets of success
From BBC News – The values that guide and focus E.piphany CEO Karen Richardson: Being ethical and always sticking to your principles will pay off in the end. There is no short way or quick remedy to success, just do it the right way even if it takes a little longer. Proudest moments in her […]
Gartner tech ‘hype cycles’ 2004
Caught an interesting story on BBC News that reports on recent analysis by IT industry analysts Gartner with predictions on which technologies will become part of everyday life in the future. The BBC report discusses in general terms where Gartner think consumer technologies are heading. Here’s a visual look: BBC NEWS | Technology | Peering […]
Poll: Which technologies are best for teamwork?
Fast Company is running a poll: Which communication mode is the most effective and productive for global teams in your organization? Vote and add your €1 worth of comments here: Fast Company | Polls
Browser irritations
Since switching to Firefox some weeks ago, I’ve noticed some things that are beginning to become irritating with it, if not actually downright annoying: #1: Clicking a link or typing the URL for some specific websites results in a total freeze/hang. I get the page loading text on the tab, the little spinning thingy spins, […]