A month ago, I posted commentary on the rising influence and rapid growth of weblogs. That post included comment on how many blogs Technorati tracks and what blog growth looked like. I quoted figures from Technorati as at the end of July when Technorati reported it tracked 3 million blogs. When I posted my commentary […]
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iPod US marketshare rises to 82 percent
After clothes, money and a car, an iPod is what US teenagers want most this holiday season. A survey of 600 high school students by Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster found Apple‘s digital player No. 4 on their wish list. And the iPod wasn’t even among the items Munster suggested – the kids wrote it […]
Podcasting defined
Scoble’s linkblog points to a good definition of podcasting from Wikipedia: Podcasting is the creation and aggregation of discrete, downloadable media files. Typically, audio files are created on a computer and then uploaded to a web server on the Internet. An RSS 2.0 feed with enclosure tags is then amended each time a new media […]
IABC Chairman blog live
The brand new blog by IABC Chairman David Kistle, ABC, is now live. In an introductory post, Kistle says: I want to be sure to talk about things you want to talk about… so now it’s your turn. Give me some feedback – good and bad – about how we’re doing and what’s important to […]
Technorati: Nearly 5 blog posts per second
Following statistics on growth of the blogosphere that I posted about yesterday comes more info from Technorati, this time on the sheer volume of blog posts. According to Technorati CEO David Sifry: With the tremendous growth in the number of weblogs also comes an increase in the number of posts per day, also known as […]
IT Kitchen ready for recipes
The IT Kitchen I commented on a few weeks ago is now ready for business. The concept of Shelley Powers at Burningbird, the IT Kitchen is a workshop for bloggers and those who read blogs, where you can contribute commentary and essays. It takes place from Monday 25 October until Friday 5 November. Actually, that […]
Windows your way
If you want your Windows without things like Windows Messenger, Internet Explorer or Outlook Express, here’s your opportunity. Dino Nuhagic, a programmer in Croatia, has written nLite Windows Installation Customizer that lets you install Windows 2000, XP or 2003 without including such components. The program’s still in beta and the usual caveats apply if you […]
Two-way blogs and moderated conversations
When Richard Edelman, CEO of the Edelman PR agency, launched his blog in late September, he was welcomed enthusiastically by the PR blogging community. Two weeks on and after Edelman’s second post – he’s committed to posting once a week – some bloggers are a bit twitchy about how he’s blogging and how commenting is […]
A lot of Skype
I just logged into Skype and noticed that there are 944,402 users online. That’s the most I’ve seen in one go. An awful lot of people! While the peer-to-peer concept spreads network load, I wonder what would happen if all those people made a Skype call at the same time. Ultra unlikely, I know, but […]
NevOn Gmail
So, I now have a Gmail account. Thanks again, Steve! Now I can see for myself what everyone is raving about. Just changed my contact email for this blog to my new Gmail address, accessible in my About page.
Portable Firefox for your USB drive
Early last month, I posted info on how to run a normal Firefox installation from a USB flash drive. There’s now an even better solution – install a version of Firefox that’s been created specifically for running on a flash drive. John Haller, CEO of Rare Ideas LLC, has repackaged Firefox 0.9.3 and 1.0PR as […]
Blogging for PR
Widely reported already by a number of bloggers today: Webpronews.com published a review of blogging as a PR tool. Among the communication bloggers and their blogs specifically mentioned in the article are, in order of mention: Steve Rubel’s Micro Persuasion, Steve Hall’s Adrants, John Battelle’s Searchblog, Mike Manuel’s Media Guerilla, Wayne Hurlbert’s Blog Business World, […]
Jupiter Media blankets the search world
News from Jupiter Media CEO Alan Meckler: During the summer Jupitermedia launched a chat and discussion site called SearchEngineWatchForums.com. Traffic is growing daily and there are now almost 2,000 members. Page view traffic has surpassed 20,000 per day. When combined with the 120,000 daily page views for our well established SearchEngineWatch site and the nearly […]
Wall Street Journal on Denton and Six Apart
The Wall Street Journal has had a close focus on blogging in the past 48 hours. Yesterday, the paper published an interview with Nick Denton, founder of the Gawker Media range of web properties especially popular with US audiences. Denton – an expat Brit – has made a big impact that has rattled the traditional […]
Challenge to PRSA on blogging spreads
The challenge to the leadership of the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) to including a track on blogging at the PRSA conference in New York in ten days time is spreading. Following commentary on a number of blogs last week and this, B.L. Ochman makes the challenge crystal clear in a post yesterday: PRSA […]
Conversation is a two-way street
More on two-way blogs and moderated conversations, from Tom Murphy at PR Opinions: Conversation is a two way street.You don’t see companies promoting customer service phone numbers and then not employing anyone to answer the phone (those annoying automated customer service systems at least answer the call). If you’re establishing a blog, you are doing […]
SCO legal website won’t be a blog
Enterprise software vendor SCO Group plans to launch a website to chronicle its legal battles relating to Unix and Linux, as part of an effort to counterbalance Groklaw.net which was set up to poke holes in the company’s legal claims, a CNET News report says. The site, to be called Prosco.net and launching on 1 […]
Google launches desktop search
Get it now – the Google desktop, a means to search through files, emails, instant messenger conversations and your browser cache. My quick run through with it last night shows that it knocks the socks off the search feature in Windows XP. In combination with Google’s web search capabilities, this desktop app could be a […]
Paint Shop Pro acquired by Corel
Jasc Software, maker of the venerable graphics program Paint Shop Pro, has been acquired by Corel, publisher of CorelDraw and WordPerfect. Jasc recently announced version 9 of Paint Shop Pro. Yesterday, Corel issued a press release announcing the acquisition. Corel also published a letter to customers on Jasc’s website, using it as an opportunity to […]
Lots going on in Sweden
One European PR blog I pay attention to is Media Culpa, written by Swedish PR practitioner Hans Kullin. Hans is the PR blogging beacon on what’s going on in Sweden (and, at times, in Norway and other Nordic countries), and judging from his posts in recent weeks, there’s lots going on there. For example: Swedish […]