Posts by neville:

Not for love but money

Marqui, the company who is paying bloggers $800 a month to blog their product, has a list on their website of who’s signed up so far for the money: Marc Canter, Allen Herrel, Jonathan Abad, Nathan Weinberg, Molly E. Holzschlag, DL Byron, Lucas Gonze, Mitch Ratcliffe, Paolo Valdemarin, Jon Lebkowsky, Susan E. Kaup, Richard Murray, […]

The future of MSN Spaces, Hotmail and Messenger

Neowin has a detailed report today on developments in Wave 11 of the MSN offering, including: MSN SpacesMSN are planning to create “Group Spaces”, although like the recently launched blogging service these will allow you to create a place to share ideas, to do lists, notes, calendars, etc. with your family and friends. On the […]

PubSub brings news you might never see otherwise

I find PubSub extremely useful for tracking themes and topics I’m interested in. For instance, one of the PubSub subscriptions I have looks for blog posts that contain the phrases “organizational communication” and “corporate communication.” Every instance it finds, it sends me the posts as an RSS feed which I then see in FeedDemon. PubSub […]

Ragan Report is not required reading

Well, I’ve been seriously rapped over the knuckles by the Ragan Report newsletter. They’ve called me to task for critical commentaries I’ve posted in this blog about the IABC Chair blog. I’m accused of being hysterical, harrumphing, making teary posts and sobbing. Not only that, I also ‘admit’ to having a thing about communication and […]

Mapping visitors

As ever an embracer of new tools and apps that let me customize my Windows or my blog, I’ve just found a rather interesting tool that will show who’s visiting my blog at any given moment. What’s cool about this one is that it shows this info as a world map and identifies which countries […]

A blog is a great CRM tool

Guillaume du Gardier recounts an experience in a post in the CEO Bloggers’ Club from meeting with the sales team of an international company in which blogging was discussed: The first reaction of the sale team was negative, as they are afraid to see their client talking about prices or problems they might have when […]

Getting interesting in China

China is high up in the business news headlines at the moment following the completion of IBM’s deal to sell its PC business to Lenovo, a Chinese computer manufacturer, for $1.75 billion. Lenovo will become the world’s third-biggest PC maker, behind Dell and Hewlett-Packard. Here’s an interesting commentary from John Patrick, former VP of internet […]

A day out in Paris

Yesterday was a wonderful day out – I took a Thalys high-speed train to Paris and had lunch with Guillaume du Gardier and Elizabeth Albrycht. Down early in the morning, back late in the evening. That’s one of the other terrific things about blogs – you get to meet the best people. Guillaume and Elizabeth […]

BOBs winners announced

Deutsche Welle, organizer of the Best of The Blogs contest – the BOBs – has announced the winners. Overall Best Weblog (Jury vote) was awarded to The Dog Newspaper from China. “This Weblog is about dogs,” the description on the BOBs site says. “Not just the way dogs suffer, but also the strange and curious […]

The Red Couch outlined

Robert Scoble and Shel Israel have outlined how they see The Red Couch, the book on blogging they are planning (see my recent post). Highlight from the outline introductory segment: The Red Couch argues blogging is changing everything and businesses choosing to ignore it, face the same fate as the blacksmith who ignored the automobile […]

Search for the best search

CNET News: Google has launched a new feature that tries to guess what people are looking for as they type queries into a search box. Google Suggest quietly debuted this week on the company’s Labs site, CNET says, which showcases Google features that “aren’t quite ready for prime time,” according to a message on the […]

iPod your Saab

Engadget: Word is out that Saab is going to be the next automaker to offer a factory-installed iPod adapter as an option on some of its models, including the 9-3 saloon. Engadget quotes a Mac Network News report that the setup will allow drivers to control their music using steering-wheel-mounted controls, similar to the system […]

How a blog will help Macy*s NY

My PubSub subscription that gives me RSS feeds of blog posts that contain the phrases “organizational communication” or “corporate communication” (see earlier post) continues to provide some really interesting news and information. For instance, Workers Rights and Comfortability: Key to Productivity at Macy*s Herald Square, a post today in the Positive Energy Activates Constant Elevation […]

Real blog ROI

One of the things that resulted from copywriter Bob Bly‘s "blogs are a complete waste of time" story in October (see my post) were lengthy (and still ongoing) discussions on a number of blogs, including mine, about showing some evidence that a blog can generate a direct return on investment (ROI). Here’s an example of […]

Technorati: Over 5 million blogs

As I write this at a quarter to seven on Saturday evening, I see that Technorati is now tracking over 5 million blogs: Two months ago, that figure was 4.1 million, a 10 percent increase on the previous month. Things continue to move forward very fast indeed. Quite a milestone. Related NevOn post: Technorati: Blogosphere […]