One of the irritations with Blogger has been that if you want to leave comments on a blog that’s hosted there (and by BlogSpot), you either have to have a Blogger/BlogSpot blog yourself, or you have to leave comments anonymously, depending on how the blog owner has set his or her blog’s commenting preferences. Things […]
Category: Weblog Tools
The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #7: February 14, 2005
Show notes for February 14, 2005. Welcome to For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, a 46:43-minute conversation recorded live via Skype from Concord, California, USA, and Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Download the file here (MP3, 18.7MB), or sign up for the RSS feed to get it and future shows automatically. (For automatic synchronization with […]
eWeek: Blogger blogs can spread spyware
Can this really be true – blogs hosted by Blogger can spread spyware? Yes, according to a report in eWeek: Dozens of blogs hosted by Google Inc.’s Blogger service can install programs that are widely considered to be spyware and adware onto visitors’ computers, warn users and spyware researchers. In many cases, users are discovering […]
It’s about the communication, not the technology
Today marks the beginning of a new venture that brings together four European-based communication professionals to offer organizations something a little different in the field of communication consulting and communication technology. Elizabeth Albrycht, Christophe Ducamp, Guillaume du Gardier and myself have formed Blogging Planet, a new consultancy designed to help companies in Europe and the […]
Technorati searchlet broken
I started testing the new Technorati searchlet in January. This is a bit of code you stick on your blog that gives you a Technorati-based search capability for your blog. It’s at the top right of this page, just beneath the regular search box. I”m actually not sure how it works compared to the Google-based […]
Two surveys about RSS
RSS services company Nooked is sponsoring two surveys about RSS. The first, for analysts, journalists and bloggers, aims to learn more about how these groups of influencers use RSS. The second, for public relations and marketing communicators, aims to determine the rate of adoption of RSS in the PR/marketing arena. As an added incentive to […]
Figuring out the Technorati searchlet
I’m still having real headaches with the Technorati searchlet. Earlier this month, I wrote that it’s never worked on this blog since I started using it in January. Earlier this month, Technorati support said the searchlet was broken. Technorati CEO Dave Sifrey says it’s now fixed. Well, it still doesn’t work on my blog. Is […]
The pending spam crisis for hosted blogs
In announcing new data on the growth of blogs as tracked by Technorati – over 7.8 million at the end of February, double the number tracked just last October – Technorati CEO Dave Sifry highlights a disturbing fact: Part of the growth of new weblogs created each day is due to an increase in spam […]
TypePad access problems
TypePad have had some server issues during the past few days, meaning that you may have had some problems at times in accessing blogs hosted on TypePad. This alert note was posted by Typepad at the weekend. Today, though, for a period of about two hours this afternoon, I could neither log in to TypePad […]
Video learning about trackbacks and del.icio.us
You all know what trackbacks are, right? The pings that you set up between a post on your blog with a post on someone else’s blog in order to link the two? If you’re not sure what they are, you can read this definition on Wikipedia. Better still, you can watch three 9-minute video presentations […]
New list of PR blogs
If you want a comprehensive and up-to-date list of blogs authored by PR professionals – and want a one-stop place for all the RSS feeds – look no further than the new resource list just created by Constantin Basturea. This new directory of PR blogs at Bloglines has more than 160 entries and includes personal, […]
Managing your information with tags
eWeek: In the quest to organize the web’s information, an emerging approach is putting the power to categorize everything from links to digital photos into the hands of users. In the halls and session rooms at the O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference [in San Diego], a series of talks this week explored the growing use of […]
Technorati’s one billion links contest
Via Mike Manuel comes news that Technorati has opened up a contest to guess when the service will reach a mega milestone – tracking one billion links. Technorati CEO Dave Sifry has the details: Technorati would like to mark this special event for our members with a “One Billion Links Tracked” contest. Entries must be […]
Completing the circle
Jeremy Pepper in Scottsdale, Arizona, has finally got a trackback capability on his blog, Musings from POP! Public Relations. I’ve been trying to persuade him to do this because a) he writes some very good content, and b) I can’t connect to that content if I post something on my blog related to his writing. […]
Getting more from your RSS feed
Ever since I started this blog in July 2004, I’ve used the free FeedBurner service as a means of enabling you to easily subscribe to the blog’s RSS feed. FeedBurner is probably the RSS subscription service of choice for most people as I see its little icon on more blogs than any other service’s little […]
FeedDemon acquisition gives NewsGator a complete RSS offering
The news today from Nick Bradbury, the developer of the FeedDemon desktop RSS aggregator for Windows, that his company Bradsoft has been acquired by NewsGator is a significant move in the market for tools and applications that enable you to more easily and effectively retrieve, manage and use information. NewsGator enables you to subscribe to […]
RSS as the self-contained information experience
Following my post a few days ago on getting more from your RSS feed, in particular on using Feedburner’s new Total Stats Pro service, I read a very interesting report on ClickZ about RSS advertising. In the report, ClickZ managing editor Pamela Parker interviews Feedburner CEO Dick Costolo to discuss his company’s experimentation with advertising […]
TypePad blogs to get spam-fighting features
If you have a TypePad blog, here’s some good news on what Six Apart is planning to implement as part of major improvements in everyone’s efforts to combat comment and trackback spam. An announcement yesterday on the Everything TypePad support site includes this news about enhancements Six Apart is working on: First, we’ll provide support […]
PubSub tool measures links in RSS feeds
Blog matching service PubSub has introduced LinkStats, a very cool statistics tool that enables you to see the inbound and outbound links to and from your (or any) blog. Once you enter a blog URL, it will return the results for the past 30 days. Not only do you get a text table listing inbound/outbound […]
Don’t become an RSS extract
Catching up with RSS feeds since being away for much of the past week, I read BL Ochman’s Why Full Posts in RSS Feeders Don’t Make Sense with some exasperation. As the writer of only three blogs with summary content in an RSS feed that I still read, BL’s argument for not publishing full content […]