So I’m taking a ten-minute break this lunchtime, catching up with the newspapers (some dead-trees reading for a change) when I hear this loud ‘bang’ from outside along with people yelling. "What on earth was that?" I said to my wife. I jump to the window – and there’s a car in the canal. And […]
Category: Weblogs
The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #2: January 10, 2005
Show notes for January 10, 2005. Welcome to our second weekly podcast, a 49:54-minute conversation recorded live via Skype from Concord, California, USA, and Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Download the file here (MP3, 22.9MB), or sign up for the RSS feed to get it and future shows automatically. (For this, you’ll need ipodder, software that lets […]
Blogosphere News starts with useful information
There’s a new news and conversation resource in town – Blogosphere News, started last month by Brad Jasper who also owns and runs the Blog Catalog blog directory. From a quick scan of the site, it looks good. Some good writers and some good topics being posted. I’ll add this one to my Feed Demon […]
Talk about total commitment
Komo News: Are you ready for Star Wars: Episode Three? Don’t get excited just yet, the new movie doesn’t open until May. But for one Seattle fan, it’s never too early, or too cold, to start the wait. Jeff Twieden [sic] doesn’t care that it’s freezing outside. He’s camping out in front of the Cinerama […]
Using blogs for informal relationship-building with shareholders
There’s a an extremely good report on IR Web Report, published yesterday, on why corporate boards should blog to improve their communication with shareholders. Every corporate communicator, investor relations practitioner, and CFO should read this (as well as the companion article with ten excuses not to blog). Written from the boardroom perspective, IR Web’s key […]
EU commissioner starts blogging
Margot Wallström, the first-ever European Union Commissioner for Communications, appointed last August, will start a blog today. A news announcement late yesterday in the EU Observer said: From Friday (14 January) onwards, the Swedish Commissioner’s thoughts will be aired for all to see. The online journal is to be updated two to three times a […]
A slightly new look
I’ve made some changes to the appearance of this blog. Primarily, I’ve made the overall layout now occupy the full screen area. Before, the layout was a specific pixel width with space at the left and right, a common layout on many blogs. I’ve also re-done the banner graphic at the top. My thinking about […]
Breaking news blogger style
Steve Rubel has a very interesting story on a news story that’s not yet a news story (in the traditional sense) but probably will be soon – once the the media pick up on what blogs are already saying. He talks about the posts and comments in blogs about an apparent rift between Hewlett-Packard and […]
How to enhance your search engine ranking
If you want to know why the relationship between blogs and search engines is important, here’s a good place to start. T. L. Pakii Pierce of How to Blog for Fun and Profit! has written "Search Engine Marketing for Beginning Bloggers." The bottom line: […] Blogs are natural search engine optimization tools. The search engines […]
The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #3: January 17, 2005
Show notes for January 17, 2005. Welcome to our third weekly podcast, a 54:28-minute conversation recorded live via Skype from Concord, California, USA, and Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Download the file here (MP3, 24.9MB), or sign up for the RSS feed to get it and future shows automatically. (For this, you’ll need ipodder, software that lets […]
Using blogs to get global awareness
Elizabeth Albrycht has written a terrific article about business blogging, just published in IABC’s online member newsletter, CW Bulletin. This isn’t the usual kind of article about how cool blogs are and let’s do one. What I like in particular about it is that it addresses the topic from the point of view of how […]
Google tag to help prevent comment spam
Lots of comment in the blogosphere overnight about the new anti-spam comment tag that Google announced yesterday. Here’s what Google say: If you’re a blogger (or a blog reader), you’re painfully familiar with people who try to raise their own websites’ search engine rankings by submitting linked blog comments like “Visit my discount pharmaceuticals site.” […]
The Red Couch gains traction
Things are beginning to move with The Red Couch, the collaborative work on producing what could be the definitive business book on why companies should blog, by Robert Scoble and Shel Israel. This is no ordinary business book project: Most of this project is being executed in the public eye, via The Red Couch blogsite. […]
Boeing starts an executive blog
Following the General Motors executive blog earlier this month, another Fortune 100 company takes a step into the blogosphere – aircraft maker Boeing has started a public blog. Written by Randolp S. Baseler, Vice President Marketing, Boeing Commercial Airplanes, his first post on 17 January in Randy’s Journal sets the scene for what he expects […]
Microsoft gags tech news bloggers
Reported on Neowin this afternoon: After an exclusive story here at Neowin.net regarding future Windows Mobile Technologies, Microsoft Bloggers across the world syndicated the news and each received legal threats to take down the material. Bloggers who follow Microsoft technologies are calling on Robert Scoble as a way of contacting Microsoft and are questioning Microsoft’s […]
Blogs make perfect aids to learning
BBC News: Blogs are increasingly being used by academics and students. Until a few months ago, the attention paid to web logs, or blogs, focused mainly on politics and the media business. […] Now, the technology that has been an alternative source of news to many academics is being incorporated more fully into university life. […]
The bespoke tailor who blogs
Last night, I was reading the posts on English Cut, the website of Thomas Mahon, bespoke Savile Row tailor, London (says the blog’s tag line). He’s in the tailoring industry (if I dare describe it thus). I discovered Mr Mahon’s blog from a post on Hugh McLeod’s gapingvoid. What a delightful blog! In a post […]
Blogging from Napa
My input to this blog will be a bit different (and probably a bit erratic) during the rest of this week as I will be at the New Communications Forum 2005 event in Napa, California, from later today. This is going to be a terrific time to gather with a group of like-minded communication folk […]
Preparing for Forum kick-off
The New Communications Forum 2005 kicks off today in Napa, California. It’s being held at the Silverado Ranch resort and spa, "set in 1,200 acres of lush vineyards and emerald hills in Napa Valley" (its says in the brochure). Can’t see much lushness right now as the weather’s actually reminiscent of what we have in […]
First session blogged
I just finished leading the discussion session on "Introduction to Corporate Blogging" which provides an overview introduction using blogs from a company’s perspective, looking at examples of what some companies and other organizations are currently doing. Anita Campbell of Small Business Trends, who participated in the session, has blogged it. Nice commentary, too 😉 Edit: […]