An Irish research company called Research and Markets has published a report on blogging in the enterprise entitled Web Logs: Blog Threat Management. A snippet from their press release: DUBIN, Ireland, Nov. 10 /PRNewswire/ — Blogging is rapidly emerging as a threat to Internet users. […] While blogs have a legitimate use, online journals pose […]
Category: You Must Be Joking
Just say no, bloggers
Oh dear. Quite a bit of talk this past week about the notion put forward by some people in the US to form a committee on blogging ethics. There’d be a domain registered (blogethics.org) and the committee would work on keeping the blogosphere honest so helping prevent evil marketers spin their deceitful ways. Just hang […]
Off-target email marketing
I received a wonderful email offer today from eWeek. The type of marketing email that illustrates a keen awareness of how to make a complete ass of yourself, diminish your chances of success and ruin an opportunity for developing any relationship. As this image shows, a snippet from the email, they’ve offered me a free […]
Don’t say ‘blogger’ to US Immigration
This sounds like an unbelievable story, but it happened to Canadian blogger Jeremy Wright last week. As already reported on quite a few blogs, Jeremy was detained and interrogated by US Immigration when he arrived in New York last week for a meeting with McGraw-Hill to discuss a great business opportunity for Jeremy in the […]
French blogger arrested then sued
I’ve said before (twice) that it’s all happening in France. What I meant was the way in which so many people and businesses have embraced new media tools like blogs. What I certainly didn’t mean was attempts to silence a blogger because he posts comment and opinion that are critical of the mayor of the […]
Fox journalist says ‘Terrorism ok in Paris’
The London bombings yesterday are fresh in everyone’s minds. Now, 38 dead and over 700 seriously injured. The death toll will probably rise. You wouldn’t wish that on any other city, would you? Paris, for example? Yet that is a growing reaction to John Gibson, a Fox News journalist in the US, and what he […]
Constantly waiting for TypePad
‘Waiting for TypePad…’ is a phrase I have now memorized when it comes to publishing posts to any of my blogs. This last week has been exceptionally frustrating. I write posts offline using ecto for Windows, currently version 1.7.5, and publish them to TypePad. It should work, but it doesn’t. What’s been happening is that, […]
Net chaos in Amsterdam
Since about midday yesterday, Wednesday, I’ve been without net access along with several hundred other people in the part of Amsterdam where I am. Still no service this morning. No dial-up any more: none of my PCs has the capability to connect to the net via a normal phone line (how we progress!). So I’m […]
Customer service from UPC? Fat chance!
Is waiting a week for your cable TV service to be fixed a reasonable time? Is it right to expect that the cable guy who’s coming to fix your service at an appointed time actually shows up? And is it reasonable to expect that, when you call customer service for the third time and they […]
Pray the name isn’t Kone
If you ever get stuck in a lift, hope that it’s not a lift where the emergency help system is managed by Kone. I had a surreal experience last night, New Year’s Eve, involving a Kone lift, three gorgeous women and a bottle of champagne. We’d been celebrating the New Year Amsterdam-neighbourhood style, where you […]
Ridiculous wifi charges
Sitting in departure lounge 3 at Schiphol airport, waiting for my flight to Manchester. As is natural at times and places like this when you have a spare sixty minutes or so, I connect to the net to pick up email and to see what’s going on. I tell you, Schiphol’s wifi pricing is about […]