While it doesn’t exactly explain a month’s hiatus from the Noble Blogosphere, I will say I’ve been put off blogging ever since — that is, since 4:04 PM today — I found out my blog is G-rated. G-rated? Only one…
Blog Management
I’ve been of a mixed mind about blogrolls — (for those new to blogging, that’s the list of other blogs you sometimes see in the left or right column of a blog). It adds a lot of clutter to a…
Elizabeth Albrycht brings us a coolio slide by Ansgar Zerfass. My first sense is that it needs tweaking — crisis blogs might help solve some conflicts, but not complex ones — but I like the idea of mapping this.
If Steve Rubel isn’t the most cautious person in the communication blogosphere, he’s surely in the running. Over the last 18 months, 99% of whatever edginess was in Micropersuasion has ebbed away, leaving little but neutral thoughts and (invariably useful)…
FeedBurner, the RSS-feed manager used by many blogs, including this one, has added a pinging service: PingShot. That’s a nice feature, because now I don’t have to trot over to Ping-o-Matic to ping everyone. FeedBurner seems to be doing little…
Joseph Jaffe is confused about what Blogging for Benjamins is… Bubba, just ask: The Desirable Roasted Coffee Dictionary is an open book. blog’ging for ben’jamins. The act of weblogging for the purpose of direct fee earning from visitors to the…
Through Amy Gahran’s OPML file, I ran across this gem by Charles M. Smith, an attorney and board member of Pheedo (and, no, I am not in any way endorsing Pheedo).. “Who owns blog comments? “The question of who owns…
A couple of weeks ago, I noted that PubSub’s LinkRank (now called LinkCounts, apparently) feature was back up but buggy. Almost immediately, PubSub’s Mark Wagner and Bob Wyman were Johnny-on-the-Spot with news of fixes and requests for feedback. Today, Mark…
Chris Pirillo of Lockergnome comes down hard on full-text RSS feeds, ostensibly because … well, it’s never apparent why he doesn’t like them. Just that he’s not going to have them anymore. I’d bet, though, it’s because he’d like to…
Friend Shel Holtz often points out blogs are nothing but websites supported by an easy and lightweight CMS program that lets authors post easily and readers comment and trackback easily. I’ve been using that explanation with clients and, if they…