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Slogging up the Business Blog Slope of Enlightenment
Debbie Weil, a blog business consultant, points to a Gartner conference call in which they place RSS and Corporate Blogging heading into the Trough of Disillusionment. As you look at Gartner’s Emerging Technology Hype Cycle for 2005, (check out page 6 on the PDF) you can see that they place corporate blogging about two years…
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Blog Business Summit – Day Two
One thing I learned from looking at my Day One post on the various aggregation engines and trackback excerpts is to never lead with an image again. You get his horrible “<img src . . . ” as your lead in which doesn’t exactly draw readers to the rest of your post. Day Two was…
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Reshelving Project
Ooh, this looks like fun. Hack the bookstores! Go to the bookstore and locate its copies of George Orwell’s 1984. Unless the Ministry of Reshelving has already visited this bookstore, it is probably currently incorrectly classified as “Fiction” or “Literature.” Discreetly move all copies of 1984 to a more suitable section, such as “Current Events”,…
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Blog Business Summit – Day One
I was at the Blog Business Summit all day and weaved in and out of discussions about basic blogging principles as well as a smattering of debate on what this all means to the corporate world that still is just getting a handle on it. It was great to connect with folks that I’ve corresponded…
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Plain English Description of Web 2.0
I’ve been writing about this new world of mix-and-match web services for some time now so it’s great to see the concept begin to be written up by the popular press. The next step is to boil down these API transactions to the lowest common denominator of the web, the hyperlink. The average person can…
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Last FM Update (II)
I love the concept of tagging your music so that others can share what you have and you can discover music based on what other people are tagging in their collection. The Last FM tagging interface looks beautiful but it takes a bit of trial and error to learn how it works and kept hanging…
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Crazy Runner Dean Karnazes
I’ve thought I might want to aspire one day to train for a marathon but this guy runs one every morning, before breakfast! Dean Karnazes, world famous ultramarathon runner, has also run 262 miles non-stop (it took him three days) and regularly runs from San Francisco to Sonoma as a training run. If you have…
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Owl Hairball
Tyler brought home a small tupperware case full of damp mouse hair and small little bones "skulls too!" Izumi almost gagged but Tyler can’t wait to show his friends. It’s definitely the coolest thing he’s gotten from Science Camp which wraps up this week.
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Last.FM Update
My favorite social media sharing site, last.fm, just got a facelift. I haven’t had a chance to play with it yet but I sure like the new design. www.last.fm
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