Month: July 2005

  • Do you allow comments on your blog?

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    Do you allow comments in your blog? Most bloggers do, but you get the occasional bloggers who don’t, and you have to wonder, why not? What are they afraid of? Receiving feedback from blog readers is a great way to learn from people you might otherwise never come across. A blog without comments is just…

  • Reasons for small companies to blog

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    Donagh Kiernan asked a very interesting question in the comments of one of my previous posts – he asked i see the point of blogging for business with relevance for employee relations, customer relations and market development if you’re selling to an international niche. But does it really apply to a small business with a…

  • Short term memory loss

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    My mother suffered an explosive brain aneurysm (aka brain haemorrhage) a couple of years ago. She survived (much to the surprise of the doctors) but she is not the woman she once was. On the night of her haemorrhage, several hours after the haemorrhage, I had a conversation with her which has stayed with me…

  • Open source… as in beer

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    I saw on Loic’s site where a group of Danish students at the IT University of Copenhagen have produced what they claim to be the first open-source beer! The recipe and brand are under Creative Commons licences. According to the Wired article, the students said they are interested in seeing how their beer will get…

  • Funny cartoons in the making

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    If you are a fan of cartoons, FrankP has posted a fascinating post on how he puts together the funny cartoons on Bifsniff.com – well worth a look.

  • Email efficiency article

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    Matt points out a very interesting article on how to use your email client application more efficiently – I’m definitely going to try out some of its suggestions. I know I am a slave to my email app right now!

  • Organic SEO Wiki

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    Kudos to Michele for pointing out the Organic SEO Wiki – the “organic” refers to the manual type of page optimisation, as opposed to automatic submittal and page alteration. Everything on the site can be implemented by one person, rather than having to hire a firm and pay big bucks for them to do the…

  • Corporate blogging: "companies should get involved" says FT

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    The Financial Times has written a thoughtful piece about corporate blogging – when the FT starts writing about blogging, you just know it is time to take it seriously! In their piece, the FT is mainly giving another list of what not to do’s (along with illustrative examples) but they also say The advent of…