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Is Robert Scoble an Alchemist?

Oct 19, 2005

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in Blogging, Business blogging, IT@Cork, Technology

A curious question, you might say, and you’d be right, obviously! However, seminal business thinker and social philosopher, Charles Handy has said that new ideas, new products, new kinds of associations and institutions, new initiatives, new art and new designs seldom come from established organisations, they come from individuals â€“ what he terms the New…

10 ways to improve your blog – Nielsen

Oct 19, 2005

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Tom Raftery

in Blogging, Business blogging, Technology

Jakob Nielsen has written a top 10 suggestions for blog usability. The ten points Jakob are sensible and straightforward to implement, for the most part. His suggestions include: Including an author biography and photo Descriptive post titles Descriptive link text Links to older popular posts and so on. I have to put my hands up…

Tech Camp Ireland talk

Oct 15, 2005

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Tom Raftery

in Blogging, Business blogging, Podcast, Technology

Well the Tech Camp Ireland meet-up is over and it was a great day. Kudos to Piaras and Ed for organising it. Some of the interesting talks that I attended were given by Darren Barefoot on (un)marketing and Digital Rights Ireland on our lack of digital rights in Ireland (think mandatory 3 year data retention,…

Sphere – a new blog search engine – reviewed

Oct 15, 2005

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Tom Raftery

in Blogging, Business blogging, Search Engines, Technology

Michael Arrington of TechCrunch has written a review of Sphere – a new blog search engine which, he says quite frankly blows everything, and I mean everything, Iâ€™ve seen out of the water in terms of relevance (and, by the way, designâ€¦Adaptive Path was involved). Sphere’s search tackles the thorny issue of relevance by having…

Tech Camp Ireland

Oct 14, 2005

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Tom Raftery

in Blogging, Business blogging, Technology

Posting has been light the last day or two because i have been preparing my talk for tomorrow’s Tech Camp Ireland. I am moderating a discussion on Web Marketing and Blogging from 09:30 to 11:15 and then I am giving a talk entitled: Increasing traffic: How to Promote your blog / web business at 12:00.…

New lame Adserving software

Oct 13, 2005

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Tom Raftery

in Blogging, Business blogging, Linux, Mac, Technology

Mark Evans has written an article about a new Ad Serving company called AdGenta. It is supposed to deliver more relevant ads because you upload your blogs posts through a downloadable AdGenta application called Qumana (where do they come up with these names?). You compose the post in Qumana, click on the advertising button and…

Bleak outlook for ping?

Oct 12, 2005

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Tom Raftery

in Blogging, Business blogging, Technology

Matt reckons Verisign’s purchase of Weblogs.com means that the outlook for ping is poor: Verisign, which does not have a particularly good history in the blogosphere, has purchased Weblogs.com. This leaves Ping-O-Matic as the only large-scale and independent ping relay service left.

Ads for regulars?

Oct 12, 2005

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Tom Raftery

in Blogging, Business blogging, Technology

Dave wrote a thought-provoking post on online advertising and blogs following on from mine and Damien’s posts on the topic. Dave’s idea is not to display ads to regular visitors to your site: What Iâ€™d do personally is to have a cookie on my site so that repeat visitors didnâ€™t get ads. People who click…

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