Category: Blogging
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Robert Scoble blogger dinner in Cork wiki
Hugh from Gaping Void has started a Wiki for the Robert Scoble Blogger Dinner in Cork. The dinner will be after the IT@Cork annual conference at which Robert Scoble is a guest speaker in the Rochestown Park Hotel Cork on November 30th. If you are thinking of going to the blogger dinner, sign up at…
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Reasons for developing paid blog post ethics
In a couple of recent posts on this site (here and here) and on other sites (here, here and here), the issue of bloggers reviewing for reward has come up. Discussions have varied but most people seem to agree that if a blogger reviews an item but fails to reveal any benefit accruing to them…
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Linknotes plugin
Through Craig’s site I came across a plugin which allows you to make links in your blog posts appear like footnotes – the plugin is called Linknotes and was coded by Jeremy Curry. Installation is a snap (as you’d expect from any WordPress plugin) but usage is a little clunky, compared to normal links (simply…
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Blog posts for sale II
In reply to my post on Blog posts for sale, Michele said The real matter that needs to be resolved is not whether the reviewer keeps the product or not but whether the promoter is willing to accept that not all reviews are going to be positive and that they do not expect them to…
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Blog posts for sale?
Damien has raised the interesting issue of using bloggers for product reviews and knowing that I am a business blogging consultant, he has asked for my opinion. This is a very tricky question Damien – on the one hand, as a blogger and a techie, I love new toys. I have a homer Simpsonesque tendency…
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Yahoo! tests blog search in Korea
I see News.com have a story showing that Yahoo! are beta testing a blog search application in their Korean Yahoo! site. Apparently Yahoo is planning to begin testing the same capabilities for its U.S. blog-publishing service in the coming weeks. This is all very timely considering Dave’s taking me to task for dismissing Yahoo! recently!…
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Strategic business blogging presentation updated
I have updated the Strategic Business Blogging presentation (PDF) which I uploaded a couple of days ago. After receiving feedback online from Angsuman and offline from Piaras, Shel Israel and others I have updated the presentation to take into account the new Technorati statistics, to add a page on brand evangelism and to correct a…
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Technorati publish more blogosphere stats
Dave Sifry published more Technorati stats on the rate of growth of the Blogosphere yesterday. As well as the numbers posted last week which I wrote about here, Dave also tells us that About 55% of all blogs are active, and that has remained a consistent statistic for at least a year About 13% of…