Category: Blogging

  • Why aren't the Irish blogging?

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    I saw an article on Loic Le Muer’s blog about the numbers of French people blogging – it is estimated that up to 5% of French people have a blog. This compares very favourably with the US where it is estimated that around 3% of the population have a blog. Now, if we look at…

  • Irish Blogosphere cleanup

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    I did a bit of a tidy up of Loic Le Muer’s Wiki page on the Irish Blogosphere this morning. I noticed that some of the sites listed had Technorati link numbers which were inaccurate so I did a Technorati link search for each of the listed sites and corrected the numbers – note these…

  • WordPress theme Kubrick update K2 Alpha released

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    Michael Heilemann – author of the WordPress theme Kubrick (the default theme in WordPress 1.5.x), has released an alpha version of the updated Kubrick theme which he calls K2. There are bugs in this build – you have been warned! Michael outlines the ones he is aware of in his post announcing the release and…

  • Blogging builds relationships

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    People buy from people – more specifically, people buy from people they like (and trust) – this is one of the first lessons of sales. I was reading the following in Naked Conversations – the Business Blogging book being written online currently by Robert Scoble and Shel Israel – 100 years ago it was very…

  • Test post from WordPressDash

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    This is a test post from WordPressDash – WordPressDash is a Dashboard widget for Mac OS X 10.4 (a.k.a Tiger) which allows you to create and upload posts for your WordPress blog from the Dashboard. In theory this is very cool – and it looks very cool, but in practice, it lacks a lot of…

  • Browse, Search, Subscribe – the new Internet paradigm

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    In case you missed it, Microsoft made three RSS related announcements at Gnomedex last week. They announced that: they are building support for RSS into their next operating system (code named longhorn) scheduled for release at the end of 2006 (I hope that sucking sound wasn’t the sound of you holding your breath!) the next…

  • Business blogs are influencing the marketplace

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    I have discussed Blogging for Business recently but I have three quick stories I would appreciate you taking a minute or two to read – I think they are very interesting and indicative of a trend – the three are from interviews with Loic Le Meur for Naked Conversations – the book being written by…

  • Rss Uses

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    Microsoft are about to make a big announcement later on today (24th June) about their support for RSS in IE according to Robert Scoble’s RSS announcement tease. Nothing has appeared at time of writing on the IE blog. Dave Winer said of this announcement: I assumed (incorrectly) that this group was interested in reading and…