Category: Blogging
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Arguments against business blogging?
A couple of commenters on a recent post raised issues I hear time and again when I discuss the advantages of blogs for businesses: Blogging has a poor perception Blogging takes too much time Blogging allows people to make negative comments on your site Let’s deal with each of these points: 1. Blogging has a…
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Can Google Reader scale the Great Firewall of China?
Jeremiah Owyang is on a trip to China at the moment. He put up a post on his blog the other day saying he couldn’t access Robert Scoble’s blog from inside China – it seems to be blocked by the Great Firewall of China for some reason. I don’t know if this applies to all…
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Where are the Irish Business Blogs?
In my excitement at being shortlisted for the Netvisionary awards and in coming quite high in Justin’s Technorati-ranked Top 100 Irish blogs, I missed something fundamental – the fact that I am doing well is a very poor reflection on the state of business blogging in Ireland. What do I mean? Well, one of the…
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Thank you everyone
The shortlist for the IIA Netvisionary awards has been announced and I have been shortlisted for the Best Blogger award for this blog, and the Best Podcast award for the PodLeaders.com podcast. Considering I am up against Twenty Major and Michele Neylon in the Best Blogger category and Bernie Goldbach and Brian Greene for the…
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Top 100 Irish blogs
Justin Mason has put together a list of the top 100 Irish blog sites by Technorati rank and by inbound links. Jason obviously put a huge effort into doing this and serious kudos to him for doing it. If it weren’t too difficult to do Justin, a monthly report of these numbers would be fascinating…
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Le Web 3 hotel recommendations
Anyone going to Le Web 3 have any hotel recommendations? Last year there was a wiki where people could leave their suggestions but I don’t see that anywhere on the Le Web 3 site this year and emailing the organisers has elicited no response, as yet!
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Blogs fuel internet growth
Netcraft have posted their November 2006 Web Server Survey and there are a couple of interesting findings. The main one is that the number of websites has exceeded 100m for the first time ever. In the November 2006 survey we received responses from 101,435,253 sites, up from 97.9 million sites last month. Of those 100m…