Category: Business blogging
-
WordPress.com "major drive failure"
I mentioned in a post earlier this morning that I was having problems accessing wordpress.com blogs – wordpress.com is a hosted multi-user version of the blog software I use, WordPress. The site is now available again but suffered a “major disk failure” according to a message on the wordpress.com Dashboard. The data loss is presumably…
-
A lynch mob of 20 million?
Technorati recently announced that they are now tracking some 20 million bloggers and the number of bloggers is doubling every 5 months! Now Forbes Magazine has a cover story titled “Attack of the Blogs” (registration required but thanks to Steve Rubel’s article I found that the bugmenot login/password “forbesdontbug” worked for me). The article almost…
-
Sky News Live at Five team starts a blog with bugs!
The Sky News Live at Five program has started a blog – welcome to the world of blogs Jeremy and the Live at Five team. However, the blog could stand some improvements (from a technical perspective) – for instance: (the site doesn’t conform to web standards, it doesn’t allow trackbacks or pingbacks, it doesn’t allow…
-
RSS tips
Steve Rubel has written 10 tips on power using RSS (why does everyone write 10 tips and not 9 or 31 or something?). Anyway, some of the tips are very useful like the “building feeds for your favourite writers” tip and some are just plain silly (i.e. the “Got a Car? Subscribe to its RSS…
-
Sales, Marketing and Productisation blog
It is good to see that Donagh Kiernan has started a blog. If you don’t know Donagh, he is the founder and CEO of Maidsfield Business Development and former owner of Vistech Software. Donagh is blogging about sales, marketing and productisation – this is an area Donagh knows volumes about so he has a lot…
-
10 ways to improve your blog – Nielsen
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…