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  • 19% of small businesses using blogs?

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    Tom Raftery
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    BL Ochman reported today that 19% of small and medium businesses are using blogs as marketing tools: Nineteen percent of small and medium sized businesses report that they are using blogs as marketing tools. That’s according to Interland’s 2005 Small and Medium-sized Business Barometer. Given that the majority of the population still doesn’t know a…

  • Irish Blog Awards?

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    Damien has posted a suggestion on his blog that there should be an Irish Blogs and Podcasts Awards and he followed it up with a post on Boards.ie so that there could be a discussion about it (Damien’s comments are still broken!). Do I think this is a good idea? Potentially! If the idea is…

  • Cnet names its top 100 blogs

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    Cnet today published its list of the top 100 blogs today – as expected Tom Raftery’s IT Views was amongst the top 100 – not! The list names all the usual suspects: Scoble, Engadget, Schneier on Security, et al. Some of the blogs listed, I hadn’t heard of before like TVOver.net (an IPTV and TV…

  • Do Google Ads make cents II – the sequel

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    As you may have noticed, I have started adding Google Ads to the posts on this blog, as well as to the blog itself. I took a look at the site stats, and decided which of the old posts receive the most traffic and I have added Google ads to these posts. Again, like the…

  • Blog for sale – apply within!

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    I see on Dave Winer’s blog that he has confirmed the rumour that he sold Weblogs.com to Versign – he neglected to say how much for! The rumour mill is putting a figure of ~$5m on it. Couple that with the news that AOL are buying Weblobsinc.com for somewhere between $25-$40m, and the news of…

  • Scoble switches to WordPress

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    I see Robert Scoble is switching to WordPress as his blogging engine of choice – way to go Robert! His new WordPress-powered blog will be on the hosted WordPress site WordPress.com at the address http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/. Although this site uses WordPress, I haven’t tried the hosted version of WordPress so I can’t comment on how different…