Tag: Blogging

  • Google Reader quick comments

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    Tom Raftery
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    I have now completely moved over to using Google Reader as my primary RSS reader. And it appears I am in good company! I started using it regularly while on holidays on my phone and I grew to like it – particularly the ability to Star and Share posts. Now I’m using it full-time, not…

  • BlogTalk 2008 to be held in Cork?

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    BlogTalk is a big international conference around the Social Media space. The last BlogTalk conference was in Vienna and featured speakers such as Danah Boyd, Suw Charman, and Matt Mullenweg. Thomas Burg, John Breslin and I are going to see if we can organise the next BlogTalk conference for Early March 2008 in Cork. All…

  • Full feeds lead to more page views

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    Tom Raftery
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    TechDirt has an article explaining why full feeds lead to more page views on your site than partial feeds. From the article: Full text feeds makes the reading process much easier. It means it’s that much more likely that someone reads the full piece and actually understands what’s being said — which makes it much,…

  • Congrats to Conor O'Neill

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    Tom Raftery
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    on the launch of Blognation Ireland earlier today. Conor (from review aggregator LouderVoice) is the editor of Blognation Ireland and the publication promises: to bring you all the latest news from the world of Web2.0 and mobile in Ireland Subscribed.

  • Sky Handling Partners engage in fraud and libel against blogger? – contd

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    Sky Handling Partners have a shitstorm on their hands. Yesterday someone in their organisation committed computer fraud (a criminal offense)  and libel against Damien Mulley – seemingly in revenge for a post he published where he outlined how poorly they treated him after losing his luggage! Now, instead of trying to engage with Damien. Instead…

  • How to increase traffic to your blog

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    Tom Raftery
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    One of the questions which comes up often when I am giving talks about blogs is how to increase traffic to your blog. Well, Trent Hamm has written a 10-step program which he followed to take his blog  from 0 to 12,000 subscribers in six months. There are some great tips in there – I…

  • Sky Handling Partners engage in fraud and libel against blogger?

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    Tom Raftery
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    Sky Handling Partners lost Damien Mulley’s bag recently. When Damien called to complain, they lied to him on the phone and showed a level of customer contempt which begs the question of how they are still in business. Damien blogged about his treatment by them and their poor customer relations. What do they do in…

  • Google now controls more of my info!

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    Google has agreed to purchase Feedburner – the rss feed management company for $100m according to Mike Arrington in a post over on TechCrunch. According to Mike: The information we have is that the deal is now under a binding term sheet and will close in 2-3 weeks, and there is nothing that can really…