Blogging

BlogFuse: serious bloggers only.

December 29, 2007

BlogFuse launched yesterday with an appropriately Web 2.0 PR blitz, including giveaways on TechCrunch.  BlogFuse is a tool that lets you create a Facebook application from an existing blog.  Compatible with any blog that has an RSS feed, it's targeted at the "pro" blogger looking to generate more viral traffic.  Setting it up is easy.  [...]

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Social Media: A Canadian Institute event

November 29, 2007

I'll be speaking next week at the Canadian Institute's Conference on Social Media.  Chaired by my friend Joe Thornley, this event is a how-to for businesses wanting to employ social media tools as part of their strategy.  My talk is on thought leadership strategies and blogging.  

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What about Google?

July 24, 2007

On VentureBeat this morning Jeremy Liew compares the value of targeted advertising via ad networks and "synthetic channels" to untargeted advertising.  Naturally, more targeted readers mean higher value eyeballs.  But what about organically organizing "networks", like the Google adsense model.  These use context to construct and reconstruct synthetic channels over and over.  For those running blogs, like [...]

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I'm blogging…

January 26, 2007

Very funny. Hat tip to Andrew Hansen.

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The New "Instant Journalism"

January 6, 2007

User generated content as journalism has been one of those persistent stories in the media over the last year.  With the meteoric rise of blogs, podcasting, and video blogging, it seems that publishing has truly become the province of every person.  In Creative Video Blogging and the new “Instant Journalism”, Andy Abramson offers some thoughts on [...]

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Bloggers imprisoned in Iran and USA

December 10, 2006

Internet journalists are being imprisoned in ever greater numbers, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists.  For the first time, two bloggers have been imprisoned, Arash Sigarchi and Joshua Wolf. IRAN: 1 Arash Sigarchi, freelance IMPRISONED: January 26, 2006 Sigarchi, a former editor of the daily newspaper Gilan-e-Emruz and a Web blogger, was sentenced to [...]

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Teaching Skype PR

November 16, 2006

Jim Courtney is systematically demolishing SparkPR’s inept handling of the Skype 3.0 Beta release.  Check out his two postings over on Skype Journal: Skype PR Wake-Up Call 1: The Issue, in which he provides example after example of the hugely mixed messages that the blogosphere delivered about the Skype 3.0 beta. No press release was [...]

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Feed Outage

November 3, 2006

The main feed was broken yesterday.  I noticed, this morning, when traffic had dropped to half the usual.  My apologies if you missed your daily fix… or perhaps it was a welcome respite!  In any case, it’s back today.

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HubbubPR Launches

November 2, 2006

An intriguing new communications agency launched at midnight, Halloween night.  Led by Eastwick Alumnus Giovanni Rodriguez, HubbubPR aims to create a community for writers, PR professionals, marketing consultants, social media mavens, designers and so on.  On his blog, Giovanni describes the community as “Facebook for communications pros”, and goes on to say: with the advent [...]

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Canadian Politician Garth Turner Dooced

October 21, 2006

Canadian Parliamentarian Garth Turner is probably the highest profile individual in the history of blogging to get dooced.  Last week Turner got kicked out of the Conservative Party for the views he expressed on his blog — views that were in some cases critical of the Government, his own party. For those of you who’ve [...]

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