First day back to work. Thanks, world, for the 1000+ emails in my absence. Still, food for thought on the way: I confess, I was totally taken in by this for a second. I thought, “Wow, there’s a course about blogging at our local college. That’s amazing.” Of course, I was wrong. Because bloggers are sad, buck-toothed [...]
July 24, 2008
I am obviously speaking in an out of work capacity here. And rather later than is fashionable in the blogging world – Calacanis’ announcement that he’s giving up blogging was nearly two weeks ago. At work, we paid Jason Calacanis £5000 to come to London and speak at a conference last year. From reading the blog, [...]
June 18, 2008
Quick report from last Friday’s Fuel conference. It was a well-planned day which I thoroughly enjoyed, so well done to Ryan, Keir and the Carsonified team. It was also good to meet up again with a couple of fellow bloggers. Andrew from Imagination has written already about the attention to detail shown in the design [...]
May 24, 2008
If you need the history – I had a big problem with the company (blogged here), which was resolved the day after I wrote a post about it on this site (blogged here). A lot of people might see this as a victory for blogs and bloggers. I’d agree, sure. But, on reflection, I think it’s [...]
May 24, 2008
This post is a follow-up to the last, rather less complimentary one, Goodbye, Carphone Warehouse, You Lied and Cheated… At 10am this morning – and it’s Saturday on a bank holiday weekend, you’ll note, I got a call from Sarah, a customer services manager at Carphone Warehouse. She gets Google Alerts for mentions of the company’s [...]
November 29, 2007
If this is here, then my upgrade to the latest version of Wordpress and a new theme won’t have been a complete disaster. If it isn’t here, then let’s keep it to ourselves, eh? The newest thing is native support for tags, as well as categories. Everything is miscellaneous, of course (check this fantastic video of [...]
November 22, 2007
It took a lot to say that, but I’m a big man and I do this for a living, and I have to agree: I know I keep going on about this… but I have no time to read feeds or blog anymore. Work has en[c]roached too far. Tonight I sat down to catch up on [...]
November 15, 2007
Just struck me, in a not-entirely-artificial way, that if you are interested in PR and the Web, as per the last post, then you ought to come to the event we’ve organised at NMK on Tuesday next week (20/11/07), ‘Clients in the Wild’. There are about ten tickets left at this point, I understand. Click [...]
November 15, 2007
OK. I’ve been product-pitched by PR companies as a (sort-of) journalist many times. I have been pitched as a blogger a few times. This week’s malarkey is a new thing entirely. A teaser/blogger-outreach campaign. On Monday I received a plain brown envelope. It contained a blacked out memo, but the remaining words revealed something about a military operation. [...]
October 14, 2007
Interesting piece on paidcontent.org, covering a talk by Henry Copeland, CEO and founder of BlogAds, a network which serves adverts to participating blogs. Copeland says that only around 100 of the 1500 blogs his company works with are likely to be self-sustaining from advertising – and these are the creme-de-la creme – participation in the [...]
August 22, 2007
Pure coincidence, perhaps, but there were two articles in my feed reader today arguing that there’s a need to avoid too much Search Engine Optimisation. From Dharmesh Shah: The Perils of Pandering to Google. And from Ken Yarmosh: Search Engine Deoptimisation The trouble with ranking highly on Google is that any old riff-raff might turn up at your site. You [...]
August 3, 2007
While I was away, David Brain and Jonny Bentwood provoked a fascinating debate by proposing a new measure of how influential particular internet people and publications are, what they call the Social Media Index. The gist of the idea is that the traditional ‘A’ list of bloggers, the Technorati 100, has become outdated as a guide [...]
September 9, 2008