Blogging Asia: A Windows Live Report shows that blogging is already a significant force in Asia. Haven’t been able to find the original report online, but I’ve been able to piece together the following from here, here and here.
46% of the online population in Asia have a blog (compared to just 8% of US web [...]
Ewan McIntosh has been good enough to provide his notes for a talk giving an introduction to blogging he gave at an LTS event. Archly titled ‘Just because you can blog in one click doesn’t mean you should…‘, his talk covers seven main themes:
Authenticity: Don’t make your people take the 5th Amendment
Blogs are conversations - [...]
Some (mild) outrage about the Jackie Danicki post about her tube attacker here and here and here. There’s talk of lynchin’s in them there blogs. I find that quite bizarre.
Jackie - who I don’t know - was verbally and physically attacked during a tube journey and posted about it, together with a picture of her [...]
I was intrigued to read the headline ‘Widow PC Caters to World of Warcraft Fans’ on Gizmodo. It turns out that it’s a high-end PC with a very fast network card to optimise your connection to the game. Boring.
However, it made me think, and I’d like to register my copyright on the BlogWidow PC for [...]
From Hotwire PR comes an ipsos MORI poll of European internet users:
Blogs are now a near second to newspapers as the most trusted information source: A quarter (24%) of Europeans consider blogs a trusted source of information, still behind newspaper articles (30%), but ahead of television advertising (17%) and email marketing (14%).
High spenders are most [...]
The recent ’state of the blogosphere’ report from Technorati’s David Sifry has ruffled a few feathers because of the inclusion of a new semi-scientific ranking system to group bloggers into four distinct groups. Let’s call them A-D. (Aside: find out where you stand using this handy tool)
The report describes the four groups thus:
The Low Authority [...]
One of the things that really surprised me when I started blogging earlier this year was the number of PR people who are involved in it (big list here here). For some reason, I thought there’d be more journos doing it. But then, I suppose a lot of journalists have to blog for the publications [...]
Understandably enough, IT companies are represented heavily in the short list of 40 Fortune 500 companies that blog. Joining them, Intel launched its own official blog last week, IT@Intel.
Like Dell and EDS, it has gone for a group blog with a number of authors. Other companies like Sun and Boeing have a senior executive in [...]
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The One Day in History project from the National Trust is encouraging as many people as possible in the UK to contribute diary entries to form a mass snapshot of the population.
At first I thought this was a terrible idea. Even if it serves to popularise blogging, surely the diary format encourages the most [...]
The Guardian covers a poll of 2,012 UK adults which has uncovered a new demographic profile, ‘Digi Joe Public’, the man on the street who is heavily involved in online life. The poll revealed that “nearly four in 10 of that group have read a blog, with a quarter having started their own blog or [...]
