Corporate blogs that don’t get it
Blogs were the buzz-word over 2005 - you needed a blog to communicate with customers.
Right?
So why is it that companies that set up corporate blogs cripple the channels of communication?
Check out the blogs at Jupiter Research - here’s one by Michael Gartenberg.
Firstly, he’s talking, but you’re not allowed to answer. There is no allowance to […]
Google News guidelines
Contacted Google News about a couple of issues this week.
The first was a request for inclusion of a news blog site I run as an individual - the response from Google News was that they do not accept submissions from individuals.
The second is a problem Google News has with Platinax News - the source was […]
10 webmaster emails from Hell
10 webmaster emails from Hell
Here’s a little light reading to start the day: 10 webmaster emails you don’t ever want to receive.
If you enjoy them, I’ll write up some more.
I read your blog. You’re a funny man. I checked your WHOIS and know where you live. Expect me to visit soon motherf*cker.
Bubba Towers
As you may […]
No follow: one year on
Contents:
Blogs and links
Blogs knee-capped
The Blog Evolution
Blog Spam
Nofollow - one year on
Blogs and links
Bloggers have traditionally seen themselves as a community experience.
A blogger would comment on a topic, and a string of other bloggers would give it coverage. Great.
An issue developed: the use of trackback and comment links created a massive linking platform.
Blogs could rank very […]
Blogs vs forums
Let’s cut to the chase - blogs as a community medium are over-rated - if it’s community you want to see online, no blog can match the massive readership influence that online forums have.
If blogs are like newspaper columns, then forums are entire newspapers unto themselves.
Even “A-list” bloggers such as John Battelle, Jeremy Zawodny, Robert […]
Fortune 500 blogs
An interesting list of Fortune 500 company blogs are posted here: Fortune 500 Business Blogging Wiki
.
Interesting to see the companies that have embraced blogging - Amazon, Boeing, Dell, Time Warner, Ford, etc.
Mike Grehan on speeding
Mike Grehan makes a great post on his recent experience of being caught speeding.
I’ve only ever been caught speeding once, a few years back, and have tried to avoid doing so again.
Mike relates why a police training course, offered in lieu of having points on his licence, has done the same for him.
Worth reading.
Platinax restructuring and redesign very soon
Platinax is a desperately poor mess. Go to the homepage - what are visitors supposed to do? In the words of Seth Godin, there is no banana.
The site lacks functionality, has poor navigation, is a generally poorly presented mess, and suffers accessibility issues to boot.
I actually commissioned a CSS-only version of the template months ago, […]
Trackback spammers beat Typepad nofollow
So I checked out the archives on Seth Godin’s blog and found that trackback spammers have found a way to start filling his blog with pharmaceutical and gambling links from trackbacks - without getting the links hit by Typepad’s automated use of “nofollow” in trackbacks.
What I find particularly ironic is that this blog, and others […]
Blogging is an art
So that’s taught me already. Apparently, blogging is an art.
There are a couple of articles covering this, such as How to Write Killer Blog Posts and More Compelling Comments and How to Write a Better Weblog both providing useful and insightful comment.
So here’s a summary paraphrasing and adapting both sources, with a few additional thoughts […]
Blog Spam and Google Autolink
I kept thinking about the autolink feature from Google, and how webmasters are generally angry about it.
However, something that struck me the other day is that how self-confessed blog-spammers have been particularly vociferous about the matter.
In particular, blog spamming is a method of adding advertising content to websites, without the webmaster’s permission. And that is […]
Spam summit spurns spammers
Jason Duke at Threadwatch reports on how a “spam summit”, apparently being organised from within the blogosphere, has spurned the help and assistance of people who openly declare they spam blogs for a living.
Sounds like a poor move. I guess the bloggers feel that they have a complete understanding of blog spam issues. Hm, if […]
