No I do not have an obligation to friend you back
Interesting conversation going on last night about the “social obligations” that we might have when it comes to using social media, and making friends. It is always nice to have someone follow you, and it is usually expected that you would follow them back, but that is not always the case. There are always low [...]
News Embargoed or when you need to get public relations right
Image via WikipediaIt is not often that you see something that actually worked out the way that it should work out, but in looking at the last article, Social Median actually did something right. Well besides embargoing their new election widget news on Saturday and letting me know it existed, they followed up this morning [...]
Social Median starts covering the election
One of the problems with embargoed information is that you forget about it, but the social median team was good enough to send me a reminder…
Social Median starts covering the election in a one stop shop get it all here web site.
While everyone is still wondering who will win or lose the race, getting [...]
Techwag starts posting Seattle Job Openings
With all the layoffs, we decided that we would start posting jobs for people in the Seattle, Bellevue, Renton, and Redmond area to help folks. Jobs being scarce, and time being on peoples minds right now it might not be a bad idea to follow along with the idea and do a customized job search [...]
Google Book Search reaches an agreement on the multiple lawsuits brought against it
Image via CrunchBaseThis showed up in e-mail this morning from Google, it seems that they have reached a tentative agreement over Google book search with the authors and publishers that were trying to sue them into the ground. The complete text of the e-mail is below.
Dear Google Book Search partner,
Today Google and the group [...]
The Friend Feed Article Suppression System Found at Last
Thank you Internet, Bjorn and Friend Feed.
This morning I wrote a blog entry about how friend feed needs an article suppression system, and Bjorn Stromberg was good enough to send over a Grease Monkey script for filtering out stuff on Friend Feed. The good thing about Friend Feed is that I love it, but [...]
Risks to Blogging learn to love the EFF and Chilling Effects Clearning House
One other thing you will learn on the internet is copyright, fair use, and how you can use pictures, quote text, the issue of linking to articles, the use of the old media as a source, and a ton of other things that can cause issues with you and your blog. Two resources that can [...]
Risks to Blogging the Lawsuit against Think Secret
Think Secret was one of a handful of Apple Rumor blogs on the internet, and one of the few that was shut down by direct legal action from Apple. Nick Ciarelli ran the blog who wrote under the pseudonym of “Nick De Plume.” This single person blog covered apple rumors and apparently had a number [...]
What Friend Feed needs is an article suppression system
I love friend feed that is no surprise, I send many people to my friend feed site rather than having them track me in the many other places I hang out. But sometimes it would be great to have a suppression system for some threads that just show up, and seem to linger on for [...]
Risks to Blogging being fired
Image via CrunchBaseUnfortunately, blogging can lead you to being fired. Part of this was discussed in the section “fired for blogging” and the common mistake that those who were fired for blogging was to do something against the blogging policy of the company. Even if there was no policy at the time, the reason for [...]
What makes Problogger work so well
Book cover via AmazonProBlogger is part of the B5Media media network , and the primary writer is Darren Rowse. Darren is a co-founder of the B5Media network and has been blogging since 2002 . While he is part of a “network of blogs,” he is also a single blogger at ProBlogger. Much like other media [...]
Word Camp Seattle
A small group of folks is trying to set up a Word Camp for Seattle to gather all the Word Press happy bloggers out there for a one or two day meeting. They are currently looking for support volunteers, leaders, sponsors, and a whole host of other folks who want to be helpful.
A [...]
What makes Chris Pirillo so Cool
Image via WikipediaThis is an excerpt from the upcoming book - Boom and Bust in the Blogosphere. The book has gone to the publishers, and should be out at the end of the year.
Chris Pirillo is a unique blogger in that he runs multiple ways of getting information to the people who follow him. He [...]
Blogging as a form of Creative Destruction
Image by davemc500hats via FlickrThis is an excerpt from the upcoming book - Boom and Bust in the Blogosphere. The book has gone to the publishers, and should be out at the end of the year.
There is a lot of creative destruction to industries when people, regular people, take to the public forums and [...]
The Layoff News continues like a parade of bad news
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It is almost as if Sequoia Capital has set off the triggering event of 2008, and while the news might be great for companies trying to survive, the layoffs of 10, 20, 30% of employees are going to cause serious problems down the road. In many ways, and given what we saw [...]
