A physician blogs about his malpractice suit during the trial, using an alias, and is unmasked in court. He settles the next day. The case is a startling illustration of how blogging, already implicated in destroying friendships and ruining job...
Advantage of Youth: ignorance
Young people make better entrepreneurs because they're too inexperienced to know that their ideas are silly: The mistakes novices make come from a lack of experience. They overestimate mere fads, seeing revolution everywhere, and they make this kind...
Curl Up With A Good Blog. Publishers Turn To The Web To Find New Talent
Once upon a time, a writer would have to try to attract the interest of an agent in the hope they would submit their proposals to publishers and beg them a book deal. Now, however, it would appear to just be a simple matter of a writer posting their...
College Recruiters Use Student Bloggers
Colleges seeking a competitive edge are increasingly enlisting and sometimes paying student bloggers to chronicle their lives online. The results run the gamut from insightful to boring, but the goal is the same: to find a new way to win the...
The Art of Forgetting in the Age of Ubiquitous Computing
Mayer-Schönberger lays out his idea in a faculty research working paper called "Useful Void: The Art of Forgetting in the Age of Ubiquitous Computing," where he describes his plan as reinstating "the default of forgetting our societies have...
Local bloggers' posts appear in Boston newspaper
While most newspapers are trying to stake bigger claims online, one new publication is pulling material off the Internet to be printed in ink.John Wilpers, editor in chief of BostonNow, a free weekday daily introduced last month, said he wanted to...
A few companies cashing in on the blogosphere
As a few star bloggers have made six-figure salaries or million-dollar deals, more and more people have been tantalized by the prospect of making money online -- even though the vast majority of blogs are little more than online diaries."A lot of...
DRM group vows to fight bloggers over AACS
Bloggers "crossed the line" when they posted a software key that could break the encryption on some HD-DVDs, the AACS copy protection body has said.Thousands of websites published the key, which had been uncovered in a bid to circumvent digital...
Blogger's Code of Conduct - Tim O'Reilly's Draft
We celebrate the blogosphere because it embraces frank and open conversation. But frankness does not have to mean lack of civility. We present this Blogger Code of Conduct in hopes that it helps create a culture that encourages both personal...
The end of military blogs?
The U.S. Army has ordered soldiers to stop posting to blogs or sending personal e-mail messages, without first clearing the content with a superior officer, Wired News has learned. The directive, issued April 19, is the sharpest restriction on...
New Dell Spanish-language corporate blog / DellenDirecto
Dell chairman and CEO Michael Dell announced Tuesday at the Entrepreneur Endeavor Summit that the company has launched DellenDirecto.com, a Spanish-language blog geared toward communicating with its customer base and other stakeholders. Dell...
über bloggers
It's no secret that bloggers are becoming increasingly influential. But Arrington is part of an emerging crowd of writers who use their narrowly focused blogs, such as hyperlocal real estate reports, green guides, or Web 2.0 startup reviews, to...
Map: Blogosphere as social network
Discover Magazine has an interesting article on mapping the blogosphere, reporting on the work of Matthew Hurst. Hurst put together a 3D map of the blogosphere, with bright spots represent sites with the highest number of links and isolated islands...
White Paper: 2007 Digital outlook report
Avenue A | Razorfish has released Digital Outlook Report 2007, a 140-page PDF that describes where marketing dollars are being spent online, key trends that will impact marketers in 2007, and new quantitative research on best practices for measuring...
Research: Calculating Blogging ROI
Forrester used the process outlined in the associated Best Practices document, "The ROI Of Blogging," to calculate the ROI of General Motors' FastLane blog; but, this is not merely an exercise to generate a number. Using scenarios, General Motors...
Research: B2B blogging and marketing
Business blogs can shorten sales cycles when they connect decision-makers to the designers and thought leaders who shape new products and services. Unfortunately, B2B blogs are new and evolving; only a small fraction of Fortune 500 companies sponsor...
[mp3] The Value Line-Up: Vision, Strategy, and Execution
Anyone can write a “mission statement;” that’s the easy part. Putting those ideas into action is a much more difficult task that involves the entire company. While the twin concepts of vision (the destination) and strategy (the means to get there)...
Blogging Success Study / Northeastern University
After careful review, the research team identified five factors for success. The majority of the twenty participant bloggers pointed to these factors as important to the success of their blog. We focus in on these factors in Section Three.The five...
Economist Interview: Wide world of wikis
This interview was hosted by Brendan Greeley, the blogger-in-chief for the US public radio program Open Source, and the author of The Economist's survey on new media, Andreas Kluth. [mp3] Listen or Download / The Economist
Blogs as leading indicators
This interview was hosted by Brendan Greeley, the blogger-in-chief for the US public radio program Open Source , and the author of The Economist's survey on new media, Andreas Kluth. [mp3] Listen or Download / The Economist
The future of newspapers. Is print heading for obsolescence?
The age of podcasts, war-zone bloggers, and countless other online information sources presents newspapers with arguably their biggest challenge ever. But how to react? Is print heading for obsolescence? Or can it re-invent itself and reach out to a...
Business Blogging Seminars
[mp3] Intro to Six Apart's Seminar on Business Blogging
State of the Blogosphere, October, 2006
First off, the total posting volume of the blogosphere has leveled off somewhat, showing about 1.3 million postings per day, which is a little lower than what we were seeing last quarter but still about double the volume of this time last year. This...
SEC chief gets blogging
Chairman of the SEC, Christopher Cox, has joined the blogging world. In a comment on Sun Microsystem's chief executive, Jonathan Schwartz's blog, the SEC chief showed interest in Mr Schwartz's recent request that blogs be used as a way to expand...
Blog Business Summit
Are you interested in learning how to leverage blogging for your business? If so, you should have been at Blog Business Summit last week! The conference spanned useful topics ranging from starting your 1st blog to the future of online...
Blogging Becomes A Corporate Job
In its short lifespan, blogging has largely been a freewheeling exercise in online self-expression. Now it is also becoming a corporate job. A small but growing number of businesses are hiring people to write blogs, otherwise known as Web logs, or...
Journalism, The Blogosphere, and an upcoming conference
The newest edition of The Convergence Newsletter is out, this month focusing on a variety of helpful places to look regarding issues of convergence and particularly in ways that the convergence discussion impacts professional and community...
[Forrester] Corporate Blog Design Is Broken
As blogs become a staple of online culture, more and more companies are using them to humanize their organizations and build personal relationships with their customers. But most corporate blogs are fraught with usability problems — like confusing...
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