2004-11-15
Posted on November 15, 2004 8:56 am by Shel Holtz
| Internal
You’ll be shocked—shocked!—to learn that employees use instant messaging for personal conversations. You’ll be equally shocked to learn that employees stop in the hallways for personal conversations.
This time around, it’s the Meta Group that has released a survey that shows 57% of the respondents from 300 organizations “admitted” using IM at work for personal reasons. Did they really admit they use IM for non-work purposes? Or did they shrug and say, “Well, yeah, of course I do.” The survey also found that 56% of the participants also use their home IM capabilities to do work.
If that sounds like a wash to you, Meta Group analyst… Read More »
2004-11-14
Posted on November 14, 2004 8:20 pm by Shel Holtz
| Media
Wonkette’s Ana Marie Cox makes no apologies for posting exit poll results, even though mainstream media avoids the practice for fear of swaying election outcomes. Cox told the Online News Association, meeting in Los Angeles, that bloggers who provide information readers want make it harder for news outlets to sit on a story. Still, Online Journalism Review’s Mark Glaser told the conference that bloggers are struggling to gain credibility. Wired News has the AP story.
2004-11-13
Posted on November 13, 2004 6:12 pm by Shel Holtz
| Politics
Political blogs have been theorizing since the November 2 election that the vote was hijacked, that election fraud was rampant. All kinds of conspiracy theories, fueled by supposed evidence, has been sweeping through the Web. And that’s okay, according to New York Times reporter Tom Zeller Jr. In a Times article, Zeller notes:
...while the widely read universe of Web logs was often blamed for the swift propagation of faulty analyses, the blogosphere, as it has come to be known, spread the rumors so fast that experts were soon able to debunk them, rather than allowing them to linger and feed conspiracy theories. Within days of the first…
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2004-11-12
Posted on November 12, 2004 9:57 am by Shel Holtz
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The last post to The IABC Chairman’s Blog was October 24. That’s 19 days (and counting) between posts. That makes this blog more like a monthly chairman’s column than a blog. But longtime IABC member Allan Jenkins notes that Kistle evidently is reading the comments, even if it takes a week to get around to responding, and then responding through an IABC staff member.
None of this is surprising: blogging is new to many “bosses”. But IABC’s Chairman needs to think harder—much harder—about what blogging is supposed to be. Call it a rocky start… one that can be corrected. But one that must be corrected for his credibility, and IABC’s.
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2004-11-12
Posted on November 12, 2004 9:17 am by Shel Holtz
| General
Attending BloggerCon III left Online Journalism Review’s Staci Kramer with more questions than answers:
How can bloggers be treated as a community or act collectively and retain individuality? Why do many journalists and bloggers persist in seeing the world through either-or eyes instead of complementing each other? How can the blogging community avoid being pigeonholed based on the highly publicized work of a few bloggers, particularly in the political arena? Can more journalists learn to see the differences between bloggers and the wide range of purposes for blogs?
Reading Kramer’s excellent overview of the conference—and of… Read More »
2004-11-12
Posted on November 12, 2004 9:11 am by Shel Holtz
| General
Blogs are reinventing impactful content.
I hope—I really hope—you rolled your eyes at that little snippet of corporate jargon. What the hell is impactful content and how does one reinvent it? I’m not sure, but I know how to come up with drivel like this. Visit the Web Economy Bullshit Generator and come up with your own jargon. You might even impress some clueless clients by inserting it into a proposal. Now I’m gonna go scale some global synergies.
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