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Content summary: Sparklines; Mobitype scraping blog content; Shel’s road weary trek; South West Airlines tackles gaming of online check-in; the IAOC conference; Josh Hallett on FPRA Blog Week; Luke Armour’s intro music #2; David Phillips reports; listeners’ comments and trackbacks discussion (Firefox extension for Bugmenot; conversion rates trump Google juice; the Glenfiddich blog; the purpose of measurement; the podcasting book; subscribing to FIR via…

Eric Schwartzman will produce a series of his “On the Record Online” podcasts from the Media Relations 2006 conference, April 9-11 in New York. Schwartzman, who conducted post-speaker interviews at the New Communications Forum, will take the same approach at the Media Relations sessions, according to a Bulldog Reporter press release. The podcasts will be available from the Bulldog Reporter website.…

Content summary: Judging the IABC Gold Quill Awards; is Google Juice the ultimate measure of success?; the rise of memetrackers; Glenfiddich starts a blog; Warren Bickford shouts out; Lee Hopkins reports; listeners’ comments discussion (flying above the radar; Bugmenot; the last word on Wal-Mart/Edelman?; Apple customer service policy); the FIR Frappr community; PRSA/IAOC conference; the music; and more.

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A picture is worth a thousand words, they say. Problem is, a picture can also take up a lot of space, particularly on a web page. Leave it to Edward Tufte to come up with a solution.

Nobody is better than Tufte at helping designers and communicators understand how to use graphics to convey data and information. His book, “The Visual Display of…

I’ve worked on the implementation of several portals, but always from the content side, never the back-end technology. I don’t know what goes into the guts of a portal that makes it work, but I know it’s complex. Most portals cost about $1 million and take about a year to implement. Customization and personalization are the keys to a portal, particularly the selection of…

In the March/April issue of Journal of Employee Communication Management (a print publication; subscribers have access to online articles), my good friend Steve Crescenzo questions the notion of companies prioritizing audiences.

Steve often ponders things that never occur to anyone else. This tendency comes from a combination of creativity, stress, and alcohol. As for his musing about ranking audiences, Steve…