Posted on April 8, 2005 11:46 am by Shel Holtz | Blogging
I’ve been a fan of the Electronic Frontier Foundation since it started. I’ve paid dues, gone to fundraisers, attended rallies. The EFF’s defense of people who can’t afford to defend themselves for online activities that attract the ire of organizations that oppose would stifle the use of the Net for expression has earned my respect.
The EFF has even cranked out some useful guides, such as…
Posted on April 8, 2005 11:31 am by Shel Holtz | Blogging
I’ve been rolling my eyes at the uproar over fake blogs (or “character blogs,” as some are calling them). Now it appears they have a name: flogs. And a wiki has appeared to keep track of them called, creatively, FakeBlogsWiki.
“This site is a clearing house for information about ‘flogs’, or fake weblogs created by corporate marketing departments as lame marketing exercises,” the site…
Posted on April 7, 2005 8:26 am by Shel Holtz | Blogging
IABC relaunched its blog yesterday, as promised, and the most encouraging thing about the IABC Cafe so far is that the blogger is actively participating. Of six comments responding so far to the initial post, two are from Warren Bickford, IABC’s current vice chairman (and 2005-2006 chairman) replying to comments from readers.
The next best thing is Bickford’s tone—warm, friendly, human and honest.
As for…
Posted on April 6, 2005 3:51 pm by Shel Holtz | Blogging | Internal
Before I even had a chance to check my feeds today, Neville directed me to Fredrik Wacka’s post about Macaw, a Dutch company in wihch every one of its 110 employees has an internal blog. It’s not a company of blog-crazy workers. It’s just part of the new-hire package. The blog comes along with intranet access and a company e-mail account.
Still, 90 of Macaw’s…
Posted on April 5, 2005 10:11 am by Shel Holtz | Blogging
Every time some ad agency launches a fake blog, outcries ring from the “legitimate” blogging community. “Here Comes Another Fake Blog” is the headline on Steve Rubel’s Micropersuasion today, referring to a blog from the company GourmetStation, written by fictitious character T. Alexander.
Earlier, Steve also pointed to a blog from Captain Morgan, the trademarked character who pushes Captain Morgan rum. (I’m not picking on Steve; he just…
Posted on April 5, 2005 9:52 am by Shel Holtz | Blogging | Business | Social Networking
“Self-governing social networks combine with interactive weblog publishing to create something people just call Blogworking.” So writes Jesse Taylor in a piece at AlwaysOn. Taylor sites adholes, a collection of blogs from people working in advertising. (The site’s slogan: “Ad industry schmoozing without expensive restaurant tabs.”)
Taylor notes that these smaller networking sites are starting to generate ad revenue.
Why would these smaller, private Blogworking sites…
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