Posted on January 21, 2005 8:21 am by Shel Holtz | Blogging
Pity poor Bigha. The laid-back Corvalis, Oregon-based company makes the Bigha Bike, a “recumbent” bicycle. It also makes Jasper, “the brightest, most reliable laser you can operate without a special permit (for you techies out there, it’s a Class IIIa, 5mW green laser).”
It was a Jasper that a customer used to point at a commercial aircraft, leading to his arrest and a flurry of publicity about…
Posted on January 21, 2005 8:16 am by Shel Holtz | Blogging
Intelliseek, owner of BlogPulse, will be keeping a close eye on the blogosphere on Super Bowl Sunday. On behalf of companies spending disproportionate sums of money on advertising, the company will report in close to real time what bloggers are saying about the ads.
According to a San Jose Mercury News item, the company will also set up a panel of…
Posted on January 20, 2005 10:02 am by Shel Holtz | Blogging | General
One of the drawbacks of living on the West Coast is that, by the time I wake up, events are already unfolding on the East Coast and in Europe. It’s tough to break a story, or even be right on top of it, when it started making waves in the blogosphere while I’m still slumbering away at 3:30 or 4 a.m.
A case in…
Posted on January 19, 2005 9:27 am by Shel Holtz | Blogging
Google, Yahoo, MSN and other search engines have adopted a scheme to thwart comment spammers. The insertion of a “nofollow” tag in links to pages where visitors can post comments will instruct search engines that the link can’t be trusted so the search engines won’t pick them up. The spammers will stop comment spamming when they realize their efforts aren’t yielding placement in search engine…
Posted on January 19, 2005 9:12 am by Shel Holtz | Blogging
More and more people who aren’t writers by trade are taking up the keyboard to author blogs. Not surprisingly, a lot of truly awful writing is minimizing the impact of some otherwise thoughtful posts. BL Ochman notes in a post to her own blog that much of what makes writing good—particularly on blogs—doesn’t have to come naturally. It can be learned. BL goes into some…
Posted on January 19, 2005 8:24 am by Shel Holtz | Blogging | Internal
ZDNet offers a commentary by C|Net’s Daniel Berlind on the role of blogging via an intranet. Based largely on an interview Berlind conducted with UserLand Software CEO Scott Young includes time codes so you can find the spot in Berlind’s podcast where Young made related comments—an interesting blend of text and audio.
Young asserts in the interview that e-mail will always have its place, but…
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