Posted on January 11, 2005 8:05 am by Shel Holtz | Blogging
Ellen Simonetti can add another hash mark to her count of bloggers who have lost their jobs over their writing. The Register in the UK reports that Joe Gordon, an 11-year employee of bookseller Waterstone’s, lost his job over posts in his blog, Woolamaloo Gazette.
Gordon hasn’t limited his reaction to his blog (where he said, “How can anyone be expected to go through…
Posted on January 11, 2005 7:18 am by Shel Holtz | Blogging
Michael Schrage thinks blogging software has potential beyond their currently uses. For example, “I think that blogs and wikis, if they???re done with craft and care, will supersede FAQs and traditional documention,” according to the co-director of MIT Media Labs co-director of eMarkets Initiative. The end result: faster application deployment.
Scharge is quoted in ADTMag (ADT: Application Development Tools), which also cites David Via,…
Posted on January 10, 2005 10:41 am by Shel Holtz | Blogging
Ellen Simonetti isn’t just sitting around lamenting the fact that Delta Air Lines fired her for offending management with some mildly provocative photos of her in her flight attendant uniform posted to her blog. She continues to write, focusing some of her postings on “blogophobic” companies, noting that bloggers could blacklist companies who don’t get their blogging act together.
According to Frank Barnako’s column,…
Posted on January 10, 2005 8:53 am by Shel Holtz | Blogging
It never hurts, when making the case for business blogging to the powers that be, to have a bagful of examples of companies whose blogs have paid off. There are several in an article appearing in a piece on the MSNBC site, including a Minnesota company that custom construction work. Northfield Constuction Company’s Ray Cox started his blog two years ago “to…
Posted on January 10, 2005 8:28 am by Shel Holtz | Blogging
A lot of investors lost money because the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) didn’t pay enough attention to early warning signals from bloggers. According to a story in today’s New York Post, a company called Absolute Health & Fitness attracted the interest of investor-focused blogs who questioned whether the company even existed following its stock price soared. The SEC’s reaction was to suspend…
Posted on January 7, 2005 5:12 pm by Shel Holtz | Blogging
It took me hours to delete all the comment spam that flooded this blog a few weeks back. The experience led me to switch from pMachine, the software I was using, to Expression Engine. Both are produced by the same company, but Expression Engine includes CAPTCHA, a tool that requires anybody submitting a comment to retype a word produced as…
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