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Laceym- why no more clip-to-blog 'o skepticism?!

Sat, 18 Aug 2007 00:33:26 GMT

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clipper's remarks: You have great clips, why no more blogging action?!

My Blog o’ Skepticism

The best of the web pertaining to reason, free thought, and skepticism.

ProBlogger helps you build a better blog

Fri, 17 Aug 2007 18:36:26 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Bryan Person's Social Media Top 10 post drove me to this blog that's about how to get the most out of blogging and how to earn a living off of it. I find the ProBlogger creator, Darren Rowse, to be very intriguing and he does a great job at aggregating everyone's thoughts and experiences on how to blog more strategically. Thanks Bryan, Darren and ProBlogger contributors I am finding the ProBlogger blog to be not only helpful but also inspiring.

This is a post-to-blog clip for: clipping the social web, http://www.clipper.typepad.com

Clip Source: onemansgoal.com

31 Days to Building a Better Blog

Day 1 - Email a New Reader
Day 2 - Run a ‘First Time Reader Audit’ on your Blog
Day 3 - Search for and Join a Forum
Day 4 - Interlink Archived Posts
Day 5 - Conduct an ‘About Page Audit’
Day 6 - Email an Old Timer Reader
Day 7 - Plan Your Next Week’s Posting Schedule
Day 8 - Comment on a Blog You’ve Never Commented On Before
Day 9 - Run an Advertising Audit On Your Blog
Day 10 - Declutter Your Sidebar
Day 11 - Dig into Your Blog’s Statistics
Day 12 - Introduce Yourself to another Blogger
Day 13 - Search for an Affiliate Program that Fits Your Blog
Day 14 - Analyze Your Blog’s Competition
Day 15 - Make Your Most Popular Posts Sticky
Day 16 - Create a Heatmap of Where Readers Click on Your Blog
Day 17 - Run a StumbleUpon Campaign for Your Blog

Tags: problogger, blogging, blog, seo

Boston is the "Bloggiest City"

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 19:04:36 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Between March and April of this year Boston residents generated more blog posts that discuss Boston than any other city in the U.S. has about their own city. Hmm, I wonder why? The article says that blogging typically is more prevalent in cities with highly political and well-educated residents. Does the fact that it is between March and April have any significance? Any thoughts?

Clip Source: www.boston.com

According to OutsideIn.com, a website that tracks neighborhood blogging, Boston was the "bloggiest city" in America for the two-month period of March and April.

Behind Boston were Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and Washington, D.C.

OutsideIn.com says it tracks blogging activity in about 60 urban areas and nearly 3,500 neighborhoods, and it arrived at its rankings through a "blogging quotient" that factors in a metropolitan area's population with the number of blog posts about a specific location.

Outsidein.com chief executive Steven Berlin Johnson offered this theory: Blogs thrive where locals are wired, well-educated, and obsessed with politics, a topic that inspires bloggers to unleash their prose.

Tags: boston, blog, bloggiest city, outsidein

Elton John wants to Shut Down Internet

Fri, 03 Aug 2007 15:47:42 GMT

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clipper's remarks: This is ridiculous. Is he serious!

Clip Source: www.thesun.co.uk

Web rant ... Sir Elton says the internet is destroying music

POP legend Sir Elton John wants the internet CLOSED DOWN

He claims it is destroying good music, saying: “The internet has stopped people from going out and being with each other, creating stuff.

“Instead they sit at home and make their own records, which is sometimes OK but it doesn’t bode well for long-term artistic vision.

“We’re talking about things that are going to change the world and change the way people listen to music and that’s not going to happen with people blogging on the internet.

“I mean, get out there — communicate.

Hopefully the next movement in music will tear down the internet

“Let’s get out in the streets and march and protest instead of sitting at home and blogging.

“I do think it would be an incredible experiment to shut down the whole internet for five years and see what sort of art is produced over that span.

“There’s too much technology available.

Tags: eltonjohn

PodCamp "UnConference" in Boston

Tue, 31 Jul 2007 05:07:37 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I listen to a lot of podcasts, read a ton of blogs and participate in several social communities and I have heard so many great things about PodCamp.

Clip Source: www.eventbrite.com

PodCamp Boston 2 is a FREE 2 day Unconference exploring new media community tools like blogging, videoblogging, podcasting, second life, twitter, and more. The event is created by the participants, and everyone had a voice in the experience. Newcomers are welcome and you don't have to be a techie to get a lot out of coming and participating in a PodCamp.

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PodCamp 2 day admission, also contains registration for schwag.

October 28, 2007

Free

Begins

Friday, October 26, 2007 at 7:00 pm ET

Ends

Sunday, October 28, 2007 at 5:00 pm ET

Location
Boston Convention and Exhibition Center
415 Summer Street

Boston, 02210

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Tags: podcamp, podcampboston, podcamp boston, chrispenn, chris penn

John Mackey, Cheif Idiot of Whole Foods

Tue, 17 Jul 2007 05:47:21 GMT

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clipper's remarks: What John Mackey did really blows my mind. I, along with Shel Holtz, thought of him as a sort of grocery store hero with his Whole Foods Blog. Maintaining a respectable blog, while posting bogus comments on Yahoo Finance message boards like "13 years from now Whole Foods will be a $800+ stock before splits," "while I'm not a 'Mackey groupie, I do admire what the man has accomplished" and my personal favorite "I like Mackey's haircut. I think he looks cute!"

Confusing me even more is his response to his actions. He tries to play it off like what he did wasn't a big deal. It is a big deal, especially when, at the same time, you are publishing a "credible" blog to build truthful and authentic relationships with your current and potential customers, influencers and even investors!! I hope he faces serious repercussions for his actions... serves him right for acting so two-faced.

Clip Source: blog.holtz.com

John Mackey, the CEO of Whole Foods

has blogged regularly on the Whole Foods website

It is therefore saddening to see the fallout from the revelation that Mackey has routinely engaged in discussions on financial message boards about his company—touting Whole Foods as an investment—using a pseudonym. He posted items under the name harobed, an anogram for Deborah, his wife’s name. It was the FTC that exposed Mackey’s involvement.

Mackey didn’t lie in any of his posts, leading some to believe that he didn’t violate any laws, even if he did violate ethical standards.

There is nothing on Mackey’s blog about all of this, which is sad.

He should have posted something contrite, apologizing for his overzealousness.

Rather than adhere to a plan for blogging and participating in social media, Mackey just did whatever felt right. This is why I have never told a client, “You should be blogging,” but rather recommend blogging when, as a tactic, it can serve to meet business objectives.

Tags: johnmackey, wholefoods, blogging, ftc, wildoats, ethics

Web 2.0 Defined

Wed, 11 Jul 2007 06:43:28 GMT

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Clip Source: mynewtechnology.blogspot.com

Such technologies include RSS, Wikis, blogs and blogging, streaming media audio and video formats, podcasting, instant messaging, social bookmarking, photos, commentary and comments formats, tagging, web services, and social networking. These allow for
"A much higher level of interactivity and deeper user experiences."

The concept of Web 2.0 "represents a second wave of Web techniques to create more interactive and easy-to-use Web sites using new technologies

Surfing the web, emails, and search engines were considered Web 1.0.

Tags: web2.0 2.0

YouTube for Adrenaline Junkies Video Site

Tue, 20 Mar 2007 19:58:25 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Beyond video, there’s also blogging, a network of friends, photo sharing, favorites, forums, playlists and the ability to list your favorite skiing, snowboarding and surf gear (a potential revenue opportunity).

Clip Source: mashable.com

The niche social networks just keep on coming. Today, Go211 is announcing the launch of its video sharing site for action sports - skiing, snowboarding, surfing and BMXing. It uses Flash for the videos (good choice) streamed from Limelight networks, and also includes profile pages.

Tags: video+sharing video+sharing+go211

social networks for sports

Sat, 24 Feb 2007 21:29:06 GMT

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Clip Source: mashable.com

iSporty, a social network for sports, will launch tomorrow. If the site looks at all familiar, that’s because it’s really a relaunch of TiredandTested, which we wrote about at the end of last year. It’s pretty clear in this iteration that iSporty will cater mainly to the UK market, and global users might feel a little lost among the hordes of soccer fans.

You need to be logged in to see the full extent of the new features, which include the site’s TV web channel iSporty TV, regularly updated sporting news, blogging, fansites, scrapbooks and photo sharing. There’s also the ability to keep a calendar and post events. Groups, meanwhile, are populated with photos from Flickr and videos from YouTube and Google Video - there’s Google Maps integration, too. The interface is an acquired taste: the brown, red, gray and blue takes a little getting used to, and I think the old design was less stale.

I partially understand the benefits of narrowing your scope to one country (no competition), but I also think it’s less ambitious than taking on the world: wouldn’t you rather follow the MySpace and Netvibes strategy of launching a global/US site first before rolling out national versions?

Other sports social networks include Takkle, FanNation and Ultrafan.

Tags: socialnetworking

PR doesnt get Social Media

Mon, 22 Jan 2007 00:55:59 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I agree I struggle with the same thing at work

Clip Source: www.stoweboyd.com

I attended the Third Thursday event last night, which was held in SF instead of the usual Palo Alto. About 25 people attended, mostly young, impressionable PR and communications folks eager to learn all about social media: specifically, social media press releases, which were the topic for the evening. But what they heard was -- by my lights -- a seriously watered down version of what social media is, or should be, as the backdrop for a discussion about new media press releases.

To the participants: Please, please, please don't talk about audiences when you are theoretically promoting social media. As Jay Rosen has suggested, we are the people formerly known as the audience. Blogging is not just another channel for corporate marketing types to push their messages to markets, eyballs, or audiences. Social media is based on the dynamic of a many-to-many dialogue between people. Yes, people: that's the word that should have been used. Not audience. If you'd like to make a distinction between a company and those outside the company, just remember: they are not an audience for your messages, any more than you are an audience for theirs. The whole point is that the people formerly known at the audience -- the edglings, as I call us -- are participating in the blogosphere, and if individuals within companies want to, they can participate: as individuals. Companies don't blog, or converse: people do.

Finally, as Doc Searls has pointed out, metaphors matter. Drop the old speak: no more "audience", no more third-party writing, no more "wink, wink" complicity in totally false quotes and knowingly working with clients on spin instead of open dialogue. School your clients to do the right thing, not just wrap themselves in a bunch of psychobabble about social interaction with their "communities" without actually adopting a new mindset.

Tags: socialmedia, pr_socialmedia, pr

Whateverlife: Helps you with MySpace code

Sun, 14 Jan 2007 20:36:37 GMT

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Clip Source: mashable.com

The sixth player is a 70s-styled directory and guide that seems to be built on a blogging platform. Instead of producing MySpace layouts and banners, WhateverLife provides advice and help on installing your layouts, producing overlapping text, creating tables and more. In many ways, it’s an html coding guide reinvented for the MySpace generation. This is a whole ‘nother market to tap: the huge number of MySpace users who are struggling with html coding.

Tags: myspace, myspace+ad-ons+whateverlife

Potentially Powerful Blogging Platform Terapad

Sat, 13 Jan 2007 21:21:30 GMT

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Clip Source: www.stuartbruce.biz

My initial impressions were favourable as Terapad looked powerful, feature-rich and easy to use. My two concerns at the time were cost and security. It was expensive compared to the competition (although none of them offered as much). Secondly, I would have concerns about hosting a commercial site on a proprietary system from a small company - you always have to consider the worst.

However, an email from Terapad founder Stephen Tual informs me that Terapad is now free (supported by AdSense adverts). This changes the entire dynamics for me and I think potentially makes Terapad an ideal platform for community and activist type groups such as local politicians, resident associations, local charities, pressure groups etc.

I'll try to make some time to have a proper play with it and report back when I've done so - or you can follow the action here.

Tags: blog+platform+terapad

Pitching Bloggers

Sat, 13 Jan 2007 20:54:27 GMT

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Clip Source: www.stuartbruce.biz

Journalists are PR schmucks, bloggers cut the hype

As if. Some bloggers might like to think they take the moral high ground and can't be manipulated by spinning PR types, but in reality it's same old, same old.

Duncan Reily has this interesting little story about how UK-based gadget website Firebox's PR firm emailed top tech blogs to promote Firebox's products:

Bill Linn, a partner with Sandbox Strategies [Firebox’s PR firm], says his firm looked for blogs popular with techies or pop culture enthusiasts, then e-mailed them messages about unique products, deals, and contests offered by Firebox.com. The company started with major blogs such as Boing Boing, Engadget, and Gizmodo; news of Firebox then circulated among smaller blogs that linked to the larger ones.

“Not every one of our clients can get away with that, but when you have product lines like gizmos and toys, you can feed the blogs and generate sales,” Linn says. “We found that blogs don’t respond well if your message is too corporate, so we cut that out and got to what’s important to the reader.”

Tags: blog, journalism, blogging

Cool blogging platform Terapad.com

Mon, 08 Jan 2007 11:21:54 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I don't know much about competing platforms but this one seems super customizable!

Clip Source: www.terapad.com

Get the look & feel you want.

Just like you, we don't like templates. Pick from one of our 6 beautiful designs and change anything, anytime, or even create a new one from scratch. It's all done using Cascading Style Sheets, the standard in Web 2.0 design.

How do we compare?

Feature	Terapad.com	Wordpress.org	TypePad Business Class
Price	Free, ad-supported	Hosting fees	From $89.95/month
Hosting	Hosted, simple	Need to setup your own server	Hosted, simple
WYSIWYG	Full edition	Limited	Limited
Forums	Yes	No	No
Online Shop	Yes, integrates with Paypal(tm)	No	No
CMS (web pages)	Yes, with audit trail and access control	Yes, with workflow	No
Event Calendar	Yes	No	No
Image Gallery	Yes	No	No
Career Tools	Yes, full job board	No	No

Tags: blog+platform+terapad

"Web 2.0 is most popular Wikipedia Entry of 06

Fri, 05 Jan 2007 01:53:33 GMT

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Clip Source: mashable.com

“Web 2.0″ is Most Popular Wikipedia Entry of 2006

We promised that we’d never mention that annoying phrase “Web 2.0″ on Mashable again - we lied. AdAge reports that the ill-defined phrase that tries to sum up the essence of the user-controlled web was the most-cited Wikipedia entry of 2006, presumably because no-one really knows what the heck it means.

The other entries in the the top ten were Steve Irwin, the Mark Foley scandal, blog, AJAX, Snakes on a Plane, meme, wiki and RSS. The fact that so many of those phrases are technical suggests that tech bloggers account for a lot of the citations. A better measure of popularity is the number of views - those stats show that sex-related entries are the most popular (the site that lists these stats is currently down).

Also released at the end of 2006 were Neilsen’s stats on the most linked-to blog entries of the year. In that case, a petition against changes to the LiveJournal interface made the top spot, while political blogs made many of the other top entries. Unsurprisingly, Technorati’s “State of the Blogosphere” reports also make numerous appearances. So bloggers are interested in blog entries about blogging: who would have thought?

Tags: web2.0, wikipedia

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Boston is the "Bloggiest City"

Elton John wants to Shut Down Internet

PodCamp "UnConference" in Boston

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Web 2.0 Defined

YouTube for Adrenaline Junkies Video Site

social networks for sports

PR doesnt get Social Media

Whateverlife: Helps you with MySpace code

Potentially Powerful Blogging Platform Terapad

Pitching Bloggers

Journalists are PR schmucks, bloggers cut the hype

Cool blogging platform Terapad.com

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