BLOGS: SINCE YOU'RE READING THIS I'M GOING TO ASSUME YOU KNOW WHAT A BLOG IS.
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5th Most Influential New Yorker??
Really? (Of course not is obviously the answer.) According to this list on NowPublic (using TinyURL to offset the linkbaitishness of it) that purports to be "a detailed barometer of the most public n ...
July 21, 2008 |
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A Code of Conduct?
I'm sure most everyone has heard the story of how Kathy Sierra had her life threatened. This was a nasty incident and everyone who's outraged has a right to be. However, I'm not sure that <a href="http:// ...
April 9, 2007 | EMAIL | PRINT | 5 COMMENTS
Another Blog that Wasn't
The Captain of Captain Morgan's fame has started a "blog." At least that's what they're calling it. The thing is, it's got no RSS feed. I've talked about this before (check out this <a href="http://www.no ...
March 27, 2005 | EMAIL | PRINT | 11 COMMENTS
Another Meme Experiment
Copy This GoMeme From This Line to The End of This Article, and paste into your blog. Then follow the instructions below to fill it out for your site. Steal this!!!! This is a Gomeme -- a new way to spread an idea along socia ...
August 4, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
Bad Writing About Blogs
It seems like there's an article in a newspaper or magazine every day about blogs. The thing is, they all seem to contain the exact same ideas. What's worse is that they all do these stupid little things that bug me every time I read them (which is o ...
June 28, 2005 | EMAIL | PRINT | 10 COMMENTS
Blog Paper Proposal
Anyone who reads this site with any regularity will know my position on transparency (I'm all for it). With that said, I'm currently working on a proposal to write a paper on blogging for a cultural studies journal. As I was wrapping up the short pro ...
July 11, 2005 | EMAIL | PRINT | 3 COMMENTS
Blogging No Longer a Trend
I have a rule in life and that is: once the New York Times covers a trend it is officially no longer a trend. The newspaper rarely takes chances and once its written about something it's officially at least six months old and is on the verge of tippi ...
December 12, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 1 COMMENTS
Blogxperiment
As usual I'm not willing to leave well enough alone. My favorite blog as of late has been chartreuse(beta), as I kept reading and enjoying, I kept wondering what made it so good. Yeah, he's got style, ...
August 1, 2006 | EMAIL | PRINT | 10 COMMENTS
Do You Drink and Blog?
At work we're looking for some talented bloggers for a project we're working on. Here's the writeup: We are staring a national nightlife blog, and need someone in LA and Miami. We'd prefer a female, as we already have enough guys w ...
October 6, 2005 | EMAIL | PRINT | 1 COMMENTS
Four New Blogs
In the last few weeks I've added a few notable blogs to the old roll. I figured since I don't really have anything else to say at the moment, I'd send you all their way for a quick fix. Here they are (in no particular order): <a ...
June 14, 2006 | EMAIL | PRINT | 4 COMMENTS
Homepage Redesign Reasons
Yeah, so I've been pretty quiet lately. But I like to think I have had good reason. Beyond being busy with work, I've been working on a slight, yet important, homepage redesign. For those of you looking ...
July 14, 2005 | EMAIL | PRINT | 2 COMMENTS
House of Naked
Over the last few months I've been working on a semi-secret project. Just about the first day I got to Naked I started working on a blog for our New York Office. Well, it's finally time to unveil it (since < ...
May 28, 2007 | EMAIL | PRINT | 6 COMMENTS
How to Make Money Off Your Blog (Part 3): Job Boards
[Editor's Note: This is part two in a series of posts on how to make money off your blog. Part 1 was all about The Deck and <a href="htt ...
September 11, 2006 | EMAIL | PRINT | 3 COMMENTS
Including del.icio.us Inline on MT
Alright, for all you geeks out there, you're probably wondering how I include my del.icio.us links inline. Well, the process includes two perl scripts and three Movable Type pl ...
July 14, 2005 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
Links and Me
When I added links to the homepage content section I promised to give a little bit more reasoning behind the decision, especially as it relates to <a href="http://www.kottke. ...
July 20, 2005 | EMAIL | PRINT | 3 COMMENTS
Lunchtime Bloggy Thoughts
Today I got taken to lunch by some people at Ipswitch (makes of WS FTP). It was kind of an very laid back focus group. They had something like seven New York based bloggers and we all sat around tables eating ...
December 14, 2005 | EMAIL | PRINT | 6 COMMENTS
Marketability of Blogs
Are blogs a viable marketing tool? That is the question that Jim Meskauskas addressed in yesterday's Mediapost OnlineSPIN titled Flogging the Bl ...
July 23, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
Meme Alert! Tiger Blog Definition
I'm not normally a sucker for jumping in on memes, but thi ...
May 5, 2005 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
More Thoughts on PR vs. Blogs
Yesterday I got into a heated debate about the importance of incoming links and mentions when comparing bloggers (specifically Robert Scoble) to PR agencies. It was based on a <a href="http://www.blogbusinesssummit.com/archives/2005/01/how_robert_sco ...
January 12, 2005 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
My Favorite Blogs
I've been meaning to do this for a while. Rather than listing out my top 10 favorite blogs, here's a (pretty) full list of the blogs I enjoy the most. I've been working on this list over many weeks so it's quite possible I've missed something. If ...
October 2, 2005 | EMAIL | PRINT | 13 COMMENTS
My Philosophy on Blog Comments (and Comment Buttons)
As I've explained on many occasions, I gave quite a bit of thought to the redesign of this site. I've been incredibly happy with the feedback I've received and have made some changes because of it (notice the deks are now a darker blue). The followin ...
June 8, 2005 | EMAIL | PRINT | 4 COMMENTS
No More Nofollow
A while back a bunch of companies got together and decided the best way to curb comment spam was something called a 'nofollow' tag. Essentially what it did was tell the search engines not to give credit to links that included this tag, the idea be ...
July 16, 2006 | EMAIL | PRINT | 2 COMMENTS
PR vs. Blogs
I've gotten myself into quite a debate over at Blog Business Summit. Steve Broback started out by comparing mentions of Robert Scoble across the web comp ...
January 11, 2005 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
Pet Peeve: Blogless Blogs
Fox has started a blog for the return of Family Guy [link via Kottke Remaindered Links]. I would be in love with this idea if ...
January 6, 2005 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
Random Thoughts on Online Ads and Blogging
Things are still pretty crazy around here and my brain is still a bit scattered . . . Instead of a proper post, here's a few links and some thoughts on blogging. Hope to return to your regularly scheduled programming this week. <a href ...
September 24, 2007 | EMAIL | PRINT | 5 COMMENTS
Reach vs. Influence
David Armano was kind enough to invite me to a presentation he gave at Digitas about the success of his blog. It was fascinating to be in the audience for a presentation by a blogger to his co ...
October 19, 2006 | EMAIL | PRINT | 7 COMMENTS
Share Your Blog
I've been meaning to write this entry for a while but have been struggling with exactly what I want to say and how to say it. Anyhow, basically the point is I want to give something back to all you readers and I want to make this place feel a litt ...
January 24, 2007 | EMAIL | PRINT | 18 COMMENTS
Stop Telling Me About the "Top Blogs"
I was reading this research paper about collaborative tagging (which Arienna was so nice as to email me a link to) and I realized why I'm sick of al ...
August 22, 2005 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
Super Bowl Bound
Right now I've got one thing on my mind and it's Da Bears. In case you missed it on Sunday, they beat up the Saints and set themselves a date with Peyton Manning and the Indianapolis Colts in the Super Bowl. Ne ...
January 23, 2007 | EMAIL | PRINT | 8 COMMENTS
Talking About CGM
I feel like I've been going to a lot of conferences lately. I don't know whether it's true or not, but after going to Influx Ideas last week, I actually spoke at <a href="http://w ...
October 25, 2007 | EMAIL | PRINT | 11 COMMENTS
Teaching New Bloggers How to Attribute
What do you do when you find your writing on someone else's site without a proper attribute? It's a hard thing to deal with. Go take a look at this Firefox 101 post from RSS Bl ...
April 6, 2005 | EMAIL | PRINT | 5 COMMENTS
Testing Meme Propagation In Blogspace: Add Your Blog!
This posting is a community experiment that tests how a meme, represented by this blog posting, spreads across blogspace, physical space and time. It will help to show how ideas travel across blogs in space and time and how blogs are connected. It ...
August 2, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
The Death of Blogging
When asked about some predictions for next year, I suggested that 2006 is the year that will mark the end of blogging. Obviously I don't mean an end to the millions of people writing on the web daily, but rather the end of the differentiation. Blo ...
October 29, 2005 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
The Power of Blogging
I've been thinking a lot lately about the potential impact of blogging in a corporate enviornment. Whenever anyone asks me to explain corporate blogging I bring up the name of Robert Scoble, a blogging ...
November 27, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
The Word "Blog"
Yesterday was the first time in quite a while that I read anything interesting about blogs in a newspaper. The article was in the Washington Post and titled, <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/28/AR2006012800132. ...
January 31, 2006 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
Traditional Media and its Fear of the Blogosphere
"Convention seats do not turn Internet gossips into journalists." Or so says the sub-headline from an LA Times article by Alex S. Jones titled, <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/custom/showcase/la-oe- ...
July 19, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
What is a Blog? (My Attempt at a Definition)
Has anyone actually come up with a sufficient answer to this question yet? Seriously, we all use the word "blog" all the time, but we can't define it. Is it a website that's updated consistently? (If that's the definition don't we have to define cons ...
May 9, 2005 | EMAIL | PRINT | 3 COMMENTS
Why Blogs are Useful (With a Side of Simplicity in Design)
I was reading an article titled Web 2.0 for Designers" today and I ran across a quote that got me thinking: What does this mean for Web designers? It means designers have ...
May 5, 2005 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS