Blogging —
If you follow the blogosphere (yukkkk), the Twitterati (eurghhhh), the Facebookers, or the FriendFeeders, you might be forgiven for believing that these social networks are where all the action is happening right now. For example, high-profile bloggers, tweeters, and Facebookers such as Robert Scoble, and Chief Mahooligan, Jason Calacanis are in love with Twitter at [...]
Just in case anyone’s interested, by the way, I’m now on Twitter - http://twitter.com/psynixis (@psynixis). For anyone that doesn’t know, Twitter is a “micro-blogging” service.
You know, I’m not usually a supporter of ritualistically stoning people to death, but I might be willing to make an exception for blog comment spammers. They’re really starting to piss me off now - for the first time ever, a few of them are tweaking their spam systems too fast for my [...]
So, I got tagged by Marc Dencker of Microsoft… which means I have to tell you five things about me that most of you don’t know. This shouldn’t be too difficult - I tend not to blog much about myself, so there’ll be no need for me to get too deep and meaningful here…
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If you follow the tech corner of the blogging world, you’ve probably seen the spat that’s been going on between Scoble and people from that Gadget sites Engadget and Gizmodo. If not, you can start here, and then look at more recent posts in Scoble’s blog. And now Jason Calacanis has joined in with an [...]
Of course, with anti-spam systems like Akismet, comment spam on blogs doesn’t really work. Yes, the occasional spam message makes it through, but the number of spam comments the system misses is pretty small.
That doesn’t stop the comment spammers trying though. I just did a quick calculation for this blog on the number [...]
Feel free to ignore this entry, I’m just experimenting with a new blogging tool from Microsoft, called LiveWriter. One of the things with blogging, is that it’s not yet as easy to compose a blog entry as it is to compose a document by using a word processor. The new LiveWriter product (which is beta) [...]
A few days ago, I wrote about the popularity of almost all blogs, or rather the lack of popularity. In that post, I gave some rough ways that a blog might be valued from an investment perspective - you certainly need more than a million visitors a week to be valued [...]
There’s a huge amount of hype surrounding blogging. I can’t help feeling, though, that it’s much more niche than many people would have you believe. In other words, the numbers of readers, listeners and viewers of text, audio and video blogs are much, much lower than all the hype would suggest. [...]