Yes, it’s the day when every blogger links to another five blogs, but preferably five blogs which haven’t yet made it into the Hot 500, or the Sainted 100 or whichever list of elite blogs is hogging the limelight this week.
So let’s hear it for:Fast Eddie’s Bullet - he shaved his leg! Ideas in Food [...]
Entries from August 2005
Blog Day
August 31st, 2005 · Comments Off
Tags: Travel PR
We know where you’re going
August 27th, 2005 · Comments Off
Do these geotechies never sleep? It seems a new geotagging application appears on the map almost daily. This weekend, it’s an open source application called JourneySat
You can use to record a trip in pictures and words and with a map so others can follow your progress.
After writing a diary note and adding the photos [...]
Tags: Travel PR
RSS. What’s in a name?
August 22nd, 2005 · Comments Off
Really Simple Syndication is already revolutionising the delivery of all kinds of internet content. Shame that has nobody ever heard of it. I spend more time explaining those three little initials than any other aspect of social media technology.
Fortunately the message is beginning to percolate to mainstream media, some of whom are doing a [...]
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New blogging audience statistics
August 10th, 2005 · Comments Off
The first major marketing study of the blogging audience has been released by comScore Networks and, though very US-centric it makes fascinating reading. Among the findings comes the news that fifty million U.S. internet users, or about 30% of the U.S. internet population, visited blog sites in the first quarter of 2005.
Another gem suggests that [...]
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And…we’re back
August 8th, 2005 · Comments Off
Sorry things have been quiet around here. There are good technical reasons for this. We’ve been refurbishing. And unless you are reading this through a newsreader you’ll notice a few changes.
These are not mere cosmetic fiddlings. Part of the idea, in this department at least, is to show that a blog need not look like [...]
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All-singing dancing webfeeds
August 4th, 2005 · Comments Off
Whether or not the world will embrace RSS in the new future when it comes to IE7, it certainly won’t be able to ignore it. According to the IE Blog whenever anyone using the next version of the browser stumbles on a site with an RSS feed, a button on the toolbar lights up. Perhaps [...]
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Blogs are blooming
August 2nd, 2005 · Comments Off
According to Technorati, the blog search service, a new blog is created every second these days while the total number of blogs doubles every twenty two weeks. What’s more, the fact Technorati currently tracks more than fourteen million blogs rather reinforces the thought that this is the year of the blog.
Fortunately, there is some [...]
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