It took Google Blog search almost exactly half an hour to notice my last post and send it out as a Google Alert. Not quite as fast as sending content out directly in an RSS feed, but almost.

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I am always looking out for good WordPress designers, preferably within a few hundred miles but that’s not imperative. While I am naturally enough interested in how Hill & Knowlton gets on with its latest bloggers campaign for the new LG phone, at this moment I am just drooling over the design work.
It is based on K2 but heavily stylised. Shiny, dark and really classy. Take a look.

And by the way, they didn’t give me a phone to say that.

Update: Niall Cook comments (almost before I had finished posting) to say the design was done by a company called Prophet in Belgium. So more than a few hundred miles away then.

Why doesn’t this surprise me? I m in London today talking to a travel company. Blogging is treated with caution and, almost inevitably, the question pops up: how do we control the comments?
Control, control, control. It was almost a show-stopper for a luxury hotel group a few months ago. Equanimty returns when I reassure them comments will sit until in suspended inanimation until approved.
I am beginning to think I should shove that in at the beginning of every presentation. There might be fewer bitten fingernails before question time.

Travolution@PhoCusWright Brussels – Hotels unsure over user reviews:
A session focussing on the luxury hotel market…

Unsurprisingly the panel is keen to include user reviews – but equally lacking a shock factor is a general agreement that all comments will be moderated to ensure “malicious” activity isn’t shared with consumers.

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