Friday Wrap: Stuff We Liked This Week
It’s been a busy week and to wrap it all up we thought that we would mention a few things that caught our attention.
Firstly we should probably mention the huge amount of attention Richard’s post about last weekend’s anti-Scientology rally received. Despite being little more than some really interesting photos it received as much traffic […]
Hotels & Airlines: All Hostages To Online Reputations
I met up for a drink last night with a cousin of mine who was over from Dublin on business. During the course of the evening, as we caught up on what we’d both been doing for the past 5 years, I asked here where she was staying. She replied that she was booked into […]
The Magic Penny Of Giving Content Away
This weekend it occurred to me that I hadn’t written a blog post for quite some time so I thought that it was time to do something about that. With the papers full of the news that Bebo had been named as the ‘best social network’ I decided to write a response, explaining why I […]
NY Times Op-Ed Artwork
As seen on NotCot and referencing the New York Times best of Op-Ed 07, here are some of my highlights - I’ll add that they’re not highlights because of content or context (well, the first one is) but more for artistic value!
By Paula Scher:
By Stephen Doyle:
By Christian Northeast:
Another 3 Months Of Blogging Stats
A post by Rand on where tech sites tend to get their traffic from reminded me that we haven’t done another update on how the blog is doing, and as the end of 2007 approaches, I thought that today would be as good a time as any. We last did this back before Altogether even […]
Can Advertisers Make Fake Blogs Work Or Is Flogging Still A Dirty Word?
Around this time last year, the reputation of flogs (or fake blogs) had been all but completely destroyed. “Marketing experts” attempted to jump on the blog bandwagon, but did so in such a way as to hide the association between brand & blog.
Rightly so, some may say, as who really wants to read a […]
Blog About The News To Get In The News
During my presentation on Viral Marketing at SMX last week, I mentioned the idea of piggy backing trends to gain coverage for your own product or service. Well it just so happens that we had a perfect example of that just last week, and we’ve finally managed to track down the evidence.
When Bebo announced the […]
Live Twittering (Littering?) From SMX London On Friday
As I’ve mentioned before I’ll be speaking at the inaugural SMX London conference this Friday, and I had been planning to live blog from the other sessions. However, having tried this at SMX Advanced in Seattle back in the Summer, I found that I simply couldn’t type fast enough.
I’ve therefore decided to try something else […]
Billie Piper, Blogging And Bondage. Oh My.
Last night, Secret Diary of a Call Girl, the television programme based on the blog Belle de Jour, aired on ITV2 for the first time. So what better subject for my maiden voyage on the company blog than the grooming of Britain’s sauciest blogger for telly? Which has involved an in-your-face print […]
Blog Spammers Offer Protection Services: Thank God For Askimet
I was just checking the comments on our blog to see if there were any that needed approval (like all sensible people, we use comment moderation). There were two, and one really caught my eye.
hello , my name is [deleted] and I know you get a lot of spammy comments ,
I can help you […]
