August 8, 2002

Blogs May Provide Valuable PR Opportunities

Quotes from an article title “Pitching Blogs” on the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) site:

“… blogs are rapidly becoming authoritative news sources. PR professionals should keep this new type of media on their radar screens”

“Publicists have long sought means for reaching highly targeted audiences, including media reps, in order to drive buzz about their clients. With the kind of traffic and targeting that any of the aforementioned sites generate, topic-specific blogs can fit the bill.”

August 2, 2002

Dogs are smarter than people think

Why am I not surprised? “Dogs are probably much cleverer than most people think, according to a new study.” [ more here ]

August 2, 2002

The Barbie drug ;

Hmm, I wonder if it effects your math skills?
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_medical/story.jsp?story=319949

July 31, 2002

How Weblogs Keep the Media Honest

Howard Kurtz, media critic for the Washington Post writes about how Weblogs are influencing big media organizations “It’s called influencing the debate, in real time.”

July 29, 2002

Hit Spam companies where it hurts!

Heh … This actually sounds like a good idea … SpamBattle.com : Using cost-per-click search engines to make spammers pay!

July 29, 2002

Safire on the origin of Blogs ;

From NY Times Magazine, William Safire traces the etymology of Blog.

July 26, 2002

Blog HOT or NOT

Is your Blog HOT or NOT ?

July 25, 2002

Using Blogs in Business

OMG, I actually agree with Cam … a quote from a quote on Blogroots :

“Where I work, much of the company-wide memorandums and communication is done via e-mail, with some e-mails containing numerous attachments that sometimes weigh in at a hefty one-to-two megabytes. It’d be so much better if these e-mails only referenced documents somewhere on the intranet instead of including them as attachments. The intranet page for each department could be a regularly updated weblog of information currently being circulated. This would solve so many problems with disk space and deleted e-mails, it puzzles me that some corporate intranets haven’t adopted these simple concepts for the easy distribution of information. —Cameron Barrett”

July 25, 2002

Building XML Portals with Cocoon

You all are probably aware of this and excuse me if someone mentioned this before, but I found a new and interesting article on XML.com by Matthew Langham and Carsten Ziegeler, which describe the portal components they built and donated to the Apache Cocoon Project. The donation consisted of components and tools for authentication (originally called “sunRise”) and portals (originally called “sunSpot”). [ More here ]

July 22, 2002

Web journals could have business value

Quotes from an InformationWeek article on Blogging’s business value [Thanks John]:

“weblogging will be a grassroots movement in business in the same way that, say, instant messaging has been.”

“… there’s built-in motivation for people to participate in blogging: They get credit for their ideas. A blog is essentially a repository of a person’s intellectual capital–a record of their thoughts, observations, contributions. People may switch employers, but they’ll take with them electronic journals of their best ideas. Blogging is a way to protect the most important brand of all: yourself.”