On the latest Businessweek cover: Blogs will change your business. Look past the yakkers, hobbyists, and political mobs. Your customers and rivals are figuring blogs out. Our advice: Catch up…or catch you later. How true how true!
Category: Blogging
A Better Tomorrow
mrbrown has a great summary of the blogger dinner we have last night (waliao! posted at 2:31am. you win!) so go check it out. The two pretty ladies on the right were the two most famous female bloggers in Singapore xiaxue and adri (actually i was sitting between them but you don’t want to spoilt […]
Journalism is a verb, not a noun
Via Jeff Jarvis Many knickers are twisting into knots over the questions ofwho is a journalist and how to save journalism. But those are the wrong questions. Journalism is not defined by the person who does it or by the medium or the company that delivers it. Journalism is not a thing. It is an […]
VoIP Job Posting
I been using feedster to montior keyword voip and I notice a there are more and more job postings on voip like this. I am very happy to see jobs created by voip (hey “voip engineer” could be the new job position in your company) and I am equally impressed that people are using blog […]
State of Blogosphere
David Sifry posted an updated on the state of blogosphere with some interesting information: As of March 2005, technorati is tracking 7.8m weblogs (937 millions links) growing at 30k to 40k per day. Another interesting part is this paragraph: There is a dark underbelly to these numbers, however: Part of the growth of new weblogs […]
VON Blogger Panel
I have a lot of fun at the VoIP Blogger session with Andy Abramson, Dan Brekke, Jeff Pulver, Om Malik, Aswath Rao and Tom Keating. I am also pretty amazed at the numbers of people in the audience who read blogs and also blog themselves. Particularly, it is quite clear that most people read our […]
Yahoo! into Social Software
This would be an exciting news a year ago. But today, it sound just like “me too me too”. Yahoo, where have you been in the last 2 years? You are too late to the party. Why not acquire SixApart who is already doing very cool stuff? Internet media company Yahoo Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO – news) […]
Solution to Trackback Spams
Several MT users has emailed me to write a Captcha solution to the latest trackback spams problem. Unfortunately, Captcha cannot be easily integrated with trackback. In fact, trackback spams are harder to catch because both legit and spams trackback are normally send by machines so any tools that tries to differentiate human from machine will […]
Another trackback spam attack
I got another flood of trackback spams attack this time. Looks like it is getting worst – they perfect the technique and combined it with distributed zombie trackback pings. In just 12hrs, I got over 100+ such trackbacks. Luckily, all trackbacks need to go thru moderation and I can delete them with a zap. Still, […]
2005 Top 10 trend according to Fortune
Top 10 trend in 2005 according to Fortune. No. 1 on the list is blogging :-) Read the excellent article on Fortune which has pretty good summary of what’s happened in the blogosphere last year. In a related news, Seth discovered the guy behind Think Secret (which is now been sued by Apple) is a […]