Month: August 2006
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Astroturfing: Time to walk the talk
Last month’s anti-astroturfing initiative by Australian PR bloggers Trevor Cook and Paull Young got off to a good start with plenty of commentary in support of the idea. The supporters list now shows the names of 32 people who have…
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A succinct definition of blogging
Catching up with some RSS feed reading this morning, I read Warren Bickford’s post at the IABC Cafe on the role of bloggers in the current Middle East crisis. Warren references Lisa Goldman, a Canadian blogger in Israel. We were…
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Gay Pride Amsterdam
Today is the highlight of the annual Gay Pride Festival in Amsterdam with the traditional day-long parade of boats along the Prinsengracht in the center of the city. We tend to be there most years but today’s been the start…
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Biz-Tech-News: Headines 5-Aug-06
“how big is your audience?” Agency.com creates Viral Marketing Boomerang Apple bruised by options probe Apple denies iTunes contravenes consumer law Apple OS X 10.5 Leopard features leaked? Blog Migration Hell – An Argument for SaaS China Blocks FeedBurner RSS…
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900 years of English history goes online
I’d bet that few people haven’t heard of the Domesday Book, the survey of England commissioned in 1085 by William I (William the Conqueror) who conquered England after the Battle of Hastings in 1066. This publication is still used today…