Category: Blogging

  • Edelman/Microsoft laptop kerfuffle in PR Week

    PR Week UK has a full-page feature on page 18 of this week’s edition (Jan 12 cover date) about the Edelman/Microsoft Vista blogger relations kerfuffle entitled “Are freebies a blogosphere taboo?” This is a topic that has produced lots of…

  • The emotional description of a blog

    One topic that often comes up in conversations about blogging is how do you define a blog. Answering the question invariably includes a description of the attributes a website must have in order for it to be a blog: Reverse…

  • The great PR cock-up

    The phrase “damned if you do, damned if you don’t” seems to be an appropriate idiom to describe a developing kerfuffle surrounding Microsoft’s latest blogger outreach campaign ahead of the launch of Windows Vista at the end of January. Concisely,…

  • The 5 things tag

    I thought I might escape this one, but Martyn Davies tagged me in the ‘Five Things You Don’t Know About Me’ game that’s been doing the rounds of the blogosphere during the past week. So here goes… Not only was…

  • A weekend roundup

    One of the neat features of the FeedDemon RSS aggregator is how easy it is to manipulate the news and information that you subscribe to. For example, highlighting items of interest for later attention, such as blogging about them. You…