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Full story: It’s not good to Google in any language
Do you Google? Everyone does, but Google would prefer that you didn’t use their trademarked name as a verb: Search engine giant Google, known for its mantra “don’t be evil”, has fired off a series of legal letters to media organisations, warning them against using its name as a verb. Of course they have to protect their trademark, but it seems to me that heavy-handed letters from lawyers in this case is a bit like King Canute trying to stop…
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Full story: WordPress rocks on
When you like a particular software application or business service, it’s good to see when others like the same things. Makes you think that you made a good choice when you see overwhelmingly good opinions about that application or service. That’s the case with WordPress, the platform that powers this blog. Since version 2.0 was released last December, over one million copies have been downloaded. The current release version is 2.0.4; very much worth getting. See the running downloads tally…
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Full story: Tom Murphy’s shiny new blog
Veteran Irish PR blogger Tom Murphy has opened a new shop with a brand new blog – Murphy’s Law: […] I’m putting PR Opinions in mothballs and moving to a shiny new blog which will continue to discuss the finer elements of Public Relations, still moan at the hype, but will also cover more diverse subjects that take my fancy. Tom’s original PR Opinions was one of the first PR blogs I encountered in 2003. Good move to WordPress, Tom!…
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Full story: The Hobson & Holtz Report – Podcast #164: August 17, 2006
Content summary: Listener feedback on the 2006 Podcast Awards; Apple’s cease-and-desist orders concerning use of the iPod name; employee at UK telco Orange suspended for racial post on political blog; blogs, wikis and forums sway consumer opinion; podcast transcription and Amazon Mechanical Turk; Google’s Blogger upgrade; Dell battery recall: communication issues and opportunities; Dan York reports; listeners’ comments discussion; Across the Sound podcast #50: upcoming Skypecast; the music; and more. Show notes for August 17, 2006 Welcome to For Immediate Release:…
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Full story: The Iranian president’s blog and devious intent
When Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadenijad started a blog last week, it didn’t get an awful lot of meaningful attention in the English-speaking blogosphere. Perhaps it should have, if only to say that here we have the first blog in the world where the blogger is a country’s leader, assuming that Mr Ahmadenijad is writing his own posts. Much of the commentary I saw about it seem to be polarized views with words including terrorism, propaganda and devious plans against Israel.…
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