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Full story: 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 signed up to publicly support this grassroots campaign, intended to throw a spotlight on an insidious practice that is the opposite of transparency yet is dressed up as such. Those 32 names are communicators who are bloggers, academics, practitioners and…
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Full story: 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 both impressed by Lisa, Warren – I talked about her, too, in my post last month on the most blogged war. One of the comments to Warren’s post caught my attention in particular. Marcus Ferrar (a long-time IABC member with…
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Full story: 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 of a work weekend. So I had to give it a miss. But I did manage to catch some views of the terrific scenes broadcast live by AT5, Amsterdam’s news channel. In fact, I shot a quick 2-minute video clip…
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Full story: 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 Feeds Clickdensity maps the heat of website traffic Co-creation Charted French copyright law takes effect, to industry dismay Is drug dealing a good business model? RIAA Sues LimeWire for Online Piracy Trading Down Warner Music looks to DVDs as alternative…
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Full story: 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 as a source of reference in, for example, property ownership matters where the book provides historical proof of landholding. Today, the Domesday Book goes online: The iconic 11th Century document, which has been rebound, copied, facsimiled and even hidden in…
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