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Full story: Google: The Buddha of the internet age
A nice soundbite from an observer of the Google Zeitgeist Europe conference taking place in the UK today: […] One analyst, who declined to be named, said: “Google likes to see itself as the Buddha of the internet age who helps consumers on their path to enlightenment by allowing them to hunt down information on […]
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Full story: Perspectives on blog spam
What do Nicholas Cage, David Carradine, Susan Hayward, Richard Burton and a whole host of Hollywood stars past and present have in common? Their names have been hijacked by blog spammers, according to Akismet which stops spam appearing on my blog. A tidal wave of comment spam this weekend has been stopped in its tracks […]
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Full story: Blogging primer for journalists
Here’s a good example of a mainstream medium that ‘gets it’ concerning its journalists blogging. The Daily Telegraph’s news editor Shane Richmond has posted the Telegraph blogging style guide: […] that we send to our writers when they first start blogging. It’s very long for a blog post but I’m sure some of you will find […]
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Full story: Surely conventional wisdom can’t be right
Jeff Jarvis says: […] The problems with books are many: They are frozen in time without the means of being updated and corrected. They have no link to related knowledge, debates, and sources. They create, at best, a one-way relationship with a reader. They try to teach readers but don’t teach authors. They tend to […]
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Full story: SAP and the science of market disruption
German enterprise software vendor SAP is open to an acquisition by US technology groups, according to a Financial Times report yesterday: […] Hasso Plattner, supervisory board chief at the German group, said in an interview with FT Deutschland, the FT’s sister paper: “There are only three potential buyers: IBM, Microsoft and Google. I don’t see […]