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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 the web. This conference is designed to underline that impression.” Media reports say Google wants the event to become almost a “mini Davos“, bringing together…
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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 by Akismet. Apart from one little recent glitch, Akismet really is an excellent service which learns from the collective feedback of everyone who uses it.…
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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 it interesting. Our writers have different levels of experience with blogs, and the internet in general, when they start so the guide assumes no prior…
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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 be too damned long because they have to be long enough to be books. As David Weinberger taught me, they limit how knowledge can be…
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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 anyone else. If shareholders think that a combination, and not independence, is better, then it will happen.†Mr Plattner, who holds 12 per cent of…
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