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Techcrunch has its faults, but can’t be knocked on this fantastic April Fools’ story, which had me (a) relay it to Twitter — thanks heaven for delete and the normal wave of scobleisms to drown it out; (b) draft an indignant blog post. Only a quick peek at the comments set me straight. Bastard. http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/03/31/techcrunch-has-acquired-fuckedcompanycom/ What do MySpace, craisglist and the ‘A listers’ have in common? Congratulations to Shaun Shull, the inventor of new social media monitoring site Zudos. By coming up with a name whose only rhyme is ‘kudos’, they’re almost guaranteeing good headlines. Which I have awkwardly resisted. The same thing goes for something like del.icio.us — you’re almost compelled to write about ‘tasty features’, ‘yummy deals’ and other A little spat has developed this week over something called Liveblogging, which I found quite interesting because it brings up some contentious ideas and opinions about blogging in general. And I’m not referring to the shameful ‘heavy fingers’ incident that spoiled the Guardian Changing Media conference for one unfortunate woman… Liveblogging refers to people blogging an So, I’m on a panel about how brands can benefit or suffer from involvement with social media at the forthcoming Blogging4Business event. Good examples we all know about: Dell (addresses Dell Hell service complaints with its own blog; learns from early mistakes on said blog), Microsoft (developer social network; but also taking stick over its |             | |||
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