By Ian, on November 29th, 2007 If this is here, then my upgrade to the latest version of WordPress and a new theme won’t have been a complete disaster. If it isn’t here, then let’s keep it to ourselves, eh? The newest thing is native support for tags, as well as categories. Everything is miscellaneous, of course (check this fantastic video Continue reading Upgrade to WordPress 2.3.1 By Ian, on December 7th, 2006 Blogging Asia: A Windows Live Report shows that blogging is already a significant force in Asia. Haven’t been able to find the original report online, but I’ve been able to piece together the following from here, here and here. 46% of the online population in Asia have a blog (compared to just 8% of US Continue reading Blogging Asia By Ian, on December 6th, 2006 The UK’s best-known website auditing firm, ABCe, will move to measuring unique users instead of page impressions as its mandatory measurement metric. Page impressions have come under fire as a metric for several reasons, not least the ability to fake results by splitting a story over several pages. This is good news for professional blogs: Because Continue reading A Better Impression By Ian, on December 2nd, 2006 Opening the WoM Communications conference, Steve Barton of Keevil Barton Kershaw [now defunct] talked about the reasons word of mouth matters more than ever. He cited research that states we receive over 3000 messages a day about products and services (source unknown, but I can believe it. Here is some info). We’re not able to Continue reading More Word of Mouth By Ian, on December 1st, 2006 Thanks to Simon from Green for sorting me out a press pass to Word of Mouth Communications. A very interesting day which I thoroughly recommend the next time it comes around. I’m going to write about three cough… two of the presentations in three … two posts, to keep me stocked up with new material Continue reading What I Learned About Word of Mouth By Ian, on November 28th, 2006 Update: Toulmin was apparently quoted out of context in the original story and the BBC has changed their story to show a more balanced opinion. The Press Complaints Commission director Tim Toulmin thinks blogs should be covered by a voluntary code of practice like that for UK newspapers. The BBC reports that he made the remarks Continue reading A Blog Code of Ethics | About this BlogSocial tools, devices and web evolution are creating epochal change in media, society and business. The plan is to hide under the floorboards till it’s all over document some of the interesting parts of that change. More…. |
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