Blogging/Podcasting
Need your feedback
For a while now I’ve been using the del.icio.us function that automatically uploads links to this blog based on things I’ve posted recently to del.icio.us.
Is this interesting to you? Would you rather me stick to only real blog entries, even if there may be several days (or let’s be honest, a week) between them?
Give me [...]
Bloggers are not remora fish
Not to belabor a much written about topic, but I had to respond to the recent opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal about blogs, blogging, and bloggers called: "The Blog Mob: Written by fools to be read by imbeciles."
Before I share my thoughts, I’d like to clarify something on behalf of the author [...]
Promoting the Z-listers
I love this idea! People around the web have been sharing their "Z list" favorites, as a way to balance out the Technorati "A list". The problem with Technorati’s list has always been that the strong always get stronger, while the little guy stays unknown. So here’s to helping the little guy.
This effort has now [...]
Jake’s favorite blogs of 2006
It’s the end of the year, therefore it’s retrospective time! This year was tough for a blog reader. There are more brilliant blogs now than ever before, and the quality continues to improve. Here’s my Top 10 for 2006, in no particular order!
Guy Kawasaki - One of the smartest (and nicest) guys in business has [...]
State of the Blogosphere thought
Reading the latest State of the Blogosphere today, something stuck out to me that I’ve not yet heard anyone talking about.
When you look at the Daily Posting Volume numbers, it’s interesting to see that whenever there’s a big spike in discussion (around Katrina, the London bombings, or Deepthroat being revealed, for instance), there’s also an [...]
Using a robust blog host
(Originally posted at Big in Japan)
A question that comes up regularly when you’re talking to clients about starting a new blog is where they should actually host the blog. Sure, Typepad or Wordpress.com only cost a few bucks a month, but is the cost worth it? If you’re running a business and using your blog [...]
BiJ Podcast: Combat Studios
I’ve posted another Big in Japan podcast interview. This one was more fun than usual as it focused on my favorite time waster: Battlefield 2.
At first our latest interview may seem a bit out of place for the Big in Japan podcast. After all, what does Battlefield 2 have to do with social media [...]
The opportunities of podcasting
I came across an interesting article on podcasting tonight and thought I’d share.
Scott Gatz from Yahoo was in town for the BlogOn conference and he stopped by our offices to talk about a survey done in August about RSS and podcasting that Yahoo recently released.
Other bloggers covered the RSS results, but I was [...]
BiJ Podcast: Bob Langert
The McDonald’s Corporate Social Responsibility team recently launched their "Open for Discussion" blog, and not surprisingly were quickly caught up in controversy. The key issue was that the comments weren’t being moderated very quickly, and as such the blogosphere assumed that McDonald’s was taking a hard line against actual open discussion. Turns out, the real [...]
Interview with my Mom
After years of encouraging my Mom to start blogging, she’s finally jumped on the band wagon. Stop by her blog to check out her terrific writing. She seems to have skipped over that discovery process so many bloggers go through when they get started where their first entries are mostly reflection of what their blog [...]
