"You’re no longer a writer or an artist. Nowadays, you “produce content.” And oddly enough, if you want to build and hold on to an audience online, the important thing is to give your readers more freedom, not less. It’s like holding on to Jello: the tighter you squeeze, the more you lose."
News International's The Times, The Sunday Times and Times Online continue to attract more business executive readers than their daily, weekend and online rivals, according to the Ipsos Mori British Business Survey 2008.
This is what happens when newspapers appear to ignore comments: "Rather than admit that they made a mistake, the Daily Mail have instead followed the example set by Iain Dale; they have let outright falsehoods stand, resisted any attempt to address the matter via comments, and also given the false impression that the article has been subject to reader scrutiny all this time."
Based on various tests we've performed it appears that Twitter's servers are blocking requests from our outbound caches. At the moment they are still looking into it, but until they uncover the reason any Pipes using Twitter feeds will only work occasionally.
After a rather odd kayaking injury, I have been typing less and reading more over the last couple of weeks. This has resulted in a rather large link dump on this blog – apologies.
Normal service will resume soon… once my wrist stops creaking!
"Google Chrome now says if you make your content remarkable, they’ll market it for free to their users directly in the OmniBox.
We’ll see how this new browser does, but marketers – pay heed."
Pew have released some useful research into podcast downloading, revealing a near-60% increase in the activity over the past 2 years – from 12% of internet users having downloaded a podcast to 19%.
Mozilla Labs are building a non-technical mashup service called Ubiquity. The video below takes you through some very impressive applications of the tool
A Cape Cod blogger who criticized a group of Barnstable residents for filing a lawsuit aimed at stopping a dredging project in Barnstable Harbor has himself been sued — for libel.
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