Content summary: Call for entries for SNCR awards; listener discount for Web 2.0 conference in Amsterdam; BloggerCon and civility in the blogosphere; Second Life: the conference experience, FIR presence, opportunities for communicators; the value and uses of group blogs; trust and reputation: crises facing Cadbury and British Airways; FIR interview…
More on the Second Life conference that took place on Friday: A transcript of the complete discussion has been posted, which includes panelists’ and participants’ commentaries Joseph Jaffe has a PowerPoint deck with some terrific annotated screenshots Mitch Joel’s latest podcast includes the 9-minute discussion via Skype between Mitch, Joseph…
If you want to get up to speed on Web 2.0 – how new technology, business models, innovation and culture changes will affect the direction of the web, the way we do business and the way we live – The Next Web one-day conference here in Amsterdam on Friday 7 July is…
I’ve written about blog spam quite a bit recently. It’s relentless and I don’t think you can stop it. This morning, I weeded out nearly 200 comment and trackback spams, a weekend’s worth of crap to hit this site. Luckily, I have the Akismet spam killer about which I’ve commented before.…
We’ve just set up shop in Second Life, the virtual world where there’s already a growing community of podcasters. The FIR Shop is located on the ground floor in the Podcasters Mall on Podcast Island. If you’re a member of the Second Life community, teleport to the island at 139,75,25…
As a lifetime lover of Cadbury’s Dairy Milk chocolate, I read with some dismay a BBC News report yesterday that Cadbury has announced a product recall in the UK. The recall actually affects seven of their products, all variants of the Dairy Milk brand, where some of these products may…
If you’re a fan of Hugh MacLeod’s Gaping Void cartoons, here’s just the thing for your blog – the Gaping Void cartoon widget: The gapingvoid widget lets you display Hugh’s latest cartoon on your web site or blog. When your visitors click the cartoon they’ll see a full size version…
Like most Windows users, I have my PCs set up to get security and other critical patches from Microsoft automatically. It seems the most sensible thing to do so you don’t need to remember to manually go to Windows Update to check if your OS needs updating. Part of the…
