Earlier this morning, I joined about 20 other avatars in the Reuters Auditorium in Second Life to hear an interview with US politician Mark Warner, former governor of the state of Virginia and potential candidate in the US presidential elections next year. The interview was to be conducted by Reuters…
Content summary: Discussion topics from listeners: PR is too important for PR people, blogs in China affect Starbucks, win a place at the New Communications Forum; Dan York reports further on RSS autodiscovery and commentary on trackback spam; communication challenges for British Airways as strike looms; Microsoft’s attempt to correct…
Version 2.1 of the WordPress blog platform was released earlier this week. General reaction in the blogosphere has been highly positive. This new WordPress version comes with over 550 bug fixes and some significant changes behind the scenes in, for example, how some of the code works. This will have…
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A new version of offline blog editor BlogJet was released this week. Version 2.0 of the popular blog editor for Windows is a major upgrade, with a dramatically-improved user interface. One thing I immediately like about it is the new way it displays post categories – now I can see…
I awoke early this morning to a wintry scene outside, with the first snow of the winter covering the landscape. A meagre coverage to be sure – about an inch, no more – but snow nevertheless. I snapped a few pics for posterity, like this scene in my back garden,…
Content summary: Two new FIR podcasts posted; marketers upset about changes to Outlook; track website analytics with RSS feeds; online newspaper blog traffic grows 210%; blogger, not splog, hijacks blog content; increasing criticism of Celebrity Big Brother and the UK’s Channel 4 as advertisers pull out: what does this TV…
Keeping up with informal commentary and opinion from the 2007 World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland (it starts on January 24) will be a treat this year as this meeting will be the most blogged and podcasted one so far. The first place to start is the davos conversation…
