Content summary: Second Thursday in Second Life communicators’ meeting today; FIR ethics Skypecast on Jan 13; more listener opinions on the Microsoft/Edelman PR kerfuffle, including Eric Schwartzman’s interview with Dwight Silverman of the Houston Chronicle; Dan York reports on LinkedIn, open sourcing of Second Life, personal information in blogs; is…
Yesterday’s announcement by Linden Lab that the software you run on your computer to interact with Second Life will be opened up to anyone who wants to contribute to its future development generated wide-ranging commentary in the media and among bloggers. Making the so-called front end client software open source…
I’ve not met Gary Goldhammer but I’ve been a long-time subscriber to his blog’s RSS feed. Probably one reason is he is the only blogger I read who describes himself as a recovering journalist. News yesterday that Gary has been snapped up by Edelman. Congratulations, Gary, and best wishes in…
Expat Brit and not-your-average-accountant blogger Dennis Howlett had a guest column in ZDNet yesterday on the state of business application software. I enjoyed reading Dennis’ post which discussed a wide range of different points incuding attention, Paris Hilton and Larry Ellison. One paragraph in particular leapt out and grabbed my…
Content summary: Upcoming FIR ethics Skypecast on Jan 13; a sea change is about to hit the workplace: are you ready?; how many people are consuming podcasts?; the corporate costs of CES: a look at the numbers; proposed US law requires bloggers to report illegal images; Second Life to go…
With more people than ever before becoming early adopters of technology, paying attention to what’s being unveiled and talked about at the Consumer Electronics Show taking place in Las Vegas this week is a definite must. There is so much information coming out from so many mainstream media sources, blogs,…
A definite case of “oops” as a signficant bug crept into the new version 2.0.6 of WordPress, released yesterday, that can result in problems with your RSS feed if you use the FeedBurner service. Two workarounds are available, a relatively easy one involving replacing a block of code in the…
When Dell entered the blogosphere last year with their corporate blog Direct2Dell, they took a bit of a pounding from some bloggers and customers who had “Dell Hell” in their minds. Six months later, Dell has an open assessment of their experience in the blogosphere: […] We are making efforts…
