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Full story: Business blogging: Hills to climb in Europe
Over half of the business executives in The Netherlands and Germany find blogging a mystery; and, although French executives are ‘au fait,’ few of them are bloggers. These are among the findings from the latest UPS Europe Business Monitor survey of 1,500 business leaders from Europe’s top 15,000 companies by revenue, carried out by UPS […]
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Full story: A personal DNA map
A friend emailed me a link yesterday to Personal DNA: PersonalDNA is quite possibly the most accurate personality test available. Developed by a team of PhD psychologists from New York University, PersonalDNA differs from other personality tests in its use of fun and intuitive graphical responses to questions, rather than yes/no or whole number numerical […]
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Full story: WordPress acquires TextPattern?
After publishing my previous post about blog spam, I spotted this news item in my WP Admin Dashboard: On behalf of the WordPress community, I’m proud to announce a merger we’ve had on our minds since the first time we saw Dean Allen’s dog — WordPress and Textpattern are joining forces to create the greatest […]
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Full story: No easy way to combat blog spam
I’ve been thinking about blog spam today. Not your typical weekend thrill subject but it was on my mind as I cleared out 218 spam comments and 1,696 spam trackbacks from my experimental Movable Type blog, all sitting in the comment/trackback moderation queue so none had made it to the live blog. I’ve let that […]
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Full story: Personal blogging clarified
Visiting the blog of Amazon.com’s Chief Technology Officer, Werner Vogels, to read his account of a presentation at Amazon by Naked Conversations authors Shel Israel and Robert Scoble (some very interesting commentaries about that – link at Memeorandum), I spotted the clearest employee blog disclaimer I’ve yet seen. This got me thinking about the still-continuing […]