Archive for the 'Blogging' Category

Blog fixes

Monday, February 25th, 2008

At PodCamp Toronto yesterday I sat next to someone who tried to comment on my blog. It failed! I’ve fixed it up (it broke after an “upgrade” last year). Please email me if you notice it fail.

Quick plug for Onaswarm.com

Monday, December 3rd, 2007

I’m just going to give a quick mention for Onaswarm, a product of Toronto firm BlogMatrix, and run by my friend David Janes.
The web has seen a plethora of sites become platforms, each site now holding some fragment of our digital lives. From that stems a problem: many of us find our attention fragmented across […]

Pseudo Cron Dashboard Display for Wordpress

Saturday, September 22nd, 2007

Wordpress 2.0 introduced a mechanism for programmers and plugin authors to schedule programmatic tasks to be run at designated times in the future. Glenn Slaven in his article Timing Is Everything does a great job of describing how this works. (Sadly, Wordpress’s convention is that people write Wordpress documentation to their blogs rather than contributing […]

Shorter posts

Thursday, September 6th, 2007

Looking back on my blog writing tool, I have something like 50 unsent posts, and that’s after I’ve deleted those I’ll never want to share.
Therefore, I’ll pushing for shorter posts, especially when reporting events such as Conferences.

Helix Commerce and IBM: Blogs and Wikis in Business

Tuesday, March 6th, 2007

Note: I no longer work with Helix Commerce.
Some of my readers will know me from presenting with Bill Ives at KMWorld on the topic of Blogs and Wikis. Well, Bill, Cindy and I have teamed with IBM to provide a training version for corporations and the public.
Here’s an extract from our marketing literature:

Blogs and […]

My RSS now coming via Feedburner

Wednesday, December 20th, 2006

Thanks to Mark Kuznicki and Rob Schaumer who both pointed out my feed was down. As my RSS reader (GreatNews) was failing I got behind in my reading, to the point that I had no way to be alerted that my own feed was down. RSS really does recenter a person’s web usage patterns!
I’ve finally […]

Blogging for a job in a transparent, mass-socialized world

Monday, December 18th, 2006

In My Blog Got Me a New Job ex-Ernst & Young Rod Boothby explains how his blog enhances the chances of landing a new job, and how he attributes his job offer to having lowered the risk to potential employers by being seen to be more transparent and open. In this posting I extend this […]

There are more clues available in a virtual environment

Tuesday, December 12th, 2006

(than the real one)
Bringing online what other’s have observed in the past (in addition to what’s available in the here-and-now), and extending one’s reasoning into the knowledge of others (in addition to what one knows themselves) is a key value-add of participating in an online community. Clues from eBay reputation scores or from http://www.ratemds.com (where […]

Wiki promoting CIO moves to BT Global Services

Monday, December 11th, 2006

Innovators & Influencers: From Web 2.0 To Enterprise 2.0 (Digg) http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=196602773
Lots of CIOs pay lip service to Enterprise 2.0, the sometimes esoteric movement toward using consumer technologies like blogs and wikis to create a more collaborative business environment. JP Rangaswami not only is driving those Web processes internally as CIO of BT Global Services, but […]

46% of online Asia has a blog, 8% of US do, what % of Canada?

Saturday, December 9th, 2006

Ian Delany in http://twopointouch.com/2006/12/07/blogging-asia/ offers this insight into the huge variation between adoption of blogging in Asia vs. the Western World:
Blogging Asia: A Windows Live Report shows that blogging is already a significant force in Asia. [I] haven’t been able to find the original report online, but I’ve been able to piece together the following […]