blending the mix

So, as some of you know, Friday 11th April was the first of our Blogging for Business seminars, held at the MDDA offices in Manchester.
The idea of the event was (and remains to be for the London event on the 25th April!) to de-mistify blogging as a niche, early adopter tool and show it […]

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Courtesy of Neville via Twitter (and here), I am intrigued to see an analysis of the blogging platforms used by the Top 100 Technorati blogs. There is clearly only one winner - WordPress. Of the Top 100 blogs:
* Wordpress is used by 34%
* Movable Type is used by 16%

Phew…looks like I backed the right horse […]

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Almost a year to the day, I was sat at home contemplating having to sell our family home because of actions by my former employer (who were soooo breaking the law and they know it).
To cut a very long story short, I lost my job in May 2007, 2 weeks before moving house - we […]

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So Google’s purchase of Jaiku has happened and I am delighted.
It is a bit of the VHS versus Betamax battle - but where the better format wins!
Jaiku is a much more accomplished, micro-blogging tool. It offers post comments/threads, groups, post/comment rss feed, external feed importing, embedable post icons, groups and fantastic mobile functionality (there’s […]

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Proof, if proof were ever required, that Robert Scoble has a bigger brain than the rest of us:
Previous research has suggested that a person’s conventional friendship group consists of around 150 people, with five very close friends but larger numbers of people who we keep in touch with less regularly. This figure is so consistent […]

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Admit it, since the outing of Fake Steve, it just isn’t the same is it?
 
 

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E-consultancy reports on a Quantcast report which shows that some facebook widget-developers are seeing three-fold increases in traffic to their websites.
THREE TIMES THE TRAFFIC

In the this period Slide has seen its global reach triple, while daily global unique visitors have grown from 753,000 to more than 2.3m, an increase of 207%.

HotorNot has doubled its global […]

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The Twitter blog is reporting that US Senator, John Edwards will be answering questions in a webcast on his own site. He has asked Twitter users to post questions to @johnedwards in advance.
Whilst not exactly a commercial idea, it demonstrates the usefulness of Twitter as an engagement tool in an environment largely domniated by blogs and press […]

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Steve Rubel’s recent monkey and blogging post as well as a recent topic on the Strumpette facebook group has got me thinking about blogging, where we are with it and what, if anything is next.
For me, blogging in its present "web log" format is definitely on the decline. From memory the last Dave Sifry State […]

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