Blogs
Akismet update
Last week I wrote about problems leaving comments on blogs using Akismet to protect against spam. Thanks to some assistance from Matt Mullenweg, whatever gremlins I was offending are now happily approving my comments. Which makes me happy.
Thanks, Matt!
Akismet hates me
Akismet, the brilliant spam plugin that makes it possible to let people leave comments on a blog (in a year, it’s stopped more than 180,000 spam comments, or nearly 500 spam comments per day), doesn’t like me. As you probably know, I’m pretty proactive (along with Jake and Eric) about reaching out to publishers who […]
Curt Schilling is blogging
I don’t care which baseball team you root for, if you have any interest in professional sports, you should take a look at Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling’s blog. His first posts are remarkable. My favorites so far:
On baseball’s recent deal with DirecTV: “I don’t think there’s any doubt that we are still trying to […]
How engaged is your audience?
Really excited with the latest post we put up today at the company blog: FeedBurner’s View of the Feed Market. The gist of the post is this: for all the attention focused on subscriber numbers, they’re an incomplete metric to use when evaluating a feed’s audience. What good are a million subscribers if they never […]
Bill Tancer was right
Bill Tancer’s blog first hit my radar when Lee Rainie at Pew Internet & American Life told me about it… since then, I’ve found it to be a treasure-trove of insight into search traffic. Last month, I wrote about Bill’s observations about home sales, and the fact that he believed, based on search activity in […]
CoComment is pretty cool
I’m finding I’m relying more and more on CoComment, a service that keeps tabs on sites where I comment, and alerts me when others respond. It works really well, and it has a nice Firefox extension which provides a visual indicator when new comments are found. It’s made me more responsive to conversations I join […]
Preaching to the wired
A couple weeks ago, I gave a keynote presentation to the ELCA Communicators Conference. ELCA is the largest association of Lutheran churches in the US, and the conference is a bi-annual meeting that gathers communicators from across the church to learn about how to better communicate to their members, employees, etc.
I was particularly excited about […]
WordPress bug
OK, tech amigos. A very helpful reader pointed out (rather ironically, given my day job) that my archive of RSS posts is busted. Why? Because WordPress is hard-wired to render anything that ends in “/rss” as a feed… even though, in this case, the category is RSS, it’s seeing “/rss” as an operator on the […]
Blogs as conversations
Just caught this 2 week-old quote from Mark Beese:
Rick Klau once told me that blogs are an online, two-way conversation about ideas. I am surprised, and very pleased, to discover this to be true.
Mark, I’ll assume your surprise isn’t because it was me saying it. Mark was writing about the conversation that ensued from […]
October month in review
Eric Zorn e-mailed me a couple weeks ago to participate in his popular month in review series, in which he surveys various Illinois bloggers for perspectives on which were the important stories of the month. With apologies to Eric (who, it should be noted, was warned this might happen), my suggestions are rather inwardly focused:
Most […]
