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Google gets out the vote

Google Subnet — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 08:12:42 -0500

Today is election day, and Google has all the voting bases covered. The Official Google Blog lists not only several Google sites and tools aimed at helping voters become better informed about the candidates, but it also provides links to help voters find their polling places and track election night results. This is not your grandfather's election day.

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Blogs that rock - October 2008

ronaldxbartels — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 00:25:53 -0400

Assisted by my trusty clan of Meerkats, who use unscientific measures like the attitude of the cobras and the presence of edible bugs, here is the

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12 tips for safe social networking

Microsoft Subnet — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 11:47:38 -0400

Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, Twitter, Ning, Digg, MeetUp, blogs, etc., -- the number of social networking sites and tools is exploding. Social networking is the killer app of the Internet for everyone – not just the texting teenybopper crowd.

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Three Network World blogs make Datamation's list

Jeff Caruso — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 15:08:12 -0400

We're darn proud of the robust blogger community we've built at Network World (and are still building), so we're grateful to Datamation for recognizing three of our blogs in its recent list of Top 200 Tech Blogs. Datamation seemed to recognize all of Network World at No. 16 on the list, but called out Paul McNamara's Buzzblog specifically:

16) NetworkWorld

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Interesting blogs 3: Dan Weinreb's middle-aged hacker's blog

CurtMonash — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 05:56:59 -0400

I had dinner* with Dan Weinreb tonight, which makes this as good a time as any to write about his blog. At the opposite extreme from the last one I recommended, Jeremiah Owyang's, Dan's blog is very low volume. There's been less than one post per month since May, and in the most active and unique technical category – the one on Lisp – there are still only seven posts overall.

*At Daikanyama in Lexington, which has instantly become my second-favorite Japanese restaurant in Boston, behind only Oishii Sushi ... but I digress.

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Interesting blogs 2: Jeremiah Owyang's social media firehose

CurtMonash — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 05:50:53 -0400

The technology blogosphere is rife with complaints about a group of highly visible but insular “A-listers.” But none of them seem directed at Jeremiah Owyang, who is about as engaged a person as you'd ever hope to encounter. He publishes a popular, high-volume blog on social media called Web Strategy by Jeremiah; he finds time to comment on other people's blogs as well; he is ranked #1 by a landslide in Tekrati's survey of “top analyst Twitterers”; and in his day job he's an analyst for Forrester Research, advising real businesses about how to make real use of social networking technologies.

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Interesting blogs 1: Dave Kellogg's Mark Logic CEO blog

CurtMonash — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 05:34:03 -0400

During my recent Network World online chat, I specifically praised two vendor blogs. One was Dave Kellogg's. Dave is CEO of Mark Logic, a vendor of XML database/custom publishing software; not coincidentally, his blog is called Mark Logic CEO.*

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Interesting blogs #0: Introduction to the series

CurtMonash — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 05:28:49 -0400

One of my recurring hobbies is finding interesting technology blogs. So I plan to use A World of Bytes to point out some other blogs that may be deserving of your attention. I won't promise that they all will be “great” or even – depending on your yardsticks -- “good.” But they all will be ones that caught my interest, at least for a while, for reasons that could make them interesting to other Network World readers as well. A running list of blogs highlighted – more precisely, of the posts highlighting them – is being kept below.

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Just what we didn't need -- a cheap way to beat automated spam detection

CurtMonash — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 05:37:41 -0400

One of my recent posts attracted a suspicious pair of comments – cheery blurbs from two different ecstatic users of the same obscure service, something called QAlias. The writing style of the two was similar, and resembled that of many similar promotional comments I've seen on other blogs.

Upon review, the first QAlias comment is from an “Andy Greider,” who claims in the comment to be a QAlias subscriber. But when I followed the suggestion in his comment to google him, Andy Greider's QAlias page showed him to be a QAlias manager. Oops.

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A when-to-post-it note for bloggers

Paul McNamara — Tue, 06 May 2008 11:25:48 -0400

Early-to-mid afternoon, never on Monday: So says one blogger/programmer, whose statistical analysis we'll get to in a moment, even though I'm not entirely on board with its conclusions.

The mere act of writing is enough for some bloggers; if anyone should read and appreciate the work, all the better. For others, attention matters, as it can put food on the table (as with yours truly) or simply nourish the ego.

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Hunter College offers 'Deceitfulness 101'

Paul McNamara — Mon, 05 May 2008 10:53:27 -0400

This is so wrong on so many different levels that it's difficult to keep count, although AdWeek gives it a shot in this report headlined "The True Story of a Bogus Blog."

It seems that Hunter College students were duped into believing that one of their own, a Heidi Cee, had been fleeced for $500 in reward money she posted by someone who pawned off a fake Coach handbag as the one holding great sentimental value that she had lost.

There is no Heidi Cee, no lost Coach bag, no sob story, no reward, no counterfeit. It was all an elaborate ruse that included phony MySpace and Facebook profiles, as well as a YouTube video.

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SynthaSite Blog Platform

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 01:27:24 -0400

Hi Mark Thanks for the great review and all the referrals! Just wanted to let you know that we are launching our own blog platform in Q3, and it will be tightly integrated our existing workflow, to keep the simplicity consistent! Thanks again! Vinny Lingham CEO, SynthaSite

Will You Live To Regret Facebook?

Mitchell Ashley — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 07:09:22 -0500

"I'm sorry Beth. We'd really like to hire you, but after reading about that 5 day long college party, the drugs you experimented with, and other questionable activities earlier during your career, we just don't feel you're a fit for our corporate culture. We just can't offer you the job."

Will you live to regret the online persona and digital paper trail created by Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, your blog, Twitter or other social networking and Web 2.0 activities?

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OpsMgr outside your box

Kerrie Meyler — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 01:12:10 -0500

Operations Manager, as a management and monitoring system, is most commonly used to identify conditions that occur, notifying you if specified conditions take place. Generically speaking, the concept of monitoring is "Watch my back, and let me know what’s going on."

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Good Web PR

James Gaskin — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 10:51:24 -0400

Take a look at this nice article called Ten Ways to Generate Good Web PR from PC World. None of the ideas are brand new or secret, but writer Becky Waring did a good job organizing good tips and explaining how Web PR will help even the most local of businesses. That's always a problem for small local businesses: how to use the World Wide Web to get customers for, say, plumbers in Pittsburgh.

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Never trust a blogger

Adam Gaffin — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 10:34:24 -0500

Might sound extreme, especially given that I'm blogging this, but, the Blog Herald provides an overview of the apparently burgeoning field of pay-per-post blogging services - in which companies pay bloggers for writing about them. I wrote about one such company, PayPerPost, a couple months back, but now there are several more companies in the field. The newest, SponsoredReviews, claims some bloggers could fetch as much as $1,000 per review:

It's the simple law of reciprocity come into effect. When someone showers you with gold coins, how is that NOT going to affect what you write or how you'll write it? The flipside, of course, is that once your readership learns exactly how much you're paid to write the review, they'll ALSO suspect the real authenticity of the piece.

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Gartner predicts blogs to become CB radio for the new millennium

Adam Gaffin — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 10:21:44 -0500

Oh those wacky folks at Gartner: Now they're predicting that the number of blogs will level off next year:

The reason: Most people who would ever dabble with Web journals already have. Those who love it are committed to keeping it up, while others have gotten bored and moved on, said Daryl Plummer, chief Gartner fellow.

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I'm gettin' old

Adam Gaffin — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 08:28:54 -0400

First: Last evening I had to yell at some kid to get outta my driveway.

Second: This morning I called up a post by Bill Ives titled New Media uses Old Media to find out he's writing about Technorati using e-mail to market something. E-mail is old media? Oy!

Getting creative with Apache to block blog comment spam

Adam Gaffin — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 10:15:05 -0400

Jeremy Zawodny explains how he's reducing his server loads by using mod_security to reduce the number of spambots that can get through to the comment script of his Movable Type-based Weblog.

Iranian blog warfare

Adam Gaffin — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 10:22:29 -0400

Nice. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadenijad's blog server checks for IP addresses and attempts to send a Windows virus or trojan to visitors with Israeli IP numbers. Maybe that explains why it's running on IIS. More details here. An Israeli news site claims Israeli hackers managed to take the site down yesterday through a DDoS attack.

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