The Archives
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08.23.07Dancing with YourselfThe title is a slight twist on a Billy Idol song title... But, what I'm talking about here is the struggle for new bloggers to keep up the momentum when starting out. Now, I don't generally talk about blogging directly here, but when I saw ProBlogger Darren Rowse's post When it Feels Like Nobody is Reading Your Blog this morning it resonated strongly with me, as I'd had this very conversation with my wife, Alli, last night with respect to her blog, ShiftedHR. She's one of just a handful of HR bloggers in Australia and tackles a number of ...
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08.09.07Joining the CollectiveJust a small announcement. acidlabs, by which I mean me, has joined the Social Media Collective. The SMC are a very smart (and well-regarded), diverse group of bloggers, consultants, investors, journalists and analysts who represent the Web’s best thinking on social media, marketing and Web 2.0. You can see the combined, totally brain-filling combination of the Collective's work by following the link from the logo above. I suggest you subscribe to the Collective's RSS feed if social computing is anywhere on your radar. I am deeply humbled and honored to be included in this illustrious company.
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08.03.07Anne Truitt ZelenkaMy friend and colleague Anne Truitt Zelenka has relaunched and reimagined her blog as she moves to more or less full time writerhood (is that a word?). You should check it out.
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07.11.07I’m disappointed in Marc AndreessenAs someone who lauded Marc Andreessen's decision to start blogging, I've got to follow up his decision to block comments with an expression of my disappointment. Marc, your decision sucks. You didn't think that someone as high profile as you wasn't going to get a lot of traffic and a lot of comments? Even if some of it is execrable pap, as a blogger you have a responsibility to let it through and to keep comments enabled - so long as they're not not defamatory or plain offensive. Have a comment policy, for heaven's sake! Only allow registered ...
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07.11.07I don’t want to be smarter than all my readers, JakobI've always felt more than a little uncomfortable with the pundit from above style of usability guru, Jakob Neilsen. His AlertBox missives often contain nuggets of gold, but feel a little bit to me like he's preaching or declaring a very black and white view of the world. His most recent AlertBox is no different. In his latest, Neilsen declares: I recently served as a "consultant's consultant," advising a world leader in his field on what to do about his website. In particular, this expert asked me whether he should start a weblog. I said no. You probably already know my ...
