Here come the hacks
TBBC is going to teach more UK hacks how to blog. Yay…. I think?
Another year of E-business Briefing
Well, that’s another year of E-business Briefing columns chalked up.
Carluccio’s joke
Went to the Neal St Restaurant for Google’s annual Christmas press lunch, graciously hosted by their UK ad sales MD Kate Burns. Antonio Carluccio, the owner, walks in before we start lunch and tells a joke he says he tells each Christmas to his customers: “There’s a little boy, the son of a Mafia boss. His father tells him that to get any presents from Father Christmas he must write
Why RSS needs nurturing
I have a been a big advocate of RSS in the past. But this article (which I have come to late, alas) has an interesting take on how RSS might start to look like a DOS attack. I’m not sure what the answer is, but I’m afraid we are going to have to get used to these issues, or come up with more interesting ways of dealing with them, since
Why no Media Guardian RSS feed?
Why on earth is there still no RSS feed from the Media Guardian? Are they afraid of something? Do they think media people don’t ‘get it’ (they may be right actually, but that’s another debate). Or are they worried it might adversely affect their impressions? In fact, perhaps it has something to do with the fact that you have to register for their stories? Could it be that their new
Sony hates bloggers – so let’s boycott them
Sony is trying to sue long-time blogger, Jason Kottke, because he posted a tiny audio sample of a question from a US game show. Sony owns the show. That’s it. They really are that pathetic. So I suggest people consider boycotting Sony and mailing their CEO (howard_stringer@sonyusa.com) to tell him that this is rather heavy handed behaviour over a tiny one-man blog. (Thanks to Calacanis).
Bandwidth costs hit comment spammers
Journalist tires of comment spammers because of bandwidth costs – so decides to cut access for offending IP addresses! That’s one original move.
Google sues for click fraud
Google Sues AdSense Publisher for Click Fraud: Google has filed its first click fraud lawsuit, charging a Texas-based Web site and its owners generated fraudulent clicks on ads in its AdSense program, causing Google to pay them for useless traffic to its advertisers.
Blogs getting acquired
I’m late to this but Military.com has bought the blog DefenseTech.org. What this means is that we are on the start of the real curve. Forget the Guardian getting DailyKos to blog – smaller and specialist media companies are starting to acquire blogs and bloggers too. (Thanks to OnlineBiz)
Word leaks out
Looks like a few people have noticed what we are doing. I’m happy to oblige with a few quotes.