San Francisco Chronicle writes about a city councilor blogging using a government web server. The article addresses some of the concerns over the use of taxpayer resources to maintain a blog. It points out that for members of Congress, there are myriad rules and regulations already in place, but for local officials the guidelines tend to be murky or missing. (Thanks to infOpinions for highlighting this article.)
Idil Cakin of Burson Marstellar offers some good advice about dealing with the blogosphere in an article for DMNews. Excerpted below are some of the more interesting points. Whoever comes up with the best "secret sauce" to solve the problem of weighting blogs will have a powerful offering. (This is something the brains at CustomScoop…
Thanks to all who shared their advice on the right bag to use for my laptop and D-SLR camera/lenses/accessories. I ended up selecting the Lowepro CompuDaypack. I took it with me to Washington, DC this week and it fit all my gear, if a bit snugly, and was able to be stowed under the seat…
Thanks to Matt Cronin of WebLiquid for passing along an article (free registration) from Online MediaDaily. WHILE SEARCH MARKETING IS RESPONSIBLE for much of the resurgence of online advertising, politicians have been relatively slow to purchase sponsored search links. But activity on Google this week indicates that search engines might play a more significant role…
Realm Systems tried to one-up U3 (see previous post) by unveiling the Mobile Personal Server 1400E. It’s bigger – both in claimed capabilities and size. I haven’t yet stopped by their booth to get more information (though I plan to tomorrow), but their presentation showed enhanced security possibilities that caught my attention. They demonstrated the…
Google News: The End of News Indexing As We Know It? is Google cutting secret deals with European publishers? (tags: copyright) The Value Of Aggregating Content disaggregation vs. aggregation — where are we headed? (tags: Aggregation media) Newspapers need to go hyper-local to survive echoing my argument that most newspapers can only differentiate on local…
I attend conferences more for the conversation and inspiration than for the panels. So I was pleased over the past two days to meet a bunch of smart, interesting people. For example, last night at dinner I had the opportunity to sit next to Jim Nail of Cymfony. His company has recently gone through a…