Time magazine was apparently motivated by the Google blog search announcement and decided to run a short piece on how to become a blogger and how to find blog posts. They decided this somehow amounts to the next version of blogging. The article itself seems to contradict the headline: "Google’s effort, while useful, is not unique."
This weekend I started playing around with the MSN Search Toolbar that also includes Desktop Search. The Desktop app is very impressive and certainly handy. It searches emails, including attachments, as well as documents on your hard drive for any search terms you input. It’s lightning fast and effective. The search within Outlook feature has…
Those of you who use a feed reader to access my content should be seamlessly receiving access to my content which is now being posted at ChipGriffin.com. I will continue to maintain Pardon the Disruption as an archive of my older posts, but everything new will now appear at ChipGriffin.com. The content will be very…
Jennifer Leggio is auctioning off the services of five social media experts on eBay to help support the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. It’s not exactly a new approach to fundraising for charity, but it does break a bit of new ground in that it is the first time I can recall social media experts being…
How Marketers Want To Trick Mobile Operators Into Letting Them Spam You (tags: MobileContent Spam) The Political Power Of Blogs (tags: Blogs OnlinePolitics) Motorola To Launch Idle-Screen Pointcast-like Service in U.S. (tags: MobileContent) OPML – An Awesome Experiment (tags: OPML NewProducts RSS Web2.0) MediaPost Publications – Blog Champions: High Click-Throughs Offset Low Reach – 09/29/2005…
Jim Horton points to an interesting article about the progres of state and federal government agencies in making information more easily accessible online. A brief excerpt: West and his team of researchers conducted a detailed analysis of 1,620 state and federal government Web sites. Among the report’s findings: • 73 percent of state and federal…
Earlier this week I blogged about Problems with Attensa, a new feed reader that integrates with Outlook. Word got to Mike Beale at Attensa and he reached out to me to see how he could help. I’ve now been using it successfully for a few days and am very impressed — both with the product…