This article on SEO from Australian IT. As Threadwatch headlines it: “Australian IT Now Teaching SEO Tricks from 1997”. This from our national newspaper. Yikes. I some journalists wonder why people are moving away from the MSM to blogs and other alternative news sources.
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Chinese blog slips to the Top of Technorati
Amazing stuff: the top blog in terms of incoming links now at Technorati: this blog, a Chinese language blog hosted by Sina.com. I’m surprised there’s not a huge amount of discussion about this as yet: I picked it up a Techmeme and there was only one incoming link on the story…remember this blog has knocked off Boing Boing and Engadget to take the first spot…yes Virginia, there is still indeed the opportunity in the blogosphere for the little guy to win 🙂
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America proves again why others regard it as stupid
Todays the 5th Anniversary of 9/11. Now read this:
CBS Corp. said on Saturday it would broadcast the documentary “9/11” on the Internet as well as the airwaves after several affiliates said they would delay or forgo the award-winning film because it includes profanity.
The documentary was produced by French filmmakers Gedeon and Jules Naudet and retired New York firefighter James Hanlon and has aired twice without incurring fines by U.S. regulators charged with enforcing broadcast decency standards.
CBS said affiliates that cover about 10 percent of the United States had decided not broadcast the program or would show it late at night…The American Family Association, which describes itself as a Christian organisation promoting traditional values, has called on CBS stations to forgo or delay the “9/11” broadcast.
Yep, they don’t want to broadcast what happened at the WTC because, god help us, someone might have actually sworn. And we aren’t talking about a movie, we’re talking about real life.
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Blogging the Media Connect Influence Conference Day 2, or I love poker
Day 2. The blogging talk went well yesterday, at least the feedback was immensly positive, which was a relief in itself. Met the Australian Poker Champion and a chap who is the Asia-Pacific Rep for Pokerstars.com, interesting conversation, but as dinner sponors they had a couple of games of poker running for funny money….great stuff, I know how to play Poker but Texas Holdem has always been a bit of a mystery to me previously, playing it on a laptop or even at a table…suffice to say I can understand for the first time why Poker has become so big…of course my problem now will being trying to avoid the temptation of playing on line when I get home. 🙂
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Blogging the Media Connect Influence Conference
Day 1. Some 24 hours after leaving the end of the world and I find myself in The Hunter Valley, NSW for the Media Connect Influence Conference, with a presentation to make on blogging in a bit over 60 minutes that I haven’t written yet. 🙂
The first session was Web 2.0. Unfortunately if this was representative of Web 2.0 in Australia we are in deep, deep you know what. I actually felt sorry for 2 of the 4 speakers. The first guy was so far out of his depth it was embarassing. I got up and asked him a question about how his company was embracing Web 2.0 after he’d basically explained a business model roughly based on Amazon in 1995. His only response was that his company offered…an affiliate program! Oh well…
The highlight though was Ross Dawson from Advanced Human Technologies, excellent 5 minute speech, indeed the only speaker of the 4 who concentrated on what I’d actually consider to be Web 2.0. Of course, having had about 4 hours sleep when Ross introduced himself to me prior to the presentation I responded like I had no idea who he was, despite the fact that not only have I read his blog I’ve also exchanged several emails with him over the years. Sorry Ross. But back to the speech, Ross spoke on the rise of user filtered content and the tools and companies seeking to gain audience share in the long tail…now if only Ross was the keynote speaker as opposed to being 1 of 4 🙂
Anyhow back to planning my little session on blogging, and touch wood I don’t get ripped to shreads like the poor chap from Poker Starts did in the previous session….jeez, some people really, really don’t like online gambling 🙂
More soon.
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Vale Peter Brock 1945-2006
Peter Brock, veteran racing car driver, many, many times winner of the Bathurst 1000 has died today doing what he loved doing most: racing.
According to the SMH, Brock was behind the wheel of a car competing in the Targa West rally and crashed into a tree at Gidgegannup, outside of Perth at lunch time today (Friday 8 September).
I may have been a Dick Johnson supporter in my youth, but like many Australian’s I deeply admired the King of the Mountain. For many years it was a family ritual that on a particular Sunday in September we would all sit in front of a television set for the day and watch “the great race” as it unfolded, no mean effort the race itself goes for roughly 8 hours. And year after year one man continued to win on a regular basis: Peter Brock.
Although in recent years, his interview on Denton in particularly may have turned away some fans, he will still always hold the position in the hearts and minds of Australian’s as our greatest ever Touring Car Driver.
My thoughts and condolences to his family at this time.
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Is today the day I stop using Google?
For some reason Google keeps defaulting today to the Google personalised home page, not Google search, even when I type in www.google.com. It’s frustrating. It’s trying to force me to use a service I don’t want to use, but what’s worse is that is ridiculously slow to load in comparison to the normal Google front page. If I get much more of this it will be a matter very shortly of Yahoo here I come. Is it just me, or is this something Google’s doing to others?
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Is Digg now saying gaming Digg is ok?
From Kevins Rose’s blog (emphasis added):
…today we read a couple blog posts that highlight users digging each others stories. This is something we encourage through our friends features and will continue to expand as digg evolves. It is our goal to create a platform in which you can share and promote news that is important to you.
Isn’t this exactly what Weblogs Inc. was doing, i.e. getting their mates to Digg their stories? If it’s ok to get your friends to vote on your stories, then there’s no gaming Digg if your friends vote for you, right?
Tags: Digg, Kevin Rose, Jason Calacanis, Weblogs Inc
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The Ford Lesson
Scoble points to Bold Moves, and online video blog produced by Ford aimed at employees, investors and influencers.
It’s bloody amazing.
It’s candid, it’s frank, and it’s honest.
Indeed, having watched the current video on the site (episode #10) I feel like I’ve just woken up and watched the start of a revolution in corporate America, or for that matter, the start of a world wide revolution in the way corporations do business.
Sure, one could look at it as spin, and in a way it is, but it’s good spin. It’s good because it’s actually honest. There’s no fluff here, there’s no trying to gloss over the bad in marketing new speak that is so typical of large corporations.
The one quote that stood out more than anything else in the video came from Mark Fields, Executive Vice President, Ford:
I want everyone in the organisation to know the reality, the good things that are going on in the company, and the bad things that are going on. The way to keep people motivated is to keep them informed. People can deal with the truth.
Jeezus. OMG. I’m lost for words.
Why couldn’t I have had a boss like Mark Fields in a number of organisations I’ve worked for in the past that were imploding from within. People respect the truth, even when it’s not pretty. Corporate newspeak that avoids negatives at all costs is a cancer on business. Mark Fields just gave us a cure.
Kudos to Ford. Like Scoble I’m rooting for you, even if the Falcon is a poor quality car.
Tags: Ford
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Did SixApart buy Rojo for the Feedreader or the staff?
SixApart acquires Rojo. Coverage and Niall and Techcrunch. Odd thing though is this line: “Six Apart intends to sell a majority interest in Rojo?ɬ¢?¢‚Äö¬¨?¢‚Äû¬¢s newsreader services in the coming months.” So why buy something just to flog it off later? Rojo doesn’t seem like a natural fit for SixApart either, after all its a feedreeder and blog search engine, not a blogging platform, and putting a company that in based upon hosted blogging services into the feedreader game where it will compete against other companies that index SixApart hosted blogs seems silly….but not if they were only buying the talent and not the feedreeder. Rojo CEO Chris Alden is to be the new head of Movable Type…but still sounds like a lot of money to spend to acquire talent. Chris, you must be a special sort of a guy. Insert machevellian plot here 🙂