I am now averaging over 100 spam emails every day in my Akismet spam trap. So, thank you Akismet.
But being a conscientious kind of guy, I want to make sure a “false positive” hasn’t got quarantined, so I like to go through the spam comments before deleting them, just to be sure.
In today’s post, Darren Rowse at Problogger asks:
“If you had the attention of 400 internet marketers for an hour and were given the brief to talk to them about blogging - where would you take the session?”
It’s a great question, and a great opportunity to lay some important points out on the table. And why should you listen to me? Because I am a professional blog consultant who works with Alliance Software, a company whose clients are almost exclusively high-performance internet marketers. (We’re talking “gun” entrepreneurs running highly-leveraged businesses turning over millions per annum off online sales.) I am therefore in both worlds all the time, and never sure whether to call myself a blog guy or an internet marketing guy!
Two nights ago I got upset about something and did one of the two curious things I tend to do when I get “hacked off” and want to vent: I wrote a letter to the editor of my local newspaper (in my case the Herald Sun Newspaper).The other thing I do — usually when I’m in the car — is call a talk-radio station. The latter is not always satisfying because you can wait 15 minutes on hold, only to find at the end of it all that they run out of time and you don’t get on. Anyway, back to my letter to the editor…
Dell IdeaStorm, which launched earlier this month, is the ultimate example of Seth Godin-style “take something good, innovate, and make it great” thinking.
Muhammad Saleem picks up on a post by Rathnavibushana, lamenting the moral wasteland that Digg can sometimes be. Do take the time to read both those posts… they’re worth it.
Fairly regularly in the blogosphere you hear people complaining about how few people reading their blog go the next step and leave a comment.
I recall that last year, Darren Rowse posted his "10 Techniques to Get More Comments on Your Blog", linking to a Jakob Nielsen study that found that
One of the things I spend quite a bit of my time doing is helping clients and prospects understand the difference between a "regular" website and a social network. I spend a lot of my time arguing in favour of "social media", in the belief that a social media approach is at the heart of what we call "Web 2.0″ and is closer to how humans naturally function in "real life".
Today is Australia Day the equivalent of the 4th of July for my buddies over the ocean.
Since my post four days ago about the incredible run of Knuttz submissions on Digg, their winning streak has suddenly come to a grinding and painful halt.
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