Category Archives: blogs

I don’t like podcasts

Very few podcast are really useful. I find that most of them are too long. I prefere that bloggers take the time to write (i.e. spend some resources for the dispositio) and try to use few words and to be … Continue reading

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Metrics for blogs

Micropersuasion reports that Forrester published a research on The ROI Of Blogging. They publish for free only the following table: It is actually quite interesting. I don’t know if you could measure the Long Tail effects with these metrics, but … Continue reading

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One blog in, One blog out

I wanted to add a new blog to my feed aggregator (the blog of TSW, an interesting italian “search marketing” company) and I realized that I need a rule: everytime I want to add a new feed, I must delete one. I … Continue reading

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Blogging is transforming journalism

In this long post, Martin Stabe covers a lot of issues related to journalism and blogging. He gives the clearer answer I read: Blogging is transforming the journalism of ‘mainstream’ news sites, not supplanting That is about the same thing … Continue reading

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[it] Ancora su Blog e giornalismo, l’era della complementarietà

La ricerca Blog e Giornalismo, l’era della complementarietà, è il tema del mese della sezione campus del Franco Bernabè Digital Magazine. [tags]blog, giornalismo, ejo, bernabe[/tags]

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Lady Search Engine

It seems that the italian blogosphere discovered Ms Dewey (Wittgenstein and others). [tags]blogosfera, ms dewey[/tags]

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Print blog posts, usability still matters

Sometime, I read really good blog posts. Some of them are quite long and I don’t like to read on screen (I try to read during meeting or classes that are not particulary interesting). I’d like to print these blog … Continue reading

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A new newsfeed aggregator, web based: NewsAlloy

I recently discovered NewsAlloy, a new newsfeed aggregator, very web 2.0. It seems to be better than Google Reader, but I’m very confortable with BlogLines and, for the moment, I wont drop it. I prefere to have the blog list … Continue reading

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Who reads the blog?

Marco reports on two new reports on blog reach. The original post is on Micropersuasion. In two lines: young people read blogs more than older ones Lot of people in companies read blogs and this has an impact on their … Continue reading

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Swisscom blog?

It seems that Swisscom is ready to start a blog on telecommunication and environment (“Telekommunikation und Umwelt”). Fredy and Matthias talk about it. The Tages Anzeiger has the news, reported from the Berner Zeitung. The article in Tagi presents the … Continue reading

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French blogs

Quite interesting article on French and blogs (via Ollie). Thomas Crampton explains why the blogs are strong fans of blog, both in reading than writing. I found data on blogs’ success in France when I wrote the research Blog e giornalismo, … Continue reading

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Windows Live Writer experience

Well, I’m not writing this post with WLW. This is because I have a couple of posts stucked in WLW. It can’t publish them. It says, network problems. But no problems are on the network, I can see the blog, … Continue reading

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Testing software

I’m testing some software. I installed Google Analytics for this blog. It’s really nice, you may generate lot of report with many variables. It lacks of speed: Extreme Tracking is the best way, in my opinion, to have a look … Continue reading

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Technorati numbers and problems

Marco Montemagno comments the last Sifry’s Alerts: State of the Blogosphere, August 2006. Although he sees the importante of Sifry’s Alerts, he focuses on the problems that Technorati has: Technorati’s numbers are not blogosphere’s numbers because Technorati has big indicization … Continue reading

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The future of media in a map

Mauro write on a map for the future of media. It was designed by australian Future Exploration Network and it is a good summarization of what it’s happening and is going to happen.  Have a look at the complete report.

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