Category Archives: Voices: Blogs, etc.Often I’m amazed at how the universe conspires to hit me over the head with a theme, yelling “You MUST blog this!” That’s just happened this morning on the theme of apologies. Particularly, how crucial apologies are to public discourse — and to re-establishing broken trust with your core community and the general public.
Everyone messes [...]
Following up on my earlier posts: It turns out that Google has a policy for its Adsense program regarding abuses that involve infringement of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA). They explain in detail how to file DMCA-related complaints.
Note that this is not a strictly online process. They require a written and signed complaint [...]
As I mentioned before, as far as I’m concerned, hunting down and shutting down individual splogs is a waste of energy — because a splogger can set up another (or dozens) of new sites quickly and easily for each one that gets shut down.
Many bloggers have been discussing this issue, with a deluge of often-heated comments in the wake of these posts.
Somewhere in that multilayered discussion, I saw someone mention what seems like a way to take constructive action against sploggers that’s more meaningful than shutting down a single splog. My apologies, I can’t recall who offered this suggestion.
Anyway, Google Adsense is the most common financial incentive program used by sploggers. I can’t remember seeing a single splog that didn’t carry Google ads. One Adsense account can support a multitude of splogs. Google ostensibly doesn’t approve of splogs, and apparently will cancel Adsense accounts for sploggers who abuse the program.
Therefore, when you find a splog, you can report it to Google and ask them to close the associated Adsense account.
Back on July 10, Quick Online Tips explained how to do that…
The 8th circle of hell: Future home of every splogger on earth.
Several popular bloggers, including Shel Israel, Allan Jenkins, and Jeremiah Owyang, lately have been voicing consternation over the last few days over what appears to be a large-scale, wholesale theft of their content by a splogger site: Bitacle.org. (No, I’m not linking to Bitacle, [...]
A couple of days ago, my friend and colleague Dave Taylor wrote a sure-to-be-provocative blog post, Why Jonathan Schwartz Should NOT Be Blogging. He also was quoted on this topic in a Sept. 16 AP article, and his posting explores his thoughts in more depth — a great strategy for getting more mileage out of [...]
Like many media pros, I’m a die-hard fan of Moleskine notebooks — especially their small, unlined reporter’s notebook.
Moleskine notebooks aren’t fancy. In fact, this brand’s reputation hinges almost entirely on quality, and on a vocal, dedicated community of customer evangelists — such as Merlin Mann of the popular productivity site 43 Folders.
Therefore, when sharply worded [...]
Yesterday, my editor at Poynter Online, Bill Mitchell, asked me for ideas for covering how Katie Couric’s debut last night as the new CBS Evening News anchor is playing online.
Well, I honestly didn’t watch her show last night. I was really tired and went to bed early. I almost never watch TV news anyway. However, [...]
As I mentioned earlier, this weekend I’m speaking at the annual conference of the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ).
On Saturday, Jeff South (Va. Commonwealth Univ.) and I will be hosting a session from 3:30-4:30 pm on this theme: “Technology: A User’s Guide to Software, Hardware and Other Tools Revolutionizing Journalism.” (Incidentally, just before that, [...]
I’ve recently started blogging for one of my clients, Room 214. They’re an internet marketing firm that offers an intriguing service, Capture the Conversation. This service gets to the heart of why conversational media is so valuable and important. I think the Room 214 people and I can learn a lot from each other.
The Capture the Conversation blog is a good resource for marketing/PR pros and others who want to learn how to make the most of conversational media. My "beat" there will mainly be the tools of conversational media.
So when I have tool-focused topics to discuss, I’ll post over there. (I’ll mention it here, and on my other blog The Right Conversation, with a link). I’ll continue to post my think pieces and open questions to The Right Conversation. I believe that’s a complementary content strategy — we’ll see how it works out.
Over at the Capture the Conversation blog, I just launched into what will be a multi-part discussion of the tools of comment tracking. Today’s post is very introductory, but watch for followups. See: Tracking Blog Comments: The Challenge…
Over the last few days I (and a few other people) have been adding to the BlogHer 06 live/post blogging coverage wiki. It now features dozens of links. I won’t have a chance to add much to it over the next few days, and I know there are plenty of items that aren’t on there yet which should be.
This is an open public wiki, so if you know of a link that should be on there but isn’t yet, please click "edit page" to add it. Thanks!
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