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30 mei 2005

The Beethoven Experience

BBC Radio starts with the Beethoven Experience. Every single note of him will be broadcasted. On the website you will find a lot of information with highlights, a quiz, a newsletter and so on. And to start conversations BBC Radio has a Beethoven Messageboard in place. I think this is... MORE

Gepubliceerd op 30 mei 2005 10:06 am | | Reacties (0) | TrackBacks (0)

John Bell of Ogilvy is right about influence! But how about the Long Tail?

John Bell works for Ogilvy the famous advertising firm according to Robert Scoble. I read through some postings of him and must say it is pretty good stuff out there. Writing about corporate blogging and especially the influence of it. In this posting he writes about the bond which weblogs... MORE

Gepubliceerd op 30 mei 2005 10:55 am | | Reacties (0) | TrackBacks (0)

The interviewer being interviewed: Neville Hobson about weblogs and podcasts

In PRWeek an interview with Neville Hobson. He produces the For Immediately Release Podcasts. Interesting article to read the opinion about his passions and ideas on weblogs and podcasting. Some quotes which inspires me: “For me, the great appeal with media such as these is how you can employ them... MORE

Gepubliceerd op 30 mei 2005 11:28 am | | Reacties (0) | TrackBacks (0)

Lucent Technologies: and again a bottom-up approach

A great posting I read via the del.ico.us postings of cbastura. It is all about enterprise blogging. In the presentation of Michael Angeles working at Bell Labatories’, Lucent Technologies, you will get a great overview of inside information on the experiments at Lucent in incorporating weblogs as communciation and information management... MORE

Gepubliceerd op 30 mei 2005 12:08 pm | | Reacties (0) | TrackBacks (0)

If you can't stop it, don't start it

That’s what Jesse Taylor is saying about weblogs. Smart companies don’t blog. Robert Scoble and Steve Rubel totally disagree. And I think both, Robert and Steve, are right. I think Jesse is worried about the bottom-up approach of weblogs and about giving up control. But hé guy, it is a new world we... MORE

Gepubliceerd op 30 mei 2005 1:27 pm | | Reacties (0) | TrackBacks (0)

SPAMblogs

Last weeks I found my content ‘published’ on some spamblogs. With no contact details of the person administering that blogs and strange blognames. They use my feedburner RSS feed and duplicate the complete content in a posting. No opinion or other text is found in such a posting. No trackback... MORE

Gepubliceerd op 30 mei 2005 8:58 pm | | Reacties (2) | TrackBacks (0)

31 mei 2005

Presentation about Experience Marketing

I found a very interesting presentation about Experience Marketing (pdf) in the posting of Jeff Kallay. He found it at the e-Strategic Research Consulting Group. The summary of the presentation: 1. Brand marketers which succeed in the experience economy will use creativity to compete in uncontested market space that leaves... MORE

Gepubliceerd op 31 mei 2005 10:09 am | | Reacties (3) | TrackBacks (0)

Creative Commons license

As of today you can find my Creative Commons license on my weblog. In this way it is clear to everyone (I hope) what he can do with my content. You can find the license in the column on the right. Summary: You are free: - to copy, distribute, display, and... MORE

Gepubliceerd op 31 mei 2005 11:14 am | | Reacties (0) | TrackBacks (0)

01 juni 2005

Why PR students must blog

I found a very interesting posting on PR Studies on the subject why PR student should blog. Richard Bailey of the Lees Business School. What he actually state is that PR students should practice their skills and thinks blogs are perfect to experiment with ideas and formats. Also because it is a new medium a lot of... MORE

Gepubliceerd op 01 juni 2005 8:47 am | | Reacties (0) | TrackBacks (0)

02 juni 2005

Xtend live webcast with Joe Pine: The state of the Experience Economy

On June 9th, explore the current State of the Experience Economy with author Joe Pine in a live Xtend webcast. Sign up today, June 2nd, to take final advantage of the early registration rate. Six years ago, Joe Pine and Jim Gilmore of Strategic Horizons LLP released their best-selling book... MORE

Gepubliceerd op 02 juni 2005 10:03 am | | Reacties (0) | TrackBacks (0)

Technologies of cooperation

Digital technologies gives new opportunities to cooperation strategies. In this great report of The Institute of the Future (pdf) eight clusters are described which contributes to thse cooperation strategies. Of course social networking tools en weblogs are part of it. The clusters which are described are:- Self-organizing mesh networks - Community... MORE

Gepubliceerd op 02 juni 2005 1:24 pm | | Reacties (0) | TrackBacks (0)

03 juni 2005

Great PubSub link measurement tool

This is a great tool from PubSub. A measurement tool for inbound and outbound links. Take a look at my link details with nice graphs and a lot of detailed info. It is still buggy they say but nevertheless I think it gives a lot of information. The RSS feed... MORE

Gepubliceerd op 03 juni 2005 6:11 am | | Reacties (5) | TrackBacks (1)

Flickr is having a message oh no a massage

Oke oke! Jumping to the Flickr blog. Hé these guys seem to have a party: photo number 17.000.000. Hé that's great. But now I want to go to my photo's. No way! Can't do it. Seems to me that this is a great way of letting me not know that... MORE

Gepubliceerd op 03 juni 2005 9:10 am | | Reacties (3) | TrackBacks (0)

The MeWe Generation

I am a fan of Frederick, our Swedish guy. And not just because we met on Les Blogs. He is in front of the trends. So also this posting is good to read. It is about a book called The MeWe Generation of the swedish think-tank Kairos Future. I have also... MORE

Gepubliceerd op 03 juni 2005 10:51 am | | Reacties (0) | TrackBacks (0)

Hé Rodrigo has tested Video for Skype!

  This is great! Seems to be. I did not tested it. But Rodrigo did. He is the guy on the right. Actually he was sitting in the same row on Les Blogs and every now and then moving out of that row ;-) But that’s another story Rodrigo.... MORE

Gepubliceerd op 03 juni 2005 11:19 am | | Reacties (0) | TrackBacks (0)

06 juni 2005

128 webcasts of TechEd US 2005

Great stuff! 128 simulcasts (or better webcasts) of the TechEd US 2005 are available or will be during the event on the weblog of Angus Logan in Australia. So no expensive travels or hotels anymore. (from Nevon via Scoble) Tags: teched... MORE

Gepubliceerd op 06 juni 2005 2:27 pm | | Reacties (0) | TrackBacks (0)

Demos and slides from Software Developers Conference in Arnhem

What a great tool. I mean weblogs. I already mentioned the live webcasts Microsoft’s TechEd US of which I was informed via a weblog. Now I see the slides and demos of 4 sessions of Brain Noyes which he did on the Software Developers Conference on May 30th in Arnhem.... MORE

Gepubliceerd op 06 juni 2005 2:44 pm | | Reacties (0) | TrackBacks (0)

Blogging and Advertising Survey

Darren Rowse is going to publish the raw data next week of his survey BlogKits 2005 Blogging & Advertising Survey. You can still do the survey. He posted some figures as a sneak peak. “80% of bloggers agree that advertisements are ok on their own blogs. 16% of those who... MORE

Gepubliceerd op 06 juni 2005 3:14 pm | | Reacties (0) | TrackBacks (0)

Corporate blogging policies compared

Again a great posting of Fredrik. This one is about corporate policies and rules. He has made a list of policies of corporate blogs and in this posting he has made a comparison between them. See how he classified them and use the links to go to more indepth information on his... MORE

Gepubliceerd op 06 juni 2005 3:53 pm | | Reacties (1) | TrackBacks (0)

Tagcloud in del.icio.us

I saw some new functionality while posting to del.ico.us this morning. I could choose from my tags below a posting. Nice feature. But this afternoon I again saw a new feature. Steve Rubel had a posting on it. You can now navigate through my tags via my tagcloud. (Update:... MORE

Gepubliceerd op 06 juni 2005 4:59 pm | | Reacties (2) | TrackBacks (0)

07 juni 2005

CEO blogslist update

These are recently added CEO’s on the list on TheNewPR/Wiki. En natuurlijk staat Paul Molenaar van Ilse er ook bij.  Paul Allen, Founding Partner, Infobase Ventures - http://www.infobaseventures.com/blog/ Jonathan Carson, CEO, BuzzMetrics - http://buzzmetrics.com/blog/ Paul Molenaar, CEO, Ilse Media/Web-log.nl (1st listing for The Netherlands!) - http://paulmolenaar.web-log.nl/ Scott Anderson, Director of... MORE

Gepubliceerd op 07 juni 2005 8:01 pm | | Reacties (0) | TrackBacks (0)

08 juni 2005

Why do you write, read or comment blogs?

A question which aske many times and I have written some postings on it. Today I read a posting of Darren Rowse of ProBlogger. He posted a comment which he left at someones question Why do you blog? in which he describes what it is all about. Great Stuff! I... MORE

Gepubliceerd op 08 juni 2005 9:38 am | | Reacties (0) | TrackBacks (0)

09 juni 2005

64% would advertise in blogs, 57% would place RSS ads

64% would advertise in blogs, 57% would place RSS ads by ZDNet's ZDNet -- “Forrester says total US online advertising and marketing spending will reach $14.7 bln in 2005, a 23% increase over 2004. Online marketing and advertising will represent 8% of total advertising spending in 2010. Search engine marketing... MORE

Gepubliceerd op 09 juni 2005 9:01 am | | Reacties (0) | TrackBacks (0)

The best bloggers are connectors

That is the opinion of Steve Rubel. With about 3025 feedreaders it is obvious that he is connected. And what Steve is doing most of the time is connecting and sharing. Connecting with other interesting postings, people, thoughts, figures a.s.o. and passing them through to us the readers. Most of... MORE

Gepubliceerd op 09 juni 2005 9:30 am | | Reacties (4) | TrackBacks (0)

Podcast/videolog from SAS airplane!

This is great! Jason Calacanis from Weblog Inc. is videocasting from an airplane of SAS using wi-fi (wmv). He has updated his blog, read his messages, did some Skype calls a.s.o. on his airplanetrip to Reboot. Amazing! This is Always on, Superconnected and User in control. (Thanks to The Blog... MORE

Gepubliceerd op 09 juni 2005 4:29 pm | | Reacties (0) | TrackBacks (0)

10 juni 2005

Technorati is tracking 40.000 new weblogs a day!

This is what Sifry said in his announcement of the new Technorati beta: “ The pace is staggering: we are tracking somewhere between 800,000 and 900,000 new posts made each day, over 40,000 new weblogs created every day. A year ago, we were growing by a gigabyte a day. Now,... MORE

Gepubliceerd op 10 juni 2005 10:13 am | | Reacties (0) | TrackBacks (0)

16 juni 2005

More then 3600 blogs at IBM

Michael Lowry is working at IBM in Sweden. He is one of the 3600 internal bloggers at the company. He also blogs on a public weblog and there he is saying: “Blogging in the corporate environment is emerging as a new means of collaboration among coworkers. It has also begun to... MORE

Gepubliceerd op 16 juni 2005 11:10 am | | Reacties (0) | TrackBacks (0)

17 juni 2005

Telling a great story

I found a great article about storytelling. It is an excerpt of the book: All Marketers Are Liars by Seth Godin. He says: – A great story is true – Great stories make a promise – Great stories are trusted – Great stories are subtle – Great stories happen fast... MORE

Gepubliceerd op 17 juni 2005 9:29 am | | Reacties (0) | TrackBacks (0)

Stay Hungry! Stay Foolish!

Oh man, what a great story this is! And Steve Jobs of Apple is telling it. It is about his life, about his passions. But also about his cancer, his failures, his dropping out. It is told with so much passion, love and inspiration that it is a must read!... MORE

Gepubliceerd op 17 juni 2005 11:53 am | | Reacties (0) | TrackBacks (0)

Experiential Marketing Survey

A new survey on Experiential Marketing from Jack Morton: – Nearly 80% of teens say experiential marketing would increase purchase consideration, while 65% say it would lead to quicker purchase – 72% of 18- to 23-year old consumers say experiential marketing would make them more receptive to the brand/product advertising;... MORE

Gepubliceerd op 17 juni 2005 1:38 pm | | Reacties (0) | TrackBacks (0)

The Translucent Generation

Via Doc Searl to Alex Krupp. About empowerment of the mass, user in control, open conversations, connecting and sharing, the Cluetrain. “The Translucent Generation is not bound by time. It is best thought of as a snowball rolling down a hill; the longer it rolls the bigger it gets. I... MORE

Gepubliceerd op 17 juni 2005 2:03 pm | | Reacties (0) | TrackBacks (0)

21 juni 2005

He removed the ads in his feeds

D. Keith Robinson has removed the Google adsense from his feeds. No revenue, so no sense. He also leaves his  feeds full text. Does anyone has revenue from Google Adsense on his blog and feed? I just wonder? Tags: advertising. adsense... MORE

Gepubliceerd op 21 juni 2005 9:08 am | | Reacties (0) | TrackBacks (0)

Nice photo's of Amersfoort; Tulip's residence

Via frEdSCAPEs I found this nice Flickr photoset of Amersfoort of TibsBits. And that is the town Tulip Computers is located. Did not know these spots in Amersfoort…. Tags: amersfoort... MORE

Gepubliceerd op 21 juni 2005 2:40 pm | | Reacties (0) | TrackBacks (0)

22 juni 2005

Blogdata compared between Google - Technorati and Yahoo!

For those wo are numbercrunchers there is some interesting data on TNL.NET. Tristan Louis has figured out what means to be on the Technorati Top 100, and compared it indexing in Google. That’s the first part of the story. Great graphs and data! The second part of the story is... MORE

Gepubliceerd op 22 juni 2005 8:15 am | | Reacties (0) | TrackBacks (0)

The Age of Empowered Consumers

Where did I hear this before: The Age of Empowered Consumers? Steve Rubel is writing about it. I should haev used the words Empowered People instead of Consumers, because people are more then just consumers. But the message is clear: "....blogs are giving the 'consumers' unprecedented power"And Feedster's Scott Rafer... MORE

Gepubliceerd op 22 juni 2005 3:54 pm | | Reacties (0) | TrackBacks (0)

WOW! What a great blogcasts

David Weinberger is interviewing 7 presenters on the Supernova 2005 conference. He did some videopresentations/blogcasts (Quicktime movies) with (click to view): Jonathan Schwartz, president Sun Microsystems (Should every leader blog?)Chris Anderson, editor-in-chief, Wired magazine (About the misunderstanding of the Long Tail)Robert Scoble, blogger, Microsoft (Should everyone blog, read all postings... MORE

Gepubliceerd op 22 juni 2005 5:09 pm | | Reacties (0) | TrackBacks (0)

23 juni 2005

Relationship between Corporate weblogs and PR

I read about a report How are corporate weblogs affecting public relations practice? on the weblog of Neville Hobson. The conclusion of the report is great I think:"The findings of this research strongly suggest that corporate blogging can make a substantial positive contribution to the practice of external corporate communications.... MORE

Gepubliceerd op 23 juni 2005 12:10 pm | | Reacties (0) | TrackBacks (0)

24 juni 2005

Entrepreneur of the year: Loic Le Meur!

Loic Le Meur of SixApart (yes my TypePad blogsoftware is from that company) is being rewarded Entrepreneur of the Year on Innovate!Europe. This photo is from Rodrigo's Flickr set of this event (yes the man from the VideoSkype test). A short (and a bit dark) video of the ceremony is... MORE

Gepubliceerd op 24 juni 2005 2:44 pm | | Reacties (0) | TrackBacks (0)

del.icio.us direc.tor

Somethingtimes you find tools which are very useful and easy. This is one of them: del.ico.us direc.tor. I am using tagging in del.icio.us very much and with this browsing tool it is easy to navigate. It is delivering a high-performance AJAX web service broker. "del.icio.us direc.tor is a prototype for... MORE

Gepubliceerd op 24 juni 2005 3:45 pm | | Reacties (3) | TrackBacks (1)

25 juni 2005

Feedburner problems

Hi Hans - There was a fire at a power station in Chicago, causing a large power outage that took down a significant portion of the downtown area of the city. Though we host in a data center that boasts redundant power supply (including generators), the generators failed, causing a... MORE

Gepubliceerd op 25 juni 2005 10:22 am | | Reacties (9) | TrackBacks (0)

26 juni 2005

Adam Curry: We are taking back the media!

Wow, Great, Cool. Say nothing. Just listen! Breathless. The closing Key-note of Adam Curry (mp3 33 min) on Gnomedex. Doing his live podcastshow: Daily Source #200. I love every minute! Hat tip frEdSCAPES Tags: gnomedex, podcast, adam curry... MORE

Gepubliceerd op 26 juni 2005 9:28 pm | | Reacties (1) | TrackBacks (0)

12 bloggers doing a conference-blog!

Wow that's a lot! 12 bloggers doing liveblogging on the IABC Conference 2005 (International Association of Business Communicators). Yes, Neville Hobson is one of them. I think a great opportunity to see how these communicators are doing with the blogging-thing. Must be pretty cool I presume. Of course with an... MORE

Gepubliceerd op 26 juni 2005 11:12 pm | | Reacties (0) | TrackBacks (0)

27 juni 2005

Event Blogging Service

I did not see it before: Event Blogging Service. But got track of it with Gnomedex. This guy, Kris Kurg, ha started a new company to work on events. He has an aggregator service, Flickr photosets incorporated, an eventschedule, posting tracker and of course the postings with trackback and reply.... MORE

Gepubliceerd op 27 juni 2005 9:23 am | | Reacties (0) | TrackBacks (0)

And now Adam Curry on video!

And now the same keynote of Adam Curry's: We are taking back the media, on VIDEO. Done by Steve Garfield. Again hat tip frEdSCAPEs Tags: adam curry, gnomedex... MORE

Gepubliceerd op 27 juni 2005 3:58 pm | | Reacties (0) | TrackBacks (0)

28 juni 2005

About influence and interaction

Great! Again about empowerment. About changing times. Read this and the summary below. Published in The Independent and read for us by Nevon."....it's the interaction between blogs that makes them so interesting and influential. A single blog can be akin to a ranting madman on the corner. However, when linked... MORE

Gepubliceerd op 28 juni 2005 4:47 pm | | Reacties (0) | TrackBacks (0)

30 juni 2005

Corporate Blogging Survey

Some while ago I had a posting about the preliminary results of the corporate blogging survey. As corporate blogger of Tulip Computers I also took part in this survey. Today the complete results were published by Backbone Media. Some conclusions (with the graphs): -  51% took less than 1-2 months... MORE

Gepubliceerd op 30 juni 2005 9:45 am | | Reacties (0) | TrackBacks (1)

VP Ogilvy is blogging!

Ogilvy's VP for Interactive Marketing Rhohit Bhargava is blogging on Influential Interactive Marketing (RSS-feed). He is using TypePad. Great to see a marketing/PR-agency is doing this. Started on May 20th I think. "Rohit currently runs the Interactive Marketing offering in the Creative Studio at Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide. This team... MORE

Gepubliceerd op 30 juni 2005 5:08 pm | | Reacties (0) | TrackBacks (0)

04 juli 2005

A new comment and trackback system

This weekend TypePad, the blogsoftware I am working with rolled out a bunch of new features such as comment and trackbackmanagement for fighting spam and new design templates. Perhaps some of you noticed different lay-out styles on my blog during weeked. I do not know, because I followed the advice... MORE

Gepubliceerd op 04 juli 2005 9:29 am | | Reacties (1) | TrackBacks (1)

Trackback management

I am testing my trackback function now. As you can see after setting a trackback to my posting, I will get an email to approve of delete the trackback with the IP and source url. I think this is a good way to fight trackback spam. The same goes for... MORE

Gepubliceerd op 04 juli 2005 10:11 am |