Blogging Top Ten Blog Post Titles I Want To Use It's Friday afternoon where I live, so time for a less serious post. There's an art to creating good weblog post titles and most of the time I craft my post titles after I've written the post. However some post titles are just too good NOT to use, because they're witty or amusingly cliched or just downright memorable! Here's a list of blog post… Richard MacManus View comments
Blogging Blogging as Marketplace and Ecology Jason Kottke wrote today that the blogging revolution will be commercialized. He said that "out of Technorati's top 100 most-linked weblogs, only 16 don't feature advertising or are otherwise noncommercial." NB: he had some provisos on who in the top 100 really qualifies as a blog. There are a lot of issues to consider in Jason's post and the only… Richard MacManus View comments
web Feedburner and Blog-Centered Stats As a follow-up to my previous post, I decided to take the plunge and sign up with Feedburner (hat tip to Cristian!). Feedburner is a third-party service that generates an enhanced RSS feed for you. What's enhanced about it? For starters it enables you to track RSS statistics for all RSS Aggregators (not just Bloglines). Feedburner does much more… Richard MacManus View comments
web Bloglines Subscriber Stats Redux Remember my post 3 months ago that analysed Bloglines subscriber stats? Well I thought I'd review the numbers. You can blame Seb Paquet for this ;-) Why? Because he's just posted something on his weblog for the first time in over 3 months, which got me thinking about how his time away from blogging affected his stats. It turns out his Bloglines… Richard MacManus View comments
Knowledge Management The Role of Storywriters in Organisations After my Dave Snowden grokking last week, I've been reading up on storytelling in KM. Bill Ives has some fantastic reading on this subject and I intend to read Steve Denning too. I was thinking this morning about how people have different niches and specialist talents. For example, I'm a better writer than I am a programmer or designer. And there… Richard MacManus View comments