PC world has named Firefox the 2005 Product of the Year. A related story talks about Firefox's gains in browser market share. Apparently this week marks the first time that more than 20% of the visitors to the PC World website were using Firefox.
“Beats all you ever saw……
.....been in trouble with the law since the day they was born." According to a CNN Money article: Christopher Nelson's new job, which comes with a $100,000 salary and a one-year contract, will be to watch reruns of "The Dukes of Hazzard" weeknights on the Country Music Television cable channel and write blog postings for... Continue Reading →
FeedDemon Aquired by Newsgator
Nick Bradbury, the creator of FeedDemon and Topstyle, will now be working for Newsgator. He explains the move in this post on his blog. Nick explains that the idea behind this move was born out of his support forums. Basically, his customers wanted the ability to use the desktop aggregator, FeedDemon, on multiple machines. Nick's... Continue Reading →
Why Colleges Blog
mStoner.com has a good article about colleges that blog to recruit potential students: In seizing on the blogging phenomenon, admissions offices and alumni associations are benefiting from the freshness and honesty that the very medium of blogging suggests. There's an immediacy to blogging, an unvarnished reality to it--even when the feedback function is disabled and... Continue Reading →
Weblogs in Education
"Weblogs in Education: the Possiblilities Are Limitless!" has a good collection of educational blogs. The site lists tons of blogs and articles about blogs, and even has links to presentations and workshops about blogging. Link via Information Literacy Weblog.
Blogs with 6 Strings
The Guitar Blog has "the latest guitar news and guitar-related information from around the world." Also, another Guitar Blog (same name, different blog) includes "Guitars and guitarists, basses and bassists, guitar news and products, weird guitars, bizarre guitars, wonderful guitars... Links to interesting guitar sites and products found on the internet."
Needing Critiques of Blog Software
I am giving a presentation with Nancy Stimson, author of the Stark County Law Library Blawg, next Tuesday at a joint meeting of the Cleveland Special Library Association and the Northern Ohio Chapter of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. Nancy is doing the 'about blogs and blogging' piece, and I am going... Continue Reading →
American Aggregator Idol
You know that RSS is catching on when American Idol has an RSS feed. I wonder what is the aggregator of choice for Simon, Randy, Paula, and Seacrest? Are they part of the 16 people that are subscribed with Bloglines? Perhaps now that the competion is into the final 12 contestants, hits on the Idol... Continue Reading →
More Blogging Tips
I have blogged about using blogs for internal communications before, but the folks at Advanced Business Blogging have a good post about the topic. They too have grasped the idea of using a blog as a knowledgebase: As your team becomes accustomed to accessing the knowledge they need from this internal blog, they win with... Continue Reading →