Apologies for the delay in commenting on the talks we heard at London’s Internet World, but at last the opportunity has arisen to jot down some perceived wisdom and pass it on.
The speakers we enjoyed listening to - who had real news and views to impart - were Ashley Friedlein (CEO of E-consultancy.com) and Loic […]

It is wonderful to see the cross-over of media from online to print – as the words of ‘paperless world’ reverberate across the world wide web with a sarcastic laugh in my head. By publishing a book, we feel it reaffirms the blogging medium’s acceptance if not nearing maturity.
These blogs that are printed […]

Wonder if you spotted the winners of The Weblog Awards™ announced on Monday earlier this week, March 12.
The winners are a wonderful cross section of popular, new, large, small, private and public blogs highlighting the variety and many uses of blogging.
Category nominations were made voluntarily by members of the general public […]

Graham Charlton’s blog post on e-consultancy.com advises that another report has been published forecasting that English Blogs have peaked.
Pranam Kolari looked at ‘ the distribution of “I” in blog posts, one from BlogPulse and the other from Technorati’ and proclaims that there is constant growth – ie no change.
All the comments come up […]

Must be after the weekend, as I was reading the Sunday papers and came across a rather interesting financial blog success story plastered across the front page of The Sunday Times:
“I blog, therefore I am £70,000 richer”
“Less than six weeks after starting to write about downshifting from London to rural Northumberland, a mother of three […]

I’ve been reading the trades again – but this is London and that’s what a commute is made for - selecting to avoid iPod ear pollution, I go for the magazines to pass the time, pressed up or squashed in with random strangers on London’s buses and trains.
Without ROI on marketing spend, the board room […]

It’s here again! I only just wrote that the press are full of the virtues, pitfalls and necessity of joining the open communication channel of corporate blogging.
February’s edition of Management Today dedicated a lot more space to blogging, and here are highlights from Alexander Garrett’s crash course:
1. Think Strategy; why have a […]

This New Year’s trade press is full of the rise and merits of business blogs and advice on blogging. We present a summary.
According to e-consultancy’s interview with Anil Dash, of Six Apart fame (the company behind popular blog platforms Movable Type, Vox and TypePad), blogging has by no means peaked and we haven’t seen […]

blog.iconcertina.com continues the discussion previously help at my Smartapps blog. This evening I tried to login to the Typepad Smartapps blog but just as Neville Hobson discovered, its down again. Ironically, I was logging on to post my LAST post in typepad - telling everyone that we have migrated our blog to a new url […]