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BusinessWeek Rolls Out Blogspotting.net
hackajar wrote in to mention a development on BusinessWeek. Their weeklong discussion about blogs and blogging in business has culminated in a new website: Blogspotting.net. From the site: "Before anyone asks, we didn't pick the name because we have an urge to speak in Scottish brogue or fall headlong into the seamy side of questionable drug usage. It seemed to fit what we intend to do with this blog--track the phenomenon of how media, business, and blogs meet head on." They appear to be using Movable Type.
Due to the shortage of blogs about blogs and blog related information! good idea!
Starsucks
we're the scum of the fucking earth. The British.., well, they're just wankers. We, on the other hand, have been colonized by wankers.
If you want a true democracy, it has to begin with people's rights to say whatever they want. While US has the "freedom of speech", let's face it... the poor, minority and steretyped always struggle with this freedom.
Where Blogs come in HUGE is... you don't really know if the person doing the speaking is rich or poor. The status can be a complete mystery. That's true democracy.
except the webpages look marginally better, the content is still the same except now its called a "blog" and not a "home website"
This must be one of those press hits.
Slagheap
First against the wall when the revolution comes
Tommy (looking at the hills): Doesn't it make you proud to be Scottish?
Renton (drunk, 'clean,' and pissed off): It's shite being Scottish! We're the lowest of the low! The scum of the fucking Earth! The most wretched, miserable, servile, pathetic trash that was ever shat into civilization! Some people hate English. I don't! They're just wankers! We, on the other hand, are colonized by wankers! Can't even find a decent culture to be colonized by! We're ruled by effete arseholes! It's a shite state of affairs to be in, Tommy! And all the fresh air in the world won't make any fucking difference.
Well, Dont know the future of blogging, but the nature of it surely resembles something like what Rent-boy Renton describes : "I don't feel the sickness yet, but it's in the post. That's for sure. I'm in the junkie limbo at the moment. Too ill to sleep. Too tired to stay awake, but the sickness is on its way. Sweat, chills, nausea. Pain and craving. A need like nothing else I've ever known will soon take hold of me. It's on its way. " and KABOOM! You start blogging!
(Of course, Paul Graham retracted this claim when BusinessWeek informed him today the article was sponteneous, uninfluenced by a PR firm; but I'm sure BusinessWeek had his article foremost in their thoughts when they announced their new blogging site.)
Being against $current_media_darling makes you so cool.
there's more than one way to do me.
You best mind your p's and q's, young man. blogspottingwatchwatchers.com is on your case....
eat shiat and bark at the moon
Slashdotters who frown upon the blogging phenomenon should realize that Slashdot is considered a blog and tracked by websites like Daypop (at http://www.daypop.com/blogrank/), so if you're merrily whipping these comments out, you are considered a blogger as well, only you're doing it on a community blog.
Blogspotting sounds hip, but it's a shock (yeah, falling-off-the-chair shock) to see the photos of these two Businessweek bloggers who look like they were sent straight from Hollywood Central Casting for "corporate cubicle type"; I mean, put on some Goth makeup or something.
Sun and Fun
when a major business magazine writes an article on how it's such an important trend.
Happened with Sigma-5 (or whatever the lame GE methodology was), happened with dot coms, now it's blogging.
Well, it was fun while it lasted.
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Soon you'll be able to use your PC to control the lives of your very own artificial humans as they Blog away in their very own Blogs.
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Watch them type on the keyboard when you click on them to Blog. See them take bathroom breaks when they've been blogging too long. Make sure their motives are kept high by ignoring the doorbell as Real Life tries to intrude on them.
Upgrade their blogging skills, learning new Social Interactions like Flamewar (hostile), Befriend A Blogger (friendly), Icon (greeting), and Blog Link (allows you to track their friends Blogs).
Have them access Facebook from their college or university to find out what parties are going on - and have them show up at Blogparties!
Coming soon to a gaming store near you!
[darn, where's the irony button when you need one
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What do Slashdotters find acceptable in terms of blogs that accept payment for publishing content?
How much disclosure is required before you say "ok, they weren't trying to slip this one by me, I accept it, I'll still read"?
What should a company do if they've accepted money for a a paid blog entry, not disclosed it, and got caught?
Blogging is going to become a larger and larger part of the business world, and especially advertising and PR, whether we like it or not. I'm just curious on what Slashdotters thoughts on acceptable practices for this behavior are. And please don't say "don't do it" or other unconstructive things, I'm asking some honest "best practice" questions.
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