Daily Archives: Wednesday, May 25, 2005

The Numbers Guy at the WSJ does the math on blogs

The Numbers Guy at the WSJ does the math on blogs: Bottom line, there’s a lot, but nobody knows, but who cares: we’re getting close to a point where how many there are will be irrelevant. No one asks, “how … Continue reading

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What Alice said

What Alice said: My friend Alice Randall had an op-ed piece in the Tennessean today. Quote: “Harpeth Hall has a new Lady of the Hall… And she’s going to Harvard. And she’s black.”

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RSS mojo?

RSS mojo? Yahoo! Publisher Guide to RSS. Says Tara Calishain of ResearchBuzz, “This guide is less about rolling an RSS feed and more about what to do once you’ve got an RSS feed, specifically what to do with Yahoo.”

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Congratulations Carrie (and Lena)

Congratulations, Carrie (and Lena): We got a little “carrie-d” away at Hammock Publishing over this whole American Idol thing. Fortunately, the Hammorati weblog’s entertainment correspondent can relax.

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The secret of the most popular bloggers, maybe

The secret of the most popular bloggers, maybe: Lots of short posts. Perhaps, but I suggest before accepting this as conventional wisdom, you speed read the book Freakanomics. I agree that blogging popularity has a correlation with frequency and breavity, … Continue reading

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Clarification

Clarification: I’ve updated a post I made yesterday clarifying that a quote I attributed to an employee of Fast Company was made by a “guest host” on their weblog, not an employee. For the record, I agree with his comment … Continue reading

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What Staci said

What Staci Kramer said: “Don’t worry about bragging rights — just getting it right.”

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Top 10 Names Not Likely to Replace “Ask Jeeves”

Top 10 Names Rejected as a new name for “Ask Jeeves”: Rafat Ali is reporting that Barry Diller says, “we’re thinking about renaming (Ask Jeeves).” The rexblog has just obtained the top ten list of names Diller has already rejected … Continue reading

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More Nashville news

More Nashville news: On my RSS newsreader, I have a folder I’ve named “Nashville” with lots of feeds from the hood, including a few keyword feeds from Topix.net.. A few minutes ago, a UPI story appeared reporting that “six Tennessee … Continue reading

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Huh?

Huh? While I am not familiar with the American Society of Professional Communicators and didn’t know it was entered (one of my colleagues is responsible for that), I just found out the rexblog won an honorable mention “Masters Communication Award” … Continue reading

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A reminder

A reminder: I’m doing some guest blogging at Media Pace, the new weblog launched by American Business Media.

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Brittney Gawkers Ms. Chesney

Brittney Gawkers Ms. Chesney: Enough with the station tours, dish up more of this.

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A new Nashville Nobody Knows podcast, and a podcast program suggestion

A new Nashville Nobody Knows podcast, and a podcast program suggestion: A morning jog included listening on my gum-package-size MP3 player, this week’s The Nashville Nobody Knows from Candace Corrigan. If you like unplugged country, bluegrass, jazz, folk or intelligent … Continue reading

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Tennessee news

Tennessee news: Via AP, “Tennessee’s deputy finance commissioner spent 13 hours stuck in an elevator at the state Capitol after no one paid a phone bill.”

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Run, Robert, Run

Run, Robert, Run: From today’s NYT – “A Front-Runner at Microsoft, but There’s No Race Yet” — However, apparently it’s primary season, so I think Robert Scoble should be making visits to New Hampshire and Iowa. The people’s candidate? : … Continue reading

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