Archive for January 16th, 2006

Podcast Magazine

Monday, January 16th, 2006

Using traditional media to support podcasters seems to be an odd delivery method, but nonetheless, ID3 Magazine will launch in May.
After months of many milestones, we’re adding another to the list – the unveiling of ID3 Podcast Magazine. Named after the podcast data tag (an insider’s term for an insider’s magazine), the international trade publication [...]

Website Research Shows Visual Appeal is Important

Monday, January 16th, 2006

A research article on site design says,
“Visual appeal can be assessed within 50 milliseconds, suggesting that web designers have about 50 milliseconds to make a good impression,” the Canadians report in the journal Behaviour & Information Technology.’
Darren has posted on this before, as have I, but it bears repeating.  People are visually motivated.  A [...]

Technorati Woes

Monday, January 16th, 2006

After my last post, you’d think Tecnorati was doing better. And, while I do see improvement, I need to point out their vast underreporting of blog updates.
PS - I’m still a bit over Technorati as it’s now showing this blog as not having been updated for 207 days and there’s still no word from [...]

Google Adsense Payout Is Public

Monday, January 16th, 2006

In a NYTimes article over the weekend, a surprising comment, not really the focus of the story, is becoming the story for the blogosphere.
Google.com and the company’s foreign search sites contribute more to Google’s bottom line than AdSense, because for every dollar the company brings in through AdSense and other places that distribute its ads, [...]

Make Your Internal Blog Useful - Part 6

Monday, January 16th, 2006

If you truly want to have your internal blog read, you can’t simply set it up and assume your employees will gravitate towards it. A strategy must be undertaken to make it a daily must-read. Continued from Part One.
This one almost seems like a no-brainer, but if the content is unavailable anywhere else, your employees [...]

New Item

Monday, January 16th, 2006

If you truly want to have your
internal blog read, you can’t simply set it up and assume your
employees will gravitate towards it. A strategy must be undertaken to
make it a daily must-read. Continued from Part One.