Michael Specht

An imperfect blog from Australia looking at technology, enterprise 2.0, management, Human Resources (HR) and other random thoughts.

Entries from May 2005

Essential Ping Servers

May 29th, 2005 · 5 Comments · Blogging · 3,442 views

Chris Abraham has put together a listing on ping servers, I compared with what I was using in WordPress and there were a few differences. Here is my personal updated listing:-
http://api.feedster.com/ping
http://api.moreover.com/RPC2
http://rpc.pingomatic.com/
http://api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2
http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping
http://bblog.com/ping.php
http://bitacoras.net/ping/
http://blog.goo.ne.jp/XMLRPC
http://blogbot.dk/io/xml-rpc.php (Registered Danish Users Only)
http://blogdb.jp/xmlrpc
http://bulkfeeds.net/rpc
http://coreblog.org/ping/
http://ping.blo.gs/
http://ping.bitacoras.com/
http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/
http://ping.cocolog-nifty.com/xmlrpc
http://ping.feedburner.com/
http://ping.rootblog.com/rpc.php
http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php
http://ping.weblogs.se/
http://rcs.datashed.net/RPC2
http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/
http://rpc.pingomatic.com/
http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2
http://topicexchange.com/RPC2
http://thingamablog.sourceforge.net/ping.php
http://www.a2b.cc/setloc/bp.a2b
http://www.bitacoles.net/ping.php
http://www.blogdigger.com/RPC2
http://www.blogshares.com/rpc.php
http://www.blogsnow.com/ping
http://www.blogroots.com/tb_populi.blog?id=1
http://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates
http://www.weblogues.com/RPC/
http://xmlrpc.blogg.de/
http://xping.pubsub.com/ping/
Thanks for the link James (I think it was you).
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FUSE and Recruitment

May 28th, 2005 · No Comments · Recruitment · 1,236 views

Joel Chessman is writing about Yahoo Mindset a new context relevant searching tool. Reading his take on things got me thinking back to FUSE and what it could have to do with recruitment. Essentially recruiters should be following the four stage in FUSE to help find a better candidate for the job, and [...]

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CCO

May 25th, 2005 · No Comments · Future, HR Management · 1,113 views

We have all sorts of CXO’s, got a new one for you all Chief Courage Officer (CCO), I like it. It would be good for more CEO’s to have a bit of courage.
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dot jobs progress

May 25th, 2005 · No Comments · Recruitment · 749 views

The dot jobs team has engaged Joel Cheesman as a consultant to assist with bringing the service to the marketplace. This is a good move, Joel is a smart guy and understands the internet and what makes it tick.
I am very interested to see how the global aspects of this new domain [...]

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Your neighboursphere

May 25th, 2005 · 1 Comment · Social Networks · 1,410 views

James Farmer (Blogtalk Downunder fame) poses some interesting thoughts around a concept he is calling neighboursphere. Having spent so sometime chatting to James at the conference I kind of know where he is going with this. Here is my 2 cents worth.
Virtual communities seem to appear when people publish online (I am expanding [...]

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Your Gooru

May 24th, 2005 · No Comments · Recruitment, Social Networks · 1,122 views

During the last few days while at Blogtalk Downunder (if you had not guessed that was where the flood of posts came from) I had the pleasure of meeting some many fantastic people.
Some of those people was the team from Zed Tycho who build social networking tools and other cool pieces of software. One [...]

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Workplace Surveillance

May 24th, 2005 · No Comments · HR Management, Privacy · 1,591 views

Last week ComputerWorld published an interesting article on the new Workplace Surveillance Bill with some fairly major concerns being raised by the Australian Privacy Federation. One quote that stuck out in my mind was:-
“A major concern, from a privacy point of view, is as long as employers meet visibility requirements it is open [...]

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Heather asks if it is true?

May 24th, 2005 · No Comments · New Media, Social Networks · 1,254 views

Heather Hamilton asks, is it true?
I am sorry to say but yes. We had an interesting discussion on this at BlogTalk Downunder when Mark Bernstein used it as an example in his closing comments.
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Australia Archives

May 22nd, 2005 · 1 Comment · BlogTalkDownunder, Blogging · 2,706 views

Found this surprising post about Paul Baggaley and the request from the Australian Archives to include his blog in PANDORA.
Why is this so significant? Over the last few days there has been an undercurrent theme at Blogtalk Downunder about if blogs will be archived, and once someone passes away will the blog go as [...]

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Some notes and thoughts

May 22nd, 2005 · 1 Comment · BlogTalkDownunder · 1,386 views

Some of you might be wondering what happened to the first 3 speakers at Blogtalk Downunder, well the notes are on paper as I did not have my laptop up and running. I will try to document and post soon.
Regular readers might also be wondering when the flood of posts will stop, today as [...]

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