I wonder what James thinks about Yahoo! buying and blo.gs (the ping server)? Are we seeing the start of a rationalisation within the blog search/regular search market? Will Google take Technorati? Hmmm, we live in interesting times.
Author Archives: Michael Specht
Blog and be Damned
There is a great article in Radar (a special blog-like section in the SMH) that quotes Cameron Reilly and provides a good summary of why organisations should have a blogging policy (a personal bug bear of mine). It is good to see some press in Australia on this, even if it is not 100% mainContinue reading “Blog and be Damned”
My old blog
Strangely my old blog still attracting the same level of traffic as it did in January 2005, and it has not been updated for almost 3 months. I have also noticed that it still ranks higher in search results than my new one.
Social bookmarking
In his post on knowledge management and social bookmarks Denham Grey asks “So how exactly are you using social bookmarking?” We used it at BlogTalk Downunder to track content generated during the conference, a great use. Personally I have not got into using tags to mine knowledge, maybe I should…. The new Technorati Beta allowsContinue reading “Social bookmarking”
Is “peer production” the “long tail”?
(Via Dubs.) This post is a bit vague and more a snapshot of ideas than anything else, but hey it is my blog. In Business Week a Yale Law School professor, Yochai Benkler, has put together a paper on the changing nature of our economy that is being fuelled by the Internet and cheap computingContinue reading “Is “peer production” the “long tail”?”
Tech Recruiting is Hard
Jeremy Zawondy chimes in on the issues faced by recruiters that were raised by Gretchen earlier in the week. Interesting perspectives from Jeremy and his readers, shows some of the issues that the HR profession need to address. You might not agree but remember perception is reality.
XFN and HR
Over the last couple of days I have been pondering how XFN could be incorportated into our online world. I know there are some logical places, which is why XFN was created, I am working through some use cases on how it might be integrated into recruitment practices. Another interesting topic is Attention.xml I haveContinue reading “XFN and HR”
Google Site Maps
A week or so ago Google Site Map was launched, another Beta product from the mother ship. Google Site Map has been designed so that web content authors can create an XML file to inform Google which areas of their site has been updated. The idea here is that Google can then crawl just theContinue reading “Google Site Maps”
SAP and PHP?
A bit of a technical post today, that’s not to say some of my other ones have not been :-). Over the last few weeks I have been playing with the idea that I might write some PHP code, mainly because my hosting provider provides PHP and MySQL and I like to tinker. Today IContinue reading “SAP and PHP?”
Gretchen rants about hiring managers
Last week Gretchen posted a fairly blunt post about the role of recruiters in large companies highlighting in particular some of the issues within Microsoft. When I first read the post I raised an eye brow at the honestly but thought nothing more of it. How wrong was I, and it seems Gretchen. The postContinue reading “Gretchen rants about hiring managers”
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