I noticed today that Linkme has launched a blog, or blogs as they like to refer to it. Good to see another Australian HR-related blog in the marketplace. (Free tip 1:- Linkme, it is really not a blog without RSS feeds) (Free tip 2:- It is called a blog and it contains posts, a post isContinue reading “Link to me I have a blog!”
Category Archives: Blogging
Job seekers and blogs
There has been a bit of a rush this week on posts about using blogs to help you find a job. Previously most of the discussion and example have been about corporations promoting themselves through blogs. To a lesser extent job seekers using a blog to create a micro-brand that increases their standing within a particular industry,Continue reading “Job seekers and blogs”
Monday morning humor from Gautam Ghosh
I got up this morning to check what was going on and found this great post from Gautam Ghosh on Why have only recruiters embraced blogging. Very good.
WordPress 2.0.2
I have just upgraded to WordPress 2.0.2, a fairly painless process for a major version upgrade, I was on 1.5.1. Let me know if you run into anything a bit strange over the coming days. Spmmers beware I have also upgrade/changed/modified my spam tools.
Australian Online Media seems to be catching up
In 2004 the Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Year was blog. In 2005 Oxford University Press selected podcast as the word of the year. It seems now Australia is finally catching on to this web 2.0 thing. Sandra Hanchard from Hitwise Asia Pacific has published a post on the Weather, Web 2.0 and Wikipedia showing thatContinue reading “Australian Online Media seems to be catching up”
210 spam comments in 8 hours
Imagine my surprise this morning when I when I logged on to see 210 spam comments waiting for my approval in WordPress! That is one every 3 minutes, probably the time it takes for the script to execute, pick a new IP address etc. By the look of things it is someone with a veryContinue reading “210 spam comments in 8 hours”
What’s your conversational index?
I noticed over the last few days a bit of a buzz on the Conversational Index (CI) of your blog, originally started by Stowe Boyd and continued all over the place, ToDoOrElse.com, Don Dodge, Frank Arrigo and Mitch Denny. Basically it goes like this. Get your total posts and divide by the sum of yourContinue reading “What’s your conversational index?”
Spam attack
Over the last hour I have been under a comment spam attack from 195.225.177.80. Based on a whois search they seem to be coming from an ISP in the Netherlands, specifically RIPE Network Coordination Centre. Doing some background checking on RIPE I would suggest that it is a user on their network somewhere. Maybe theyContinue reading “Spam attack”
Nancy did it, I did it, did you?
Nancy White Egosurfed, I just did it, have you? Egosurf is yet another vanity tool that we can use to find our place in the online world. Do we all just have too much time on our hands or are we just very vain?
3000+ posts
What do you do when you have over 3000 posts in your RSS reader to catch up on? Select “Mark as Read” for all of them! Did I miss anything important in the last two weeks?
Michael Specht 