Blogging – Page 17 – Michael Specht

Essential Ping Servers

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/Continue reading “Essential Ping Servers”

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 asContinue reading “Australia Archives”

Corporate Blogging and recruitment

Recruiting.com has a great post on how Corporate Blogging is a conversation, and not just a PR activitiy to create ‘spin’. They list a great summary of the types of blogs companies should look at:- Companies. You need a blog. Not a corporate blog, and not one. You need: Passionate employee blogs. You need: JobContinue reading “Corporate Blogging and recruitment”

Multi-User Blogs

Robin Good’s article about Multi-User Blog is a good overview of some of the more successful group blogs and touches on the different tools used to create them. (A full comparative report is also available for download.) The most interesting portion is his discussion on project sites, based on work by David Siegel. The productivityContinue reading “Multi-User Blogs”

Photos from BlogTalk Downunder

I am going to be using my phone to take some photos of the conference, they can all be found at Flickr tagged with Blogtalkdownunder. BTW I like tags as a method of consolidating my content from the conference. I also plan to setup a tag at del.icio.us (it will also be Blogtalkdownunder) for linksContinue reading “Photos from BlogTalk Downunder”

A use for tags

Reading Abject Learning last night and found a real use for tag. Brian Lamb provides a great example of tags in practice from the Northern Voice conference, he quotes Alexandra Samuel, here is the bit I found fantastic. Tags are helping people solve problems and work smarter. When 350 bloggers gathered recently for Canada’s firstContinue reading “A use for tags”

Blogging Guidelines

IBM’s call to arms now means that they will have up to 300,000 bloggers working fror them, in the form of employees. But what will be the price? Compliance with the IBM Blogging Guidelines. Is it really that bad? No of course not, in fact at a high level it is pretty good. Here theContinue reading “Blogging Guidelines”

Wiki Spam

This afternoon I went to ResumeWiki to look at posting my Resume and I found the main page had been trashed. I feel bad for the people who have to run the site and put up with this sort of activity.

Are you a Digerati?

Harold Jarche pointed me Seth Godin’s item on the New Digital Divide (did we close the last one?) and how to spot which side you stand on. I want the throw out a challenge to all HR/Learning/Knowledge Management/Education professionals who have a blog and are Digerati to help one person every day understand. Not thatContinue reading “Are you a Digerati?”

No more RSS to read

I managed to get over a major hurdle today, caught up on all of my RSS feeds, as of 12:29pm AEST I have no more feeds to read. Update: 1 hour later and there are 43 posts in my reader.