Strange how some things change and others stay the same. We now have an old guard in Internet and they resist change fairly strongly. Particularly if they didn’t see it coming. I fell over this article in SMH today – Teenage habits – and was, well, gobsmacked at Paul McIntyre’s predictions for World Internet Project’s Jeff Cole’s advice to PBL would be. ON MONDAY morning James Packer will get a one-hour debrief from the director of the World Internet Project before both men address ninemsn’s digital marketingsummit.If Jeff Cole is correct, Packer will discover that his friends over at News Continue Reading…
I’m sorry that I had to un-archive my blog and now it’s turned into a slow-loading toilet roll. Seems that the search engine finds the link to a relevant bloglet but then doesn’t display it (says Not Found). Consequently, until I or Blogger figure out what to do (put your money on Blogger) it has to stay as one blog, not archived by months. In the meantime, use your browsers FIND under whatever menu, rather than the SEARCH THIS BLOG at the top of the page. Cheers. Technorati tags: Online Communities, Laurel Papworth, Blogger, search problem
I’ve spoken a number of times already on how to scale your community by letting the users have control (look up slashdot rating system). Here’s an interesting example: JudysBook is that user-generated local business review portal in Seattle and elsewhere. They use a Slashdot rating system called TrustScore that appears to also look at what your friends or personal community are voting. Do friends always agree? & TrustScoreThought I’d just toss this out there for debate… Correct me if I am wrong.. It is my understanding that one of the new TrustScore rating methods that has been factored in is Continue Reading…
Those Technorati tags at the bottom of each of my bloglets are handcoded. Yep, that’s right, I have to go to the Edit Html code view and put the tags in myself. So I’ve been looking for an applet, a script, a bit of code that allows me to get back to creating content, and not worrying about closing tags. Along the way I saw Qumana. Qumana is a desktop blogging tool. For those of you who read blogs and don’t write them, most blog tools are hosted remotely. Qumana appears to be a local PC resident program that allows Continue Reading…
May 102006
Thank heavens for Erietta, who sends me the most indulgent and addictive sites on the ‘net. And the bestest of the best (well, for today anyway), is egoSurf and yep, its in camel-case, such a luverly geek thing. The full title is “egoSurf – egosurfing without the guilt”. Simple. You enter your name and your blogs web address. We search google and find links to your blog. We calculate your ego ranking. We show you where your blogs appear in the search engines. 2Did we mention that we can search in Yahoo, MSN, del.icio.us and Technorati too? 1Got more than Continue Reading…
The Sydney Morning Herald reports that: Sophie Delezio, who suffered horrific burns after a car crashed into her kindergarten in December 2003, is on life support after being hit by a car on a Sydney crossing this afternoon. An awful awful thing to happen to a family that has already been through too much.In response, WishesForSophie has been set up. The news was broadcast at around 5:30pm. At 7:19pm, 605 ‘wishes’ have been submitted. See here for statistics. This is an immediate vocal response to the unfairness of life. Instead of yelling at the TV or discussing amongst family on Continue Reading…
I’ve updated my Blogroll. Psst! It’s the thingie on the right hand side, LINKS. David Havyatt, as executive blogger supremo gets added. He not only blogs on his own blog, but adds comments and feedback on others. Such an important part of blogging donchathink? Only greedy people write on their own blogs, ignoring comments in the feedback, and not visiting others blogs. Jeff Jarvis Buzzmachine has been added. Another quid pro quo link, to be honest. He picked up my bloglet on the user-gen Nike ad. Plus he’s funny. Look at this under Rules of Engagement: Any email sent to Continue Reading…
Grrrr. Forum software. Grrrr.I purchased Invision Power Discussion Board software from SmartyHost who also host my website and manage some of my domain names. Nowadays forum software is like website management or email admin – it should all be done through a control panel. Well. I wanted to change the forum’s name from the generic Invision Boards to World Communities. A pretty basic request huh? But I get : Warning: fopen(./conf_global.php): failed to open stream: Permission denied inblahblah/Admin/admin_functions.php on line 380 Fatal Error: Could not open conf_global for writing – no changes applied.Try changing the CHMOD to 0777 When I Continue Reading…
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