Alister Cameron // Blogologist

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February 2007 // Archive

The ultimate example of asking your customers for feedback: Dell IdeaStorm

27 February 2007 – 12:55 pm

Dell IdeaStorm, which launched earlier this month, is the ultimate example of Seth Godin-style “take something good, innovate, and make it great” thinking.
I love it.
In a nutshell, Dell have turned user feedback into an entire social network site, complete with Digg-style voting, memberships, commenting and all that jazz. It’s a master stroke.
Now, if Dell want [...]

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How to cash in on the ignorance of unfortunate newbie bloggers

26 February 2007 – 11:12 pm

I was looking through PRWeb just now and came across this press release that says in part:

Easy Blog Ping is a fully automated pinging service that accurately submits blogs to over thirty of the most popular blog search engines. Few pinging services on the market offer a reliable submission solution that actually saves bloggers time. [...]

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Digg ignores obscenity and fails in its duty-of-care to teens and young adults

26 February 2007 – 2:26 pm

Muhammad Saleem picks up on a post by Rathnavibushana, lamenting the moral wasteland that Digg can sometimes be. Do take the time to read both those posts… they’re worth it.
Sadly, I think the phenomenon of blatant and unashamed vulgarity, racism, mysogyny and xenophobia on Digg is in fact a fairly accurate mirror of the web [...]

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My mob making merry

22 February 2007 – 8:17 pm

Karen and I and the rugrats were in Daylesford a couple of weekends ago for my brother’s wedding. He and Sharni were married on a train station platform. Yes, really!
It was very impressive. What can I say… they’re both theatre/entertainment folk. They really know how to put on a show, and it was wonderful.
It’s not [...]

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WPN’s Nicole Eggers is gorgeous. Pity she can’t speak properly.

21 February 2007 – 11:20 pm

On the 5th of this month, WebProNews introduced us to their new Video Reporter, a very attractive blonde lass called Nicole Eggers. The folks over at WPN have certainly picked a reporter who’s more than easy on the eye, but unfortunately she’s not easy on the ears. In fact, she’s downright hard to understand.
So please [...]

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XML-RPC for blog comments: why the heck not?!

20 February 2007 – 2:15 pm

Fairly regularly in the blogosphere you hear people complaining about how few people reading their blog go the next step and leave a comment. I recall that last year, Darren Rowse posted his “10 Techniques to Get More Comments on Your Blog“, linking to a Jakob Nielsen study that found that…
In most online communities, 90% [...]

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Diggers have voted: If you swear you’re not cool, you’re a tool!

20 February 2007 – 11:41 am

In a moment of weirdness I did some research on Digg and came up with a strange fact…
Although it’s seen as cool nowadays to drop the F-word into almost everything, there’s one place where this is proven to work against you: Digg stories.

I went back through the entire history of Digg submissions and noticed an [...]

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Where’d he go?

20 February 2007 – 8:06 am

People have been contacting me to make sure I’m ok, and I want to assure everyone I am
I haven’t posted for almost a week, which is very unlike me. So here’s the story in as few words as possible, and as many words as permissible(!)…
Last week I filmed as a contestant on the [...]

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Social Media, Blog Rage and the Relational Web

12 February 2007 – 11:56 pm

One of the things I spend quite a bit of my time doing is helping clients and prospects understand the difference between a “regular” website and a social network. I spend a lot of my time arguing in favour of “social media”, in the belief that a social media approach is at the heart of [...]

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The Digg story with zero diggs. What the…?!

8 February 2007 – 5:05 pm

I’m over at Digg a lot at the moment. Today, at least. I should be working… instead I’m doing “research”. *wink*
Actually, I’m researching for another post I’m brewing…
Anyway, check this out. I’ve never seen this before. A digg story with NO votes.
As they say in the classics, “WTF?!”

I’d be guess this might have happened because [...]

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