I’ve been using CoComment lately to track my blogosphere conversations.
The service is great - I always used to find myself wondering what blog writers would think of my comments, and if they would respond. And of course, I would never remember where I had left my digital breadcrumbs, and so was destined for disappointment.
But now […]

In complete and slavish (but very flattering) imitation of Liz Straus’ SOB program, I am (somewhat) proudly announcing the SLOB top blogs awards: for startlingly loquacious & outstanding bloggers.
(Cue assorting clapping, cheering, plus a couple of boos from the peanut gallery.)
See the newly inaugurated SLOB hall of fame right here. (This being the first week […]

Liz Strauss has named me an official SOB.
Successful and outstanding blogger, that is. (Check an explanation of the term and its genesis.)
I display this badge with pride:

Thanks, Liz!
Great site, by the way. I noticed, as I crawled around her sites, that her purpose in blogging and in creating the SOB award is to be […]

Want to know if something is popular?
The indexers of the social web know. Google Trends knows. Alexa knows. And Flickr knows too.
Apparently, savvy web 2-ish relatively wealthier photohounds prefer Coke. All you have to do is check the TagFight:

Here’s a handy place to start: FlickrTagFight.
(Thanks Steve Rubel for the link.)
Tags: flickr, […]

As I evolve professionally, this blog is evolving as well. And one of the things I’ll be talking more about is marketing in the social media we now live and communicate in.
I believe marketing isn’t going to be something you do as much as you are, and allow, and foster, and enhance. One thing that’s […]

Viewing your blog’s links and ranking on Technorati is often a bewildering experience. I was reminded of this when I read this post, claiming that Technorati is broken, on WeBreakDigg.
There are a number of things about Technorati that I don’t understand:

Numbers weirdness
72 blogs link to your site, which is more than the 65 that linked […]

[ updated below; MySpace is having issues ]
[ updated again August 6th; MySpace has finally fixed them - see comment at end ]
[ updated yet again December 1, 2006; still buggy, but there’s a solution. See Laura’s comment way down at the bottom of the page ]
Apparently I am too stupid to join MySpace.
Huh. This […]

Flock was behaving rather naughtily for me yesterday … when I dragged a browser window around it would snap to odd places on my screen.
After it happened a few times I thought I’d take a movie of it, and here it is.
I’m dragging it to the left, and when it moves to the right […]

The discussion about Chris Anderson’s The Long Tail has been absolutely fascinating.
The book makes the claim that in markets where physical inventory is not an issue and transaction costs are minimal, goods that are not top-sellers can be a very significant portion of sales, when taken in aggregate. So, for instance, the bottom half of […]

This is a little off-topic for bizhack, but I thought it was insightful and important enough to post:

After reviewing extensive research from the Saratoga Institute, Leigh Branham determined that people leave their employers because the employer is not meeting one or more basic human needs. In his book The 7 Hidden Reasons Employees Leave, Branham […]