by Steve Broback on September 7, 2005
For those thinking that the whole “blog” thing has peaked, I’d say guess again. My personal (anecdotal) experience is that most people are still mostly clueless about blogging. This appears to be backed up by some fairly concrete search analysis. Searches analyzed by the Wordtracker service indicate people really, really still want to know “what is a blog”.
I looked at Dogpile & Metacrawler queries containing “blog” over the last 120 days (courtesy of Wordtracker), and pulled out the “offensive/adult” searches along with the nonsensical ones (like people searching on just the word “blog”). Then I merged/purged the top 20 or so results. As a merge/purge example, I considered “what is a blog” to be the same request as “blog definition”.
The result is that the number one search (by a wide margin) echoes the question I hear all the time: “What is a blog?”
Below are the compiled results.
by Steve Broback on September 7, 2005
Judy’s Book popped up in a Google search yesterday for my dentist. I remembered reading about them and found a funded article in the Seattle PI. They’re a word-of-mouth community. Social networking was mostly absent from the last Summit, but we’ll include it as a potential topic at the next one. As the NYTimes reported about MySpace you can’t argue with 26 Million friends and the money — $580 million. What’s really interesting is that there’s nothing new about these networks. You can find their business models in the deaths of a thousand dotcoms. What they’ve got now is the 20-something market, music, a one-stop web stop, and, “lots of pictures of college students in various states of undress.”
by Steve Broback on September 7, 2005
Online communities are being built as fast as the aid is now pouring in
Displaced Designer is helping creatives get back on their feet.
And in another example of idiotic governmental decisions, Boing Boing reports that FEMA Online registration requires Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 6.0. That just adds to the sadness of the whole effort. The Web Standards Project also picks up the Disaster Aid for Windows Only story.
On Pug Blog, I post on Pet Rescues.
by Steve Broback on September 7, 2005
Blogware reports on Boeing’s Business Blog and notes the honesty in the voice. One of the highlights of the Blog Business Summit San Fran was having Chris Brownrigg, Boeing’s Designer, discuss building the blog and how one day he got the “blog call” and had to figure out what a blog was. What’s also important about Boeing’s blog is that they were less concerned about pundit manifestos and more concerned with what was right for their business.
by Steve Broback on September 4, 2005
by Steve Broback on September 1, 2005
by Steve Broback on September 1, 2005
Dave and I posted yesterday and here’s more from the Blogosphere
