BusinessWeek about Blogs

There’s an interesting article in the BusinessWeek named „Blogs Will Change Your Business„:

Go ahead and bellyache about blogs. But you cannot afford to close your eyes to them, because they’re simply the most explosive outbreak in the information world since the Internet itself. And they’re going to shake up just about every business — including yours. It doesn’t matter whether you’re shipping paper clips, pork bellies, or videos of Britney in a bikini, blogs are a phenomenon that you cannot ignore, postpone, or delegate. Given the changes barreling down upon us, blogs are not a business elective. They’re a prerequisite.

The authors reflect certain aspects concerning blogs and corporate culture, while the final result of this article was to create their own blog found on Blogspotting.net as redirecting domain to their BW.com website. Another interesting approach to the Blogosphere done in this case by journalists and their mother company. [via: MEX]

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O’Reilly Radar

Ich finde, es ist ganz interessant für alle diejenigen, die auch ein Entwicklerherz besitzen. Im recht neuen Blog O’Reilly Radar gibt sich die Firma seit kurzem von seiner besten Seite:

…we were early investors in Blogger, which helped launch the blogging revolution; and more recently, our Web 2.0 conference launched a world-wide meme. Internally, we’ve called this predictive sense the „O’Reilly Radar“ — in fact it’s become a tradition to kick off O’Reilly conferences with a talk of the same name. And while we’re certainly not always right, we are, at least, good at making interesting guesses…

Mir scheint, dass das Blog erst gestern publik wurde, obwohl das Archiv bis Anfang März zurück datiert. War wohl eine kleine Testphase, aber dennoch viel Spaß und welcome in the blogosphere! In meinem Aggregator ist es auf jeden Fall zu finden!

[Fundstück via selbr.de]

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Popemotions

More on the Pope Benedict XVI? Sure go to the Spiegel, the BBC, the website-registrar of BenedictXVI.com, the Vatican and their website without any sign of JP2, the Wikipedia in english and german… and I must admit, I become quite sick of it. Nice to see the major news websites are trying to get a hold of other topics to fill in this huge gap after the conclave. Let’s hear about new scandals coming from George „Dabbelju“ Bush or the British „Messies“, err… Royals!

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Pope Ratzinger – Benedictus XVI

Time for a change… the german cardinal Ratzinger was elected as new pope. He choose the name Benedictus XVI and will be the first german pope since 1523. I wonder how the world will react to a german pope… with all the prejustice headed towards Germans. For example, just refer to the Guardian’s blog.

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Flickr bietet mehr für’s Geld

Der online Bilderdienst Flickr macht ein paar kleine Versprechen wahr, nachdem man von Yahoo aufgekauft wurde. So gibt es für die normalen Mitglieder ein wenig mehr Speicherplatz (20MB als Verdopplung) und speziell für diejenigen, die für den Dienst bezahlen, wird die schon bezahlte Mitgliedschaft von 1 auf 2 Jahre bzw. 2 auf 4 Jahre erweitert, und man darf gleichzeitig auch noch 2 Einladungen für Pro-Accounts verschicken. Wie schön, was man sich alles leisten kann, wenn ein großer Fisch den kleinen Fisch schluckt. ;)

via Flickr Blog

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Flickr’s Membership Updates

I’m really not using it for my own photos, but I’ve always enjoyed to watch other people keeping their pictures online in this way. That’s my reason to write about this Flickr update. Yes, it’s true – the online photo sharing service fulfilled their promise of keeping in touch with their users once being accquired by Yahoo with this major update of their membership services:
The free accounts will be granted 20MB extra storage while the pro accounts have a price drop from $41.77 to $24.95 a year while the current holders of a pro account will receive an extended time of use for (adding 1 or 2 years to the chosen account). Nice for all who choose to pay… ;)

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Adobe’s Takeover of Macromedia

The heading says it all: This deal was worth approximately $3.4 billion, and Adobe basically inhaled Macromedia and all their software packages. The shareholders of Macromedia were given Adobe shares in return, and the Macromedia shareholders will own about 18% of the final Adobe-Macromedia company. Adobe will surely empower its marketshare for enterprise software solutions and mobile communication, especially by combining the web- and graphicdesign departments. How the final spectre of futurous applications for developper tools, the resulting contents and related media equipment might turn out to look like, it’s yet another prospering business.

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Blog Burnout Syndrome

Duncan Riley writes about the Blog Burnout and offers a simple solution for professional bloggers as one easy lesson: take the weekend off. The Probloggers usually have a 7 day week if they maintain a blog as major source for their income or add the blogging on weekends on top of their 5 or 6 day workshift. For those who do it privately and free, the idea of taking the weekend off is not a major problem, but for those others it’s a problematic situation:

…when you don’t blog you lose traffic and if your chasing money as well, you potentially lose revenue.

In the end, I believe everyone must find his/her own best-working practise to solve this riddle about keeping blogging, life and work under one banner – being yourself.

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Blogroll Modifications

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I believe it’s time to modify my Blogroll in this blog’s navigation bar. To be honest – it disturbs me greatly. Since I’m reading over 150 blogs and newsfeeds each day (once they’re updated by using my RSS OWL aggregator), this handful bunch of links does not conform with the concept of Blogrolls. One idea instead of maintaining the Blogroll here is surely to publish the major categories of my feed list which will directly link to the OPML files, or I might only link the whole OPML file instead of pushing the other blogs into my content.

On the other hand, I wonder if Blogrolls are useful or rather not. In the end, it is just a nice service to push other blogs and increase their pagerank in search engines (unless you no-follow them). Keeping this in my mind, the whole concept of a Blogroll might become redundant since I am definately not using my Sichelputzer blog to jump to others. I do prefer to get content as fast as possible – which is the automated process of reading feeds. That’s why my Blogroll element might disappear sooner or later today.

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Wild Angels with Charlie

This is fake, an absolutely typical method of plagiarism and copy-cat behaviour. One of Europe’s largest tv companies RTL Television plagiarises the well known and absolutely respected tv series and blockbuster movie „Charlies Angels“ into their own germanized format. The show „Wilde Engel“ features a female trio of special-agents: The glamour girl Rebecca, the technic freak Ida and the martial fighter Aiko. Not that the concept is stolen from the legendary tv series, even the modifications done for the Charlies Angels movie have been copied as much as possible. To top this most visible stupidity created by RTL Television, they published a small paragraph on their website:

„The new trio combines a fresh and young mix of action, crime and entertainment on the screen which is only usually known from cinematic movies. With quotes of Hollywood-Blockbusters like e.g. „Matrix“, „Kill Bill“ or „Charlies Angels“.

RTL becomes rather famous for their simple copies of successful tv and movie formats. Already „Monk“ (germanized copy named „Die unlösbaren Fälle des Herrn Sand“) and „Lost“ (germanized into „Verschollen„) have been copied… now „Charlies Angels“ has been media-raped. And why would anyone notice this? Because Katharina and I were loosely zapping the tv channels last evening. I believe the german tv media becomes a fraud itself without the former creativity and ideology…

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