Chinese Blogger Beaten To Death By Government Officials

 Posted on January 12, 2008 at 11:51 pm |  By Paul Walsh
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The killing of a Chinese blogger has sparked outrage in China, with thousands expressing outrage in Chinese Internet chat rooms, often the only outlet for public criticism of the government.
The incident has also alarmed advocates of press freedom, who say municipal authorities had no right to attack a man for simply filming them.
Police have detained [...]

Technorati makes changes to blog ranking

 Posted on January 6, 2008 at 6:10 pm |  By Paul Walsh
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Technorati has fixed a bug which will impact the ranking of the top 100 blogs. This means it’s likely to impact the ranking of your blog if you have one.
According to Technorati
Over the holiday break we found and fixed a bug that inflated authority counts for certain blogs. The blogs affected were those on domains [...]

Le Web 3 events

 Posted on December 9, 2007 at 11:52 pm |  By Paul Walsh
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This wiki has just been setup by Tom Raftery. Keep an eye on it if you want to know where the parties are, update it if you’re arranging a gathering of any kind. The password to change the wiki is leweb3.
I’m heading to Le Web 3 in Paris in the morning so I’ll try [...]

New blog improvements

 Posted on November 9, 2007 at 3:04 pm |  By Paul Walsh
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We’re making some minor adjustments to our blog layout, so please be patient if you see things move around as we make changes on the fly. We hope it’ll help you find the content that’s relevant to you.
Some of the changes include

Removal of recent posts from the right side bar. We now display links to [...]

How not to react to negative social conversation

 Posted on October 30, 2007 at 11:36 pm |  By Paul Walsh
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If you read my BIMA blog, please go no further as this is a duplicate of a post I published there already.
If you’re a brand guardian, have you ever wondered how to respond to bloggers who make negative comments about your products or services? Have you wondered whether to react at all? If you’re an [...]

Monster spam attack

 Posted on October 2, 2007 at 1:05 pm |  By Paul Walsh
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I was inspired to write this post after reading about a recent spam attack by Monster. In fact, it wasn’t the attack that annoyed me, it was the response given by John Burns, Monster’s Business Development Manager in Ireland.
John Burns’ response to a disgruntled recipient should have been an apology. Instead, he stupidly wrote
These email [...]

 
 
 
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