Monthly Archives April 2005

Notes and audio from Les Blogs

I just uploaded a bunch of links to notes and audio recordings from Les Blogs on Loic Le Meur’s wiki. Enjoy :) {tag: lesblogs}

Wikipedia: the night before the flack attack

Steve Rubel is asking some important questions: So far this year, the mainstream media has cited Wikipedia as an authoritative body of knowledge nearly 100 times. [...] What should someone in PR do if he/she finds inaccurate information? As Wikipedia is relied upon as a credible source by the press, will these and other companies [...]

Live, from Paris: “Les blogs”

April 25, 2005 – Les Blogs: Blogs and Social Software: Program List of participants Chat room Coverage (blogs & MSM) (on Loic Le Meur’s wiki) Follow the event on the blogosphere: Feedster (RSS feed) Technorati tag: lesblogs del.icio.us tag: lesblogs (RSS feed) Flickr photostream (RSS feed) PR/Comm bloggers participating at the event: Neville Hobson Fredrik [...]

Dear Yahoo!, please spell out this URL for me

(Updated April 23, 2005) Yahoo’s blogging platform — cleverly named Yahoo! 360° — has launched a product blog. I really hope that the person responsible for setting it up will be interviewed and kindly asked to spell out, in print, on radio and TV, the weblog’s memorable, easy-to-remember, URL: http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-1qCkw2Ehaak.hdNZkEAzDrpa4Q– Update: Commenting on Steve Rubel’s [...]

Babble. Babble, babble, babble (plus, it’s a PDF)

John Gruber — Translation From PR-Speak to English of Selected Portions of Adobe’s ‘FAQ’ Regarding Their Acquisition of Macromedia: Said FAQ is available in convenient PDF format here. What is the mission of the combined company? Adobe’s mission remains the same — to help people and businesses communicate better. With the acquisition of Macromedia, Adobe [...]

Team wins Chairman’s Award for creating Sun blog community

The team credited for creating Sun Microsystem’s blogging community, blogs.sun.com, has received the Chairman’s Award.

Channel9 founder leaves Microsoft for Skype

Lenn Pryor – Goodbye Microsoft, Hello Skype: I recently accepted a new job and have resigned my post as Director, Platform Evangelism at Microsoft after almost 8 years with the company. I am joining Skype and the family and I will be moving to the UK. I have taken a position on the product and [...]