Publishing & Content

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If you run a website, any kind of website, like me, you're almost certainly insulting your customers on a daily basis. This is the subject of a grokdotcom post that deals with Error! Messages!

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Nick over at E3 Internet spotted the Infornortics eBook "The Google Legacy" and penned his thoughts here.

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Earlier in the week we mentioned that the new MovableType 3.2 would have an unlimited weblogs license, even for free users. Well, MovableType 3.2 is now out, includes the enhanced license and of course a whole bunch of other goodies:

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Dave Sifry announced today that Newsweek has Partnered with Technorati. The integration is pretty intresting, if you are reading a story online at Newsweek, like Is Your Tap Water Safe to Drink down on the right hand side you'll see a link titled 'blog talk' taking you to the Blog Talk page with links to blogs about the article. There is also Blog Roundup Page with the top Newsweek Stories from the blogoshere.

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Some surprising figures show AOL News streets ahead of rivals Google News and Topix. Greg Jarboe points out the relevant figures according to NetRatings.

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My friend Graywolf, is one of very very few seo/m marketers that i really think understands blogging properly. He's fully immersed in the culture, and understands exactly how it works, from an seo's perspective. With that in mind, his reviews of various different methods of creating news blogs for integration into existing sites is well worth noting.

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It's been quite a while since i turned off the blog feature at TW, essentially everyone had a blog if they wanted one - but in the interests of making things simple, when the new design rolled in, i cut that off in favor of just one form - "submit a story". Now though, i'd like to know if anyone would like to do a regular spot at TW - details below.

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I've not seen ANY of the new Dr. Who's as our satellite isn't quite powerful enough to get BBC, but im a HUGE Red Dwarf fan, and on that basis alone i thought it worth pointing out that you can buy episodes for your mobile :)

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Duncan from the Blog Herald talks about the demise of geek bloggers. He says "As I’ve mentioned earlier 1G[1st generation] bloggers are insular, and its their own insularity that has lead to their current decline, and will continue to do so."

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...yet. A new Nielsen/NetRatings found that two thirds of blog readers did not know what RSS was, or how to use it. Hard to believe when you're a techie that reads a LOT of blogs, but apparently it's so. I can tell you that an alarming proportion of TW readers appear to not have adopted the addictive, but hugely productive RSS habbit, but then the SEO crowd can be a bit slow on the uptake on occasion - they're too busy building wonderful, rich content sites :)

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Untill now, MovableType only gave unpaid users license for up to 3 weblogs - with MovableType 3.2 comes a new licensing structure as pointed out by Niall that allows even unpaid users unlimited sites.

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Blogger has recently enable Word Verification for user comments to prevent automated systems from spamming Blogger hosted blogs.

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The BBC have been busy keeping themselves at the very forfront of broadcasting and digital content delivery with Promise.tv, a 3.2 terrabyte system for storing a weeks worth of BBC programing for everyone to view when they wish.

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Yahoo! unveil a flurry of new features to thier Local Search including user recommendations and commentary on local services. For me, this is what the web should be about. I could care less which resaurant spent the most on SEO, i want to know what locals think of local restaurants when in in Tucson. One would presume the user generated content will expand given a little time.

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Google have launched the Inside Adsense blog according to Jen The new blog follows on the heels of big sister, Inside Adwords and will hopefully provide a little insight into the workings of many a webmasters favorite income source.

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I cannot really see the point as Blogger is very easy to use, but this add-on enables the user to use Word to publish to Blogger

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UPDATE: Graywolf noticed the code was slightly skewey on the original example, and came up with several alternatives that work much better - Thanks GW!

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The first of Feedsters top 500 blogs is out. Jason says it blows the Technorti 100 away, and the ranking criteria is here

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Google announced that they are temporarily not going to scan copyrighted material until November. The Association of American Publishers is not very happy.

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Around the time of all that hassle over Matt's involvement at Threadwatch we talked about him doing a blog, and he ummmed and ahhhed about it, but generally agreed that it was a good idea. Now, your favorite Google PR guy and mine, has launched his own blog, finally.