This is totally off topic, but I read it here. Nick happens to be the creator of Feeddemon one of the most popular RSS news readers, and one I have used extensively. Its the story of him and his son being involved in a hit and run, and the subsequent minutes and hours. Its quite gripping, and it happened yesterday. Thankfully both are ok. Technorati tags: blogging Continue reading Hit and run
Significant shifts are occurring in the advertising space. If anyone still doubts that traditional marketing is in state of crisis, read on. Its not as simple as a shift from TV ads to Internet ads. Actual dollars spent on advertising this year was sharply lower than the original estimates. This according to an analysis by Blackfriars Communications. Worse, the same story is true online. Source: Micro Persuasion: Watch Out Startups, Ad Spending is Falling and So is Your Sky The key stat: ….. advertising spending fell to $218 billion this year, of which $38 billion was online advertising And it gets worse … Continue reading Micro Persuasion: Watch Out Startups, Ad Spending is Falling and So is Your Sky
Generally books about blogs are something of an oxymoron in my mind. However I have to admit this one, sent over from the nice people at AME is different. There is a summary that came with the book, but I took a bit of time to go through it, and it was worth it. The book is not about how to blog, who should blog, or why anyone should blog. It addresses the impact of blogging, and how blogs are turning the world inside out. The approach is to cover different categories, and the impact of blogging. Politics and the … Continue reading Book review: "The Blog Ahead" by R. Scott Hall
I am finally finished with design changes. This one is a modified version of a new WordPress theme, ‘cutline’. I feel its closer to the clear, easy to read, professional look that I was hoping for. I’ll let this run for a while, until I get the feeling that this is working for everyone. I liked that last one (silver is the new black), from a design perspective, but somehow the colours were not working for me. Continue reading final design changes
Courtesy of James at BankerVision, here is a well researched summary of Web 2.0 sites laid out by category. tags: web+2.0 Continue reading Web 2.0 sites, including banking and other categories
I have been less and less happy with the blog template, and particularly the formatting, paragraphing, and font. So i am going to try this one, and I will try it for a bit longer this time. The primary font is a bit smaller than I would prefer, but the overall formatting is very precise and I think more professional looking. I am using the hosted service at WordPress, so I am limited to the templates they provide. They are starting to introduce some CSS editing capability, which I might experiment with, but meantime, I will go with “Silver is … Continue reading New design …. again
Slightly off topic, but as I skim through everyone’s blogs tonight, several went red in my reader. They are all Blogspot hosted, and when I tried a couple of sites, they are all down. Hope that’s temporary – brown outs are not acceptable in 2006. Continue reading Blogspot is down
It was just another Tuesday, just before 9am and my MSNBC news alert popped up indicating a plane had crashed into the World Trade Centre. I thought nothing of it because just a few months before a Cessna had crashed into an office building in Florida. The rest is history. Continue reading September 11th, 2001
The UK experience is indicative of how criminals will remain one step ahead. Chip and pin helped cut card fraud by 13% to £439m last year from a 2004 high of £504m. Now, however, so-called ‘card not present’ fraud, which consists mainly of Internet scams, has risen 21% to £183m. Source: Online shoppers may get own card terminals to beat fraud – Sunday Times – Times Online Current implementations of chip won’t work as long as they combine mag strip and chip on the same card. The current implementations are intended to deal with fraud, but designed to deal only … Continue reading Combo mag stripe and chip cards will fail
