When a blog becomes institutional

iblog doesn’t stand for institutional blog I have been a fan of the Freakonomics blog for quite some time — a testament to the power of a good book (now available for $17 on amazon, down from $28 list price!) going on line per se. However, the very notion...

Commenting on comments – a policy is born

About comment etiquette! I have realized that commenting is not a common practice, at least not my site. That said, on reading the Blog Herald, I thought it appropriate to add a comment policy and suggested guidelines. You will now find at the bottom of the page this...

Full text feeds are better than ha[lf]..te[xt]..

On the good advice of a charming new acquaintance, Jean-Marc, I was sent to the site techdirt.com. And, I immediately found an interesting piece of advice which I thought I would share: when creating feeds, allow for full text feeds. The polemic was initiated after...

Why are we here? And the lifecycle of blogs

So, what’s the blog all about? Aside from facing the inimitable existentialist questions about oneself, I have seen a slew of posts on the “why” of blogs and what is it all for? A few observations come to the fore. As cited in Opinionated Marketers,...

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