Category: Best Practices

  • Will no one rid me of this troublesome spam?

    I wasn’t kidding about wanting a intern to volunteer for spam-destruction. As a perk I will offer posting privileges to the front page of this blog to anyone (who is already a blogger) who volunteers for this all-important spam squelching mode. This requires both deleting spam and banning URLs daily but also noticing the patterns…

  • How blogs die

    I declare this blog (Blogistan Editorial) a failure! How liberating to say so. Plus, it died, so we can dissect it without causing any further pain to the organism. My theory, it’s a dry eddy off the mighty Mississipppi that is Radio Free Blogistan. We have a whole community out there and we’re conspiring the…

  • Scott Rosenberg blogs Seybold

    Scott writes: I argued that it’s silly to talk about blogs “killing” print – that we keep getting stuck in a loop every time a new news distribution technology comes along, asking, will this “kill” its predecessor? Radio didn’t kill print, TV didn’t kill radio, the Net didn’t kill TV, and blogs won’t kill anything.…

  • Overheard at Seybold

    One of the POD guys waiting to get into a room to start their session: The last panel was on blogs and they don’t want to get off the podium (POD = print on demand)

  • Seybold SF, Day Two

    First of all, the WOW party at Chevy’s last evening was really fun. I met some cool people from NCI (the National Cancer Institute), part of the US government’s department of Health and Human Services, who have developed a comprehensive set of web development best-practice guidelines that they will be distributing free soon via PDF.…

  • Seybold SF, Day One

    Attendance seems sparse today. I brushed up on browser compatability issues and learned a lot of useful tricks for optimizing graphics. I skipped a content-management session I was thinking of attending at the last minute. Going through the schedule, I see a lot of conflicts, so I’m glad I’ll be able to download the powerpoints…