I'm reading a story on the terrible fires in Australia entitled " Many Good People Lie Dead " in the Sydney Morning Herald . At the bottom of the page appear Google Adsense adverts including ones for "Fire Training", "Fire..
Topics: Google, news, Web Technology

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Based on the philosophy of making it simple for people to comment on your blog, I was faced with the question - "what is the best approach that balances simplicity, easy of commenting and prevention of spam addition". There are tonnes of...
Topics: Blogging, Content Management, Drupal, Social Media

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I've been interested in the concept of personal branding for quite some time, and admittedly have read one or two books, and some great resources on the web. These tend to focus on 'brand definition' - i.e. what do you stand for, what do ..
Topics: Marketing, Personal Branding, Social Media, Social Networking

{"title":"A Social Media Lab Rat Goes Marketing, Week One","post_url":"http:\/\/stevenimmons.org\/blogs\/steve-nimmons\/06022009\/social-media-lab-rat-goes-marketing-week-one","feed_url":"http:\/\/stevenimmons.org\/rss.xml","author":"stevenimmons","date":"2009-02-06 12:46:14","summary":" I've been interested in the concept of personal branding for quite some time, and admittedly have read one or two books, and some great resources on the web. These tend to focus on 'brand definition' - i.e. what do you stand for, what do .."}

Gloomy early New Year news in the UK IT market. Computer Weekly are today reporting: 400 IT jobs being cut at Barclays Up to 16,000 jobs at risk at IBM (although much impact will probably be first felt in the US) Downsizing and 1200 job losses at..
Topics: Economics, IT, Market Data, Technology News

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No Destination Transparency Thinking about all of the phishing links and bogus DM messages that have been circulating this week and last on Twitter . I've said it before, although URL shortening services are incredibly useful for Microblogging...
Topics: Blogging, microblogging, Social Media, Social Software, Web Technology

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