Companies Wake Up To Blogs Barking

I’m in the Guardian newspaper (free reg required) today, in a story on companies listening to blog chatter (or barking):

There are well over 35m blogs on the net. Keeping abreast of all of them is impossible. But Nielsen BuzzMetrics, a New York firm, has developed an expertise in monitoring blogs – it works for 150 of America’s Fortune 1,000 firms.

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Privatizing My Online Photos, With Regret

With mixed feelings, I’ve decided to privatize most pictures on my Flickr photo blog. I’ve published nearly everything publicly since I started it a year and a half ago. If you paid attention, you would’ve quickly realized that I loved taking photos of people – often candid, un-staged and with interesting angles and cropping.… Read the rest