Boing Boing: Sledgehammer keyboard
Just for Nick or Tim a great use for that redundant sledge hammer – get typing. Would be brilliant at the fair – see who can type The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog Boing Boing: Sledgehammer keyboard
Category: Twitters
Blogging Handbooks – From newbies onwards
Two really excellent books on what is involved with blogging, both free, and very readable.
Seth Godwin’s is really good (a 26page pdf download for the paper junkies). Interestingly he has given up publishing ‘real’ books due to the inordinate time delays from writing to it getting on the shelves.
Also a great book (slightly more technical) from Reporters without borders called Handbook for bloggers and cyber-dissidents which is slightly more technical but still very good. This is the organisation that Julien Payne works for. Julien is appearing on Radio5 live this Sunday at 10.30 with Suw Charman, Saira Khan and myself!
1-in-10 Consumers Read Blogs
Article on the growth of blogging RSS feeds and social software (yep – all the stuff I’m interested in) I like this quote “Technology has given consumers an option to tune businesses out, and tune each other in, said Forrester research director Chris Charron in a statement. On the flip side, technology has given businesses an opportunity to gain greater customer insights at a lower cost.” So it really is a win win situation
Journalists and Blogging
An interesting article that shows reading blogs is more popular with journalists than the public “Interestingly it is the journalists—not their readers—that are turning to blogs in record numbers. While the Euro RSCG Magnet study shows that more than half (51%) of journalists use Weblogs regularly—with 28% relying on them for day-to-day reporting, a recent study by the Pew Internet and American Life Project Survey showed that just 11% of the U.S. population reads blogs”. I like this ” the majority of journalists are using blogs to do their work, despite the fact that only 1% believe blogs are credible” I guess before they read blogs their stories were simply made up!
Article discovered by www.Fark.com from http://pocketplanetradio.typepad.com/pocket_planet_radio/2005/09/53_journalists_.html