by Debbie Weil | Apr 4, 2006 | In the News, Stuff, Uncategorized
Eegads…almost everyone bit when I posted on April Fool’s Day that Bill Gates hired me to be his executive blog coach. Here’s an email I got from a friend and colleague who happens to be a senior executive. Yes, he’s the enthusiastic type:...
by Debbie Weil | Mar 31, 2006 | CEO Bloggers, In the News, Stuff, Uncategorized
It was bound to happen. An A-list blogger or two decides to throw in the towel. Enough blogging is, er, enough. But why? Read on…Two well-respected bloggers have announced their retirement recently. One is the irascible Dave Winer, creator of the RSS format and...
by Debbie Weil | Mar 1, 2006 | In the News, Stuff, Uncategorized
No, it ain’t. Not yet. But the obsession with blogging as a fad may (mercifully) be fading. Anyway, read this Wall Street Journal column, Blog Epitaphs? Get Me Rewrite, by Jason Fry for a cogent rant on the topic. Hurry; link will go behind a paid subscription...
by Debbie Weil | Feb 18, 2006 | Fortune 500 Blogs, General, In the News, Stuff, Uncategorized
I’m quoted in today’s San Jose Mercury News in an article about the new Google China blog: “Google launches China blog a day before China hearing.” The reporter, Elise Ackerman, has just been assigned full-time to “Google” as a beat...
by Debbie Weil | Feb 16, 2006 | In the News, The Corporate Blogging Book, Uncategorized
Entertaining update from David Kline on the latest publishing deals inked by blogger-authors. Two that caught my eye (David’s comments in quotations): – “Former Wonkette blogger Ana Marie Cox’s first nonfiction book, on the next generation of...
by Debbie Weil | Feb 15, 2006 | Fortune 500 Blogs, In the News, Stuff, Uncategorized
Just saw this. Google has launched a Google China Blog. Yes, it’s in Chinese so I can’t read it. But clearly it’s an attempt to answer critics of the company’s decision to cooperate with the Chinese government in censoring search results....
