by Debbie Weil | Feb 1, 2005 | New New Things, Uncategorized
RSS as you recall is the new way of publishing AND receiving information online… WITHOUT using email. That’s my dumbed down explanation that seems to work for most folks. And it works for me. But until recently, I confess, I haven’t really...
by Debbie Weil | Feb 1, 2005 | New New Things, Uncategorized
That’s according to a front page story today in the New York Times: Law Barring Junk E-Mail Allows a Flood Instead (requires free registration.) Since the federal CAN-Spam Act was passed one year ago, spam (aka unsolicited junk email) has risen to “perhaps...
by Debbie Weil | Jan 29, 2005 | Events, Uncategorized
I couldn’t make it because I was attending Blog Business Summit 2005 in Seattle (an excellent event). But it sounds from attendee write-ups as if the New Communications Forum 2005 in Napa, CA Jan. 26 – 27 was also very useful. (Wish they’d kill that...
by Debbie Weil | Jan 28, 2005 | Uncategorized, Writing
Halley Suitt is cool. Period. I loved her presentation this week at BBS 2005 on The Art and Science of Blog Writing. It’s a topic I feel passionately about. In fact, the point of this blog is to deconstruct and articulate what effective blog writing is....
by Debbie Weil | Jan 28, 2005 | Events, Free Downloads, Uncategorized
I decided to cover the Jan 24 – 25 conference in Seattle in my other blog, BlogWrite. You can read about it here and here and here. It was a great event. And a kick to get to meet and chat with Microsoft’s “chief blogger” Robert Scoble. In...
by Debbie Weil | Jan 28, 2005 | Events, Uncategorized
Came back from Seattle’s BBS 2005 and immediately caught a little stomach bug. Ugh. I’ve been combing through the 20+ pages of typed notes I took. Full of gems. Here’s one from Robert Scoble: “If I blog I’ll get fired. If I blog...
