New York Times Online New Subscription Model
Posted Thursday, September 22, 2005 at 9:17pm in Blogging, Media | Leave a Comment
The New York Times Online will begin to charge a $49 subscription fee for access to its major columnists under a new programme called Times Select. I think this might prove to be a bad move. Nobody likes paying for information on the Internet. Why should you when it will be readily available elsewhere?
Only last month I wrote how online US newspapers reached $1billion in advertising revenues in 2004. Seems kind of strange to be doing this?
Tip: New York Post Online
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Google blog search…Hmm, I’m not sure
Posted at 9:12pm in Blogging | Leave a Comment
No doubt youve heard about Google’s new blog search today? I think just about everyone’s posted something about it.
Todd Cochrane says Technorati, PubSub and Feedster are dead meat. Robert Scoble says: It’s made a great first impression, and David Sifry says: Welcome.
But I’m still not convinced that it’s going to be the be all and end all for blog search. I haven’t been playing with it for that long, but there’s a few issues that I think need sorting: Say I wanted to look for a PR blogger, so I type in ‘pr blogger’ in the search query, guess what? My last 10 posts show up on the first page. Flattered as I am, I don’t deserve to be up there. So you say, why don’t you just type ‘public relations’ in your query? So I do that, and although I get a list of PR blogs, none of which are who I would say are the most prolific and well known PR bloggers. However, you do receive, what I would think are more accurate results, when you search ‘pr blog’.
How does Google page rank the blogs?
I’ve set up quite a few feeds from keywords, and I’m going to keep a monitor on them. See how it goes.
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Tips On Writing Content for Your Blog cont.
Posted at 9:08pm in Blogging | 1 Comment
To add to the great tips on writing content for your blog post by Piaras, I have a few more:
13 Use images/photos/diagrams: A picture is worth a thousand words. If you can show it to me clearer using a picture rather than text, then use it. It also adds colour to your blog.
14 Personalise. Tell me what you think. I want to hear your opinion and thoughts, not just a report on the facts.
15 Post consistently. One post a day is better than seven on one day of the week.
16 Be inquisitive. If you’re writing about a topic you don’t fully understand, then say so. It’s better than pretending you do and writing a load of hoopla. You never know, someone may help you out.
No doubt there will be more. It would be great to keep adding to it. I feel a wiki coming on. 
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Profile Extra - What No RSS?
Posted at 9:06pm in Blogging, PR General | Leave a Comment
As Stuart points out, Profile the quarterly magazine from the CIPR is now online, titled Profile-Extra. I’ve just received my email notification too. Great! But what I am disappointed about though, is the lack of, or should I say non existent supply of RSS feeds. At first I thought it did, as at the bottom of the homepage there is a ’subscribe’ link. Cool I thought, until I pressed it.
A newly designed website which has sections on news, case studies, people on the move and an event diary. Why not have a feed for each? It would have been simple to set up and it could have introduced RSS technology to a substantial amount of UK PR practitioners. Obviously, they could still keep the other methods of subscribing and notification (email newsletter) but at the same time use new methods with a simple explanation of what it is. As PR practitioners, they should be inquisitive as to what this new communication channel is about.
It pains me to think that the chartered body for UK public relations still haven’t adopted the technology yet. I really hope they do soon.
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The New Outlook Express will have RSS
Posted at 9:03pm in Blogging, Business | Leave a Comment
I knew about IE7 featuring RSS support, but I didn’t know the new Microsoft Outlook Express will do also. Considering Microsoft is the leader in the browser market by something ridiculous like 85% and a high percentage of businesses, enterprises etc use Outlook as their email client, it’s certainly a large feather in the RSS hat.
(Tip of the hat) Marketing Studies