Blogs take over in France

April 26th, 2005 - Mark

Blog culture has really taken off in France – according to this Wired News piece. Most intriguing is the revelation that as soon as the newspaper Le Monde started allowing readers to publish their own pieces, these immediately became the most linked pages.

Le Monde, France’s biggest newspaper, is also a weblog host, letting thousands of readers write journals alongside those of staff reporters and columnists. Just two days after the invitation to “become your own editor” in December, readers-turned-writers were leapfrogging the pros in a rundown of the online paper’s most-read pages.

Business Week leads on business blogging which it says is the most significant development since the Internet itself took off in the mid nineties. In a useful survey. The article stresses that business people should get blogging yourself, using GM’s Bob Lutz’s Fast Lane blog as an example. From Market Sentinel‘s perspective, this is the

In a fascinating and wide-ranging speech , Rupert Murdoch points out that the editors have lost control over the media. He points out that it is no longer possible to control what people read, and media companies have to wake up to that. What is really extraordinary about this speech is how many touch-points it

Much kudos to Elizabeth Albrycht at CEO Bloggers Club for this excellent summary of how corporations should use RSS feeds. I will gradually adapt this for more European audience. Here are 10 ideas for corporate RSS feeds to (mainly) external audiences. Most of these reasons are good ones for deploying RSS internally as well as

Think outside the blog

April 18th, 2005 - Mark

More and more companies approach us with a straightforward, but somewhat unfocussed request: I want to be part of this [the blogosphere] – where do I start? What they are really asking for is web traffic, driven by a presence in the aggregators and search engines. And there is (potentially) a commercial value here which

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