Archive for July, 2006

Market Sentinel quoted in Sunday Times

July 31st, 2006 — Mark

Mark Rogers of Market Sentinel is quoted in Dominic Rushe’s piece on corporate blogging.
Companies also fear what their employees might say and that corporate blogs will attract special-interest groups keen to attack a corporation.
“Corporations being corporations there is a lot of fear about doing something for the first time,” said Mark Rogers, chief executive of [...]

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Blog response: Whole Food boss shows the way

July 28th, 2006 — Mark

The Whole Foods blog
A call from Dominic Rushe of the Sunday Times who is writing about business blogging. I talked as plausibly as I could about what is going on in the UK, but in truth there has not yet been a lot of movement by corporates towards setting up blogs. I [...]

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Comment spam

July 27th, 2006 — Mark

We have just moderated a huge comment queue from the last couple of months. No excuses. Many apologies for our tardiness, John Cass et al. 3,500+ spam comments to be deleted …

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Pew surveys bloggers

July 19th, 2006 — Mark

Pew have surveyed US bloggers. Headline: “the blog population has grown to about 12 million American adults, or 8% of adult internet users and that the number of blog readers has jumped to 57 million American adults, or 39% of the online population.”
It’s a pretty astounding statistic.

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The Chief Policeman’s blog

July 19th, 2006 — Mark

Chief constable Richard Brunstrom of the North Wales force launched a blog on Monday this week. On BBC’s PM radio programme he said:
“We deliberately didn’t tell anyone about it. We just wanted to do it quietly and see what happened. And look what happened. Two days later I am on [...]

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