- It's Time for Traffic Stats to Die
"Yahoo's Chief of Insights reflects what Evan Williams and [Steve Rubel] have been saying for awhile now: the page view is indeed dead. He's calling on the industry to develop new metrics that measure this new world more accurately. " - The Million Dollar blog post
Via Marc Snyder (one of the few primarily French blogs I read), this off-topic but charming idea: "It’s simple. Leave your wish for the world as a comment on this post. For each comment we’re going to have someone donate $1 to charity." - Via Inside the Cubicle (a PR blog):
- CEO Blogging Guide, a concise list of dos and don’ts on CEO blogging; and
- 5 Social Media Trends that Will Impact PR, including a discussion on the future of the press release: “The press release turned 100 this year, and the public relations and marketing community started to really talk about how to make it better and improve its usefulness.”
- 10 Social Media Strategies for the Fortune 1000 Corporations (via Ketcheson.net)
- Digging Deeper::WSJ Gets Comfortable with Blogs, Wants to Boost Community Interesting in-depth interview with Bill Grueskin, managing editor of WSJ.com about the Journal’s online features, including blogs and their editorial policy on them, citizen journalism and pay vs free content. Should be read in conjunction with a scathing Op-Ed piece that appeared this week in the WSJ called The Blog Mob: "Written by fools to be read by imbeciles."
- The Mark Twain Guide to Better Blogging Very clever and well-written. Wouldn’t it be great if Mark Twain were a blogger?
- IBM says business must blog
That's it for this week... Happy holidays to our legions of reader(s)!
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