Monthly Archives: June 2005

Japan’s Big Blog

Further to my earlier post about the ‘invisible’ rise of Asian blogging (‘invisible’ because not many of us Anglophones read Japanese, Korean or Chinese) here’s some (rather belatedly noticed by me) evidence from Joi Ito’s Web on Japan blogging stats: 72.5% of people have heard of blogs, up from 39% last year. 25% of women… Read More »

Searching for Tags

Denis Sinegubko tells me of his new tag searching facility in his software FirstStop WebSearch. Here’s an excerpt from his FirstStop Blog: Social Bookmarks in FirstStop WebSearch which explains it in more detail: The pre-installed (in version 4.2) category “Social Bookmarks” contains the following search sources: LookSmart’s Furl.net, CiteULike.org, and Zniff.com, a search engine for the… Read More »

Those Darn PR People, Part XXXIV

It’s a cheap shot, I know, but it’s too good to pass up as an illustration of the need for a bare minimum of research by PR folk before they hit the send button on mass emails to reporters. I’m not going to name names here, but a ‘leading global communications consultancy’ has just invited… Read More »