Philip Greenspun suggests small organizations use a blog for their website (ironically, not blogged):
The Small Business Web circa 1994
In 1994, a small organization that wanted a Web site would hire a “Web designer” skilled in the exotic art of “HTML programming” to produce a static Web site, i.e., a cluster of linked pages with a [...]
Posted June 11, 2009 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: blogging, blogs, communication, web communications, website. Be the first one.
Finding a 2007 blog post about a condom and a cheeseburger made a friend ask if student blogs should be moved off-domain. My flippant answer was “There’s no such thing as bad publicity.”
His retort was simple and quick: “Tell that to the catholic church.”
It stung. He had me, I was sure. It’s hard for many [...]
Posted January 14, 2009 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Politics & Controversy, Technology. Tags: bad publicity, blogging, catholic church, church sex abuse, lessons, PR, public relations, publicity, reputation management, scandal, social media. One Comment.
Well, not the entire university, I guess, but a number of online publications use it. The newspaper is featured above, their CIO has a blog, and they’ve started a pilot with WPMU to offer blogging to everybody in the University.
Posted November 19, 2008 by Casey
Categories: Technology. Tags: blogging, higher ed, higher education, innovative uses of WordPress, McGill University, wordpress. 12 Comments.
The news about BuddyPress has fully shifted my attention from single-blog WordPress installs to multi-user, multi-blog installs.
WordPress mu is my platform of choice, but I was quite fond of Lyceum when I first learned of it a while ago. The big perceived advantage of Lyceum is that it uses a unified table structure for all [...]
Posted August 11, 2008 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: blogging, Lyceum, multiple users, wordpress, WordPress MU. Be the first one.
In an interview on NPR, The Diana Chronicles author Tina Brown says “Diana had represented feeling, and the end of the stiff upper lip,” but the Princess comes off sounding a bit like a harbinger of the Cluetrain. Yes it’s all about the Royals, the glamor, and her dramatic death ten years ago, but take [...]
Posted August 26, 2007 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Politics & Controversy. Tags: blog voice, blogging, blogs, cluetrain, communication, Diana, Princess Di, Princess Diana, Princess of Wales, royal family, The Diana Chronicles, Tina Brown. Be the first one.
A comic from XKCD:
“I feel like I’m wasting my life on the internet. Let’s walk around the world.”
“Sounds good.”
[panels showing the world's great beauty, a truly grand adventure]
“And yet all I can think of is ‘this will make for a great Livejournal entry.’”
Posted September 29, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Questionable...funny. Pointless., Technology. Tags: blog, blogging, blogs, information behavior, internet, journaling, life, livejournal. One Comment.
Our CIO is asking whether or not Plymouth should get involved with blogs. Not to be overly academic, but I think we should define our terms.
Despite all the talk, “blogs” are a content agnostic technology being used to support all manner of online activities.
What you’re really asking is instead: what kind of content do we want to put online, and who do we want to let do it?
Posted September 27, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: academia, academic blogs, blogging, blogs, class blogs, examples, faculty blogs, fear, plymouth state university, policy, psu, student blogs. 6 Comments.
I’ve been citing pieces of branding consultant james Torio’s master’s thesis for some time now. But because the thesis is long, and I want to cite a few small pieces, and those pieces aren’t directly URL addressable, I’m quoting them here. Clickable URLs are added, but everything else should be exactly as Torio wrote it. [...]
Posted September 18, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Politics & Controversy, Technology. Tags: blog controversy, blogging, blogs are conversations, censorship, community relations, james torio, microsoft, MSN Spaces, PR, Robert Scoble, scobleizer. 4 Comments.
Nicholas Lemann, in a story on blogging and citizen journalism in the August 7 issue of The New Yorker:
[N]ew media in their fresh youth [produce] a distinctive, hot-tempered rhetorical style.
…transformative in their capabilities…a mass medium with a short lead time — cheap…and easily accessible to people of all classes and political inclinations.
And quoting author Mark [...]
Posted August 27, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Politics & Controversy, Technology. Tags: blog, bloggers, blogging, citizen journalism, journalism, Mark Knights, Nicholas Lemann, The New Yorker. One Comment.
As noted here, I’m going to WordCamp in SFO in early August.
Matt describes it as a BarCamp-style event (where “’BarCamp-style’ is a code phrase for ‘last minute’”) with “a full day of both user and developer discussion.” I’m just going for the free t-shirt, of course, but I can imagine a number of folks will [...]
Posted July 25, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology, Travel. Tags: blog software, blogging, conference, san francisco, SFO, Travel, WordCamp, WordCamp 2006, wordpress, WordPress Developer's Conference. 5 Comments.