A blogger without an opinion is like a Jackson without a plastic surgeon

That is to say, you won’t find one. But for some reason, CBS News thinks that it’s realistic to say that their new Public Eye blogger, Vaughn Ververs, “will not be opinionated”.
These people really haven’t been paying attention, have they?
But CBS is asking for opinions from the blogosphere on how their new blogger should approach […]

Key influencers use RSS

My mate Fergus Burns, CEO of Nooked, has the figures. Some pretty charts there, too.
And Scoble hits the nail on the head when he repeats something that I, too, have been trying to impress upon those who only offer partial RSS feeds to their readers:

This is PRECISELY why I’ve been telling everyone to […]

Filtering the filters redux

Last weekend, I wrote about filtering the filters and how doing so adds another layer of difficulty to measuring blog authority. Now, via Doc Searls, I read this, where Andrew uses the term automatic indirect subscription to describe this behaviour.
Again, I’d love to know how Dave Sifry and the gang at Technorati are going to […]

Comments and trackbacks

I was very briefly tempted to switch on comments, just like I am sometimes very briefly tempted to take up knitting. It would be nice, I guess, but the reality is that I just don’t have the time to do it.
I’ve also disallowed trackback pings for the moment, just because I want to get […]

Importing entries from MT to WordPress

Hmm, that was fun. I tried to import all of my posts from Movable Type into Word Press, but MT only wants to export the entries for the month of December 2004.
While the idea of starting this new blog with a clean slate is tempting, I don’t want to break any referring links. Plus, […]

Goodbye MT, hello WordPress

I don’t know why, but it never occured to me before today that I might try installing something other than Movable Type. Thanks to Neville Hobson for making me realise that, duh, everyone always seems to be going on about how easy WordPress is to install. And indeed it is. They’re not joking about that […]