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Currybetdotnet recent comments round-up 2008-08-29
Back in February and March of this year I did a series of articles about blog comments, and one of my suggestions was that doing an occasional round-up of interesting comments was a way of making sure they got attention, particularly if they had been left on older articles. One way or another I've been in a bit of an Internet connection black hole for the last five weeks or so, and it means that the moderating of comments on...

Read the full post - Published August 29, 2008 in BBC, Blogging, Ghost Walks, London Olympics, Olympics, Radio

Greek TV station Head of News receives death threats from blogger
You might recall that one of my regular moans about Greece is the lack of infrastructure and interest in the Internet. Although web usage has gone up from when I first arrived in the country, I still can't get broadband to my front door, and the Internet rarely makes the news. Occasionally there will be a bit a bit of police brutality or censorship by the Government/judiciary*, but pretty much the Internet stays off the news radar. [*delete as appropriate]...

Read the full post - Published August 27, 2008 in Blogging, Greece, Web

'Lost playlists' and Chipwrapper in the Guardian's Music sections
I've had a couple of mentions in the Guardian's music section recently. You may have spotted in my Delicious links that Steven Wells described blogging list-making music fans as "the antithesis of rock'n'roll" on the Guardian Music blog, citing "Lifetime of lost playlists" as a prime example. There was also a mention for Chipwrapper at the weekend, in Johnny Dee's piece about the history of the "Now That's What I Call Music" albums - 'NOW that's what I call a...

Read the full post - Published August 15, 2008 in Blogging, Music, The Guardian

Here we go again...not that bloggers vs journalists debate
Yesterday I asked the question whether you could trust a media blogger, looking at my own account of Adrian Monck's recent book launch. The answer, that I hoped people did trust my account, and that I expect I have a much stronger relationship with my limited band of readers than many mainstream broadcasters or journalists can have, revived the age-old journalists vs. bloggers debate. At Adrian Monck's "Can you trust the media" event, Andrew Gilligan said that 'even if everybody...

Read the full post - Published May 21, 2008 in Blogging, Media, Newspapers

"Can you trust a media blogger?"
A couple of weeks ago I went to the launch of Adrian Monck's "Can You Trust The Media?" and I wrote up an account of it for my blog. That somewhat begged the question: "Can you trust a media blogger?". Reviews of the book have appeared in The Observer, The Guardian and on the blog of Charlie Beckett. Obviously, as these have been sanctioned by the 'great-and-good' of mainstream media these are valid reviews. But what about my account of...

Read the full post - Published May 20, 2008 in Blogging, Media, Newspapers, Popular

currybetdotnet scrapes into Wikio Top 100, but where is Guido?
One sure way to get a mention on this blog is to make an exciting list of the most influential blogs in the UK, stick currybetdotnet in it, and then email me to tell me what you've done, just in case my vanity search alerts fail to pick it up. And that is exactly what Wikio have done with their UK blogosphere list. This blog just squeezed into the top 100, although obviously my techie credentials are not as strong...

Read the full post - Published April 16, 2008 in Blogging

Up and down del.icio.us links
RSS subscribers to currybetdotnet might have noticed I've been having a bit of an up-and-down time with the posting of my del.icio.us links. I started publishing them back in December, and wrote a piece about adding del.icio.us links to your blog. One tip I didn't list was to make sure your links publish at all, but that was a problem I only started having a fortnight ago. Suddenly on Wednesday 26th the links didn't publish automatically as expected. Once it...

Read the full post - Published April 7, 2008 in Blogging

Reviewing the Instablogs 'citizen journalism' platform
A couple of week ago I was contacted by the team at Instablogs, asking whether I would be interested in having a look at their site. I normally shy away from this kind of promotion, but I was rather intrigued by the premise of the service, so I did have a look, and had a bit of email to-and-fro with the PR manager. In one sense, Instablogs is just another simple blogging platform. However, it combines the regular concept of...

Read the full post - Published April 4, 2008 in Blogging, Media, Product review, Web

Son of a glitch
It has been a bit glitchy here on currybetdotnet over the last couple of days. Today my del.icio.us links didn't post automatically. At this distance it is difficult to tell whether that was a problem at their end, whether my server was down or unresponsive when del.icio.us tried, or whether there was some kind of special character in the package it sent that caused Movable Type to shy away from publishing. It meant I had to put them in by...

Read the full post - Published March 26, 2008 in Blogging

A great visual way to advertise your blog's highlights
One of the blogs about internet marketing and blogging that I regularly get directed to via Sphinn and various link-dumps is Skelliewag. The last time I was visiting, one interesting feature caught my eye - the way that the blog highlights the most popular posts from the site. Most blogs, if they have a favourite or popular posts panel, simply list the titles of the articles. Skelliewag takes a more graphical approach, and in the right-hand panel of the page...

Read the full post - Published March 24, 2008 in Blogging

Woman's Own gets a print 'blog'

Published March 19, 2008 in Blogging, Media, Voting, Web

Would you like to buy some advertising on ($name)?

Published March 15, 2008 in Blogging

Making the most of blog comments: Part 13 - 'The best of' comments on currybetdotnet

Published March 13, 2008 in Blogging

Making the most of blog comments: Part 12 - Using comments to defuse complaints

Published March 12, 2008 in Blogging

Making the most of blog comments: Part 11 - Everything in moderation

Published March 11, 2008 in Blogging

Making the most of blog comments: Part 10 - Participation, participation, participation

Published March 10, 2008 in Blogging

Making the most of blog comments: Part 9 - Future blog comment interfaces

Published March 6, 2008 in Blogging

Making the most of blog comments: Part 8 - Comment usability

Published March 5, 2008 in Blogging

Making the most of blog comments: Part 7 - Comment form positioning

Published March 4, 2008 in Blogging

Making the most of blog comments: Part 6 - Making a unified blog post and comment feed with Yahoo! Pipes

Published February 28, 2008 in Blogging, RSS, Yahoo

Making the most of blog comments: Part 5 - 'Recent comment' RSS feed template for Movable Type

Published February 27, 2008 in Blogging, RSS

Making the most of blog comments: Part 4 - Do people read comments via RSS?

Published February 26, 2008 in Blogging, Bloglines, Google, RSS

Chipwrapper goes to church

Published February 23, 2008 in Blogging, Newspapers, Search

Making the most of blog comments: Part 3 - The 100 blog survey II

Published February 22, 2008 in Blogging

Making the most of blog comments: Part 2 - The 100 blog survey

Published February 21, 2008 in Blogging

Making the most of blog comments: Part 1 - Promoting blog comments

Published February 20, 2008 in Articles, Blogging

Is nobody blogging about the BBC's The Editors Blog anymore?

Published February 17, 2008 in BBC, Blogging

Search the blogs of the Miami IA Summit

Published February 15, 2008 in Blogging, IA Summit, Search

10 tips for integrating your del.icio.us links into your blog

Published February 5, 2008 in Blogging, Popular

IA Summit bloggers mash-up feed

Published February 4, 2008 in Blogging, IA Summit, RSS, Yahoo

Personal search engine optimsation for Information Architects

Published February 2, 2008 in Blogging, IA Summit, Search

IA Summit bloggers

Published January 31, 2008 in Blogging, IA Summit, RSS

Google DMCA complaint follow-up

Published January 12, 2008 in Blogging, Google

Gene Marks is dangerously wrong about "Tech 'solutions' your small biz can't use"

Published January 8, 2008 in Blogging, RSS, Web, YouTube

No tick-box for me in the Online Journalism Blog survey

Published January 7, 2008 in Blogging

Issuing a DMCA take-down notice to Google over splogger

Published January 7, 2008 in Blogging, Google

Reflecting on reflections of a Newsosaur

Published December 30, 2007 in Blogging, Newspapers, Search

My favourite blogs of 2007

Published December 26, 2007 in Blogging

The 20 most popular currybetdotnet posts from yesteryear in 2007

Published December 25, 2007 in Blogging

20 most popular currybetdotnet posts 2007

Published December 24, 2007 in Blogging

Ten years of BBC Online

Published December 22, 2007 in Articles, BBC, Blogging, Nostalgia, Web

Blogging at the BBC: Part 9 - The formal blogging years

Published December 21, 2007 in BBC, Blogging

Blogging at the BBC: Part 8 - Guidelines

Published December 20, 2007 in BBC, Blogging

Blogging at the BBC: Part 7 - The downside of blogging from the inside

Published December 19, 2007 in BBC, Blogging

Blogging at the BBC: Part 6 - The upside of blogging from the inside

Published December 18, 2007 in BBC, Blogging

I'm not convinced online voting shows Rhydian was robbed on X-Factor

Published December 17, 2007 in Blogging, Daily Mail, Television, Voting

Blogging at the BBC: Part 5 - Blogging from the inside

Published December 17, 2007 in BBC, Blogging

Blogging at the BBC: Part 4 - Life, the Universe, and Everything

Published December 14, 2007 in BBC, Blogging

Blogging at the BBC: Part 3 - ...and Islands

Published December 13, 2007 in BBC, Blogging

Blogging at the BBC: Part 2 - Highlands...

Published December 12, 2007 in BBC, Blogging