Archive for October 7th, 2005

What happens when Internet service providers don’t get along?

Friday, October 7th, 2005

Because of a pricing dispute, Cogent Communications Group and Level 3 Communications, major Internet service providers, are at odds with each other. Level 3 stopped allowing some customers to access Web sites or send e-mail to customers on Cogent. The government currently does not regulate Internet activities of this kind, so there is no guarantee […]

Results of Technorati/Edelman Blogosphere Survey

Friday, October 7th, 2005

I’m still seeing new posts about Technorati/Edelman surveying the blogosphere, so when I tried to complete the survey, I was a little surprised to get the error message I got. The survey closed earlier this week. Edelman has begun analyzing the results and as a site for the data.

ALA Joins USA Patriot Act Challenge

Friday, October 7th, 2005

“I might be a federal agent,” read a shirt someone wore to the dance.
“I can’t dance with you,” I joked, “because I’m a librarian.”
And now I sit at home reading about how the American Library Association filed an amicus brief with several other organizations supporting the American Civil Liberties Union’s emergency appeal to the United […]

What to Use for Presentations …

Friday, October 7th, 2005

Steven Cohen writes about using weblogs as a presentation medium. I find his post timely because for most of the talks I’ve given, I’ve used this weblog to run the talk. However, for my upcoming talk in Wisconsin, I realized the blog won’t work very well and I should use something more standard, like PowerPoint.
I’m […]

Why Should Employees Blog? (.pdf)

Friday, October 7th, 2005

Bill Ives writes about this paper from Edelman and Intelliseek examining the benefits of employee weblogs. He summarizes from the introduction:
"An Edelman study found that people are more three times more like to trust the average person than the big shot at the top of the organization and a McKinsey study found that 67% of […]


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