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This is the last post, it's too busy. I've got a few Dutch blogs that need my attention. So no more posts on my english-blog, sorry...

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Effective in-site search, good navigation, and clear, well-constructed content are the most important usability issues for disabled internet users. User Vision surveyed 208 internet users throughout the UK with impairments which affect the way they use the internet, comprising the visually impaired/blind, hearing impaired/deaf, physically disabled, and those with dyslexia/learning difficulties.

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Technorati introduced "the next small thing in search": The Technorati Mini. It's a fun little popup window that refreshes your favorite search every minute, so you can stay up to date while going about your web surfing as usual. � Technorati Mini

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Tim Manners at Reveries has released survey results on how marketers monitor and use blogs. Some results: 61.8% of respondents say they do not monitor blogs Those who do, monitor on an ad hoc basis 45% have yet to suffer a blog attack Nearly 40% say blog marketing has strong potential Most respondents are behaving and are not trying to subvert bloggers� Blog Attack

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This is nice list - the seven deadly blogging sins: 1. Using Free Blog Hosting Services 2. Ignoring the Basic Principles of Good Web Site Design and Usability 3. Being the Jack Of All Trades 4. Not Posting Regularly 5. Publishing Badly Written Posts 6. Spamming and Stealing 7. Failing to Establish a Personality � The Seven Deadly Sins of Blogging

Arnoudnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15227646.post-1131957734938097882005-11-14T09:39:00.000+01:002006-11-15T14:51:27.521+01:00

Google just launched Google Analytics. Google Analytics is the new version of its Urchin analytics service and will be free to advertisers in its AdWords program. � Google Analytics

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In May 2005 Mark Fletcher (Bloglines) said his company would launch a new blog search engine this summer. Nothing happened during the summer, but I think Bloglines is ready to launch their new blog search engine. I saw a Bloglines crawler/bot visiting my Feedburner-feed and it isn't a normal Bloglines-subscriber. The crawler/bot is shown next to the other bots (Yahoo, Google Blogsearch,

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Google AdSense is now offering $100 bonus for referrals who reach $100 in earnings. With our new referrals feature, you can increase your revenue while increasing your users� awareness of useful products and services. By adding a referral button to your site, you can direct users to sign up for AdSense and monetize their web content, or to download Firefox with Google Toolbar and improve their

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A growing number of American CEO's rate blogs high as employee communication tools, according to a study conducted by PRWeek and Burson-Marsteller. 59 percent of CEOs surveyed said they find 'blogs useful for internal communications and 47 percent see them as tools for communication with external audiences. Other key findings: Of the 131 CEOs surveyed, 7 percent are actually blogging About 18

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OneStat.com reported that Mozilla's browsers have a total global usage share of 11,51 percent. The total usage share of Mozilla increased 2.82 percent since April 2005. Microsoft's Internet Explorer still dominates the global browser market with a global usage share of 85,45 percent which is 1.18 percent less as at the end of April. � Mozilla's browsers global usage share is still growing

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De European Public Relations Education and Research Association (EUPRERA) runs an european weblog surveyEUROBLOG 2006, the first pan-European survey of this kind, will provide a comprehensive overview of who is using blogs and for what purpose. Run by EUPRERA, the European Public Relations Education and Research Association, a community of leading researchers from universities and institutions

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An article in the Financial Times about blogs "Who�s afraid of the big, bad blog?" To blog, or not to blog? That is the question vexing marketing managers and public relations executives as they struggle to get to grips with the soaring popularity of weblogs, the online journals that are redefining the way millions of people around the world get news and entertainment on the internet. For

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57% of American teenagers have created a blog or webpage, posted original artwork, photography, stories or videos online or remixed online content into their own new creations. About 21 million or 87% of those ages 12-17 use the internet, according to a survey by the Pew Internet & American Life Project. The results highlight that this is a generation comfortable with content-creating technology

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The International Harold Tribune has an interesting post about Brands, Blogs and Business Buzz. As the number of blogs has grown, more consumers are keeping Web diaries dedicated exclusively to their favorite brands. Most of them are written without the consent of the companies that own the brands. But some companies are starting to pay attention to blogs, using them as a kind of informal network

Arnoudnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15227646.post-1130674172132933842005-10-30T13:07:00.000+01:002006-11-15T14:51:26.425+01:00

Gerry McGovern has written an article on the impact of adding more content to a website: Organizations are now spending more and more on getting people to their websites. However, just because someone visits your website doesn�t mean you have reached them. Your website may be too cluttered, with too many messages to too many audiences. Every time you target a particular audience, you make

Arnoudnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15227646.post-1130069426002165142005-10-23T14:08:00.000+02:002006-11-15T14:51:26.190+01:00

Google started a blog about Google Reader: Google Reader Blog � Google Reader Blog � RSS-feed Google Reader Blog

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Clickz reports on McDonald's piloting of corporate blogging within the organisation. While the McDonald's Corporation has not jumped headfirst into blogging, it certainly is further along the path of acceptance than many companies of its size. Last week, the company began an internal program that introduced corporate blogs, available only on the corporate intranet, behind the firewall. While

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Google did an update to PageRank. My blog now has a PR 2, but MSN.com also has a PR 2. What is wrong with MSN.com and why do they have a low PR???

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Jakob Nielsen has publiced the top 10 design mistakes on weblog usability. Weblogs are often too internally focused and ignore key usability issues, making it hard for new readers to understand the site and trust the author. To reach new readers and respect your existing readers' time constraints, test your weblog against the following usability problems. 1. No Author Biographies 2. No Author

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David Sifry of Technorati publiced new information on the continued growth of the blogosphere (State of the Blogosphere). As of October 2005, Technorati is now tracking 19.6 Million weblogs The total number of weblogs tracked continues to double about every 5 months The blogosphere is now over 30 times as big as it was 3 years ago, with no signs of letup in growth About 70,000 new weblogs are

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PR Week has published 10 media trends to watch: Portability of video content Blogs The rise of celebrity weeklies Media transparency The growth of Hispanic media Business woes for newspapers Digitalization of print media Media consolidation Source agnostic/disintermediation Refining media measurement� 10 media trends to watch

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Keith Robinson: Read and understand. Make sure you really understand what is being said. It�s easy to read something negative and jump in with a response that might not be as informed as it should be. That just causes more trouble. Learn from it. Sometimes you�ll get a negative post because you were wrong. Take it as an educational experience. Don�t get defensive. This just makes matters worse.

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The average American spends more time using media devices - television, radio, iPods and cell phones - than any other activity while awake, says a new study from Ball State University. Research team members spent the last several months shadowing about 400 people � collecting and analyzing data on 5,000 hours of media use. Recording information every 15 seconds, researchers measured participants

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Interesting post on the Intranet Blog: Marketing the intranet One of the reasons why even the best intranets need to be marketed to employees is that computer-based workers are often exceptionally busy and do not have time to explore and surf the intranet. They need to be educated as to what is there and why it is of value to both them as individual workers and also to the organization as a whole

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Blogger today introduced Backlinks Backlinks enable you to keep track of other pages on the web that link to your posts. For instance, suppose Alice writes a blog entry that Bob finds interesting. Bob then goes to his own blog and writes a post of his own about it, linking back to Alice's original post. Now Alice's post will automatically show that Bob has linked to it, and it will provide a

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