links for 2006-10-20

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anu
on October 20, 2006 TrackBacks (0) Comments (0)

Bloglines, Digg, Greasemonkey

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anu
on October 19, 2006 TrackBacks (0) Comments (0)
And while I'm in a Greasemonkey and bloglines frame of mind, here's another script I whipped up (where whipped up = search and replace) that adds a 'digg this' link to each post in bloglines. Bloglines - digg this (greasemonkey script). [tags]greasemonkey, digg, bloglines[/tags]

Bloglines, cogenz and greasemonkey

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anu
on October 19, 2006 TrackBacks (0) Comments (0)
As I try and shake off another annoying illness (which meant I couldn't meet up with Neville Hobson and a bunch of London bloggers this evening), I decided to make a little tweak to a useful Greasemonkey script that adds a 'post to del.icio.us' link to each post in bloglines to allow posting to cogenz, an 'inside the firewall' social bookmarking solution. It was a simple tweak, and adds a 'post to cogenz' link under every post you read in bloglines, as can be seen in this little screen-clipping. Simple enough to do, pretty much a search and replace operation. [UPDATE - you will need to edit line 48 and replace headshift with the name of your cogenz install. Right-click the greasemonkey icon, choose 'Manage User Scripts' and then 'Edit'] Anyway, for those of you who use cogenz and bloglines, here's the script:Bloglines to cogenz script for Greasemonkey. Enjoy ! [tags]cogenz, bloglines, greasemonkey[/tags]

links for 2006-10-18

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anu
on October 18, 2006 TrackBacks (0) Comments (2)

links for 2006-10-15

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anu
on October 15, 2006 TrackBacks (0) Comments (0)

Wal-mart, Edelman and transparency

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anu
on October 14, 2006 TrackBacks (0) Comments (0)

Well, there's been a lot of talk about the fake Wal-mart blog over the last couple of days - and Edelman is the number two search term right now on Technorati. Originally I just added this story to my del.icio.us stream, as below:

MediaPost Publications - Pro-Wal-Mart Travel Blog Screeches To A Halt - 10/12/2006

  • edelman help wal-mart launch a fake blog, without disclosing that it's a fake blog. Considering how brutal the likes of Rubel have been with other companies (Dell), this is a real faux-pas

(tags: edelman fake blogs)

but I felt there were a couple more things to say about this.

I am surprised that Edelman and Steve Rubel haven't responded yet - I am sure that if it were another agency / company who were responsible, Steve Rubel would have been all over this. Constantin Basturea is also surprised:

So far Edelman has failed to respond in any way to the accusations that it's behind the Wal-Marting… blog — which is quite perplexing.

I'm particularly interested in hearing what Jason Calacanis thinks about this, especially given his recent attempts to get PayPerPost to act in a way that he feels is more ethical and disclosure-driven. I'm thinking there isn't much difference between the two situations...if disclosure and censure is required in one instance, then disclosure and censure is required in the other (possibly even more so, as Edelman and Rubel supposedly 'get' the blogosphere).

[tags]edelman, rubel, disclosure, fake, splog, walmart, wal-mart, transparency, dishonesty, micropersuasion, ethics[/tags]

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