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Feb

18

2006

More on the new Google China Blog and what it means in relation to Google’s cooperating with the Chi

Posted in the Category of CEO Bloggers

Google_china_2 I'm quoted in today's San Jose Mercury News in an article about the new Google China blog: "Google launches China blog a day before China hearing." The reporter, Elise Ackerman, has just been assigned full-time to "Google" as a beat which she was really excited about. She phoned me late yesterday for an interview. Could hear her madly typing as we spoke, as she was on deadline. The story got a

Google_china_2 I'm quoted in today's San Jose Mercury News in an article about the new Google China blog: "Google launches China blog a day before China hearing." The reporter, Elise Ackerman, has just been assigned full-time to "Google" as a beat which she was really excited about. She phoned me late yesterday for an interview. Could hear her madly typing as we spoke, as she was on deadline. The story got a "weird edit" at the last minute, Elise said in an email this morning.

As in a, um, run-on sentence:

"Debbie Weil, author of the forthcoming "The Corporate Blogging Book: Absolutely Everything You Need to Know to Get It Right,'' said the idea was sound, but did not bring up the questions Google faced about its dealings with China overshadowed what would otherwise be a chirpy corporate branding effort.

[Update:…

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Feb

18

2006

More on the new Google China Blog and what it means in relation to Google’s cooperating with the Chi

Posted in the Category of Fortune 500 Blogs and General and In the News and Stuff

I'm quoted in today's San Jose Mercury News in an article about the new Google China blog: "Google launches China blog a day before China hearing." The reporter, Elise Ackerman, has just been assigned full-time to "Google" as a beat which she was really excited about. She phoned me late yesterday for an interview. Could hear her madly typing as we spoke, as she was on deadline. The story got a

I'm quoted in today's San Jose Mercury News in an article about the new Google China blog: "Google launches China blog a day before China hearing." The reporter, Elise Ackerman, has just been assigned full-time to "Google" as a beat which she was really excited about. She phoned me late yesterday for an interview. Could hear her madly typing as we spoke, as she was on deadline. The story got a "weird edit" at the last minute, Elise said in an email this morning.

As in a, um, run-on sentence:

"Debbie Weil, author of the forthcoming "The Corporate Blogging Book: Absolutely Everything You Need to Know to Get It Right,'' said the idea was sound, but did not bring up the questions Google faced about its dealings with China overshadowed what would otherwise be a chirpy corporate branding effort.

[Update: the run-on was fixed.]

The point of…

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Feb

16

2006

More blogging to blooking deals

Posted in the Category of In the News and The Corporate Blogging Book

Entertaining update from David Kline on the latest publishing deals inked by blogger-authors. Two that caught my eye (David's comments in quotations):

- "Former Wonkette blogger Ana Marie Cox's first nonfiction book, on the next generation of political activists, again to Riverhead, reportedly for "mid-six-figures" (Washington Post)"

[Her "juicy" political novel Dog Days, just published, is

Entertaining update from David Kline on the latest publishing deals inked by blogger-authors. Two that caught my eye (David's comments in quotations):

- "Former Wonkette blogger Ana Marie Cox's first nonfiction book, on the next generation of political activists, again to Riverhead, reportedly for "mid-six-figures" (Washington Post)"

[Her "juicy" political novel Dog Days, just published, is reviewed here.]

- "Seth Godin's SMALL IS THE NEW BIG: And Other (Little) Ideas that Change Everything, a small collection of big articles - from blog posts, ebooks, and magazine articles, to Portfolio [note: this is my publisher], for an advance somewhere between $100,000-$250,000"

When I can turn entries from BlogWriteForCEOs into a 6-figure - plus deal then I'll know I've arrived. Don't hold your breath... But heck, who knows?!

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Feb

16

2006

Blogging 101, Podcasting 101, RSS 101 for Marketers

Posted in the Category of Free Downloads and New New Things and Podcasting and Stuff

Below is an update of my original 101 list. If you've got a great resource page or article - of specific interest to marketers - leave me a comment below and I might add it. No promises.  smile

Blogging 101

Blogging 101 by Rebecca Blood (on MSN Spaces)

Blogging 101 by Kari Chisholm

Blogs 101 by Rich Meislin in New York Times' Technology section

Blogging 101 by Technorati

Blog knowledge

Below is an update of my original 101 list. If you've got a great resource page or article - of specific interest to marketers - leave me a comment below and I might add it. No promises.  smile

Blogging 101

Blogging 101 by Rebecca Blood (on MSN Spaces)

Blogging 101 by Kari Chisholm

Blogs 101 by Rich Meislin in New York Times' Technology section

Blogging 101 by Technorati

Blog knowledge center by Cymfony

Business Blogging 101 on the NEWPRWiki

Business Blogging Resources by Dave Taylor

Global Voices' Intro to Blogs

Weblog Basics on About.com

Wikibooks' Blogging 101

Wikipedia definition of Weblog

Blog marketing resources from Paul Gillin


Podcasting 101

Podcasting 101 on MacZealots.com

Podcasting 101 on TechWeb

Podcasting 101…

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Feb

15

2006

Corporate blogging goes global; Google trying to silence China critics?

Posted in the Category of Fortune 500 Blogs and In the News and Stuff

Google_china_1 Just saw this. Google has launched a Google China Blog. Yes, it's in Chinese so I can't read it. But clearly it's an attempt to answer critics of the company's decision to cooperate with the Chinese government in censoring search results. Here's the story in ChinaTechNews. And a less charitable spin on it here at P2Pnet.

Included are a few links in English in the right-hand column including

Google_china_1 Just saw this. Google has launched a Google China Blog. Yes, it's in Chinese so I can't read it. But clearly it's an attempt to answer critics of the company's decision to cooperate with the Chinese government in censoring search results. Here's the story in ChinaTechNews. And a less charitable spin on it here at P2Pnet.

Included are a few links in English in the right-hand column including John Battelle's Searchblog. Kinda cool. That's what you might call "getting exposure." What's the population of China? I forget... [see below] but probably growing exponentially along with the blogosphere. Leave me a comment if you know!

Oh, and what's my stance on the doing-business-with-a-repressive-government thing? It's complicated. I lean towards the view that Google's being available…

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Feb

14

2006

Manuscript lost in the snow? Thankfully not…

Posted in the Category of The Corporate Blogging Book

Snowfall_nyc_3 Raced to the FedEx up the street on Saturday afternoon (Feb. 11, 2006) to make the 4 PM cut off. I had promised my ever patient editor, Adrienne Schultz, that I'd get the copyedited manuscript back to Penguin Portfolio's lower Manhattan office first thing Monday AM. A few wet flakes were beginning to fall in Washington DC. And we got a nice dump of snow by Sunday morning. But it wasn't what I Snowfall_nyc_3 Raced to the FedEx up the street on Saturday afternoon (Feb. 11, 2006) to make the 4 PM cut off. I had promised my ever patient editor, Adrienne Schultz, that I'd get the copyedited manuscript back to Penguin Portfolio's lower Manhattan office first thing Monday AM. A few wet flakes were beginning to fall in Washington DC. And we got a nice dump of snow by Sunday morning. But it wasn't what I call a storm (the snow was wet and heavy; no winds; no thigh high drifts). Well, New York City's record snowfall (the biggest since recordkeeping began in 1869) was the REAL thing. And FedEx failed to deliver the manuscript Monday morning. I was just a wee bit worried... there's, er, only one copy of the copyedited manuscript as far as I know. That is, the 250-plus pages…

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