Tris and I have been Skyping back and forth about the latest post by Kathy Sierra where she discusses death threats among other things that have recently surfaced.  At first I was so shocked I didn’t have words, then I was pissed, and yes I don’t often get pissed.  As I read through the post, [...]

Well it looks like the caveman has signed a deal with ABC making my attempt to copy and plagiarize GIECO’s advertising campaign moot.  I wanted so badly to have the caveman tapping away at his keyboard, making fun of Robert Scoble, linkbaiting, Digging, and perhaps even signing up to work for clamshells at PayPerPost!  How [...]

I was recently speaking with my friend Ben about blogs and sponsorship and I was inspired by Ben to write this post following a post he wrote about sponsors and blogs.   I am taking his good advice and making it more on the extreme side of blog sponsorship.  After all we all would like [...]

I am one of the biggest fans of Dave Taylor and I always listen when he speaks because it is usually brilliant information and something that I usually  implement into my own blogging practices.  With that said I now have to cry foul!  Dave recently posted about a blogger named Colleen that was warned by [...]

There’s a story worth paying attention to in The Wall Street Journal (available via MediaChannel.org): Blogger Faces Lawsuit Over Comments Posted by Readers. I firmly believe that bloggers themselves need to make sure they follow commonly-held standards about libel, copyright violation, fair use, and other legal niceties (and not simply because it’s required.) [...]

I have often been asked by client’s whether there are any legalities to pay attention to when getting into the business of blogging. My firsthand response is to consider common sense approach to blogging. Certainly a company that is blogging should not engage in anything they would not normally do in print otherwise. Steve Rubel [...]