1. Mitch Joel asks “Is blogging dead?” Far from it, I believe. He cites some interesting numbers from the Technorati – State of the Blogosphere 2008 report. Because you often judge a blog on how often it gets updated, in addition to how interesting its content is, it is worth noting that 900,000 blogs in the study had new posts in the previous 24 hours tracked. And, 1.5 million blogs had a new post in seven days. Keep the posts coming, and you’re in the top million!
2. “Supermoms Pack 27 Hours in a Single Day” according to Business Week’s Lauren Young. Can I get a few of those hours? It’s a good post, actually referencing a study by AOL’s Platform-A and OMD. The study, creatively titled “Living La Vida Rapida: Today’s Parents Living a Double Life at Double Time,” explored online moms’ lifestyles and media preferences. It says online moms spend eight of their 16 waking hours with some kind of media – Internet, television, radio, etc… How about the superdads?
3. From GalleyCat, here’s a book I’d like to read that I hadn’t heard about until now, “Click: What Millions of People do Online and Why it Matters” by Bill Tancer of HitWise. The GalleyCat post includes a short video interview with Tancer.
The book description says Tancer “…takes us behind the scenes into the massive database of online intelligence to reveal the naked truth about how we use the Web, navigate to sites, and search for information–and what all of that says about who we are.” Sounds relevant to anyone interested in online marketing and PR.
4. “It’s best not to trust people who…” say the things David Murray writes about on his blog, Writing Boots. Let me add one to the list: It’s best not to trust people who… …don’t take a hint when I don’t return any of their five voicemails in two days, just because I stopped by their booth for 30 seconds at a trade show.
5. And from Debbie Weil at the Inc. 5000 conference, Seth Godin sounds off on superficial social networking:
