{"id":97,"date":"2006-02-28T06:03:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-28T13:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulgillin.com\/2006\/02\/notes-from-around-the-net-22806.html"},"modified":"2006-02-28T06:03:00","modified_gmt":"2006-02-28T13:03:00","slug":"notes-from-around-the-net-22806","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/notes-from-around-the-net-22806\/","title":{"rendered":"Notes from around the Net 2\/28\/06"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Rubel comments on his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.micropersuasion.com\/2006\/02\/the_edelman_ody.html\">first day on the job at Edelman PR<\/a>.  Sounds like it was a sleepless affair. His story will be interesting to watch: How a successful blogger adjusts to a major shift in work life and still keeps blogging. He says he&#8217;s going to do it.<\/p>\n<p>Nike has launched <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.nikebasketball.com\/\">a new blog to promote its basketball shoes<\/a>. But there&#8217;s no commenting allowed. I wonder why?<\/p>\n<p>Technorati&#8217;s got a new feature (at least, I think it&#8217;s new) that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technorati.com\/pop\/blogs\/?faves=1\">ranks blogs by the number of members who have voted them their favorites<\/a>. It&#8217;s a great idea and should work over time as the number of votes grows. Of course, it&#8217;s also open to manipulation&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a lot of buzz about a new product from Microsoft code-name <a href=\"https:\/\/news.com.com\/Details+unfolding+on+Microsofts+Origami\/2100-1041_3-6043755.html\">Origami<\/a>. It&#8217;s supposed to be some kind of mobile device. People are expecting big things. Tell me: when was the last time Microsoft surprised anyone with breakthrough technology?<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a challenge in opacity. Robert Scoble, Microsoft&#8217;s #1 blogger, <a href=\"https:\/\/scobleizer.wordpress.com\/2006\/02\/27\/the-danger-of-not-letting-your-bloggers-know-more-origamisms\/\">writes about the danger of concealing product plans from your internal blogforce<\/a>. And he cites several third-party accounts that speculate about what Origami is. Now Scoble presumably knows what this mystery product is, yet he&#8217;s writing about what people are speculating about it and not confirming or denying anything. Meanwhile, Microsoft&#8217;s developers have the freedom to write about what they know as long as they&#8217;re not covered by NDA, from what I understand of MS&#8217;s blogging policy. It&#8217;s an interesting exercise to keep a secret when you&#8217;re openly encouraging blogging at the same time. I give credit to MS for even trying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Rubel comments on his first day on the job at Edelman PR. Sounds like it was a sleepless affair. His story will be interesting to watch: How a successful blogger adjusts to a major shift in work life and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/notes-from-around-the-net-22806\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pTy95-1z","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}