Dipping into the Blogpond

Another top 100 Australian blogs list.

While I appreciate the thoughts and sentiments behind the tags, in the back of my mind I can’t help but think it’s the blogging equivalent of a “chain letter”….

What amazes me about the Australian Idol is how harsh the judges can be. Most of the contestants are kids or young adults, and granted, many of those who auditioned were painfully ordinary. But to absolutely demoralise and humiliate someone giving it their best shot, on national television, just seems really unnecessary to me.

What really surprises me is that many companies do not seem to pay attention to reputation management. There used to be an adage that a satisfied customer will tell between 5 to 7 people, but a dissatisfied customer will tell between 14 to 20 (see customer satisfaction). In the era of social media, this needs to be rewritten.

Weekly Blogpond Update for 16th August 2007. New blogs entering the top 100, new Aussie Community blogs and news from around the Aussosphere.

A guide to some online readability tests, and tips on how to make your blog posts easier to read.

The upcoming Carnival of Australia.

I was watching a spot of (rare) t.v. last night when I saw a segment on a new water saving toilet called the Profile (TM) from Caroma. How ingenious – a toilet suite with an inbuilt wash basin! The idea is that when you’re finished doing your business, you give it a flush. At the […]

Dear Mum Remember how I wrote to you recently about “what is a blog“? At the end I wrote: Next time I’ll tell you a little bit more about how you can keep track of blogs you like (it’s called RSS feeds), but that’s probably enough information for one letter! Well, I don’t have to […]

A couple of weeks ago I wrote about iYomu.com a social networking site for grownups. In that post I alluded to a grand launch being planned: Apparently the launch is going to be quite remarkable (but the developers were tight lipped). Well via Read/WriteWeb, I found out about the iYomu challenge, and I’d have to […]