Considering yesterday’s posts, its funny that one
of the most opinionated people I know is starting to blog today (I mean
it in a good way). Welcome
along Ms Doyle… Can’t wait to read your rants. From those that
drank with us at Lotusphere, they would all remember Eileen Fitzgerald
and the Co Cork accent. Ms Doyle as a handle was just inevitable.
Looking forward to reading your posts and disagreeing with you as
ever!
I logged on late today, and as usual,
my RSS reader came up and fed me todays posts from all the sites I like
to read. Naturally, Ed’s is there and I was caught by his comment
on the latest Daniel Lyons posting. I must say, its a first. At
long last there was a Daniel Lyons article I read more then once (No
I am not linking to it. My reasons are below).
But that was the point now wasn’t it.
To annoy bloggers and readers of blogs. To make them post about
how unfair the article was and how toxic it seems. I know I am playing
into the game here by just posting about it, because that is what this
article wants. Airplay and a Google ranking!. Don’t forget
its "cool to be uncool". And, for the moment, blogs are
cool. The author is attempting to become the "anti-blogger"
and get a big on-line name for it too.
Lets look at this from a writing perspective…….
"Attack of the Blogs!" I can hear the Darth Vader music
in my head. Still not sold? Ok, how about the first sentence
"Web logs are the prized platform
of an on-line lynch mob spouting liberty but spewing lies, libel and invective"
Ok, maybe that was to catch our eyes…. Now the content. Obviously,
the segment I read with most interest was about Radicati.
Well, what can I say. I disagreed
with the Radicati Group article that is in question last year, because
it was not factual (nor have some of their other posts recently – oh yeah…
blogs are going to die soon, I forgot). The reason everyone gathered
steam at the group was because they
assumed pseudonyms and attacked Ed and the facts on his site.
Not the sign of a professional company my friends! If you are
looking for facts about this… go
here.
This report was written to get us all
talking… If a blogger wrote a report like this, he would be trashed
by other bloggers. For my part, I don’t agree with this article for
one main reason. It was not written to put across a professional
opinion. It was written to incense a few communities. And the
sad thing is, it will most likely work.
Go to the people view in the ND7 directory,
and what do you see as an action button? Open mail file. Lovely!
For the next few days. Meeting with “two-fish” tonight for a few drinks (hoplessly covered as a User Group meeting). Hope to see some of you there. If you are looking for us, you can get me on +353862838545.
When I was on holidays, Webstats4u
decided to add in a lovely
little piece of code to their hit counter product. This code forces
little popups to appear with advertisements when people browse to my site.
This occurs in the background with a fresh browser window opening
with the selected advertisement of the week. By the time I had gotten
back from leave, both
Richard and
Rocky had already highlighted
this and removed the counters from their site. Since then I have
had a few emails and some comments posted asking me to remove mine, as
pop ups are a big pain in the arse. But I haven’t. Why?
I decided to try contact the company
and query this new "feature". I sent detailed emails listing
reasons why I thought this sucked, and that I didn’t want to get rid of
my little counter. Yes, its free. I know its free so therefore
"they have the right to do what they want with it to try to earn a
few quid" argument may have a point. My point was that my site
contains no advertising, so why should it now by no doing of mine? I
really wanted a response from the company, something I could ask permission
to post, something official trying to explain their methods without sounding
hollow and lame. So I sent my questions and waited for a response.
Nothing, zip, nada, zero.
So, this evening, the link will go and
so will my account with them. Like Rocky, I believe that Richard
has put it best, so I will echo his comments here aswell.
""They did keep to their word.
They didn’t place ads "directly into" my site. They used their
code, called from within my site, to generate popups outside of my site’s
window. Therefore it would be wrong for me to say "WebStats4U are
a bunch of slimeballs". It would be wrong for me to say "WebStats4U
are popup spammers". It would be wrong for me to say "WebStats4U
suck". So, please, Google… don’t pay any attention to those statements.
People who search on "WebStats4U" might get the impression that
I actually think they are slimeball popup spammers who suck, and I must
keep to my word just precisely as they did by emphasizing that I do not
want anyone to come to the wrong conclusion about WebStats4U. ""
Going to miss that counter. Anyone
have a better one to recommend?
Overall, there were approximately 40
people in the room, which was pretty good considering a lot of the usual
suspects have seen the product many times in the past (in all Blue Wave’s
other presentations or the ILUG day). There was quite a lot of interest
in products and features, but the top few on the "interest scale"
were (in no particular order):
Only three members in the crowd were
still using R5 and over half the attendees were using integrated IM clients.
Not bad at all. The presentations will be made available from
info@bluewave.ie if you want to see them but couldn’t make it.
I saw the sametime 7.1 front end today
(screenshots only guys). WOW!. Huge improvement and looks great!
Stay tuned until I can get someone to let me publish them.
Click
here for this little gem. Its
late, I’m tired and this is exactly what I needed to wake up.
