Blogging Advice

Jakob Nielsen’s Love for Office 12 Comes At A Price

I was looking at Blogdex when I came across Jakob Nielsen’s latest Alertbox article: R.I.P. WYSIWYG – Results-Oriented UI Coming. In the article, Jakob Nielsen asserts that WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) interfaces are now dead, and that the future of user interfacing lies inside the next version of Microsoft Office, where pointing and clicking to modify pre-built templates is the real way to go. Excuse me Jakob, but you’re so full of shit it’s coming out your ears.

Instablogs and the Importance Of Branding

The other day I discussed some random tidbits from the community and touched upon my reaction to the Instablogs logo. Today I wanted to go a bit further and talk about this whole weblog network phenomenon and how extremely important it is to separate yourself from the herd via good branding.

Weblog Search, Who Will Do It The Right Way?

It seems like everyone and their brother has a weblog search engine nowadays, but I don’t see true innovation springing forth like I thought I would. Look at the giant innovative step that del.icio.us took in the realm of bookmarking — it used to be something you’d do on your own, on your own computer, but del.icio.us dropped killer features like RSS and tagging into the mix and they innovated their way around a stagnant technology. Now I can’t walk ten feet without stumbling into someone who uses del.icio.us every single day. That’s the type of innovation I’m looking for, and the current breed of weblog search engines just doesn’t cut it for me.

A Case Against Small Business Blogging

The genius team over at Particle Tree have written a great article titled An Argument For Small Business Blogging. Again, it’s a great article, but what bothered me about it is the same thing that bothers me with other articles like this. It’s written with the mindset that every company should blog.

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