Category Archives: blog news

Jason Calacanis: “Blogging Is Dead” & Why “Stupid People Shouldn’t Write”

“Blogging is largely dead.”

“There are a lot of stupid people out there … and stupid people shouldn’t write.”

“There needs to be a better system for tuning down the stupid people and tuning up the smart people.”

Serial entrepreneur and publisher Jason Calacanis has never been opposed to saying what is on his mind. In fact, it is the characteristic that has helped him rise to the top of the Internet publishing world. He sat down with our managing editor Abraham Hyatt onstage at the ReadWriteWeb 2WAY Summit on Monday and dished on his thoughts about the state of publishing, what Google’s Panda initiative is doing to websites and what Web 3.0 will be about.

via Jason Calacanis: “Blogging Is Dead” & Why “Stupid People Shouldn’t Write”.

The 1 year after disruptionblog survey – the results

We’ve asked you your feedback about the Disruptionblog as a plateform and in term of content to know how to improve the place (and a someone lucky got a fantastic Tshirt πŸ™‚

Only 5% of the people registered on the Disruptionblog actually took the time to answer those questions, but with a lot of very detailed and inspiring suggestions. It’s now time to share them with you πŸ™‚

Sans titre 1All the people that answered seems to be part of the regular readers, using both the website or the RSS feed.

Sans titre 2Even if 75% of the respondant currently are happy with the frequency, only 50% actually read the content.

Sans titre 3It seems that the content is considered as interesting (at least most of the time πŸ™‚ but case studies definitely needs to be shared more often as people claim for them

Sans titre 4Contribution is an issue for the Disruptionblog. And no suprise here : time is a big problem for everybody here πŸ™‚ Note : since the respondant represent very frequent reader of the blog, no surprise they are overweighted in the survey.

Sans titre 5And that’s the same for commenting :S

Sans titre 6Since the design seems to be quite OK, recommendations are always welcome. Weekly newsletter will then come back, and the tag cloud will be less flashy πŸ™‚ As for the cramped homepage, we’ll investigate solutions, but any more specific recommandations are more than welcome.

Sans titre 7Those comments are very interesting. Should you like to add comments and them, feel free to share.

__________________________________________________

3 seconds conclusion

  • Work on design – email newsletter will come back, we’ll try to simplify the layout, bring up the category, and open a “ask me” section.
  • In term of content – case studies are requested by everybody. Please share !
  • In term of communication – we need to communicate about the platform. Should you have suggestion, feel free to comment πŸ™‚ But in the meantime, spread the word and check on your local offices that everybody currently knows the blog and have access to it πŸ™‚

Any other thought that come to mind ?

Firefox T-Shirt / we’ve got a winner

The almighty gods of Random.org (http://www.random.org/) stated that Sumin from the Singapore office is our happy winner. Sumin, thanks a lot for your feedback for the yearly disruptionblog survey. Please be patient until we send you the (very bueatiful and collector and ultra-geeky) T Shirt to the Singapore Office πŸ™‚

To all the participants. Thanks a lot for your detailed answers, we’ll come back on that later.

Perfect for parading in the office and raise your geek level up ^_^

http://disruptionblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/Sans-titre-21.png

It’s time to update your profile

New feature on the disruptionblog – from now on, each post will display a block of information about its author. For that, that author of the post has to get its gravatar (the avatar image used to identify a blog user) set up and some information entered in its profile.

It’s your chance to showcase yourself and write a few word about your work.

To set up a gravatar : http://disruptionblog.com/?p=1523

To enter information about yourself (if you haven’t already done it during the registration process) and edit your profile :Β  http://disruptionblog.com/wp-admin/profile.php

Should you have any question, feel free to shout πŸ™‚

Sans titre 1

Double check your avatar

To be sure that your avatar correctly display on the Disruptionblog, you’ll have to first subscribe to Gravatar. This is a system used by wordpress in common with other blog plateform that automatically associate an image with an email address. And from now on, everytime you’ll comment with the email address you indicated to Gravatar.com, the website that are Gravatar-optimised (and there is always more everyday) will display your beautiful avatar.

And it also include this very website (the Disruption blog) as well as the Hypertext blog. Just take a few seconds to make your comments and your posts more personnal πŸ™‚

http://www.gravatar.com/

The video explains it :

And should you have issues with this system, feel free to contact me πŸ™‚

Troll season is back

Strumpette (Amanda Chapel) was pretty quiet since a long time. And she seems keen to tease Text 100 these days.

strumpette

Of course, the Tweet has goneΒ Β  -_-

Just as a reminder of the relationship between Amanda Chapel and Text 100 :

She is probably the first and official Troll against Text 100. PricelessΒ Β  ^_^

Troll management reminders

So, just as a reminder also, a few wise links about Troll management :

And, do not forget : DO NOT FEED THE TROLL !

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3506/3301820858_5b022885e6_m.jpg

Disruptionblog blocked in China – update / not anymore

Jeremy wrote that the blog cannot be accessed from China recently.Β  The great firewall of China striked again :’-(

We are currently trying to find a solution – it seems that the server’s IP address hosting the Disruptionblog website is now blocked in China (as well as the other websites hosted on the server with this IP address).

Comments from anyone having experienced similar issues are more than welcome …

china

[update] not anymore, apparently ^_^