Copacetic

Pat would be proud. I’ve been talking about Social Media and Online Social Networking at the ICAI. I did a gig in Belfast yesterday, Dublin this morning and Cork tomorrow morning.

Feel free to swing by the Clarion Hotel in Cork for a free Coffee tomorrow, I’ll be on around 9.45pm.

Slides are below, but you have to be there to get the full effect

Silicon Republic reports on a Survey from Edelman that tells us that trust in the Technlogy industry is running at 65% but trust in the blogger community is at a lowly 7%.

Given that the  blogger community is dominated by technologists I find those numbers hard to stomach. Perhaps the selection set who gave feedback don’t read blogs?

Paul Walsh asked me to elaborate (on twitter) on why I only read one of his blogs (Segala.com) and what he should do with his BIMA posts?

Well I keep two blogs going, PutPlace and this one. PutPlace I could do more on, but thats pretty much all about PutPlace and designed for users of PutPlace, Partners and has a pretty clear Agenda, the promotion of PutPlace as a business. Copacetic is mine and existed before PutPlace and will live on after it. If I was Paul I would want my huge blogging rep attached to a site associated with Paul Walsh rather than Segala. Someday Segala will be gone and he will have to do a pile of work to get a new brand up and  running.

For now I will continue to get my Walshie juice from Segala As for BIMA never read it, probably never will.

WordPress 2.1.2 2.1.1 has been compromised. If you installed it recently you should immediately upgrade. This is from the official WordPress website.

• All blogging tools want to be content management systems when they grow up
• All content management systems wish they were as simple to use as blogging tools
• All wysiwyg HTML editors are capable of creating HTML they can’t edit
• Its quicker to learn to fly a plane than to learn Dreamweaver
• Its quicker to learn to fly a helicopter than to learn the Gimp
• “Save as..” HTML usually means turn that document into HTML line noise
• Nobody trusts their CSS hand edits (and nobody should)
• You can nest your tables in HTML and you can also stick your face in the fan, neither are advisable
• Apparently their are some Mac users who build their sites to work in Safari first. They also find themselves trying to pull their pants on over their shoes

Darren is asking bloggers to fill in his survey. Go on you might win an iPod shuffle.

So things I learnt while moving my blog,

• Cedant.com cap all PHP requests to 20 Seconds of execute time which means when my shared host was highly loaded my readers were seeing php failures (this was what prompted the move)
• GoDaddy.com use a brain damaged PhpMyAdmin with no import tab so I couldn’t move my blog there as my 16MB backup was well over their 2MB limit for SQL uploads
• Michele Neylon works way too late into the night and as a result was able to fix all my problems when I finally registered joedrumgoole.com with blacknight.ie at 2.00pm am on Sunday morning.

So a big shout out to Michele for all his help. I should also add that ftp uploads to my site now rip along as my host is only milliseconds away. I’m still settling in, so if you see any funnies drop me a line.

I’m  moving my blog to a new hosting provider so expect some outageness over the next few days.

The power of blogs used by consumers

Interviewed 2000 people in 5 European countries (UK, FR, DE, ES, IT)

Over 50% of all users know about blog (but France hits 90%)

19% read blogs (France 27%)

3% contribute to blogs (France 7%)

Do we trust the press (yes, except for UK)

20% trust blogs (35% in France)

31% trust reviews on blogs, but only 11% trust  information written by a CEO (what a downer for Jonathan Schwartz)

40% of Internet users spend money using the Internet

Those that spend more have a higher trust in blogs

Over 30% of users did not buy a service based on bad ratings written by another user

52% willing to buy based on positive comments by another user

Higher spenders are more influenced by comments made by other individuals

Technorati – tracking 60 million blogs

Blogosphere continues to grow at a phenomenal rate – doubles every 150-200 days (6 months)

One new blog every second of every day

1.3 million legitimate posts everyday (created by a human being for human consumption)

Very easy to eliminate splogs

55% of all the blogs we track have been updated once in the last three months

11% of all the blog we track get updated once a week or more

Key blog languages – English 39%, Japanese 33%, Chinese 10%, Spanish 3%

Top three blogs Engadget, Boing Boing, xuijinglei (in a sea of big media)

People who ave authority post a lot