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.
So things I learnt while moving my blog,
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
I attended the BT Mashup in London last Thursday (21st September). The subject of the talk was,
…Digital Lifestyle Aggregators (DLAs) and how the emergence of this service layer will be the key battleground during the next few years
The panel was impressive with Marc Canter (who coined the phrase Digital Lifestyle Aggregator), Tariq Krim (of Netvibes fame) and Sam Sethi of the recently launched TechCrunch UK. These guys were joined by some boosters from Etribes (Simon Grice) and BT (Steve Stokols), who sponsored the whole gig. Tony Fish vigourously moderated the complete proceedings.
Marc gave a quick intro to Digital Lifestyle Aggregators which he described as Portals 2.0. He then gave a lightening fast history of the space which I can summarise as,
Stephen Stokols then hit the stage with an advertorial for BT Contact. This is an unlaunched BT service that will give people an online contact manager with RSS feeds, skype, instant messaging and presumably other services in the future. Steve recokons they can make more from the users they gain on BT contact that what they lose on lost voice revenue. I asked a question about how they would make this transition and while Steve gave a fudgy answer, Marc piped in with “They are loosing these customers anyway, whether they do something about it or not” which covered that base.
Steve proposed the following key trends:
Nothing ground breaking here, but unusual to hear it coming out of a telco representative’s mouth. According to Steve BT has 18 million fixed line customers (nice money if you can get it).
Another interesting factoid I picked up is that Al Noor Ramji is now the CEO of BT. Ramji cut a swathe through Swiss Bank Corporation in the 90’s completely revamping their IT department and setting a trend for all the other banks in the City of London by focusing on technology as a key differentiator. This may be the reason BT is taking such a radical approach in cannibalising its existing customer base.
Simon Grice then talked about Etribes which he described as ‘MySpace for Generation X’ i.e. 35 to 55 year olds. All the usual stuff is provided, blogs, home pages, forums etc. Apparently its a personal publishing platform…. hmmmm!
Netvibes founder Tariq Krim then talked about they got started basically scratching an itch around managing lots of RSS feeds. Word of mouth has netted the company over 5 million users. Good man Tariq!
This was followed by a panel discussion where the debate went to and fro between the panel and the audience. Some commentary I caught (but without attribution, sorry, I was scribbling furiously),
A great session which covered a lot of ground in a short period of time. Would have been even better if the whole day had been set aside. Well worth a trip to London.
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