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Are YOU in on the Link Leak Project

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What’s Your Idea

The only way that we can own our part of the Magic Middle is to link together.
Remember the post Link Love Raises Your Property Value? Easton Ellsworth invented a Link Love Event called Blogtipping the very next week–the blogosphere was starting to share links. It was so cool. It was made a monthly thing.

Mike Sigers named this phenomena Link Leak.

What Is Link Leak?

Mike Sigers wrote a post explaining Link Leak. He said it was for Martin Neumann at the Small Office Herald, who then named it the Link Leak Project.

Shortly thereafter, Mr. Sigers’ own blog started springing leak after leak.

How Will You Be Leaking Links?

Successful Blog has been leaking links to SOBs since I’ve been here.
Business Blogwire is Leaking Blogtipping Links.
Simplenomics is Simply Leaking Links. Stop over there and tell Mike what your part will be in the Link Leak project. Then come back and leave a comment here to tell me.

Who knows maybe you’ll make the front page of the Small Office Herald. It surely would make you look like an SOB.

–ME “Liz Strauss
Blogtipping Makes Cowtipping a Thing of the Past
Blogtipping Day–Where’s Yours?
Cow- . . . Er . . . Blogtipping
Link Love Raises Your Property Value

SOB Business Cafe 05-05-2006

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SB Cafe

Welcome to the SOB Cafe

We offer the best in thinking–articles on the business of blogging written by the Successful and Outstanding Bloggers of Successful Blog. Click on the screenshot to enjoy each selection.

The Specials this Week are

Darren Rowse is blogging 24 hours straight to answer reader questions. It’s a problogger blogathon.

When is Google not Google? The Strategic Name Development Blog has the answer and the analysis on whether it’s a good idea.

Ed at Technology Evangelist offers a how-to on sending pictures to relatives.

Financial Reflections gives us four solid reasons to care about personal finance.

Shirley George Frazier at Solo Business Marketing continues the conversation on how newsletters keep us close to customers.

Related ala carte selections include

We all have a long way to go to give as much link love as Bora Zivkovic of Science and Politics does for science blogs in this post — which is only one of four 12 soon to be 13 parts.

Sit back. Enjoy your read. Nachos and drinks will be right over. Stay as long as you like.
No tips required. Comments appreciated.

Have a great weekend!

–ME “Liz” Strauss

Net Neutrality 5-05-2006

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Net Neutrality Links

I’ve added these links to the Net Neutrality Page today.

What’s Really at Stake with Net Neutrality by Josh Silver [via caelidh ]

Broadband will soon deliver nearly all television, radio, phone service – and of course the Web – to most Americans. This transition is our big chance to do an end run around 24-7 lapdog journalism, low-brow entertainment, celebrity gossip, and rampant commercialism that has left the public in a fog of Brangelina, windbag pundits, sound bytes and little knowledge about what’s happening in the world and what our elected officials actually think or stand for.

If we lose this net neutrality battle, we lose the greatest opportunity of our lifetimes to get critical journalism and diverse media into living rooms across the nation, as the largest cable and phone companies turn the Internet into modern cable TV: they control what you see and how much it costs.

Neutrality of the Net

This is an international issue. In some countries it is addressed better than others. (In France, for example, I understand that the layers are separated, and my colleague in Paris attributes getting 24Mb/s net, a phone with free international dialing and digital TV for 30euros/month to the resulting competition.) In the US, there have been threats to the concept, and a wide discussion about what to do. That is why, though I have written and spoken on this many times, I blog about it now.
[Note: This is the blog of Tim Berners-Lee, who created the World Wide Web]

–ME “Liz” Strauss

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NET NEUTRALITY PAGE

Jonathan Schwartz, CEO, Expert Corporate Blogger

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CEO of Sun Microsystems

I’m sure that Jonathan Schwartz has plenty to do. After all, he’s CEO of Sun Microsystems, traveling the world and talking to the media comes with the job — not to mention running that Fortune 500 company. When he took on the role, people wondered whether he would continue his other role as writer of Jonathan’s Blog.

His answer was a lengthy post that said emphatically, “YES.”

That’s because Jonathan Schwartz, CEO of Sun Microsystems gets what blogging is about. In fact, he takes his blog to the state of the art in corporate blogging. If you’re working with new corporate bloggers or are one yourself, this is the blog to watch. [Read more…]

Net Neutrality 5-04-2006

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Net Neutrality Links

I’ve added these links to the Net Neutrality Page today.

Net Neutrality = A Financial Services Industry Free-Ride?

When it comes to the issue of Net neutrality—or what my PFF colleagues more appropriately call “Net neutering“—it seems like a lot of people are forgetting the old lesson that there is no such thing as a free lunch in this world. The latest example of this is summarized in this Reuter’s article discussing the possibility of the financial sector potentially gearing up to jump into the “Capitol Hill fight over the future of the Internet [to] stop an effort it says could add billions in costs just to maintain current offerings.�

‘Net Neutrality’ Battle Widens

“Net neutrality is not about being neutral, it is about companies that benefit from selling video on the internet and their potential advertisers looking to have the cost of the bandwidth they use paid by the consumer,” said Bill McCloskey, BellSouth spokesman.

–ME “Liz” Strauss

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NET NEUTRALITY PAGE

Helping Clients Get Past Blogaphobia

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Enthusiasm Can Kill

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Just today I wrote an email to a potential client I met with two weeks ago. In it I wrote this phrase I know my enthusiasm can be huge. We’d gotten into a conversation about blogs and how they were changing the world.

I wish that I had read the article I found exploring later that afternoon. It’s a piece by Anil Dash at Six Apart News called How to keep blogs from scaring the hell out of people. It’s just packed with truths. [Read more…]