Tag Your Events!
I’m now reading David Weinberger’s Everything is Miscellaneous, and I just came across a passage that made me LOL.
Indeed, it’s becoming common at technical conferences for the organizers to recommend the attendees tag their conference-related blog posts, photos, and online articles with a tag specific to that conference — “etech2006″ or “poptech07″ — so they can all easily be found by using tag search sites such as Technorati.com.
This is exactly what I’ve been telling Philippine event organizers to do in this fiesta-happy nation of bloggers. Every time I do, they look at me like I’m insane. One even accused me of sabotaging their site’s security, apparently confusing spam-vulnerable tagboards with tags. Another accused me of facilitating massive copyright infringement through tag streams, as if they were selling content instead of events.
Well, now it’s in a book available on dead trees in Philippine brick-and-mortar bookstores. Filipino event runners, most of whom have been taught since youth to know nothing but what’s written verbatim in dead-tree textbooks, should be able to appreciate that. I am officially not insane here.
Tags: Blogging, Books, David-Weinberger, events, Everything-is-Miscellaneous, Marketing, Philippines, Tagging
August 21, 2007 | Filed Under Blogging, Books, Marketing, Philippines, Tagging | 2 CommentsHarry Potter Rap!
To celebrate the last Harry Potter book leaking early online, watch H. Piddy pimp his magic stick in Harry Potter in the Hood.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I’ma go cap me some muggles. Avada Kevadra right back at ya, bitch.
Tags: Books, Comedy, funny, Harry-Potter, Movies, Music, parody, rap
July 29, 2007 | Filed Under Books, Comedy, Movies, Music | Post a CommentGlobal Neighborhoods
I got Robert Scoble and Shel Israel’s Naked Conversations for Christmas — which I’ll read after finishing another Christmas gift, John Batelle’s The Search, which I read between workouts and Guild Wars snowball fights, which will be followed by another Christmas gift, Zig Ziglar’s Secrets of Closing the Sale. Yup, fun-filled Holidays. I have yet to enjoy the red wine Inquirer gave me, because I’ll share it with a lovely young lady to welcome 2007.
Next Christmas, I hope to get the follow-up Shel’s working on: Global Neighborhoods. Read more
Tags: Blogging, Books, Gaming, globalneighborhoods, Media, Shel-Israel, Social Networks
December 28, 2006 | Filed Under Blogging, Books, Gaming, Media, Social Networks | 1 Comment-
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Mike Abundo serves as Vice-President for Online Services of the Philippine Internet Commerce Society. He also writes for Inside Online Video and Tech Side Up. Email him at mike@mikeabundo.com.
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