Matthew Stibbe has a great post about how he has created his successful Bad Language blog.

I’m pleased to say that I’m going to be attending the word of mouth marketing and PR conference up in London this Friday.

Richard Millington has an interesting post about positioning your blog in the crowded PR blogging scene.

Some interesting findings about how online video viewing is affecting traditional broadcast television audiences in the UK are revealed by a BBC/ICM survey.

In 2005 I published a basic end-user manual for the Textpattern content management system. It’s been downloaded more than 2,000 times since.

My thoughts on how you can differentiate yourself through customer experience, and how this links with marketing and public relations.

I run my website and blog using Wordpress – it’s a great content management system as it’s easy to use, extremely versatile and has an unbeatable price.

The Euroblog2007 survey has been underway for some weeks now, but I’ve only just been reminded to participate by Philip Young’s post today about the survey period being extended.

This week’s Marketing Week magazine (UK) carries a double page spread about blogging in marketing. There’s some interesting discussion about trust in blogs and their use as a marketing tool.

The Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) has just published its consultation document on social media.

Yet more evidence that blogs are becoming a trusted information source in consumer purchasing decisions, courtesy of an Ipsos MORI survey.

Spotted a nice post on Twopointouch about measuring authority – using Technorati’s link data to categorise blogs into four categories (A to D) based on authority.

CIPR president Tony Bradley has blogged about the strengthening up the institute’s ability to deal with members who flout the rules, as well as mentioning the CIPR’s social media consultation document.

Tom Murphy has a great post about knowing when technologies have moved from being the domain of early adopters into mass usage.

This is one of the most misleadingly named services I’ve seen in quite a while: Readspeaker Podcaster.

Found a great new online collaboration service today called Thinkature.

Just arrived back from Delivering the New PR in London today – an excellent conference on using social media tools in public relations.

Proof of the force of social media in driving business on the web comes from Hitwise. The research shows the continuing rapid growth of social media sites, and shows the effect of this in creating additional traffic on e-commerce sites.

Stephen Davies has kicked off a discussion about what it takes to become a great PR consultant. He’s published five tips for starters, and Heather Yaxley has added her thoughts too.

After a good week or so completely offline I’m now back to find more than 800 emails in my inbox, and that’s after the junk filter has done its best. I also have more than 1,500 unread entries in my RSS reader.