What Makes a Blog a Blog?

Posted by Don Fitzsimmons on December 10, 2008 at 10:04 pm.

I have been trying to figure what technically makes a blog a blog and I hoped the BrainFuel faithful would help me out. So far I have these attributes as the minimum requirements to be considered a blog:

  • A list of posts sorted from newest to oldest
  • Permalinks for stories
  • Syndication (RSS/Atom)
  • Comments

So here’s the question: does a blog have to have all of these attributes to be classified as a blog? What am I missing?

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Question: Toll Free Phone Numbers and Paid Ads

Posted by Chris Tingom on October 23, 2008 at 9:14 am.

So yesterday Tom and I had a discussion and asked each other these two questions. The surprising thing is we had the exact opposite answer. What about you?

Question: When you are calling a local company that has both a local phone number and a toll-free number, which one do you typically call?

Question: When you search on the web, and you see a sponsored link for a company and a natural search optimized link in the results, which one do you click on?

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Finish the sentence…

Posted by Chris Tingom on March 18, 2008 at 3:06 pm.

“Wishing there was…”

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Does Experience Matter?

Posted by Chris Tingom on March 3, 2008 at 7:01 pm.

While waiting for my haircut, I read an article in Time magazine which asks the question “how much experience is necessary?”

They’re talking about Obama, naturally. He has the least experience but apparently the most public support (I know that’s hugely debatable but he’s winning in the media at least).

The print edition of the article has a nifty graphic which shows all of the U.S. Presidents with a breakdown of the “experience” they had. Then the article breaks off and asks the question which I am asking you to answer.

Would you prefer a doctor who has practiced medicine for 30 years or just 10? (Assume the experience is post-education)

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One Thing You Did This Year?

Posted by Chris Tingom on December 26, 2007 at 8:31 am.

A year is always full of decisions and changes. What is one change you made in your business, or life, that dramatically improved results?

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Should Your Business Have Set Office Hours?

Posted by Chris Tingom on November 19, 2007 at 3:17 am.

It’s obvious that some companies should have set office hours. Any time you have frequent foot traffic at a business, it just makes sense. But what about at service companies, or small businesses where only a handful of employees work?

At our company, we don’t have a set rule, but just a suggestion that you be at the office between 10 am and 3 pm. That’s a comfortable range of hours that generally assures everyone is working during the same hours every day.

But how do you feel about this? What do you do where you work?

Do set office hours force people to be more productive? Often I change my mind about this and would like to open it for discussion.

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Kicked Out

Posted by Chris Tingom on November 12, 2007 at 9:45 am.

Have you ever been kicked out of a business establishment, or a golf course, or anything? One time I was playing golf with a foursome and the other people were so slow that the golf course asked us to leave. How about you? Ever been asked to leave/kicked out?

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Who is your favorite actor or actress?

Posted by Chris Tingom on August 29, 2007 at 3:23 pm.

Who is your favorite actor or actress? If you can’t name just one, feel free to leave a few names.

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