"Samsung SPH-I500 $599.99" [Via gizmodo.net "Palm OS 5, a 65,000 color screen, 32MB of RAM, a built-in digital camera, and connects to GSM for voice and GPRS for data. " I've been reading about Opera not getting enough RAM off the Nokia 3650. And the list of apps available for the P800 doesn't get my dick hard. So maybe it was lucky that I held off on buying a P800. Anyway, I'm too busy to get involved in this sector at the moment.

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"Sign up for the course, and you will also receive GoldBlogger News, my exclusive newsletter. Most of the information just can't be found anywhere else. It pertains specifically to blogging. I pick through tons of hidden posts, stories and news feeds looking for the hidden gems that will will put money in your pocket."

Blogging has certainly hit the mainstream, then. I see Blogs to Riches dot com: "Want to learn how to make money with your weblog?" And chat-for-a-living.com: "You can make money blogging! If you can chat then you can blog!" That's an ebook to buy.

And from business-blog.com a link to the ClickZ promo stuff for their upcoming business blogging conference. They quote:

"B-blogs can offer organizations a platform where information, data, and opinion can be shared and traded among employees, customers, partners, and prospects in a way previously impossible: a two-way, open exchange. Companies can (and should) encourage self-publishing from all corners of the organization. Employees who want to post information should no longer have to go through the corporate site's marketing gatekeepers to post. Suddenly, the best thinkers in a company will have a digital voice they can manage and control themselves."

It's not a good article, she's not an authority on blogging, and hasn't researched well. For instance she says weblogs.com list 1,300 blogs, when it lists that an hour. And the links she supplied include Seth Godwin's book promotion blog - yeuch. Also, the Drudge Report is a blog?

The quote given above is just dreamy clue train stuff: "people of earth... A powerful global conversation has begun. Through the Internet, people are discovering and inventing new ways to share relevant knowledge with blinding speed. As a direct result, markets are getting smarterÑand getting smarter faster than most companies."

The clue train was written fully four years ago. I thought then, that it would take companies forever the 'get it.' Four years isn't long enough for the tea lady to be blogging about what she hears by the water fountain. Truth will out? Not yet, says the fat CEO. Blogs cut to the chase PDQ.

Further from the ClickZ article:

"Articles within newsletters can be linked to a blog, extending life and creating a massive conversation." Sort of true. If they're interesting, and are corporate letter interesting? Not the ones I've seen. Just the usual cleaned up bollocks.

"You can offer a bidirectional forum to customers to get true, personal opinions on your products and services." You mean customers can answer back? That's pretty worring.

"Company experts can start a blog and become industry experts, helping your company edge out competition and, through this interactive forum, draw customers into another exchange of information and thoughts." Their price will go up, or they'll be pinched by another company. Do we have any experts? Do we have any thoughts?

Some companies will be able to walk the walk. Most would shit bricks at the thought.

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