Today’s Minneapolis Star Tribune has a piece titled, Businesses use blogs to help get their name out there (Print edition uses the headline “Blogs help businesses get their names out: Web journals find commercial uses.”)

Again, quotes from me and Andrew Eklund, CEO of Ciceron in Minneapolis, a web-marketing firm. Also, a mention of Norman Butler [...]

This morning I sent a note to Dan Bricklin

co-creator of VisiCalc, the first PC spreadsheet, telling him about the Pioneer Press story on business blogging.

On my weblogs page, I frequently point potential weblog clients to his article, Small Business Blogging that he wrote last summer.

He’s blogged my email.

Today’s St. Paul Pioneer Press has an article titled, Blogging for Business by Julio Ojeda-Zapata. The technology section version of the article is titled Biz blogging break out.

It includes quotes from me and Andrew Eklund

CEO of Ciceron in Minneapolis, a web-marketing firm. (Eklund’s got a blog entry today titled Abuzz About Blogging.)

And it profiles [...]

This in-depth piece on Salon has a section about how Google may have tweaked its search algorithm. (The article may be part of Salon Premium and thus require a paid subscription.)

The Google backlash: The king of search rules the Web — but now some of the natives are growing restless.

“In recent months, many pundits [...]

Kuhlman Auction Services is now up, with the beginnings of a revamped web site and a weblog, of course.

In today’s NY Times: The Corporate Blog Is Catching On

You should notice a new interface when you edit or compose a post for your Blogger weblog. They’re calling it Dano. It’s on a more stable and faster server, too.

The changes all seem for the better and not too confusing. Let me know if you have questions.

If you’re a weblog/website client and would like to analyze your site’s traffic for the month or any other time period, let me know. I can also show you how to view the stats yourself.

I’ve been using a spam filter called POPFile for the past two months and am very pleased with it, as are my wife and a couple of friends who tried it.

It’s not only effective… it’s open source, ie, free. You can install it yourself — it’s a little tricky, but not bad — or let [...]

With a $3/month account at Audblog, you can pick up any phone, record a 2-minute message, and have it automatically posted to your weblog.

Like this:

audblog audio post

Did you know you can post to your weblog using email? Blogger Pro has this feature.

You can choose between having your email posted to your blog immediately, or just having it stored as a draft.

This blog posting was sent via email.

In today’s NY Times: A Blogger’s Big-Fish Fantasy

Beyond paid sponsorships and self-generated promotion, networking in the blog world is a matter of courting other readers and bloggers via links. “Linking prolifically gets links,” said David L. Sifry, co-founder of Technorati (www.technorati.com), a site that ranks blogs and tracks blog updates. “It sounds counterintuitive, but by [...]

I’m in the middle of revamping Kent Nerburn’s site and have added a Movable Type weblog to the home page.

The weblog for the Citizens League of Minnesota is now up, with its new president, Sean Kershaw, posting good stuff already. More changes coming for the revamped site, including some document delivery and online ordering from GovDocs.

Scott Neal, City Manager for the City of Eden Prairie, MN, has gotten the hang of photoblogging in his Blog from City Hall using the little camera built into his Sony Clie handheld.

Next up: posting photos to your blog via your camera-equipped cellphone, like Blogger’s Business Dev guy, Jason Shellen at his wireless blog.