I almost never comply when someone asks me to recommend their product/service. But this one is cool. Boris Simkovich, CEO of ZuulaCorp, emailed out of the blue to tell me about Zuula, his new search engine with a dedicated "blog" tab. Zuula also searches the Web, images, news and jobs.

It returns results from nine different blog search engines, including Technorati, IceRocket, Feedster, Blogpulse, Sphere, Bloglines, Blogdigger and Topix.

Lifehacker recommends it.

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Like so many others, I've long struggled with an overflowing email inbox. And a love/hate relationship with email. I wrote a column for ClickZ on Email Addiction over six years ago. It got more response from readers (from all over the world) than anything else I wrote for them.

I missed VC and well-known blogger Fred Wilson's declaration of Email Bankruptcy on April 23, 2007. (VC Jeff Nolan filed for email bankruptcy the next day.) Mike Musgrove writes about Fred on…

I talked about this today in my teleconference on How to Write an Effective Corporate Blog.

The challenge, as I see it, is to identify someone in your organization who is capable of doing a number of different things which draw on different skills. A blog editor needs to:

1. Manage the technical or backend of the blog

This isn't hard to do once a blog is set up in TypePad, for…

I'm running a 60-minute teleconference on Thursday: The Nitty Gritty of How to Write an Effective Corporate Blog.

Hope you'll consider tuning in. I'll be addressing the following:

- How to choose your blog writer(s)
- What the role of a blog editor is
- Ghostblogging: drawing the line between editing and ghostwriting
- How to train your writers in the basic elements of blog writing style
- Advanced tips for effective blog writing (linking…

I've been talking about this very phenomenon for a while now. Today there's an article by media columnist Howard Kurtz in The Washington Post titled: Don't Quote Me.

The point he makes is that executives often prefer to do an interview with a reporter by email these days. That's because the exec can post the *full* version of the exchange on her blog if the reporter edits or truncates the interview in a way she doesn't like.

GM lashed back at The New York Times' "ban on rubbish"

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