I’ve let this blog lie fallow for a couple of weeks, but it hasn’t been for lack of activity on some of the other blogs I maintain.

I just returned from a delightful two-week honeymoon in France. General observations about this marvelous voyage are on my wedding blog. An overview of the trip is here. Highlights can be found here. You can also find some 260 photos from the adventure here.

My Newspaper Death Watch blog continues to chronicle the decline of major metro daily newspapers. I was particularly interested in this recent debate about the health of the job marketing in newspapers. It appears that the catastrophic declines in advertising sales are beginning to ease, but the overall prognosis for major metros is still pretty bleak. The good news is that small-market and community publishing is picking up some of the slack. As I’ve written on this blog many times, small markets are where it’s at.

Over at the Innovations blog I write at Ziff-Davis, recent entries include:

• An interview with free software advocate Eben Moglen about why software wants to be free. He makes a compelling comparison between software and arithmetic, arguing that if humans had had to license arithmetic every time they wanted to use it, we’d all be much worse off.
• There’s also an interview with David Weinberger, author of the new book Everything is Miscellaneous. David argues persuasively that the solution to information overload is more information and why organization and cataloging schemes as we know them are largely obsolete.
• I also had a three-part series on corporate applications of social media tools. They include an essay on The Hidden Blogosphere, an overview of tools for capturing corporate knowledge and a piece on how blogs and podcasts are revolutionizing corporate communications.

David Strom and I continue to record a weekly podcast for PR people on how to work with technology media and the new class of personal publishers. It’s called Tech PR War Stories, and recent programs have included:

• How to work a trade show, a two-part interview with events veteran Bill Sell;
• A conversation with InformationWeek’s Mitch Wagner about the power of Second Life; and
• A discussion with viral marketing expert BL Ochman about how to make viral campaigns work.

Blogging can be all-consuming. A year ago, I had two blogs; today I have four. The problem is how to come up with all this content and still find time to make a living!

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