Occasional One Degree Guest Contributor “Mitch Joel of Twist Image”:http://www.twistimage.com/blog was one of the “participants” in our “One Degree Calling”:http://www.onedegree.ca/2005/09/27/one-degree-calling challenge.
Our post listed ten Canadian Internet companies with links to their home pages. My goal was to see who was paying attention to the blogosphere and how quickly they would respond if someone “pinged them” with mention and/or link in a blog post.
Mitch did well, replying in less than a day (I think that’s great). But “he took a bit of exception”:http://www.twistimage.com/blog/archives/000334.html to my methodology:
Category: Feeds
One of the nice things about all this “Web 2.0” stuff is that we get some new problems to solve.
Let me outline a problem that’s been bugging me for a while now that was brought top-of-mind by “the launch of Google Blog Search”:http://www.onedegree.ca/2005/09/14/google-blog-search-now-live a few weeks ago. I’ve also got a possible solution I want to put out there for feedback.
Here’s *the situation*:
When I took iStudio to task for not having a feed, iStudio fixed the problem and let me know via a comment at One Degree within an hour of the post going live.
This morning I started wondering if any of the other web shops and interactive agencies in Canada are paying attention to the blogosphere. The scientist in me figured an experiment was in order.
So, here is a list of ten randomly selected Canadian interactive shops. Let’s see how long it takes them to spot their company name and URL and add a comment to let us all know they found this contest they didn’t even know they were participating in.
I’ll update the post with “time to reply” updates as they find us.
* Blast Radius
* Critical Mass
* Devlin
* Dunedain
* Henderson bas
* Indusblue
* N5R
* silverorange
* Teehan+Lax
* Twist Image
Note to our competitors: To make sure comments are legit, e-mail me from your work e-mail so I know the comment is really from the company and not from a “passionate customer” helping you out!
Note to those reading our feed: To make sure those monitoring feeds instead of blogs have a fair chance I’m posting the whole post rather than an excerpt this time.