Sorry loyal readers. I went from posting anywhere up to 3 threads a day to like one a fortnight. Apologies.

I have been bogged down with work; change of roles at work (yay!) and uni (sarcastic yay!).

Ok, the comment function of Pajago.com is now back online. Thanks very much to Code Meister Paul Holmes.

I have noticed that the comment thing on this site isn’t working properly. I have been getting plenty of spam but no legitimate comments. I am sure people are trying to leave them, since I get almost 100 visitors per day, but no cigar. If you have something you would like to say, please feel free to email suggestions@pajago.com. Thanks!

Yaro yesterday posted a blog on his achievements for the year over at Entrepreneur’s Journey.

Some of the highlights:

- Attending the Strategic Profits event in Florida.

- Attending the World Internet Summit in Melbourne.

- Buying his first house and a new car.

- Selling BetterEdit.com for a low-six figure sum.

- Continuing to enlighten, inspire and teach me more about online business and the opportunities it provides.

If you would like to read the blog post, and I highly recommend you do, click here.

This post is the first of three posts Yaro intends to publish on this topic. So add his blog to your RSS reader so you don’t miss out on the others.

Over and out…

P

To all my loyal readers and newbies alike, I wish to wish you happy holidays, Christmas, Hanukkah, Posadas, what ever it is you celebrate.

In reply to Valleywag’s 25 Predictions for 2008, I shall do my own version. Well, lets make it 6 Predictions for 2008.

Telstra:-

I don’t think Sol Trujillo will be at Telstra by the end of 2008. Who replaces him: I don’t have the foggiest. I think Telstra will chip away at extending the reach of its HSDPA network and the other carriers will try their best to match all but its remotest coverage. Telstra won’t win the iPhone contract. I feel Vodafone will: the two align much better than Mac-unfriendly Telstra.

Apple:-

Hopefully Apple will release the iPhone to Asia by the end of 2008. It will be a 3G model and the battery issues will be worked out. The 13″ Macbook Pro will be announced at Macworld Jan. 08 (please let this be true).

Google:-

Google’s share-price will hit $800 (I agree with Valleywag on this). They will go on an acquisition-rampage.

The Internet:-

The whole Web 2.0 movement will charge ahead and brilliant ideas will continue to rise, survive and/or die out of Silicon Valley. Social networking will continue to be dominated by Facebook, MySpace and Linkdin (in order). There will be loads of consolidation and acquisitions in this space.

Telecommunications:-

All I have to say is one thing: ULL.

Pajago.com:-

We shall continue to tap-away at the keys - hopefully - producing content that you, the readers, enjoy to read. Again, feedback and suggestions is important for us to continue to produce quality. Contact us here: suggestions@pajago.com

Done.

P

Yes, you read correctly. It’s arrived. It’s so beautiful. I will take some photos tomorrow and will post them here for those that are interested.

It’s the silly season so it’s time to have a little fun. Oh, and it’s the season of sharing and love. Thus, I shall share with you all, something… I shall share my RSS subscription list. Isn’t that a kind gift?

Well, I don’t know about you but I love reading things like this. Peoples favourite books, music, RSS subscriptions (of course), restaurants, sock colour (?), etc.

Just to get started. I use Google Reader for all my RSS viewing. To be quite honest, I have never used any other similar tools so wouldn’t know if there are better viewers out there but use Reader simply because it’s a Google product (I love Google of course) and it ties in with all my iGoogle widgets. Now for the fun stuff:

At Ease - This is a Radiohead fan site. Probably the best of its kind on the web - in my opinion. Importantly, with a World Tour on the cards I have to keep up to date with the latest Radiohead news.

Ben Metcalfe - I forget how I found out about Ben Metcalfe. I don’t know much about him or his work either. I think he’s done some work with MySpace so thought he’d be an interesting chap to follow. He hasn’t added much new content of late - probably working hard at MySpace as presumed - so I will be patient with this one.

Branding Strategy Insider - Well, as a marketing major it sort of goes without saying why I am subscribed to this feed. Always interesting stuff on branding to be found here.

Carbon Planet - I love - or should that be <3 - Carbon Planet. Their purpose in society; their website; they blog; their people; they building - all mighty fine! David Sag, Carbon Planet’s CEO is always very interestingly read and covers the pressing issues. Very Australian focused but very relevant, globally.

College Startup - Always full of helpful stories for a budding blogger like myself. It has a nice for-students feel about it too, surprisingly.

EJ - Entrepreneurs-Journey by Yaro Starak is without doubt, one of the best Internet Business blogs/sites on the entire WWW. I must admit, his site has gotten a little commercial of late with stacks of ‘product reviews’ overtaking informative articles but they are starting to get interesting too as my knowledge and interest in the topic expand.

Gearfire - I have no idea what this blog is about from face value. I will keep you posted I guess. It must be on my list for a reason.

Official Google Blog - Australia - I don’t think I have to say much about this one. I think it would be foolish not to keep up with Google’s Australian focused news.

ifoApple Store - This is a news and information blog about Apple’s retail stores. Very much a narrow, underservied niche and I am sure one that could use just the one site - this one. It’s nice to be able to follow the development of cool Apple concept stores across the globe.

Internet Outsider - Another site I don’t know much about. I will have to keep an eye on it and see how it fares.

Naomi Simson - I have been following Naomi for a few years via BRW magazine in which she has featured a few times. Naomi runs Red Balloon Day, a highly successful gift/adventure/experience booking business. She’s very much a motivater and leader. I love this blog - she’s one experienced woman.

Official Google Blog - This is the worldwide Google blog and it’s more active than it’s Australian offspring. I read it for the aforementioned reasons.

Pajago - Well, as if I wouldn’t have my own blog on my RSS list. I do this primary to see how my posts look in Reader. Just to ensure they don’t go funky and all.

ProBlogger & ProBlogger Jobs - Only added these this morning. Can’t really say a lot yet.

Radiohead News - This is an auxiliary to At Ease - just incase one or the other crashes…

Ok, I am going to call this post 1 of 2. This post has turned out longer than I expected.

Stay tuned for part 2 which will be posted tomorrow during the week.

PJG

Ok, the time has come for me to ask a favour. If you, my loyal readers have any suggestions at all as to what you would like to see, read or experience on this site, please let me know. Please flick an email to:

suggestions@pajago.com

I’m happy to reply to any queries as well. Come on guys, let me know.

Thanks for your loyalty, PJG.

As any student would know, Wikipedia is a no-no when it comes to referencing. The fact that the information on Wikipedia is compiled by the general public ensures there will be inconsistencies in its validity. It’s not to say that all that you find on Wikipedia is incorrect, after all, a lot of it is directly quoted from credible references but there certainly are some gaps.

The thing I like most about Wikipedia is the ability to research information in a clear, intuitive manner. But what if you want to use the information in a university assignment? Well there are a few things you can do. I shall go through these in-depth:

(For the purpose of this article, I shall use ‘market segment’ -see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_segment- as an example)

References

You will notice at the bottom of the Wikipedia entry, the ‘reference’ section. This contains references that were used in the composition of this entry on market segments. One of the references, for example, is:

Day, G. (1980) “Strategic Market Analysis: Top-down and bottom-up approaches”, working paper #80-105, Marketing Science Institute, Cambridge, Mass. 1980.

My suggestion if you would like to use a reference like this is to first Google it to see if it is available from a free source. In failing this, as a student you may have access to valuable databases of journal articles through your university website.

Also note, some of these references have a link to a PDF file of the listed journal article. This is really handy. Truth is, markers love you to reference academic journal articles!

External Links

One of my favourite parts of the Wikipedia page is the ‘external link’ section down the bottom. Here, you will find a group of links to various related websites. Websites which can of course be referenced. Well, provided they are creditable. An example of one of these links is:

Using market segmentation with digital marketing strategies [HYPERLINK]

Again, these links are generally to sites that have been used to build the Wikipedia entry.

Buzz Words

An overlooked part of the Wikipedia post is its buzzwords. By reading the entry, you are absorbing these words and discovering the definitions but they are handy for finding suitable references as well.

Lets say you have been reading this article on ‘market segments’ and you discover some information on ‘cluster analysis’. Well, by dropping this term into Google will open up a whole world of other sites that talk about ‘cluster analysis’ - sites that you could reference in your work.

Conclusion

I am sure what I have talked about is old news. But I am also sure many people out there are stuck when it comes to getting the most out of the usability of Wikipedia for research.