Saturday, April 19th, 2008
A friend of mine read this story in CNN and sent it to me."You have to write about this," she said, when she heard about my book idea. So, I'm writing about it. It's maybe the best use of a blog by the mainstream press that I've seen in some ...
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Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
The fine folks at Ball State University, who frankly do some of the best research in new media (I did a fellowship there last year), came out with a study that found newspaper blogs are -- by and large -- a waste. The reason: inconsistent posts and a lack ...
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Friday, March 28th, 2008
The Newspaper Association of America announced that 2007 revenues dropped 9.4 percent, the largest single year drop since the industry tracked advertising metrics. That's not great news. Of course, online revenues continued to climb -- 18.8 percent -- although that growth was off the 31.4 percent growth ...
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Monday, March 17th, 2008
I was told that this application -- Windows Live Writer -- was superior for bloggers on the go. The main benefit: I can write and save the draft, and when I'm back online, everything gets uploaded.
If I'm guessing, this is a Silverlight application (no Air here) as it offers the ...
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Monday, March 10th, 2008
I'll be moderating this panel today at 10 am, which means I won't be live blogging it. However, I'll be taking notes while I roam the audience, so expect an update soon after the panel concludes.
So I'm a little bit later on this than I had hoped, but the panel ...
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Sunday, March 9th, 2008
After the disaster that was the Zuckerberg keynote (note to journalists: do not come unprepared, do not flirt shamelessly with the subject, do not try to help them answer questions and do not open yell at the audience that you job is hard), we've moved on to interactions in the ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Imagine if you had a journalist, connected to lots of really important people in their field...particularly people who blogged, Facebooked, MySpaced...or whatever.
Even better, what if you found the people who did those things even if they weren't the most prominent people. You just found passionate people and collected them in ...
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Tuesday, March 4th, 2008
There are people in the tech world who have reputations, and then there people who have Reputations. Dave Winer is definitely the latter.
He is one of the many folks responsible for the syndication, Read/Write phenomenon going on these days. He helped push RSS, CMS and blogging tools in the Web ...
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Saturday, March 1st, 2008
I'm all about aggregating yourself online. Right now, we just don't do it very well. There's not an open protocol in all services that allows me to pull feeds from all the different online activities that I do.
Instead, I have to run from this application to that application in an ...
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Wednesday, February 27th, 2008
Gawker Media fired one of its editors today because she wasn't bringing in enough page views, a killer for an online media company.
I don't know the particulars of Gawker Media's business model, so I don't know whether it was a smart move. However, I'll be at their party next week ...
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