Mar
21
The New York Times reports that ABC is considering a change in the way it leads into its commercials. This pretty much confirms what I have feared for a while - instead of the annoying, but easily ignored commercials we see now, we will get a more deceptive kind of add, where a large part […]
Mar
21
Head up to Mike Arrington for noticing that Google, with its new PayPerAction program is starting to muddy the waters between editorial and advertising. One can now embed a PPA ad into the editorial text as a hyperlink, which will show “Ads by Google” on mouse-over.
No longer will Google ads need to be confined to […]
Mar
20
WOMMA Slams PayPerPost
March 20, 2007 | 2 Comments
(Found via Jason Calacanis) Nice to see the Word of Mouth Marketing Organization is slamming PayPerPost. I admit that I take some pleasure in the fact that they specifically talk about PPP’s unofficial spokeswoman, Colleen Caldwell, who still pretends that PayPerPost is just an easy way to make a buck (I wrote about her quite a while […]
Mar
20
I am always amazed by how much interest there is for naked starlets.
Today, the Spanish speaking blogosphere is apparently really into this minor scandal of Elsa Pataky, whose nude pictures were stolen from Elle by a Spanish magazine called Interviu.
Oh well, for those who care, here are the pictures…
The not-safe-for-prudes version is behind the fold.
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Mar
19
So to get on the A-list…
March 19, 2007 | 7 Comments
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Jason Calacanis just posted one of his “Oh - the A-list doesn’t exist and if you all just worked a bit harder you wouldn’t be crying” posts.
He argues that almost everybody who is an A-lister today came out of nowhere. Problem is, the list he gives us (Scoble, Calacanis himself, Rojas, Xeni Jardin, Rubel, […]
Mar
19
I guess this has been around for a while, but I just came across it via the always excellent Pharyngula blog.
A Youtube clone for Christians.
What struck me was that it looked just like IslamTube. So I started digging a bit deeper. Looks like they are both using ClipShare (or Clipshare Pro). Now wouldn’t it be […]
Mar
18
Thanks to Geek and Poke for always brightening my days. This might be the funniest comic he has done so far:
Mar
17
Calacanis says that there is no A-list. Tony from Deep Jive Interests says there is.
Go fight it out kids. I will happily sit on the sidelines of my little D-list blog here.
Oh well, maybe I should say something about this: there is an A-list. Of course there is. Some bloggers, by default, are […]
Mar
17
Blue Collar Bloggers?
March 17, 2007 | 1 Comment
Seems the old A-list discussion is flaming up again. Jason Calacanis published a great rant today about it and its relation to the PPP discussion:
The PayPerIdiots are trying to make their DECEPTIVE service into a class war–so, so obvious guys. There is a reason why you guys came up with such a dumb service, and […]
Mar
16
I am glad to see that John Undell is moving his podcasts over to IT Conversations. His interviews are a great antidote to the world of Fox News and CNN. Udell, instead, features interesting, but often relatively unknown guests (unknown outside of their own field of expertise) who are nevertheless more interesting than a hundred […]
Mar
15
I think it is an exceedingly stupid move by the New York times to move the very good and usuable Times Reader app into a subscription model. I would maybe understand if they priced it at $5 a month, but at $14.95 a month and $165 a year, this makes no sense for most users.
Today, […]
Mar
14
I have been experimenting with GrandCentral for a little bit now. Absolutely love the idea and it works. If you haven’t heard about it yet, David Pogue wrote a great introduction to it in today’s New York Times.
Only one of my evil plans failed: you can’t forward a GrandCentral number to another GrandCentral number. So […]
Mar
14
CNN talks about the future of TV advertising in the light of the soon to be shipping AppleTV.
With the advent of pay-per-view TV series on iTunes and DVRs, who is going to watch TV commercials anymore? Given how many of us are not watching them anymore today already, the only logical answer should be: nobody. […]
Mar
14
After hearing and reading about twitter ad nauseum, I decided to give it a spin today. But jeez, it takes forever for the homepage to load, let alone the sign-up page. Also, when I tried to sign up, the ‘are-you-human’ type a cryptic code from a picture verification didn’t display anything…
Maybe I will try again […]
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