I have been thinking a bit more about the chances for the recent crop of Web 2.0 social media darlings like FriendFeed and Twitter to go mainstream and especially why FriendFeed has gone from zero to being the default social media aggregator for most folks in the tech blogosphere within just a few months while [...]
A new report from Universal McCann seems to be, at first glance, full good news for bloggers:
Globablly 73% of internet users are reading blogs with 48% including these (sic!) consumer-generated content in their weekly media diet.
The latest survey from media agency Universal McCann shows no signs of a pause in the explosive growth of social [...]
Steven Hodson asked an interesting question today: What do I owe my readers? This lead to a number of interesting responses.
Sidenote: What struck me in the responses to Steven’s post was that they often revolved around the meaning of the term ‘blogger.’ Indeed, ‘blogger’ can be a confusing term. I can think of at least [...]
Not too much news yet today and lots of deadlines to meet for yours truly, but I do have a few thoughts about the little news that did trickle through the blogosphere today:
AT&T to subsidize iPhone: I always said I was going to buy the 2nd gen iPhone the day it comes out. If AT&T [...]
This week’s l33t Tech Podcast was a lot more humorous than the first episodes – but I still hold out hope that our two Egyptian listeners will not unsubscribe.
This week’s lineup: Mark “Rizzn” Hopkins as out moderator (except for those precious moments when his Skype account runs out of money…), Steven Hodson of WinExtra , [...]
Kara Swisher’s article on how few of her (real life) friends use and know about Twitter and FriendFeed has kicked up some dust today.
But to me, the interesting phenomenon here is not if, when, or why Twitter will go mainstream, but why so many people are even surprised that Twitter is not a mainstream [...]
I notice a bit of a trend among some bloggers these days where Corvida of SheGeeks is quitting Twitter for a day and Allen Stern of CenterNetworks for a whole week. Both have slightly different reasons for this, but for both, part of that reason is that Twitter has taken too much attention away from [...]
Clay Sharky’s (how is that for a great name!) article/talk on Cognitive Surplus and Web 2.0 is definitely a very good read, but it also made me think about the following paragraphs:
This is something that people in the media world don’t understand. Media in the 20th century was run as a single race–consumption. How much [...]
I’m not a big fan of traditional marketing pitches – too many of them are hot air packed in an email and few are better than most regular spam I guess, but I gather that’s how PR works.
The last few days saw an interesting discussion swell up among tech bloggers about how, where and when [...]
My friend Steven wrote a thoughtful post about handling large amounts of information and about how bloggers have become the news anchors (or ‘gatekeepers’) of the Internet
We become a gatekeeper; a word I really don’t like that much, the moment we get our first blog visitor or RSS subscriber. This happens because the reader or [...]
I’m a big fan of ReadWriteWeb, but this article about the stress of news blogging is too far over the top for me:
News blogging is probably one of the most stressful occupations you can have. [my emphasis] First, you have to watch the crazy-fast moving, non-stop tech world all the time. News bloggers have thousands [...]
Microsoft send me an invitation to try out its new Live Mesh service last night and I have to say that I’m happily surprised by the quality of the current beta version (or ‘Tech Preview’ as Microsoft like to call it).
If you are unfamiliar with Mesh, TechCrunch did a good overview of the service [...]
I see TechCrunch now has integrated commenting via Seesmic videos on all TechCrunch blogs (no surprise given that Michael Arrington is a Seesmic investor).
I can’t help but think that this is an utterly dumb idea – kind of like Seesmic itself.
I can see why people would prefer to leave a video comment. I understand that [...]
I have a couple of projects that are nearing their deadlines, so things might be a bit quiet here until next Monday or so. Given this post here, maybe that’s a good thing.
But until then, here are some of my thoughts about today’s happenings:
Steven Hodson tagged me: Who would have thought that out of all [...]
