June 2006 - Posts
Jay Rosen: "The people formerly known as the audience are those who were
on the receiving end of a media system that ran one way, in a
broadcasting pattern, with high entry fees and a few firms competing to
speak very loudly while the rest of the population
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Rex Hammock: We're not even at the end of the beginning of personal media.
...We're at the very, very beginning of something still. The train hasn't left the station. There is no boom in personal media (while there may very well be lots of money and
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How to participate in BloggerCon, whether or not you can be in San Francisco.
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As previously noted, Mark Cuban doesn't blog in the same stilted tones used by many other bosses-with-blogs. He doesn't have to, he's running a different kind of business than the CEO of a public company, or most private ones. But don't you think a lot
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Nick Carr: You can build a religion on faith, but building a company on it seems pretty dicey. At least eBay makes a lot of money in its core business. It can afford to have patience and do "a number of trials" and hope for the best. And it can afford
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Jay Rosen is a name you should know if you don't already -- he's an NYU journalism prof who has written extensively and perceptively about the intersection of blogging and traditional journalism.
This essay was written in preparation for the upcoming
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Jakob Nielsen has some thoughts on RSS, blogs, and email newsletters for business users in this morning's Wall Street Journal.
I think he's right that targeted information is the way to go, but I'm a little confused by his argument against blogs -- the
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Dave Winer urges an unsentimental look at Microsoft and the departure of Bill Gates: "How effective has (sic) Microsoft's capital expenditures on software R&D been over the last decade? Doesn't all the revenue still come from R&D that was
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Andy Kessler says net neutrality is just new players joining the old lobbying game. His solution, though, seems a little extreme: use the threat of eminent domain to make the telcos upgrade their networks.
I know, I know. This sounds wrong.
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Craigslist CEO Jim Buckmaster discusses the customer-driven strategy of the online ad service (and newspaper-industry scourge).
The Wall Street Journal's Brian Carney: "One industry analyst has estimated that Craigslist could generate
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The old media foodchain: network news got its news from the big newspapers.
Still true, but now there's another step: big newspapers get their news from blogs.
If you missed the discussion of Wikipedia's editing policies in the blogosphere
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As Bill Gates announces his plans for the future, here's a look back...and way back.
I wrote this newspaper column during the Bubble, when Gates was (briefly) worth $100 billion...and used some notes I had from an interview done in 1986, when I was a
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From CIOI's just-posted article on net neutrality: "The major telecommunications companies spend billions of dollars each year on advertising, and millions more on political lobbying. So imagine their shock when a low-budget campaign led by a motley coalition
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More from the CIO Insight article on SOX, Is Sarbanes-Oxley Working?
Even quantitative responses, from the number of earnings restatements by public companies since compliance with the law became mandatory (high), to the number of initial public offerings
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Tom Friedman says he hates the New York Times' policy of putting columnists behind a paywall, because it cuts him off from his audience, but he understands the business problems faced by his employers as they try to make the big jump from print to online
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Nick Carr has some thoughts on the Googleplex -- so do his readers, so check out the comments below the post, too.
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An interesting look at Google's massive global computer network, aka the Googleplex.
From the NYT article by John Markoff and Saul Hansell: Google has lashed together a global network of computers — known in the industry as the Googleplex — that is a
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GM PR used its blog to make a strong pushback against the New York Times and its ticky-tacky letters-to-the-editor policy.
But today Tom Friedman reminds us that while the web helps level the playing field, content is still king. He writes a second
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John Dvorak discusses with Dave Winer a technique for generating web traffic.
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An article in which I give a carefully hedged "yes" to the question of whether Sarbanes-Oxley is working or not.
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Blogs were buzzing all weekend about Robert Scoble's departure from Microsoft for PodTech -- a story that's getting covered in the conventional media, too.
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Tom Friedman trashed GM in a recent column in the New York Times.
GM tried to complain via a letter to the editor, but the Times, after much back-and-forthing about the letter's length and content, wouldn't let the company that got trashed call Friedman's
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The defeat for network neutrality in the House came as no surprise.
Supporters have been saying all along that the House fight was about raising visibility for the issue, which has been done with significant success.
The real fight
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I know nothing happens until it's covered in the New York Times...but it's still a little strange to read this article by David Leonhardt about the Long Tail business model of Netflix without seeing a single mention of, y'know, the Long Tail, which
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Nick Carr is being a contrarian.
Big news, I know, but this time it's not just for the sake of being a contrarian, he's got something interesting to say about Google Spreadsheets, which the rest of the world is calling a shot at Microsoft.
Carr: This
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Retailers gather a lot of consumer information. This morning's Wall Street Journal (subscription required) says Tesco, the big British chain, is making customer information pay -- and besting rival Wal-Mart in the process.
From the article by Cecilie
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BusinessWeek: For all its appeal to the young and the wired, Web 2.0 may end up making its greatest impact in business. And that could usher in more changes in corporations, already in the throes of such tech-driven transformations as globalization
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eBay is launching vendor blogs, and also internal blogs, according to AuctionBytes.com. I hope they'll have buyer blogs, too, or at least require open comments on the seller blogs.
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There is a boss with a blog who says what he thinks and lets the chips fall where they may: Mark Cuban of the Dallas Mavericks.
He doesn't just blog about his basketball team, although he's feeling pretty good about the Mavs right about now.
He blogs
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I appreciate Sun's Jonathan Schwartz for blogging as a CEO, and I understand that he's constrained by lawyers and regulators as to what he can really say, but...his post in the wake of Sun's big layoff announcement seemed a little lacking on the
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