August 2006 - Posts
This morning's Wall Street Journal has an important article (subs. req.) by Matthew Karnitschnig about MTV's woes on the web, where it lags upstart rivals like MySpace and YouTube.
"MTV's stumble has lessons for major media companies watching the
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An interesting thread at MetaFilter about the relationship between IT and users, with comments from people on all sides of the issue.
The post is anchored by links to several articles, including one that begins "Half of IT managers admit to hating their
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Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz has some advice for small businesses in search of cheap infrastructure: "[S]hut down your servers, go directly to salesforce.com. We at Sun will then focus our time on salesforce.com. And believe me, IT matters to them. And they
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Come for the blogging, stay for the comments: Rahul Sood writes about his conversations with Michael Dell, and allows his readers to speak their minds, too.
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There's plenty of pushback on Dave Winer's new project, including several comments at my post from yesterday.
Some of it comes across as routine playa-hatin', some of it the more specialized genre of Winer-bashing, and a lot of it as geeks people who
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Ewan MacLeod says Dave Winer's new River of News application for mobile devices is a genuine innovation [just translate "sodding" as "gosh-darn" and we'll all be happy...]
Doc Searls is digging it, too. And Jeff Jarvis. Josh Bancroft thought he wasn't
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Ryan Lizza in the New York Times: "August, usually the sleepiest month in politics, has suddenly become raucous, thanks in part to YouTube, the vast videosharing Web site."
Update: YouTube announces a new attempt to make all that traffic as lucrative
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If I was running the marketing department of your company -- and your
shareholders should be glad for any number of reasons that I'm not, but
bear with me -- I'd be paying attention to bloggers like Joe Guarino.
Guarino is a North Carolina physician
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My newspaper column this week is called "The war, the Web and the next election."
For the purposes of this blog, let's leave aside our personal opinions about the war, and just accept that it was a galvanizing issue in the Connecticut race. Other
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Sun Microsystems general counsel Mike Dillon is blogging -- apparently the first Fortune 500 GC to do so.
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BusinessWeek's Heather Green on the case of Digg and the phantom $60 mil: "I think the posts about the BW story demonstrated the power of blogging. A group at BW wrote their take of a story. But once it was printed, the blogs took hold of the discussion...Now
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Dave Winer and Nick Carr both wonder about Wikipedia.
NYT: "Jimmy Wales, the site’s founder, said that the emphasis going forward would be on quality, not quantity."
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Using RSS in the workplace: a Toronto law firm, Goodman & Carr, is using RSS to push the right material to the right attorneys.
"Our document management system delivers a huge amount of information into the portal, and there is also third-party
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Technorati's Dave Sifry releases his latest State of the Blogosphere report.
Short version: it's growing, fast.
He slices and dices the data and presents it in all sorts of eye-catching charts, asks hard questions about future rates of growth, addresses
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Dan Gillmor digs Yochai Benkler's new book, saying of the grand theme of The Wealth of Networks, "Benkler amply backs it up."
Nick Carr likes it not so much, calling it a "techno-anarcho-utopian magnum opus."
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Matt Doherty is a chief exec of sorts as the head basketball coach at
Southern Methodist University, and he may be the only bigtime hoops
coach with a blog.
The erstwhile headman at North Carolina (and college teammate of Michael Jordan) tells Sports
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Rule number one when you're in a hole: stop digging.
BusinessWeek blogger Stephen Baker is still shoveling away. He defends the mag's cover claim that Digg founder Kevin Rose has "made $60 million," because wealth rankings often use unrealized gains
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Jerry Bowles: 5 Good Reasons Not All CEOs Should Blog.
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Johnny Depp isn't the only popular pirate this summer, as Nick Carr and Tim O'Reilly discuss at their blogs. Plenty of interesting links in Carr's comments -- I sent along one to this article, which links to this study.
From our piece: "An analysis
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BusinessWeek puts Digg on the cover, claiming that founder Kevin Rose has "made $60 million."TechDirt is unimpressed
with the financial analysis, or lack thereof, on the company's value:
"Actually, such relative thinking should give anyone a bad case
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They say a joke doesn't work if you have to explain it, but that
doesn't seem to be the case with Alltel's web-based campaign about a
fake lawsuit.
The ads and related websites, including a MySpace page, deal with a phony lawsuit against the cellphone
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Lots and lots of stories, but just a handful of people posting them: Nick Carr looks at some stats on the popular Digg site and says, "Peer production? I think a better term for it would be peerage production."
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"After the successful launch of a dozen or so Yahoo! product blogs, we thought it was time to create an überblog of sorts." So launches the Yahoo! corporate blog.
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Evan Bayh's outreach to the college-age demographic is not just a passive, gee-I-hope-they-come-to-my-page thing.
The Indiana Senator has a targeted video up at YouTube, and also sent a message to the entire College Democrat email list urging
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