October 2006 - Posts
The folks at PodShow were not overjoyed at being called "obscure" in a recent column I wrote, nor did they cotton to the suggestion that the $25 million in venture funding they’ve received might be an indicator of an overheating market for Web 2.0 companies.
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We've been saying for a while that going green is one of the next big things for CIOs.
Now, based on some numbers from the British government, research analyst Richard Edwards says "Green IT is no longer an option but a necessity."
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YouTube is worth less to me today than it was last week.Comedy Central is lowering its mindshare in a crowded market.Perfect. And right on schedule.
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Ze Frank gets serious with a post about the difficulties in measuring web-video traffic."The real issue is that nobody knows how to determine the value of a web property or web audience given
loose concepts like "page views" and "complete downloads."More:
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Political ads on YouTube, social networking...now, gaming Google to bring negative stories to the top of search pages. Web 2.0 tricks have become part of the political toolkit.
NYT: If things go as planned for liberal bloggers in the next few weeks,
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Nick Carr picks up on a trend we discussed this summer: the incredible power demands of the modern data center.
I was surprised that energy consumption alone hadn't made "green" issues a stragetic priority for CIOs. From our article:
Andrea Moffat
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The only surprising thing about the clandestine upload is that it didn't take place long ago.I followed up last week's blog post about the police-department scandal in Greensboro with a newspaper column on "the way we leak now."This earlier post on understanding
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Ze Frank, one of the most original video-bloggers to emerge in the medium's early days, loves duckies. Or at least he says he does. Maybe he's kidding. Ze's a kidder.(Ze's content is funny and smart, but also political and sometimes profane; don't crank
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Xark! chart of how the Internets work.
Clear as mud.
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My CIOI column is about the bubble, or lack thereof, in Web 2.0 companies.
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Dan Gillmor filed this column well before the Edelman/Wal-Marting thing hit the news. Sayeth prescient Dan: "Some PR and marketing folks have, as you'd expect, taken word-of-mouth
as just another great opportunity to sell stuff. Fine, if it's up-front
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My hometown is getting a lesson in transparency in the age of the web.
Here in Greensboro, NC, chief of police David Wray resigned after a confidential investigative report helped convince City officials that they could no longer work with
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This NYT article by John Markoff about Sun's data-center-in-a-box follows some interesting blog posts on data centers and their discontents by Sun CEO Jonathan Schartz and CTO Greg Papadopoulos.Schwartz: "[T]he whole concept of a datacenter is a bit of
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Edelman PR honcho Richard Edelman blogs about the Wal-Marting fiasco: "I want to acknowledge our error in failing to be transparent about the
identity of the two bloggers from the outset. This is 100% our
responsibility and our error; not the client's."
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Lots of commentary on the Wal-Mart/Edelman PR-blog disaster, linked at Techmeme......Scoble, in North Carolina for conference this weekend (we talked about the rise of Techmeme as a news source on our way to buy beer), writes about the improtance of integrity
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The four most popular tags as of this morning at the new homepage for Intel bloggers: developingworld
emergence
infoglut
infomaniaOK, thats after just a few days...interesting to see how that changes over time.
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It's known as astroturfing, as in phony grassroots -- campaigns run by pros that are meant to look like the efforts of regular folks. The latest such endeavor to be exposed is a we-love-Wal-Mart blog called Wal-Marting Across America, written by a couple
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John Palfrey and Stan Liebowitz discuss GooTube and copyright issues in this WSJ forum.
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Hey, you might be a little giddy too...Chad Hurley and Steve Chen of YouTube post a video to YouTube about GooTube.
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Jeff Jarvis, in print and video, on the Google Nichecasting Network.
Remember when Google Earth was just the name of some cool mapping software, not, like, the planet on which we live?UPDATE: Typically smart commentary from Dan Gillmor.
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Last night my 15-year-old and I watched the South Park episode about World of Warcraft, the hugely popular online role-playing game to which my son and many of his peers are addicted.
We watched it on YouTube, not Comedy Central.
I like a lot of stuff
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I meant to comment on the kerfluffle over Michael Arrington's remarks at the Online News Association conference, in which, to my view, Arrington did not come off looking good. But I've been busy, and now Nick Carr has written a much better piece than
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Jason Calacanis: "Google to buy YouTube? Perfect match. This makes total sense to me for a number of reasons."
Mark Cuban: "Would Google be crazy to buy Youtube. No doubt about it. Moronic would be an understatement of a lifetime."
Each gentleman goes
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Remember lonelygirl15?She's got a new gig: fighting global poverty for the U.N.WSJ: The Lonelygirl's antipoverty video, like those made by
other amateur video makers, has been posted on YouTube. The U.N. hopes
the videos will spark buzz about its call
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Poor communication skills are part of the IT-worker stereotype. And part of the IT-vendor reality, says our research guru.Allan Alter: "A new study about to be released by the Customer Respect Group, an Ipswich, Mass., company that rates company Web sites
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Horses, kids, robots, and employees, discussed by Kathy Sierra.There's a canyon-sized gap between what company heads say they want
(brave, bold, innovative) and what their own middle management seems to
prefer (yes-men, worker bees, team players).
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Technology Review says "Amazon has begun to rent out parts of its IT infrastructure as Web services."
An interesting interview with Jeff Bezos by Wade Roush at the link above, of which I urge you to read all.
Caught this a few days ago via Nick
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On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog. So goes the old joke about uncertain online identities.But people will damn sure find out if you are a private eye snooping online for the now-former chairwoman of Hewlett-Packard, or a now-former United States
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Amanda Congdon, the founding host of groundbreaking vid-news blog Rocketboom, is documenting her cross-country trip at Amanda Across America.
When she got to North Carolina, we spoke about the impact of blogs and
other new media on local communities.
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If they really want to listen to the angry voices out there, Microsoft execs should read the comment thread at Slashdot beneath the link to our Scoble interview.
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My interview with Robert Scoble is up at CIO Insight. It's headlined "Life after Microsoft," but we spent a lot of time on life at Microsoft, too.
Some excerpts from our conversation appeared here.
Additional revealing links here, here, and here
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