Apr 29
Amy Graham over at Poynter.org has written a great article about the attitudes of some journalists towards the changes happening in the industry.
The only journalism that counts is that done by mainstream news orgs, especially in print or broadcast form. Alternative, independent, online, collaborative, community, and other approaches to news are assumed to be inferior […]
Apr 16
Jared is smart much smarter than his years (and many peers) and he has already paid a lot of dues. For the past two years Jared has been working on a new project the launching of , an advertising network that seeks to link up advertisers with community-specific networks of small online publishers.
But AdRoll could […]
Apr 15
There has been much chatter about ads on blogs lately.
While ad networks rely on the page view count in order to decide whether they want to do business with you there is never any value placed on the fact that you might only have a 1,000 visitors that come by everyday to read what you […]
Apr 09
Blogging is stressful, you are always on. Matt Richtel at the New York Times nailed it:
Here are some of the other dangers (tongue-in-cheek) of the rock-and-roll blogger lifestyle:
Dan Farber:
Gabe Rivera:
Renee Blodgett:
Craig Newmark:
Ze Frank:
Nick Douglas (et moi):
Photo by Brian Solis.
Bloggers in training:
Apr 06
Blogging is stressful, you are always on. Matt Richtel at the New York Times nailed it:
Here are some of the other dangers (tongue-in-cheek) of the rock-and-roll blogger lifestyle:
Dan Farber:
Gabe Rivera:
Renee Blodgett:
Craig Newmark:
Ze Frank:
Nick Douglas (et moi):
Bloggers in training:
Apr 02
My original post: 2 months ago, caused a bit of a stir. (I’m up to 44,548 unread emails.)
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Mar 30
Most traditional journalists can barely type, they certainly can’t spell. And they are unusually useless in terms of PC and other tech skills. But they know how to create compelling media and are able to do it consistently.
With all the new changes brought about by the Internet becoming the publishing platform for all media, journalists […]
Feb 26
Companies such as Google, Yahoo, eBay, Facebook, Digg are all media companies. They publish pages of content with advertising around it.
These are not technology companies but rather technology-enabled media companies. And this is a key distinction.
This has been especially evident within the Japanese media community. Last year, I was featured in Nikkei business magazine, Japan’s […]