Monthly Archives: March 2005

Seth Godin Wants Sticky Posts

Seth Goodin writes about creating a “sticky blog post” (my wording) at the top of his newest blog, so that those dropping in on the middle of the conversation can get some context. He advocates that TypePad should support the

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Another Perpsective on Google’s Death Throes

Pamela Parker points to a post by Tom Watson, entitled, “Google’s Death Throes” that left me scratching my head. Tom believes Google and eBay are both screwed (my word), and points to a seemingly ill matched Contextual (i.e., AdSense) ad

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Blogads posts Blogger Demographic Data

Blogads.com has posted the results from their second annual Blogger survey. Needless to say, this is a fascinating read for anyone doing business (or participating) in this ‘space’.

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Press Hit – OJR.org on Newspapers and Social Networking

Daithí Ó hAnluain has posted a very interesting look into how Newspapers (and news) are and aren’t being impacted by Social Networking, and, what Newspapers are, aren’t and should be doing with SN. I’m quoted very liberally in the piece

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Motorola Announces iTunes Phone Details

According to this piece from Reuters (it’ll link rot soon since it’s up on Yahoo!), Motorola is starting to trickle out info on their new iTunes phones, and while details are scarce (look for more from Gizmodo later today), what’s

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Google News Gets Personal(ized)

I just dropped by Google News and noticed a big “Customize this Page” link in the upper right hand corner. Clicking the link, I’m able to do several new things: 1. Rearrange the order of news sections (e.g., Top Stories,

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Gawker, the Future Face of Backpacking Financing?

Susan Mernit points to an I Want Media interview with Lockhart Steele, managing editor of Nick Denton’s Gawker Media. In it, Steele states that Gawker pays its bloggers $2500.00 USD/mth, with potential for additional upside based on traffic, for a

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Free Month of Netflix for Micro Persuasion Readers

Alright, since they still don’t seem to get it (God love ’em anyway), let’s show Netflix how this works… Steve Rubel, over at Micro Persuasion, got a scoop from Netflix; a free one month trial (vs. the usual two weeks).

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Xbox 2: The Irresistable Trojan Horse

Most have known it, or at least felt it for a long time… Microsoft understands that TVs are dead, High Definition monitors are the future, and XBOX is a channel play that gives them a choke point for high speed

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Microsoft RSS aggregator

SiliconBeat’s Michael Bazeley points to a “Labs” version of a Microsoft RSS Aggregator (aka Feed Reader). As we all know from our Google marketing conditioning: – If we put something out in Labs, we really really want opinion leaders to

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