Susan Mernit points to a piece by Rohit Khare over at The Commercenet Blog, wherein Rohit casually asks, “Now, what would it take to build an open-source clone of Craigslist one could run locally?” I haven’t met Rohit, but I’ll…

A few weeks back I got a call out of the blue from Verne Kopytoff, a staff writer for the SF Chronicle. Verne was writing a piece on customer defections (from Netflix to Blockbuster), had seen my name on HackingNetflix…

The good folks at Kelsey were kind enough to ask me to be part of a panel on Day 1 of their upcoming Drilling Down on Local conference. I’ll be rambling about Online Word-Of-Mouth (Blogs, RSS & Social Networking, 11:45-12:30)…

Just a quick note (as has become my practice) of heads-up that I’m now participating in another blog/RSS/advertising-related consulting engagement. I’ll disclose details if/when it becomes appropriate to do so.

Here’s a teaser of the post I just submitted over at Morph. I’ll update this post with the full text tomorrow, but since the point of the guest-blogging is to help Morph grow, I’m hoping you’ll check it out over…

The “blog-related” company that I obtusely disclaimed back in November was (drum roll please)… Feedster. The gig went well… I was able to confirm many of my notions about the future impact of RSS while helping a smart group of…

You know things are getting frothy when a company that just took $75MM in funding can justify double-dipping (into the wallets of individual investors) through an IPO. What’s more interesting (in my mind) is that FastClick is going public in…

I can only imagine how hard it’s been for Susan Mernit to hold back all manner of snarky remarks after the announcement from AOL that they were planning to offer free email accounts to “compete” with Yahoo, MSN and Google.…

I had a nice, long chat yesterday morning with a savvy Biz Dev guy over at Yahoo! around a number of interesting things happening at the intersections of personalization, aggregation, RSS, media, newspapers, etc. One of the minor (but culturally…

Just a quick note that I’ve accepted an opportunity to do a bit of guest blogging over at Morph, the blog of The Media Center at The American Press Institute. Officially, my ‘beat’ will be “the business of blogging and…