I contacted NPR about some of their shows and adding podcasts to them (the job of an evangelist never stops.) However, when I did, I did not expect I would end up getting something that few others are aware of and maybe even a scoop: NPR is not renewing its contract with Audible and is [...]
As I’ve mentioned earlier, I read a lot of feeds. By organizing them in categories, I can easily get an idea of what field is hot. For example, yesterday, upon looking at Bloglines, my RSS aggregator, I knew that something important was happening (or not, considering that it was April 1st) in the search space [...]
George Hotelling is attempting an interesting experiment for the digital age: reselling a song bought on the iTunes music store. The reason it is interesting is that he has checked the license agreement and it seems perfectly OK for him to transfer a file to someone else. This will be an interesting test of whether [...]
There is much discussion about RagingCow, a new site created to market a new Dr. Pepper soft drink. The funny thing is that some say it won’t work but the site is already getting free publicity from bloggers all over. I didn’t know about the drink prior to seeing it on Blogdex so that makes [...]
If blogging is to replace journalism, it has to do a better job than current journalists. Even journalists are now decrying the low quality of reporting. Of note: “CEOs describe business journalists as lacking a basic understanding of how businesses operate.” Now that’s pretty scary. If you cover something, shouldn’t you at least understand its [...]
There’s an interesting Michael Wolff piece in New York about the declining value of content. (Disclaimer: I used to work for Michael in the early 90s) While I generally agree with the concept that content is becoming more widespread and that there is an increase in the amount of content being produced, I fundamentally disagree [...]
Back in the early-ish days of the commercial Internet (circa 95), we were talking about the browser wars to describe the fight between then-leader Netscape Navigator and Microsoft’s upstart Internet Explorer. Should we start talking about the search engine wars as Overture and Google are about to go head to head in a new set [...]
It seems that my bit of navel gazing about blogs has attracted a lot of attention. Among some of the things that came up, though, is that there is no clear agreement as to what blogs are. So in the search for definition, I went back to trying to figure out what people mean when [...]
So it looks like my thoughts (see below) made it on Metafilter and are starting to make their way on other blogs with interesting comments coming up in each cases. While I appreciate the accolades, what I find most interesting is that people are divided over whether blogging is journalism.
It’s an interesting question and one [...]
There is a bit of a pack mentality among bloggers. For most, one source is all that’s needed. Instead of reading about a subject from multiple source (an acquisition, for example), most people link to the same story again and again. This has its advantage (the story shows up at a higher rate in rankings [...]
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