Media archives
Money in the archives
Following a recent article in Wired News about the viability of blogging as a revenue generating model, I started thinking about the value of archival material to a blogger. As readers of this site might have noticed when using the web interface, I am using the Google Ad service called AdSense. As I am not at [...]
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NPR defining new Podcast strategy
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 [...]
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Back from BloggerCon 2
Still processing a lot of the discussion. There were a lot of interesting comments from people that are far smarter than me. Got to meet a number of interesting bloggers and get involved in some fascinating discussions. However, I have to think a lot about what was said: was it all rehash of what’s been [...]
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Thoughts before BloggerCon 2 – Blogs and Journalism
Tomorrow’s agenda for BloggerCon calls for a discussion of blog and journalism. Over the past few weeks, I’ve been reading what other people had to say, synthesizing it in my own head and trying to figure out what it all meant. From there, I came to a couple of conclusions: Blogs are not journalism Journalism happens on [...]
Thoughts before BloggerCon 2 – Part 1
Like many in the blogosphere, I’m heading to Boston this weekend for BloggerCon. My posts on the site have been light because I’ve been spending more time reading and thinking about how I would contribute. While I do plan to take advantage of a 3 hour trip on the Acela to work on a longer [...]
Blog Chatter
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 [...]
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