Archives for the "Blogging" tag
astroblogs
The ragingcow blog got me thinking about the concept of Astroturf blogs (I would call them astroblogs). A lot of people are saying that a blog like ragingcow can’t work and yet, there is a number of discussions about it all over the blogosphere. Now, if it doesn’t work, how come I now know about [...]
Tags: Advertising, Blogging, Marketing
In Business
Marketer, Marketer, where have you been?
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 [...]
Tags: Advertising, Blogging, Google, Idea, Marketing, XML
In Media, Technology
What are weblogs?
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 [...]
Tags: Blogging, Journalism
In Media
Thoughts on blogging and journalism part II
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 [...]
Tags: Blogging, Journalism
In Business, Media, Technology
Thoughts on blogging and journalism
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 [...]
Tags: Blogging, Journalism
In Business, Media, Technology
