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PR Needs to Tell More Stories and Pitch Less
Image via Wikipedia There’s a brewing problem. Reporters are strapped an under increasing pressure to compete with bloggers. This results in reporters writing re-tweetable headlines which are sometimes misleading or stories being written with unchecked facts and inaccuracies. The solution, of course, is good journalism. But until the market sorts out the news business there’s [...]
Will 2010 be the Death of Free and Open?
Image via Wikipedia Arrington, I’m really sorry, this seriously sucks. Mike Arrington can’t get a break. His Last startup, before TechCrunch became his full-time gig, Edgio, DeadPooled 2 years ago and now the CrunchPad joins it’s much older sibling in that same grave almost exactly 2 years later. This is disconcerting to me for a [...]
Twitter and Distributed Influence
Last month I wrote about the dillema TechCrunch found themselves in after TwitterGate. The problem arose when Twitter removed TechCrunch from their Suggested User List (SUL). It now seems that Twitter has recently taken TechCrunch’s key rival, Mashable, off the list as well. This gives us an interesting point of comparison. The first graph here [...]
Are there no new business models?
So if you haven’t heard Chris Anderson revealed the business model of the future of the Web. (via TechCrunch) “Everything that becomes digital will become free. There will be a free version, either you will be competing with free or giving it away for free and selling something else. If it is not zero today, [...]
Which Bloggers Generate the Most Buzz and Which Bloggers are the Most Paranoid?
Image by Laughing Squid via Flickr This last week I was doing some old school Web research for a few clients. It’s work that I normally don’t get to do but is important to know how to do and is good to do every now and then. Things like back link checking and finding influencers [...]
What I’m doing to fight the social media echo chamber
Image via Wikipedia I think the number one threat to social media is the echo chamber. Online social media is an amazing thing. One of the most powerful aspects of social media is that it’s a scale free network. This is the phenomena that create viral videos. People, companies or their agencies don’t create viral [...]
Proof that the Real Time Web is Killing Google?
Image by Dave Delaney via Flickr The last 2 months have seen absolute INSANE growth in both Twitter and Facebook. While Twitter is the current diva, Facebook’s no ugly duckling itself. I (an many others) have wondered what it would take for the “Real Time Web” (ie Twitter search and persistant status updates) to put [...]
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