“If there are hundreds or thousands of thought leaders and motivated, interested parties on the Internet with the ability to publish news or insights into any number of local or global issues, then it is safe to say that these blogs often become both the first source of news, a vital proving ground for authors and a source of potential community for other interested parties. For example, you’re probably going to get far more Boston Red Sox specific-content from a blog about the Red Sox made by a die-hard fan than you will from a random sports page, especially if you’re after opinions and community.” Mary Meeker, “analyst”. Start dumping your blog stock NOW! (Via Blog Ads and Battelle Media).
Monthly Archive for October, 2004
Before I hit the sack I uploaded the photos from my Treo 600. Check’em out, starting with the one linked to above.
I had lunch with Vin Crosbie, digital media luminary from the US. We chatted about the state of the digital media industries here and in the US. I took a photo. More later.
I want one of those!
I’m going to be speaking at a small corporate dinner in London, in November. I’ll be talking about the effect of blogging on the online publishing industry. As it’s a “corporate” event it’ll cost 65 quid to come – so it’s really for those who have an expense account to hammer.
Well I’ve got my Clark County voter from the Guardian, but with all the evidence (including my sources at the Guardian) pointing to it being a highly contentious and negative project, which has turned voters off Kerry, I’m wondering whether to write to them at all!
Consumers are abandoning fixed line phones in droves and replacing them with mobiles for all their voice calls, research conducted by Mori has found, reports VNU. However, the study was commissioned by Nokia. However, since the most fertile market for fixed-to-mobile substitution was found to be the young professional group, who use their mobile phone for most of their voice calls and are more likely to be male, in the middle to high income brackets, and make a large volume of voice calls, I predict life in the old phone line yet.
Amazon.com is allowing consumers to share their photos alongside product descriptions. In their guidelines they say you can post images that highlight a feature of the product (“here’s what the controls on this music player looks like”); images that show the product in use, etc etc. It’s the new new thing in consumer reviews. Beat that Which.
Am I the only person who things The Power of Nightmares is a seminal programme which deserves high praise and wide exposure?
Certainly I may be the only one who wishes there was a further reading list attached the site where one could delve more into the ideas expressed, since there is no such information.
This programme shows how fundamentalism both from the Neo-Cons and the Radical Islamists has left the world in the state it’s in now.
Kottke bemoans blogs turning into, er, publishing:
“Just a couple of years ago, almost every weblog on a top 100 list would have been noncommerical and the blogosphere in general was mostly opposed to advertising on blogs. Now it’s accepted to the point where I haven’t heard anyone complain about it in months…even Boing Boing’s audience didn’t protest too much when they added advertising a couple of months ago.”
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