The content continuum and why I’m worried about the direction of the online world
At the risk of sounding (even more) like a crotchety old man, I feel like the online world is moving in exactly the wrong direction.I would argue that there is a direct correlation between the amount of effort a creator expends and the quality and valu…
Bloggers, wannabes and the Zen of Blogging
Last Thursday I sampled the latest incarnation of the London Bloggers Meetup, as organized by Andy Bargery and friends. This meetup has been running for years, but it was my first time. What sparked my interest was a combination of meeting Andy at a Social Medial Week London event in January, the sheer numbers that [...]
Social Media Week London – more out than in
Earlier this month, starting February 7, Social Media Week ran in 9 cities, with plenty of events running in London. I watched some of the live streams from Likeminds based events that sounded very good in terms of content although they hit some broadcast problems, kept in touch via the Twitter hashtag and then I [...]
Trouble in WordPress Land. Here’s the Band-Aid
If you run a WordPress blog and can’t get into your Admin Panel today, you’re not alone. Or to be more specific, you can get in for a second, then the page blanks out. If you are fast enough to click on a function in that second, you’re lucky – or if you know the [...]
Email’s New Freight – Posting to Social Sites
This post is a test of something I have not yet tried with wordpress.com: posting by email. It’s meant to be mostly an experiment. But it’s also a realization that in a mobile world, email has a new found importance. Delivering social content payloads. In a separate effort, I’m trying to get things done (GTD!) [...]
CloudAve is on WordPress Now
We’ve moved. No, we’re still moving. You can see the evidence all over, we’re still in the middle of a platform move, combined with a facelift, most of which is yet to come. You may have read about our crowdsourced logo-redesign effort, which is still ongoing, but has not produced the WOW-effect I expected (feel [...]
About that Second “S” in SaaS – Awesome Service
”There is an app for that” – say the Apple commercials. “There is a plugin for that” – was my conclusion, while lookin for the rigth tools to move the Enterprise Irregulars blog to WordPress a few months ago. Seriously. The WordPress ecosystem is simply amazing, things that a few years ago required messing with [...]
11 Methods To Get 25 Items From 8 Platforms For 3 Reasons Using Web 2.0
I gotta tell ya. I’m tired. I’m tired of reading posts like: …5 methods for improving your Web copy… …8 strategies for taking your marketing to the next level… …4 apps that rock your iPad… …3 experiences Starbuck’s should focus on to make their customer’s happy… Please… and I say this with all respect, ENOUGH!!!! [...]
Almighty Bloggers Can Fix it All – Fun with Blog Messages
Image via Wikipedia Reading some of the blog-contact messages makes me wonder who readers think I really am. One common misconception is when they confuse me for a representative of a company I write about – even when the post is actually quite critical. How does my ugly experience with HP Technical support prompt a [...]
Chartbeat is to Blogs as Google Analytics is to Print Newspapers
What do Google Analytics and print newspapers have in common? They’re both one day out of date when you read them. I’ve been using Chartbeat for over a month now to track performance of my blog and I find myself looking at Google Analytics much less these days. In fact, I’m surprised by how antiquated [...]
Helpstream CEO Gone. Or is it the Company? Either Way, We Gain a Great Blogger.
You heard the good news here first, so it’s only appropriate to be the first to follow up: Bob Warfield is likely out as CEO of Helpstream, a Social CRM SaaS provider. The company website still lists Bob as CEO, but his blog post this morning implies news not yet officially announced: My Startup Track [...]
Twitter is 4 today
A few months back on the 19th of November 2009 NESTA, as part of their Silicon Valley comes to the UK sequence of events, televised a discussion called “Social Media: A Force for Good?“. The panel was our very own national treasure, actor, QI master and twitterphile Stephen Fry, Biz Stone the Founder and Chief [...]
Public and Open Debate is the Highest Form of Democracy (and Blogging)
I lived in the UK for nearly a decade. I loved my experience there and wish I got back more often now. As a political junkie one of my favorite things to do was to watch Prime Minister’s Questions (PMQs). If you’ve never seen PMQ, it’s worth worth 2 minutes to watch this short video [...]
My New Favorite Old Blog…
Image by TechShowNetwork via Flickr My new favorite old blog is former Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz, blog. It’s at the old URL, but has a new title: What I Couldn’t Say… The “About” section says: I think I’ve said pretty much everything I could say as CEO of Sun Microsystems. The more interesting stuff was [...]
I’m sticking with Disqus. Here’s Why
By Mark Suster on March 7, 2011
I’ve written before about my love for Disqus. I’m not an investor – I just love the product. So now Facebook has a new commenting system. They’ve been around for a while and when they first announced this initiative I knew the day would come when people would start saying, “should I replace Disqus?” [...]
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