Credit Crunch Has Reached the Blogosphere
The Credit Crunch has reached bloggers: it is now a WordPress Theme by Eric, developer of the lightweight theme I use on my personal blog. Eric is also the developer who first turned Google Chrome into a theme… Before you ask, no, I haven’t found a "Recession" WordPress theme – yet. On (somewhat) related note, [...]
TechMeme Teasers
Blogger’s Fate Have great idea to write about Draft blog post, get interrupted by yet-another-great idea While trying to pick which of your half-dozen half-baked posts to finish, read TechMeme and feel compelled to jump in a conversation Respond to a few posts, and another day is gone without publishing your long-term baby Now you [...]
A Few More Thoughts on Embargoes
I started this as a comment to Ben’s post, than it grew post-sized. I have somewhat ambivalent feeling about embargoes, so here it goes: We do respect embargoes which we agree to, which is typically how you get pre-release information. I don’t like implied embargoes we never had the chance to agree to. You see, [...]
New York Times Extra: Who Cares About Clutter, It’s All Good
Isn’t it funny how a move by traditional media can divide the blogosphere? Today’s move is by none other than The New York Times: they opened up their front page to third party content. If you enable Times Extra, you get up to eight related stories beneath each NYT main story. These stories are picked [...]
Technorati Monster a Casualty of Layoffs?
Technorati is a strong candidate for the title of the most unreliable web service ever: frequent ouatages, slow response time even when it’s up, basic functions not working, a blog index that forgets old posts – you name it. They once were pioneers with a vision of indexing the blogosphere and being the glue that [...]
Gotta Love those Zemanta Pics
Image via Wikipedia I love Zemanta. It’s my favorite blogging plug-in, and I am so hooked on it that I even declared I’d rather pay for it than lose it. Fortunately that may not be necessary for a while: at the recent Defrag Conference I met co-Founder & CTO Andraz Tori, who told me about [...]
Resumes are Dead. Social Media is Your New Resume.
Just as I finished editing my Inbound Marketing piece I quickly scanned Google Reader and realized that David Meerman Scott and I were writing about one and the same thing. Except his post title is: Downsized? Fired? Here are the new rules of finding a job. Yes, the parallels are striking.; If you find yourself [...]
If You Let PR Take Over Your Blog, It’s No Longer a Blog
Presenting a crappy blog: Central Desktop Presenting an excellent blog: Central Desktop But wait, they are one and the same. How is that possible? Central Desktop, the startup that makes a pretty good SMB-focused (so far) SaaS Collaboration platform announced it’s expansion into the Enterprise market today. I don’t want to analyze the actual business [...]
Steve Jobs Panic – the Anatomy of Fake News on Twitter
I often praised Twitter for being first reporting breaking news – typical examples were several recent earthquakes in Japan, China, New Zealand…etc. This morning’s news brought panic, and at the time of writing this post, I still don’t know if it was fake news or real.. yet the way the “news” exploded is worth looking [...]
The TechCrunch 53,651 are Now a Million
As a new (5-day-old) blog, we should take time and salute a Big Brother, the pre-eminent Web 2.0 blog, TechCrunch, which silently passed the 1 Million reader mark last week. To think that one day I though reaching 5K was a breakthrough… My first TechCrunch party was in October 2005 – back than it was [...]
