CxO Talk episode 1: Guy Kawasaki on influence for APEs
CxO Talk, my new talk show with co-host Vala Afshar, debuted with a conversation on marketing and influence with author and investor Guy Kawasaki. Guy’s most recent book, titled APE: Author, Publisher, Entrepreneur, is a practical handbook for self-publishing a book and using social media to get the word out and sell copies. CxO Talk is [...]
RIP, Newspapers
While newspapers have certainly been dying for a long time, I officially called their time of death as 8:25 AM this morning. For the past week or two, I’ve been receiving mysterious phone calls from Missouri. The few times I picked up, no one was on the line. Today, I finally got someone on the [...]
Thinking About Creating an eBook, Look at this Infographic First
Aptara and Scott Abel (Content Wrangler) have created this interesting infographic on the state of the eBook publishing space. As more and more content goes digital, it will be crucial to understand how to leverage eBooks and similar forms … Continue reading →
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 They’re both one day out of date when you read them.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 [...]
DMCA Take Downs, Copyright, Fair Use
(Editor’s note: the following is an excerpt from Dan’s book, Boom and Bust in the Blogosphere) One other thing you will learn on the internet is copyright, fair use, and how you can use pictures, quote text, link to articles, use old media as a source, and a ton of other things that can cause [...]
The Link, the Subscribe and the Open Follow
In case you haven’t heard, the Associated Press appears to be committing hara-kiri under the guise of a “business model.” It would seem (from what I’ve been reading) that they want to require a license with them simply to quote a headline *or* link to a piece of their work. Obviously, they’re trying to go [...]
Wired Does Not Get Creative Commons Licencing?
I found a good summary assessment of the recent MS Office announcement over at WebMonkey: MS Office on the Web: What it Is and What it Isn’t. I liked to content enough to link to it from my hastily written initial take, then as I looked at it again, I found something weird. Do you [...]
Call For Business Cases: Get Your Story Published in a Book
Peter Fingar, author of Dot.Cloud: The 21st Century Business Platform is in the 11th hour of competing his book. Those are his words – but considering you can already pre-order the book @ Amazon, I’d say it’s 11 and a half… barely enough time to include a few last minute stories. Peter is still looking [...]
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 [...]
