Connective intelligence on politics and news at #1pound40
Last Wednesday was the latest incarnation of Amplified, the network of networks that a group of us started last year, and which has grown and evolved in to a grass roots, non-profit movement of likeminded practitioners in many fields connected together by the social media topic. The £1.40 Unconference, was hosted in excellent surroundings at […]
Forbes Gaffe: Prints Private Chat Between AP Reporters. How to Correct Online Publications.
The Forbes Gaffe Ok, now that I got your attention with the title, this is about more than Forbes’ Royal Gaffe. But first things first: Forbes mistakenly printed a “story”, (update: original deleted, see saved copy) which isn’t a story but private chat between two AP reporters, and should not have been published at all […]
Blogging as Creative Destruction
(Editor’s note: the following is an excerpt from Dan’s book, Boom and Bust in the Blogosphere) Blogging has fundamentally changed the landscape of written media and how written media is consumed by the regular public in many countries. There is a lot of creative destruction to industries when people, regular people, take to public forums, […]
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 […]
Fired for Blogging? You Are Not Alone.
There are a number of people who fall under the heading of fired for blogging across multiple industries, dating back to near the start of the blogging online journal era. People who have been fired for blogging reach across all industries, and job positions. Many of the people who have been fired for blogging could […]
Free Copy of Boom and Bust in the Blogosphere
Well going to try to release this book again, the publisher sent along 20 copies of the book today so I have been busy stuffing them into envelopes. The copies that I have are on their way to people who are going to get a free copy of the book. But while I was there […]
Helpstream Gets New CEO – Hope We Did Not Lose Him as Blogger
We’re Bob Warfield fans here @ CloudAve: Ben called Bob a blogger role model, and I share his feelings, although in a strange moment Bob said he was reading my blog religiously 🙂 Perhaps when he wants to laugh? Joke apart, Bob is a software veteran whose most recent gig was Executive VP of Helpstream […]
CancelAds: New Startup Service to Help People Monetize Blogs
Of all the ways that people try to monetize blogs, and the many ways that users have of short circuiting those monetization efforts, a good friend of mine Svetlana Gladikova of Profy fame has introduced me to a new program called CancelAds. This might just be the middle ground between casual users who might click […]
1000
Today we hit a major milestone at CloudAve: this is our One Thousandth post. I thought the best way to celebrate is to publish our Top 10 list compiled by you, dear Readers. So here’s the Top 10 most read post @ CloudAve: Netbook or Notebook? It’s Not Only About Size Steve Jobs Panic – […]
Startup CEO Who "Won't Take VC Abuse" Is Now a VC Himself and Blogs About It.
Valleywag named Mark Suster, then CEO of Koral “one entrepreneur who won’t just take VC abuse” for his blog post “slamming one VC partnership for tardiness, inadequate preparation, and bad Blackberry manners.” That was late 2006… Not long after the “incident” his startup, Koral received funding, which, in hindsight was probably unnecessary: a few months […]
We Need Feedburner Alternatives
CloudAve uses Feedburner. If you blog, chances are, you too. We all are. An that’s becoming a problem. Feedburner has become the de facto standard – third party or not, we like to publish our Feedburner feed, instead of our platform’s native RSS or Atom feeds, for the added convenience of getting all stats and […]
Should the Junior level Professional Blog?
I’ve stolen the title from Chad Pursley, who devoted a post to the subject and asked the same question on my older post, Resumes are Dead. Social Media is Your New Resume: Right but to what extent is this a good thing and to what extent can it backfire? Does it change if like me […]
Six Months Reflection, and a Treatise on Transparency
If you’ve ever read our About pages, you probably know that Zoho is our exclusive sponsor. This is a rather unique arrangement, where all Zoho gets in return for its support is the ability to advance the cause of Cloud Computing while leaving all editorial decisions in our hands. When we launched half a year […]
The Irony of Google Ads
I often wrote about misplaced “contextual” ads that created undesirable situations, but this is something else. The Google Ad I saw today is ironic on so many levels, I don’t even know where to begin. Dan Lyons a.ka. Fake Steve Jobs wrote about how he quits blogging, as there is no money in it: While […]
So You Didn’t Make Millions: Don’t Quit Blogging Just Yet
Image via Wikipedia Do you know who Dan Lyons is? Of course .. Fake Steve Jobs. He just announced he’d quit blogging, since: While blogs can do many wonderful things, making huge amounts of money isn’t one of them. But wait! Did you know Dan Lyons 3 years ago? I admit I didn’t. Perhaps it’s […]
