July 2008
17 posts
Eff You Cat! →
I don’t know where he gets the time, but Kyle Monson, besides being an about-to-hit-it-big musician (Mere) and an editor at PC Magazine, is also a genius.
Online Social Media, Returning Us to American... →
This is a great read.
And, as I also said in the comments, I love it when personal blogs serve as an outlet for the deeper kinds of thinking/analysis that we are all obviously missing in our daily, professional lives (with all respect to Mashable, in this example).
I’m seriously considering the following — we start a peer-reviewed blog of blogs that is full of minimum 750 word posts...
Falken's Maze -- Episode #4 →
Episode #4 includes guest Peter Berger of Alitora, an enterprise semantic company focusing on solutions for the pharmaceutical and bio-tech industries. We really wanted to have someone onto the series who represents the “other” side of things i.e. the enterprise, because the B2C startups doing (admittedly cool) things in this space often get the lion’s share of the press, and perhaps unfairly. The...
Neatorama -- Back to the Future Hoverboard Auction →
Too awesome not to share #2.
ZombieHarmony - One of the Best Free Dating Sites... →
This is too awesome not to share.
In the vein of our friend Louis Gray, my list of...
Well, I guess a list isn’t much of a list when there’s only 3 things on it. That’s more of a bunch, I suppose, or a smattering, at best, hehe. But we love lists, and this is the first of what I hope will become a semi-regular ode to Louis’ own posts about the most important tech bloggers that you don’t know that you don’t know.
As a PR person I spend my days...
A source is a source, of course, even when it's... →
Jordan has a great piece up on Peter Shankman’s HARO (Help a Reporter Out). But he leaves out the most important part — Shankman’s thrice daily e-mails are HILARIOUS, and worthy of being published in their own right. Well-deserved attention for a rockin’ service.
In fact, you’re going to see a number of PR-related startups and services emerge over the next 6-8 months...
PR on Alltop has arrived →
I’m an Alltop lover (and I know that there are haters out there). Nonetheless, a great resource for PR peeps — now all Guy and co. need to do is add a OneSpot-esque vertical sidebar that aggregates the most popular posts among the bunches listed…
Initial thoughts on the Techcrunch Web Tablet... →
I’m sorry but this is just freakin’ smart. How they’ll navigate the compensatory issues is obviously the thorniest obstacle — but seiously, this is a fantastic idea — TC (and others) are in a unique place of knowing what the market has and what the market needs (even craves). Now they can productize that expertise, in the form of an ongoing collaboration with their...
Louisgray.com -- Social Media Experts are the new... →
This is a great and well thought-out post. As supporting evidence, at least anecdotally, I know of 3 different very high-profile social media experts who already have or are planning to segue into something else because they see their role as more of a job and less of a career per se. Even at marketing and PR firms where these individuals are in relatively high demand right now, the internal goal...
Bloggy Ascendency
It’s no secret that most of the so-called B-list superstar tech bloggers are now writing for A-list sites — in fact, it’s been a prominent meme for a few months now — Steven and Mark at Mashable, Cyndy at The Standard, MG at Venturebeat, Sarah and Corvida and Frederic at ReadWriteWeb, etc. — the list goes on.
But it’s hapeening at a bigger level too, obviously...
Twitter / Xeni Jardin -- Wishing there was a... →
Hehehe OTFLMAO — well put, Xeni;)
Falken's Maze -- Episode #3 →
Episode #3 features Mark “Rizzn” Hopkins of Mashable, who has recently begun a video podcast series on his personal site about all things Semantic Web, AI and robotics, with a healthy dose of ye olde social media thrown in for good measure;)
We start off by discussing the MSFT-Powerset acquisition, as well as the drunken revelry that inevitably ensued (paging Owen Thomas…) We then segue into...
Instant coworkers -- Austin American-Statesman →
A great article by Omar about Austin’s two (forthcoming) coworking spaces — Conjunctured and LaunchPad. Congrats to John Erik, Cesar, Dusty and team! It’s high time that stuff like this started happening here in Austin, and it’s no small achievement. But at the same time, it’s just the beginning of something much bigger that is going to change the face of Austin.
YOUmoz -- SEO and the Semantic Web →
An awesome piece by Twine’s John Clarke Mills that is particularly topical given MSFT-Powerset, as well as Yahoo/Searchmonkey. Twine will be opening up to Google and other search engine crawlers in the near future — and it will be very cool to see all of that content (the public stuff within Twine, that is) become available more widely, and to start showing the world what’s been...
Falken's Maze -- Episode #2 →
Episode #2 features our first special guest, Andraz Tori of Zemanta. Thanks to Andraz, it was an awesome conversation about the evolution of text and text (and content) creation generally. Next up: Mark “Rizzn” Hopkins from Mashable! We’re recording this week so look for us publish again after the holiday weekend.
Study Confirms: Personalization Can Backfire --... →
Well, it ain’t rocket science to figure out even without an official study, but as it turns out, people can detect when someone is pretending to be friendly and “personalizing” marketing messages or pitches. Some PR person is inevitably going to write something about this, linking it back into best practices, etc. Lemme help everyone out. You know, like. Don’t. Suck.
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