“I’m a dinosaur, part of a shrinking generation of daily print newspaper readers who likely will disappear in a few decades. And we’re being replaced by folks who “consume media” through the use of RSS feeders, Web portals and blogs.”
As my article in The Guardian today shows, putting the full content of your site into the RSS feed is a tricky business. The main problem is from unsavoury characters taking feeds and using them on splogs. Personally I think even full feeds, with adverts, still won’t cut it against the sploggers – they’ll just rip out the ads – and the audience for RSS is still not really that
The guys over at Custom Communication are organising an event called Blogging for Business: How Blogs Can Help and Hurt Your Business in February next year. Out of a lot of events about blogs (and believe me, I’ve been to a few) I’d say this is going to be one of the most properly focused yet. It’s often hard to pin down what, exactly, blogs are capable of in a
I’m going to the Apple event tonight. Think Secret has changed its mind about it just being upgrades to the Powerbooks and now admits it may actually be the video iPod. I think the telling sentence is this: “Rumors have swirled for months concerning Apple’s sale of music videos at the iTunes Music Store, and those plus video podcasts and television broadcasting appear better positioned at this point for a
Taken from the worlds first ever web page by Tim Berners Lee: “As I write Jean-Francois is presenting it live…”. Blimey… that’s kind’ve spooky… But then he did originally envision the Web to be a “read AND write” medium.
In 1998 I sat across a desk from Jason Calacanis in his Manhattan office. At the time he was riding an upward curve (in fact his company was called Rising Tide Studios). His magazine, Silicon Alley Reporter – which had started out more like a fanzine – was bulging with ads and he’d just launched a sister title in Los Angeles. He was doing well. I was editing New Media
I’m at a conference for editors at a large traditional business publisher, Reed Business Information. I’m here to about how blogs have successfully used personality, character and attitude to gain attention (that’s a simplification – obviously there’s the whole Cluetrain stuff as well, among many other things). Mention is made of Rafat’s PaidContent, which is described as a blog about paid-for content (except, to be brutally honest, outside of its
I’ll be blogging for MocoNews.net (news about mobile content btw) this week at Mobile Content World in London this week. Come say hi, if you’re around. I’ll be in the press office.
I’d like to be able to register on the Channel 4 Dispatches web site forum to discuss the programme on right now. I’d like to. But guess what? You have to register (fine) but your registration “may take up to 24 hours to be approved. If you do not verify your account within four days then your account will be deleted and you will have to register again.” Oh dear.
The following is an article by a journalist colleague, Robert Dwek. He doesn’t have a blog, but as this is such a good article (first published in Marketing Week magazine), I offered to post it here. Enjoy. Read on… Are you familiar with something called MSM? Do you like fisking? Do you frequent the Blogosphere? No, I’m not referring to exotic sexual practices in a subterranean night club. I am