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
Managed to get a piece into the FT’s Digital Business about PodcastCon. Subscription only, alas, but based on my post here (free).
I’m up in Manchester covering In The City, the annual UK music business conference(Sat-Mon), for MusicBites.com and Netimperative.com. Tune in for the coverage…… (Please Google the headline if you don’t understand it).
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’m talking to journalists and editors today at the Reed Editors conference in sunny (well, not today) Brighton. The entire day is about the Internet – and it’s fascinating to see a business publishing company like Reed getting to grips with the ‘new wave’ of online publishing. I’m talking about blogging. Hope it goes well…
Is the geeky, sniggering, know-it-all world of ham radio alive and well in the UK? The answer of course is, who knows and who cares. But it’s clear a similar crowd is being attracted to a new craze – podcasting. That, at least, could well have been the impression some took away from PodcastCon.co.uk, the first ever conference held on podcasting in the UK yesterday. Ok, let me back-up here.
I’m at PodcastCon. Lots of podcasters here, from the UK and abroad. People range from the big media firms (Virgin, BBC etc) to lots of ‘amateurs’ (ie they have a day job too). Interesting stuff. I’ll write it up later (my notes are not great blog material, and I’m too busy making them to blog them as well, sorry). Actually scratch that, here are some badly typed notes form this
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’ve decided to pull back from a couple of things I’ve been doing lately and make myself more available for new projects. No, that is not a round-about way of saying ‘gizzajob’! And I’ll still be writing for the usual suspects. I’m just saying I’m a ‘gun for hire’. There are a number of interesting things going on right now, so it seems like the right time to be open
As someone who has tried in vain to find a decent site to buy a house from, I have to say, this is going to be big. I know people who have been trying to create this kind of thing for ages. Guess what? Just get a Google Maps API and off you go. Fun times ahead…