In the FT today
Managed to get a piece into the FT’s Digital Business about PodcastCon. Subscription only, alas, but based on my post here (free).
Talk about small pieces loosley joined
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
Talking at Reed Net happening
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…
Reflections on PodcastCon
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.
At PodcastCon
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
Paul Carr crosses the line
UPDATE: The following is a post I put up in 2005 , attacking Paul Carr, Guardian columnist and internet entrepreneur. As much as I think that in journalistic terms he was totally out of order PR-ing his company in his column (see below for the details) I also don’t want this post to stand forever about how I feel about Carr and his ventures. There will be other things he
Mobile craps all over Internet World, but is destined to repeat history
I went to Internet world in Earls Court today. Put it this way. There were lots of servers and lots of vendors of content management software. (Someone should tell them about Open Source and blogging). But the real buzz was around the New Media Marketing Seminar Tent. Everyone seems to have realised they have no idea what to do, now they actually have the servers and the web site and
3G backlash?
One has to wonder if there will be a backlash against video mobiles if ‘happy slapping‘ carries on.
Come to a roundtable on blogging
I’m chairing a roundtable discussion on blogging next week. Anyone can come, so long as they are a paid-for member of Netimperative.
Question: Why do we need the blog entrepreneurs, exactly?
Thing is, all we need is an advertising system (subject to competition), an e-commerce system (subject to competition) and some kind of loose financial arrangement (which doesn’t involve copyright). Outside of that, bloggers should be free to move around as the deals take them. That’s the point… Maybe Battelle gets this. Maybe not.