Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Why Comments Matter
I was sitting at the pool in Portoroz Slovenia this afternoon and had an interesting experience.
Monday, February 9, 2009
Hasn’t It Always Been About Status?
Facebook’s announcement that they are opening up API access to user’s status updates (and more) is big news. The status update has become the ultimate social gesture. All last year, Facebook, who is the leader in social networking, focused on morphing the user experience, first to the news feed and ultimately to the status update as the primary user experience.
Friday, September 19, 2008
Trying to Make Sense of the Brokerage Bust
Fifty to a hundred thousand high paying jobs are going to go up in smoke in NYC before this is all over. It’s a mess for this city; tax revenues are going to be down, real estate prices are going to be down, restaurants will fail, etc, etc.
Monday, June 16, 2008
Comments Can Be Blog Posts
Yesterday evening I took a quick look at Techmeme and saw that the top two posts at that point in time were Tim O’Reilly and my responses to Mike Arrington’s Yahoo post. I clicked through to see Tim’s post and noticed that Tim had done the same thing that I had done; simply cut and paste the comment I had left on Arrington’s post onto my blog.
Thursday, March 20, 2008
Thoughts on FriendFeed
So now, in addition to this blog, my tumblog, and twitter, I have to pay attention to what’s going on in FriendFeed. So it’s gone from being an aggregator of attention to a demander of attention. Good for them. That’s the way to play the game on the Web.
Monday, February 18, 2008
Journabloggers Should Do Their Work Too
When I started blogging four and a half years ago, there was a clear delineation between bloggers and journalists. But that’s all changed, and now we have this new category, the journablogger.
The journablogger has his or her own blog or works in a blog network like paidContent, TechCrunch, Gigaom, Silicon Alley Insider, ReadWriteWeb, Mashable, VentureBeat, etc., etc. Just look at the top of Techmeme’s leaderboard and you’ll see them right next to the traditional journalists like the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, CNET, etc.
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