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November 2007 - Posts
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Tuesday, November 27, 2007 9:52 AM
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Some great reading here by Steve Outing on his lessons in starting and closing a grassroots media group focused on user generated content. He identifies some of the key challenges and opportunities both in this world. In particular, the business model Read More...
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Tuesday, November 27, 2007 7:15 AM
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In a blog post about movie marketing, Craig makes a point about audience understanding this is critical to all communications -- don't waste money doing "cool marketing" if you are going to end up talking to the same folks who were going to buy the product Read More...
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Monday, November 26, 2007 11:02 AM
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Couple of stories out over the last few days that point to the challenge of thinking about social media as an easy way to drive engagement and interaction. The best one? Molson pulled the plug on Facebook photo contest, and included this money quote from Read More...
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Monday, November 26, 2007 7:29 AM
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The NYT's David Carr admits to information overload and the inability to focus for more than a few minutes at a time, using these as an excuse to a) not read/watch anything that takes more than a few minutes and b) wax effusive about the latest Reader's Read More...
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Friday, November 23, 2007 8:50 AM
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As far as I can tell by reading this story, Joanne Kaufman is the second house fairy godmother for PR people. A call from her magically does two things -- it immediately grants them (retroactively, it appears) a second house in a cool location, and it Read More...
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Monday, November 19, 2007 7:39 AM
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Front page of the Seattle Times, story by USA Today: "Young or old, fewer Americans reading just for fun, studies find." I read the lede of the story, nothing new here, moving on. Same study, as seen in the New York Times : "Study Links Drop in Test Scores Read More...
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Monday, November 19, 2007 7:19 AM
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Reading the NYT Bits Blog in the analog paper as opposed to my RSS feed is a bit of a disconcerting experiences, especially in a slightly undercaffeinated monday morning sort of way. Even worse was reading this entry by John Markoff about Chumby. Dave Read More...
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Sunday, November 18, 2007 9:02 PM
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This piece by Tom Engelhardt in Salon really has me wondering --exactly where is the mainstream media on the Atlanta drought story? As the article points out, there's scads of coverage about what is happening, some on why it happened, very little on what Read More...
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Thursday, November 15, 2007 11:45 AM
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Can't help but notice that two pretty high profile stories that more or less celebrated/created heroes out of their subjects have had a sort of EA Sports Curse/Sports Illustrated Curse impact in pretty short order. To whit: First, the New York Times Play Read More...
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Monday, November 12, 2007 5:45 PM
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Pretty interesting look at What Rick Sherlund does for fun, courtesy of video via the Wall Street Journal. First, it's a fun story about an industry icon, a way of showing a fully three dimensional view of a key character on Wall Street. Second, the clip Read More...
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Sunday, November 11, 2007 7:31 PM
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I'm not sure how to characterize this story from the Style section of the NYT. Is it a harmless fluff piece? Does it accurately capture the zeitgeist of many in the valley? Is it a self help story for those drowning in information? Oh wait, I know -- Read More...
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Friday, November 09, 2007 7:00 AM
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I see in this story that Toll Brothers has picked up a page from the political handbook -- when things are bad, blame the press. Money quote: "Perhaps as the presidential campaign heats up and moves to the front page, negative articles about housing will Read More...
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Wednesday, November 07, 2007 9:08 PM
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The juxtaposition of these two stories is amazing, and the fact that I've not seen anything in the media that just makes the same point is beyond the pale. What do you think? Here: a NPR story about an AT&T Wiretap Whistleblower Fighting a Senate Read More...
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Tuesday, November 06, 2007 9:59 PM
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In a pause from complaining about operating systems :) Dave Winer makes a super interesting point about advertising today. First, the usual caveats -- Microsoft is a client, Microsoft competes with Google. Here's what Dave had to say, in reference to Read More...
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Monday, November 05, 2007 11:03 AM
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Saying Web 2.0 is on the ropes is another way of saying the bubble is about to pop. And those leaping off the bandwagon are the ones who lost sight early on that we weren't in a revolution, the world was not going to change overnight, that technology Read More...
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