Former President Bush to write a book on decision making
George W. Bush (via last.fm)
There is a certain amount of irony here, but reports are surfing that Former President Bush will write a book on making decisions. This almost reads like a Fark headline, but this is not the case. There really is a book deal here as reported by Read Street.
Former President George [...]
Some interesting aspects of the Long Tail
Image by DavidErickson via Flickr
We all keep statistics on what is popular and what is not about what we write, but what if your long tail articles are getting to be more popular that what you are writing now? It might be time to look at what people are looking at, and decide if you [...]
Challenge Siany who knows what might happen
Image via WikipediaSian Meads, is raising money for the MS Trust (Multiple Sclerosis Trust) in the UK, and has put out a challenge, “Sponsor me to look like an Idiot” for everyone globally. I have a family member who has MS, and I am thinking of what I can help Sponsor Sian to do, so [...]
RIAA to abandon lawsuits against individual file sharers
Image via WikipediaPut this one firmly in the “I’ll believe it when I see it” category, but the Wall Street Journal is reporting that RIAA is going to abandon individual lawsuits in favor of pressuring ISP’s to become traffic cops for file sharing.
Frankly I want to know which ISP’s they are working with so [...]
Let me introduce myself
Having an interesting conversation with Phil about the use of Anonymity and the inability to find out the personality behind a blog. In that light, and since I blog all over the place under my own name all the time, I honestly never thought of it, but I would like to introduce myself to you [...]
What is up with all the friend feed connections Louis Gray is what is up
Image by via CrunchBaseI see this rash of friend feed connections in my e-mail and am wondering what is up?
The good part is that this rash of connections is all down to Louis Gray, and his guest blogger Mike Fruchter (who taught me a bit about social media whales) thanks by the [...]
Lori Drew dodges a felony
Image via WikipediaWhat does that mean for the rest of us, given that few of us read let alone understand EULA’s or Terms of Service (TOS) for many of the web sites that we interact with on a daily basis.
I am ambivalent on this one, while she dodged the legal felony; it is good [...]
The Chinese will continue to engage better than Americans
Image by TonZ via FlickrI was at a presentation last night where I was talking to a group of Chinese business people about incorporating social media into their culture. How Chinese business can use social media to their own advancement using JetBlue, Comcast, Google and Beth Kanter as my examples on how to reach an [...]
What you should look for in a social network community manager
Image by Getty Images via Daylife Also cross posted on IT Toolbox.
The relationship economy posted a great article pointing out that in the last three years social media jobs have grown some 325%. The problem though is how you make sure you are hiring the right people for the job. Since we are looking [...]
Testing micro payments for Journalists
Image by xeni via FlickrSimon one of our readers sent over a PBS article on crowd funding as a way to support journalists. In that a small town, or even a city hires a journalist to cover local events and local news, which is directly paid by micro payments to the journalist directly, or more [...]
How do you reward the sites you like
Image by Lukadium via FlickrWe all have blog sites that we like, and those we love, the question is how you reward them when they write something particularly brilliant. For me it is all about stumble upon, I will stumble the brilliant article, and see what happens. With some testing, I have done, when I [...]
Like a Jilted Lover Yahoo seeks Partner
Image via CrunchBaseAfter rebuffing Microsoft, and now being rebuffed by Google, Yahoo is acting like a jilted lover who abandoned one suitor in favor of another, only to find out that the other suitor was just playing along for a little bit.
While Jerry Yang has to be wondering what happened as they wake up [...]
Boom and Bust Cover Art
Got the cover art for the book “Boom and Bust in the Blogosphere” in today. Now if we can change the pink to blue, I think this will work. What does everyone else think? Good? Bad? Ugly?
tags: Book, boom and bust in the blogosphere, book cover, art, seeking feedback, comment please
What makes Chris Pirillo so Cool
Image via WikipediaThis is an excerpt from the upcoming book - Boom and Bust in the Blogosphere. The book has gone to the publishers, and should be out at the end of the year.
Chris Pirillo is a unique blogger in that he runs multiple ways of getting information to the people who follow him. He [...]
That is what we needed a new version of the dead pool
Thank you Techcrunch, with their dead pool feature, they might just become the F’d company for dot com bust version 2.0. Go wander on over here to check it out.
Moreover, yes, we need this; we need this feature badly because as companies lay off folks, people need to know that they are not alone. [...]
