Archive for January, 2008

Shill – New podcast from Doug Walker and David Jones

January 21, 2008

David Jones (blogger at PRWorks, podcaster at InsidePR and Worker at Hill & Knowlton) and I have been talking about doing a podcast together for a couple of months now and we are now proud to finally release of Shill #1.
Shill represents the reaction of Social Media to Mass Media in the same [...]

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Interruption Vs. Engagement

January 14, 2008

Interesting article in Emarketer on three hidden 2008 trends. While I wouldn’t exactly call these three trends “hidden” they are not easily supported with numbers (which is eMarketer’s raison d’etre).
1. Increased media fragmentation – important, but The Long Tail opened and closed the book on that as a trend.
2. Internet as central hub for marketing [...]

Posted in Advertising, Attention, Blogs, Culture, Media, Opinion, Social Media, TV, Tech, Trends, Web 2.0 4 Comments »

Apologies

January 14, 2008

Between the holidays, lots going on at work, business trips, etc. I have been remiss in posting to this blog and nailing down interviews for the Social Media Today podcast.
As for the blog I promise to be better in the coming weeks, but that promise is only worth the electrons that it was written on.
But [...]

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If everyday purchases had Terms of Service

January 11, 2008

Garbage Terms of Service, ULAs and other forms of nonsense legal documentation drive me nuts. By virtue of being in the web business if I had to read and understand every ULA that I “agreed to” I could never get any work done.
I firmly believe that it is the responsibility of any web or software [...]

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