I'm still Cranky

July 31, 2008

I made another appearance last night on John C. Dvorak’s Cranky Geeks with Sebastian Rupley of PCMagCast and VC Partner David Hornik of August Capital. We talked about the new search engine Cuil, Microsoft revisiting the Folders’ Crystals switcheroo with its suprise Mojave operating system which was really just Vista in disguise, and a redneck […]

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The Social Media Fallacy

July 27, 2008

Below is a short presentation I gave last week to the SVAMA (Silicon Valley American Marketing Association) about how social media has been sold to us through the general media and social media consultancies. The big story that’s constantly sidestepped is that you must first create great editorial content and THEN you can worry about […]

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The Social Media Fallacy

July 27, 2008

Last week I gave a short presentation to the SVAMA (Silicon Valley American Marketing Association) about “The Social Media Fallacy.” I argue that the way social media has been sold to us through the general media and social media consultancies is false and misleading. The big story that’s constantly sidestepped is that social media should […]

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VIDEO: ZDTV/TechTV 10th Anniversary Reunion, part II

July 25, 2008

Tonight I gathered with a group of my ex-coworkers from ZDTV/TechTV for a 10th anniversary reunion. This is our second reunion and a little more organized than the last one. For this one I pulled out my Nokia N82 for a Qik video and just kept shooting and shooting. If you were a ZDTV/TechTV fan […]

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Squawk Box – 7/21/08 – Seven reasons why the new iPhone sucks

July 22, 2008

Yesterday I sub-hosted for Alec Saunders on the Squawk Box. My guest for the show was Andrew Eisner of Retrevo, the consumer electronics search engine. I asked Andrew to come on and discuss his extremely popular article, “Seven reasons why the new iPhone sucks” and how Retrevo finds and indexes all content online about consumer […]

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TEASE: SquawkBox – July 21st, 2008 – Seven reasons why the new iPhone sucks

July 20, 2008

Join us tomorrow for a live interactive podcast with me, David Spark (subbing in for Alec Saunders) and Andrew Eisner of Retrevo, the consumer electronics search engine. Andrew will be talking about his very popular article, “Seven reasons why the new iPhone sucks” plus HDTV during the Olympics, iPhone applications, Bluetooth and wired headsets, and […]

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VIDEO: What does the Google-Yahoo potential ad partnership mean to you? (KQED)

July 20, 2008

Friday night I appeared on KQED’s “This Week in Northern California” all prepared to talk in great detail about the debate going on at Capitol Hill regarding Google and Yahoo’s potentially anti-competitive and monopolistic advertising practices. While we initially talked about that, the conversation trailed off onto a whole variety of related subjects. Watch and […]

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VIDEO: BlogHer '08: Dave interviews Grover on Sesame Street!

July 18, 2008

I’m at the BlogHer conference in San Francisco today which seems like a parallel world of geekdom. I attend tech conferences all the time and traditionally the male-to-female ratio is about 90-to-10. But this conference is completely inverted. It’s kind of nice to be in the minority for once. The conference is literally “a buzz.” […]

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The cool and not-so-cool from SWAT Summit

July 17, 2008

I attended the SWAT Summit, a conference about advertising and social media, at San Francisco’s Westin St. Francis. There was a lot of discussion, case studies, and research reports on advertising and social media. Here’s a summary of some of the cool and not-so-cool issues, research, and companies that presented at the conference. Not-so-cool (but […]

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Welcome to the Be the Voice blog and podcast

July 9, 2008

Welcome to the “Be the Voice” blog and podcast. This blog is an ongoing project to uncover the stories of how businesses are driving business growth through thought leadership. In the new economy of ideas and information, your business growth is dependent on your ability to educate your audience at the time they need to […]

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