Still a Cranky Geek

March 6, 2008

Today, I appeared on Cranky Geeks with a couple of my former colleagues from ZDTV, Tom Merritt, executive editor of , and host, John Dvorak. Also, as always, Sebastian Rupley of PCMagCast was there. We discussed Ask.com becoming a women’s portal, Comcast charging customers $2 to stop sending junk mail, Google Sites, Adobe Air, and […]

Continue Reading

Be top of mind

March 4, 2008

How powerful would your business be if customers and potential customers always thought of you first whenever they had an industry related question? You are first on their mind because you have an online media presence. For the past year you’ve been writing a blog, hosting a podcast, and producing video demos for everyone to […]

Continue Reading

Photos from SanFran MusicTech

March 4, 2008

Last week I spoke at the SanFran MusicTech conference in, you guessed it, San Francisco. I talked briefly about “How to ‘Web 2.0-Enable’ Your Live Event.” The producers, Brian and Shoshana Zisk, implemented many of these functionalities into their event. It was hugely successful. Julie Blaustein, the photographer for this photo, has a collection of […]

Continue Reading

Watch SanFran MusicTech Summit LIVE right now

February 25, 2008

I just spoke at the SanFran MusicTech Summit about “How to ‘Web 2.0-Enable’ Your Live Event.” This is the first time this conference has been produced, and it looks like there’s been a lot of pent up demand for such an event. More than 300 attendees attending two different tracks: technology and legal issues. But […]

Continue Reading

“Be the Voice” – Build Your Business by Becoming your Industry’s Thought Leader

February 24, 2008

“Be the Voice” explains why developing thought leadership is critical to growing your business. You’ll learn how to develop lots of content cost efficiently while avoiding common pitfalls that could cause your company’s media network to fail.

Continue Reading

On KQED-On the end of the Writers' (WGA) Strike

February 16, 2008

Made an appearance last night on KQED’s “This Week in Northern California” talking about the end of the writers’ strike.

Continue Reading

KQED-Microsoft bids for Yahoo

February 9, 2008

I made an appearance last night on KQED’s “This Week in Northern California” talking about Microsoft’s bid to purchase Yahoo for $44.6 billion.

Continue Reading

Introduce yourself to new members of your mailing list

January 30, 2008

About two months ago I added a subscription box on my blog and business site for people to receive news updates. I only send them out periodically and often they’re designed to announce a new project or some new article I want to promote. Prior to the subscription box, every person on my mailing list […]

Continue Reading

Best advice for recording conversations through Skype

January 23, 2008

Doug Kaye and Paul Figgiani of IT Conversations put together this great SlideShare demo of everything you need to get the best quality out of your Skype calls and record them. These guys have done thousands of recordings and this is some great experiential advice. I love to see stuff like this where people share […]

Continue Reading

I'm a Cranky Geek

January 17, 2008

I appeared on John C. Dvorak’s Cranky Geeks this week. We talk about CES, Bill Gates, and the products not to buy this year.

Continue Reading

← Previous Entries

Next Entries →