Can you put a price on anyone's opinion?

August 9, 2007

The New York Post reported yesterday that The New York Times is giving up on its paid content model known as TimesSelect. Started two years ago, The NYTimes discovered that their editorial pages of Thomas Friedman, Maureen Dowd, Frank Rich, and others were consistently making the top ten list of most read and forwarded articles. […]

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Google really knows how to mess up a wireless spectrum auction for incumbent Telcos

August 3, 2007

The FCC’s auction of the 700 MHz spectrum was going to go like any other. The top Telco’s and cable companies would be the only ones that could afford to participate. They’d make the bids, snatch up the available airwaves, and if they needed the space they bought, they’d use it otherwise they’d sit on […]

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Best of Tom Snyder

July 31, 2007

Conan O’Brien show put together a six minute reel of top clips from the original Tom Snyder Tomorrow show. Some great stuff here especially the quote from Alfred Hitchcock. They didn’t though include my favorite which was when Tom Snyder interviewed John Waters and Divine. Being the cocky bastard that he was, yet completely clueless […]

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Promotional Gag to drive Web traffic

July 27, 2007

At the WordPress conference, WordCamp, this past weekend. There was a photographer running around taking photos of people holding up a piece of paper with their blog address on it and then under it, what they wanted to be. The pictures were to be posted up on this site bodyabcs.com which is the home of […]

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The LonelyGirl15 model of interactive storytelling

July 26, 2007

LonelyGirl15 ushered in a whole new form of video-based micro-evolving storytelling that integrated audience feedback. Even if you’re not a teenage girl, there’s so much to learn from the editorial and marketing opportunities possible with interactive storytelling.

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Hi-tech Hooker Heels

July 23, 2007

Friday night my girlfriend and I went to see a movie that was part of the Sex Worker Film Festival in San Francisco. That’s what I love about this city. We now have a sex worker film festival. There’s very little they won’t have a film festival out here. On Friday night we attended the […]

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I've been Simpsonized

July 23, 2007

I’ve been Simpsonized! Appears that the Simpsonize Me site is down. Major bummer.

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WordCamp 2007

July 21, 2007

I’m sitting in a packed house of about 300 bloggers for a two day WordPress conference, WordCamp 2007. My main argument is everyone in the room is already a WordPress blogger yet many of the presenters are talking to us like we’re newbie bloggers and we’re not familiar with the technology or concepts of blogging. […]

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Facebook: The dialogue of my friends' and colleagues' lives

July 19, 2007

Once squandered to those silly college students, Facebook has undergone a complete branding reversal and is now the social network of choice of social media mavens and digerati. So what just happened? And why are they all flocking to it instead of Friendster, MySpace, or LinkedIn. My theories: Listen to the Spark Minute (John Scott […]

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Appeared on TWiT

July 16, 2007

Made an appearance today with Leo Laporte on TWiT (This Week in Tech) (Running time is 1:05:31). With me on the show is Jason Calacanis and Veronica Belmont. We spent a lot of time talking about his new project, the human-powered search engine Mahalo, and that Veronica is leaving CNET to host a daily podcast […]

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