Wondering what to read online?
This Vanity Fair chart provides guidance on what influential blogs cover what and — most importantly — where they land on the scale of scurrilous to earnest, and from news to opinion.
Inverted pyramids need not apply.
Now that Facebook is lifting a 5,000-cap on the number of friends that members may have, do you feel unpopular?
I have a select Facebook circle of friends and use email, IM and TXT as primary quick communications tools. In-person meetings or cellphone work best for the more personal and serious discussions.
If you have 5,000 Facebook [...]
If you keep a blog and can track what catches the majority of readers’ eyes (other than Paris Hilton posts or political opinion), you may have noticed: Some visitors find you for your pictures.
If your blog is about photography, design or illustrators, this is the great.
If you’re sharing ideas, examples and observations, it feels weird.
One [...]
This cautionary tale in the NYT may be a little over the top, but it illustrates the downside for bloggers trying to publish technology scoops.
I remember when news radio was a major player in the San Diego market. The competing stations — and their reporters driving from story to story — would get the headlines, [...]
Oil is over $100 a barrel. Reducing your carbon footprint is good. Google went dark to support Earth Hour.
So why not use video conferencing more and save travel for the only the most crucial business?
SightSpeed is a Berkeley, California-based company that provides VoIP communications for reasonable rates. The company serves everyday folks at home, as well as businesses large and [...]
This story in the New York Times on web titans collecting the crumbs left by Internet surfers should come as no surprise. IP addresses are a digital fingerprint that tells where you’ve been and where you are. It’s how my laptop displays San Diego businesses in Google text ads.
But the most interesting part of the NYT article is the last [...]
The voters have spoken. Now the marketers for each candidate make their next moves. Tonight on Sen. Hillary Clinton’s website it’s all about momentum and building the war chest. Over at Sen. Barack Obama’s website, the big picture showing win percentage by state. No sign of loss in Ohio or the projected (Associated Press) defeat in Texas.
This [...]
Whose website is best? Hillary or Barack? It’s important. This presidential election cycle is more interesting than any previous one, having been shaped by the web and the online marketing of candidates. It will be studied by strategists long after November, along with analyses of competing campaigns’ tactics on advertising, press, door-to-door-get-out-the-vote, direct mail, phone banks, debates, and continuous PR.
Set [...]
One amazing thing about the web is what can be tracked. Several companies chart website visits and most popular keyword searches, which can be helpful data points for marketers on social trends. Now there’s an online tool to track Twitter.
I don’t Twitter, but I’m fascinated with the hoopla over it. Twittermeter allows you to see real-time the popularity of words being [...]
