With Nick Denton's backing, 22-year-old Nick Douglas chronicles the not necessarily glamorous lives of Silicon Valley's prometheans in his Valleywag blog. The LA Times reports (requires registration): Some techsters hope the site will undercut the image of Silicon Valley as a place filled with pocket protectors and taped-up eyeglasses, where it's all work and no play for the people creating the next generation of …
Shish Kabobs For All
Jeremiah Owyang has some excellent advise for writers who publish on the web. Research indicates that people who read online tend to skim content, rather than read work for work, line by line. I encourage bloggers to write in the style of 'Shish Kabob', rather than writing in the style of the 'Steak'. Cut up your meat for your readers, make it easy to read. …
Legal Departments Must Be Kept Far Far Away From The Firm’s Blog
From Online Media Daily: Among the hurldes faced by corporations that want to blog, some of the most formidable come from their internal legal departments, said panelists at the OMMA Hollywood Conference & Expo Tuesday. Consider the blog by golf equipment company TaylorMade-Adidas golf, which launched about 18 months ago. When bloggers want to mention a particular golf club, the legal department wants a symbol--an …
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The Medium Is Not The Message. The Message Is The Message.
According to BBC News, an anonymous blog by a young woman in war-torn Iraq has been longlisted for BBC Four's Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction. Baghdad Burning, a first-hand account written under the pseudonym Riverbend, is one of 19 "books" in contention. The winner of the £30,000 prize will be announced on 14 June. Here's some of the writing from her latest post, to give you an idea about why she's …
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Lurid Content Brings Mad Traffic
According to Technorati, Steve Rubel's site, Micropersuasion, has 10,733 links from 3,149 sites. I bet there are times—now, for instance—when Rubel wishes there were a link, or two, less. Strumpette, the latest entry into the PR blogging club, came out with all guns firing. In her first post, Amanda Chapel rips Rubel and his employer, Edelman, a new one. Rubel’s uncensored words are an indelible tattoo on the …
BMW Films Just The Beginning For Baba
"Either create something worth seeking out, or you will be kept out." -Baba Shetty If you want to know why Hill Holiday scrapped their brochureare site in favor of a blog, I think it's safe to say it was Baba Shetty's doing. Baba also keeps his own blog, called Just a blip. [via Diablogue] …
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Time Ups The Snarky Quotient
From The Media Mob: Ana Marie Cox, the former editor of Wonkette.com and the author of Dog Days, has signed on to be a columnist for Time. She will file a weekly column on politics for the Web site and a monthly column in the magazine. Cox said, "My only regret about selling out to Time is that it didn't happen earlier." Cox will be joining fellow mainstream-journalist-turned-blogger-turned-mainstream-journalist …
More Crying About Cut And Paste Blogging
You can add Piers Fawkes to the list of bloggers who believe their precious content ought not to be lifted, except in small parts. Guys, http://www.coolbusinessideas.com/archives/hit_parking.html Thanks again for referencing our site with the Hit Parking piece. I do enjoy the spread of ideas featured on PSFK, but I do find that the complete cut and paste of one of our articles to be very lazy. Could you not have …
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