David Sifry of Technorati shares some thoughts on niche publsihing. This realm of publishing, which I call "The Magic Middle" of the attention curve, highlights some of the most interesting and influential bloggers and publishers that are often writing about topics that are topical or niche, like Chocolate and Zucchini on food, Wi-fi Net News on Wireless networking, TechCrunch on Internet Companies, Blogging Baby on …
Hyperlinks Subvert Hierarchies
Doc Searls is considering the big bloatospheric issues again. I have this idea that the blogosphere is the one place in the world — or perhaps an entirely new world, or a part of a new world, created on the Net — where there is no need for class, for caste, for gates or keepers of anything. To me this is a world where the only success that fully counts is in helping move good ideas along, in helping make this new …
She Packed My Bags Last Night Pre-Flight
Are you up on vlogger du jour Amanda Cogdon? She has a site called Rocketboom and her ship is preparing for blast off. Cogdon recently conduced an eBay auction for the first ad on Rocketboom. Business Week reports that the winning bid was $40,000. The winning bidder is TRM, an ATM and photocopy services company. Andrew Baron, the co-founder of Rocketboom says they aren't saying more about the ads right now, but are …
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“Aggregator” Is A Bad Word. How Original.
BL Ochman and her buddy Steve Hall, believe blog space is sacred space. That it need only be filled with precious "original" content. Adrants' Steve Hall told me yesterday that he believes Technorati and others are "measuring the wrong thing." What they should measure, he says, is how much original content is on a blog. A large percentage of blogs just aggregate other bloggers' content, or provide links to articles …
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Vlogging The Bubble (Watch Out Comedy Central)
Geek Entertainment TV is "an emerging global media empire, reporting three times a week from deep inside the bubble as it re-inflates. GETV covers buzzword compliant topics such as web 2.0, tagging, AJAX, social software and the bubble juice known as VCs. We like robots, so you'll hear about that too." GETV was founded by Irina Slutsky and Eddie Codel. Irina is a writer, blogger and bubble know-it-all who once …
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Database Theory: An Explanation
I believe what is not said is often just as important as what is said. Therefore, I leave a lot out of my writing. This post is meant to fill a few holes. Yesterday, Steve Hall made a public cry for me to write "original" material in this space. Like he does in his. I have nothing against that approach, but I have other ideas about what we're up to with AdPulp. As some of our supporters have said, they find a good …
AdPulp Tied To Whipping Post
Did I miss the mandatory ad blog etiquette meeting? I must have, because not one, but four, prominent ad bloggers have gone out of their way to school me recently. Ad-Rag's DaBitch wanted to know why I felt the need to "take" copyrighted photos from Flickr. I thought "Additional Information This photo is public © All rights reserved " Meant that you can't repost it. Or shant rather, because clearly, you can. Then, …
Coca-Cola Launches Conversational Site
Katie Foley, a student at UGA in Athens, is blogging from Torino as one of six members of Coca-Cola's new Torino Coversations. I just arrived in Torino last night, and as I took my first walk through town, I found myself in awe of this beautiful city. I've been to Italy once before, and everything about Italian culture inspires me to step back and appreciate the small things in life, like bumping into a friend on …
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