Archives for November 2006
Top 10 Rules To Help Enterprise Bloggers Spend Less Time With Attorneys
CUNY’s school of journalism has been awarded a $50,000 grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation to develop an online guide to help educate bloggers, citizen journalists and others about legal risks so they can stay out of court.
Jeff Jarvis, head of interactive journalism at CUNY and author of the Buzzmachine blog, [...]
links for 2006-11-19
Video Game Console’s Debut Sparks Violence - washingtonpost.com
How did I know this was going to happen?!
(tags: ps 3 thugs)
links for 2006-11-18
MAKE: Blog: One Laptop Per Child (photos)
While some of this week around the tech sites has been devoted to “unpacking” shots of the Wii, PS3, Zune and other gadgets - the OLPC folks had an unpacking party of their own - the first 10 laptops for the One Laptop Per Child.
(tags: one laptop per child)
Wal-Mart [...]
links for 2006-11-17
WaPo to ‘Shrink Newsroom,’ Revamp Operations · MarketingVOX
Washington Post executive editor Leonard Downie Jr. plans to shrink the newsroom, tighten up the paper’s news hole, crack down on story length, and implement other initiatives that he hopes will build readership of both the printed paper and the website w
(tags: msm newspapers trends)
The .5 Second News Cycle & Who’s On Second?
Jeff Hunt and I taught Dr. Bill Cunningham’s class at UT B-school tonight. About 60 energetic MBA and law students filled the room, and we had a lively discussion around managing the intangible assets of a corporation, such as people, brand and reputation.
I had the chance to test some new research — “The .5 [...]
links for 2006-11-16
How do I get my blog to show up? - blog.memeorandum.com
Gabe Rivera provides advice on how to get your blog on Memeorandum which generates a lot of traffic. If you are in tech and you are going to read one site this is it.
(tags: memorandum techmeme blog best practice)
YouTube - TOMS Shoe Drop 2006
TOMS [...]
Dell’s Second Life Island: Beautiful Architecture & Surprising Interactivity
The blog posts and MSM coverage on Dell Island’s opening in Second Life yesterday is comprehensive — the Red Herring article was especially good so I’ll spare you the basic news.
After the launch event I spent some time wandering around the island and asked the Dell and GCI teams (Dell is a client) a few [...]
links for 2006-11-15
Direct2Dell - Dell’s Blog
Dell launches Dell Island in SL
(tags: secondlife dell)
Q&A with Amanda Congdon
The video blogger has parlayed her success into deals with ABC and HBO. Here’s what she has to say about hitting the big time.
(tags: videocast amanda)
PSFK: Branded Utility Presentation
Thought provoking presentation from Piers Fawkes, PSFK, on Brand Utilities. Piers says in [...]
Most CEOs Don’t Have Time To Blog
There are four Fortune 100 c-level bloggers I can name: Bob Lutz (GM), Jonathan Schwartz (Sun) , John Mackey (Whole Foods, a GCI client) and Ted Leonsis (AOL).
The list is short, but that’s not surprising. There are a lot of reasons that Fortune 100 CEOs and their c-level counterparts don’t blog, but I believe one [...]
Facebook Is Officially Cool
Last night Chris Hunt, the 16-year-old son of our CEO, gave me a tip for a post. He says the students at Westlake High School in Austin have fled the MySpace scene and are now camped out on Facebook. He said MySpace “was dead for my school.”
This reminded me of something I read [...]
