I have been reading about a situation at Web 2.0 Expo that has me as an organizer of speakers a bit befuddled. Danah Boyd’s presentation took a turn for the worst and it turned out to be a bad experience for her and for the attendees. For the long story short version you can see … [Read more]
Sponsored Conversations: Selling Out or Another Way to Make Money Blogging?
By on October 25, 2009
When I first began blogging five or six years ago, there were plenty of arguments over whether or not bloggers should use ads on their blogs. Those who did were considered sell outs. Then the “make money online craze” hit and everyone was posting ads on their blogs and all of a sudden they weren’t … [Read more]
Chad Vader Breaks The Internet and Turns To Blog World Expo For Help
By on September 23, 2009
If you have not seen this video of Chad Vader now is a good time to check it out. We have had quite a chuckle here watching and sending it out via Twitter. Our special thanks to Matt Sloan and Aaron Yonda for their hard work in putting it together and allowing us to have … [Read more]
Ode to BlogHer ’09 – Telling Dad Style
By on August 5, 2009
Ashton Kutcher Threatens to Stop Tweeting – Do We Care?
By on May 27, 2009
Dear Ashton Kutcher, I have news for you. There was a Twittersphere long before you went on national television begging for followers, and there will be a Twitter long after. Your threatening to stop Tweeting if Twitter turns into a reality television show is akin to the many Twitterers who threatened to stop Tweeting if … [Read more]
Google Wants Twitter…Is Twitter King?
By on April 7, 2009
Unless you’re hiding under some sort of stone in the past few days and weeks, you’ve most likely heard the rumors circulating and floating around that Google has officially expressed some interest in acquiring the wildly popular microblogging site, Twitter. Wow. Given the fact that newer rumors are now circulating that Twitter wouldn’t sell to … [Read more]
Do You Read “Terms of Service”? Who Owns Your Content? Should you Be Scared?
By on February 19, 2009
I was recently reading the blog post by Brian Solis over at PR 2.0 entitled "Facebook and the Reality of Your Online Content" and I wanted to ask the question, do you read the terms of service? I came from the legal world before getting into this web 2.0/social media/blogosphere/Twittersphere or whatever the case may … [Read more]
Does Pandora Have a Future?
By on August 17, 2008
For those of you not familiar with Pandora, it is a platform devoted to the music genome. What this means is that you can listen to a particular artist that you like, then Pandora will suggest other bands you may like based on that choice. Pandora uses a complex system to analyze the music to … [Read more]
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