March 28th, 2007
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Tony Hung has the last word on the “A-listers vs. blue-collar bloggers” debate he started by saying that being an A-lister isn’t about blogging ability, or traffic, or Adsense earnings, or being highly regarded; it is about leveraging your real-life persona to act as an influencer online.
Here’s my take - if you didn’t start blogging in 2002 (or before that), and if you are not a celebrity in your own right, forget about being on the A-list and find other definitions of blogging nirvana.
March 28th, 2007 |
Posted in Blogging
| Tagged with A-List, A-Listers, Bloggers, Blogging, Blogging-Nirvana, Blue-Collar-Bloggers, Technorati-Top-100 |
March 28th, 2007
At the Internet Marketing Monitor War Room, Google is still kicking ass, but Yahoo is fast catching up.
March 28th, 2007 |
Posted in Internet
| Tagged with Amazon, Apple, Ask.com, eBay, Google, Internet, Microsoft, Search, Technology, Wal-Mart, Yahoo! |
March 28th, 2007
Now that News Corp and NBC Universal have tied up to launch the “YouTube Killer” - an online library of big media video assets that could be licensed by online distributors like Yahoo!, MSN, AOL, and MySpace - Rupert Murdoch may be the only one in the online video market-space who ends up owning both content (via the JV) and distribution (via MySpace) in any material and meaningful way.
March 28th, 2007 |
Posted in Internet
| Tagged with AOL, Clown-Co, Google, GooTube, GooTube-Killer, MSN, MySpace, NBC-Universal, News-Corp, Rupert-Murdoch, Yahoo!, YouTube, YouTube-Killer |
March 27th, 2007
I picked up “The Search” by John Battelle because I was intrigued by the very philosophical idea idea of ’search’ being the ‘database of our intentions’. Now that I have read the book, I’m even more intrigued. Especially when I find that if you search for “search” on Google, Microsoft’s Live Search is displayed as the first result, ahead of Google itself! Such generosity warms my heart!
March 27th, 2007 |
Posted in Internet
| Tagged with Google, John-Battelle, Live-Search, Microsoft, Search, The-Database-of-Intentions, The-Search |
March 27th, 2007
In the context of the partly anonymous attacks against Cathy Sierra, Seth Godin links to his three year old post on online anonymity, making me think of my own post on bloggers with pseudonyms.
In the end, who benefits from online anonymity?
March 27th, 2007 |
Posted in Miscellaneous
| Tagged with Death-Threats, Kathy-Sierra, Online-Anonymity, Seth-Godin |
March 27th, 2007
To everybody who has been complaining about “too many videos” on the blog: head over to watch the winners of the First YouTube Video Awards and become a convert. My personal favorites are all there - Terra Naomi singing “Say It’s Possible”, Ok Go doing their treadmill dance, the incredibly sweet-sad video about the kiwi who learned to fly and Juan Mann offering free hugs to strangers - but lonelygirl15 is conspicuous by her absence.
March 27th, 2007 |
Posted in Internet
| Tagged with First-YouTube-Video-Awards, Free-Hugs, Juan-Mann, Kiwi-Animation-Video, OK-Go, Say-Its-Possible, Terra-Naomi, Treadmill-Dance, Videos, You-Tube |
March 27th, 2007
Performancing Metrics promises to give you a more personal understanding of your visitors but looks suspiciously similar to Clicky.
Google Analytics and Feedburner’s Site Stats work for me but I’m also testing Reinvigorate.
Which stats solutions do you use for your blog?
March 27th, 2007 |
Posted in Blogging
| Tagged with Blogging, Blogging-Tips, Blogs, Clicky, Google-Analytics, Novice Blogger, Performancing-Metrics, Reinvigorate, Stats-Solutions |
March 27th, 2007
AfterDark Films is going all out to create buzz for its horror genre movies. Check out the controversial campaigns for the Elisha Cuthbert thriller Captivity and the Patrick Fugitt cautionary tale Wristcutters.
March 27th, 2007 |
Posted in Marketing
| Tagged with AfterDark-Films, Captivity, Elisha-Cuthbert, Horror-Movies, Movie-Posters, Movies, Patrick-Fugitt, Wristcutters |
