Thoughts on the State of the blogosphere
Dave Sifry, CEO of Technorati, has posted fresh data about the state of the blogosphere and few will have failed to notice the headline that a new blog is created each second. Technorati is now…
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Trapping the power of the blogosphere
The final panel of the AlwaysOn conference talked about harnessing the power of the blogosphere. Time Inc, Technorati, Dan Gillmor, ThinkEquity, Forbes, Mayfield and AlwaysOn were all on the panel. Here are a few notes:…
The $100m RSS fund
Last week saw the announcement of the creation of a $100m VC fund exclusively aimed at RSS investments. RSS Investors, as the fund is known, “will invest in companies working on different aspects of the…
Glass houses
Ho ho – OutCast is now coming under scrutiny over its blogger relations service following its lack of response to Jeff Jarvis’ Dell Hell. [Here, pass me that stone would you?]. Technorati Tags: OutCast
Still no formatting
Apologies once again for the loss of formatting on this blog. Typepad, my blog hosting service, has made some upgrades and a number of blogs, including mine, have been adversely affected. I’ve followed their advice…
IM meets blogging
Typepad, the weblog hosting service for this blog, has had an overhaul this weekend. It has introduced new features for authenticating comments (TypeKey) and for bloggers to moderate trackbacks and comments. It has also increased…
Corporate blogs don’t need to be A-list
I spoke with an experienced marketing vice president this week who had launched a corporate blog for his enterprise software firm. The rest of his site was corporate and perhaps a little dry, but the…
iTunes 4.9 – Podcasting has landed
The much-heralded new version of iTunes (4.9) was released today which includes support for podcasts. Just grabbed a few moments to put it through its paces. It has a good directory of podcasts, though many…
Edelman in Polish takeover spat
Dennis Howlett has an update about the Edelman – Migut Media kafuffle which has been bubbling around on email over the last few weeks. The disagreement allegedly relates to Edelman’s attempted acquisition of Polish PR…
AlwaysOn ramps up
The AO conference is coming up fast on July 19-21. This week we’ve been preparing to announce the AO 100 award winners, which will go out on Tuesday. I’m moderating a keynote by David Kelley,…