On July 17, 2009, Dave Carroll’s video was the number three search result for “United Airlines.”
Book publishing in the social age
Here’s an excellent piece by ReadWriteWeb COO Bernard Lunn on the future of the book publishing business. Think about the forces at work in this swirling vortex: traditional publishers, distributors and bookstores; mega-distributors like Amazon.com; eBooks like Kindle; Google, with its aggressive digitization programs; and self-publishing. Do books have a future? Indeed they do. There […]
♫ United breaks guitars; everyone sing along! ♫
Good morning class: For today’s lesson, please view this video: Now, please take note of the number of views on the video (as of this posting, it’s more than 1,300,000). Now, please visit Twitter search and see the traffic: http://search.twitter.com/search?q=united+breaks+guitars Now, let’s review the ways it pays to “be good”: 1. It’s a nice feeling. […]
U.S. to Sanford: shut yer pie hole
Every so often the news brings us a complete train wreck, the person who can’t help but do everything wrong. Today it’s South Carolina governor Mark Sanford, who has been discovered having a very public sexual liaison with an Argentinian-woman-not-his-wife. In so doing, he has given us a new euphemism for sexual misconduct: “hiking the […]
Posterous is brilliant
Yes, I’m writing this article on Posterous using my traditional blogging tool, Movable Type. The irony is not lost on me. And no complaints about MT – it’s easy to use, stable, and very well behaved. But Posterous is innovative in some important ways. If you have held off on blogging because it just seemed […]
Porous social networks aid democracy
“And though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play on the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously by licensing and prohibiting misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter?” – John Milton, Areopagitica, 1644 […]
Dear graduate,
I’ve been looking for the right words for some time now, but it always comes off preachy. So instead I will rely upon the words of others, and keep things short. My gift to you! Paul Hawken gave a brilliant graduation address to the students at the University of Portland. I urge you to take […]
Tools to turbocharge your blog
• Web browser FireFox is gaining ground with power users due to its powerful extensions. Here are 15 tools to streamline the workflow of blogging, from CNet. • Transport your Flickr images and slideshows to your blog or website with simple embed code generated by PictoBrowser. • Want to get into blogging and not sure […]
What’s another word for plagiarist?
Our culture is generating more messages than ever, as we email, blog, Tweet and text our way through each day. Everyone can communicate using multiple channels, and that’s a good thing. But there’s a cost: all of these pipes are filling up with junk. Junk people writing junk messages, junking up the channels of communication. […]
Graduating students: don’t listen to me; listen to these media pros
It’s an exciting time in the halls of the academy these days; graduation is near. And it’s also a scary time, because graduating students are entering a marketplace in shambles. Old structures are crumbling; new ones have yet to figure out how to monetize. Ack! What to do? Get to work, that’s what. Do something, […]