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Mike Davidson, CEO of Newsvine, suggested that he wants to keep his RSS feeds pure — no ads, no content other than headlines — so that the feed is just an update mechanism to drive content back to his site. That’s the third time today someone’s suggested that the publisher can decide the consumption dynamics […]
Richard Edelman on PR and Syndication
Richard Edelman is on the stage, talking about PR in the new media landscape. I’ve been listening (and not taking notes) for most of the discussion, but found the last discussion point interesting: when asked about the Wal-Mart brouhaha a couple months ago, Richard suggested that the crux of the problem was that one of […]
Checking in from Syndicate - Jarvis unkeynote
Jeff Jarvis is giving an un-keynote where he’s leading a group-wide discussion to kick off Syndicate. The audience “voted” by indicating that they want to talk about “Money and syndication” first (shocker! people want to make money on their content!). Some questions:
First questioner asked about the repurposing of his feeds, and suggested that he derives […]
LinkedIn Outlook Toolbar rocks
I’ve been a LinkedIn user since its early beta days, and while I was initially intrigued by it (at the time, I was working for a CRM company and was mostly looking for competitive info) it took a couple years for LinkedIn to be a useful tool for me: ironically, after leaving said CRM company, […]
Props to Lenovo
Less than two hours after my post on Tuesday about my laptop dying, I had a phone call from David Churbuck, who’s the global head of web marketing for Lenovo. I’m always amazed when I hear that people read my blog — I suppose I shouldn’t be, given the business I’m in — and when […]
Direct Marketing conference
I just finished participating in a panel discussion with Marty Donner (GM at ReturnPath) and Neil Rosen (CEO at eWayDirect) at the DirectMedia client co-op. We had a pretty full room — and not a single person there subscribed to a podcast. Only a half dozen knew what feeds were.
It was obvious there was a […]
Survey, take 2
The site survey link is now live, so any of you who regularly read this site, feel free to take a couple minutes and anonymously tell me all about yourself by clicking that link below.
John Zeratsky shared some details about how I did this. I’m pretty excited by this, as it’s a terrific […]
In my day, you mailed your bills in
About a month ago, I traded in my Jetta for a Subaru B9 Tribeca. There was a good promotion going on at the time, which meant that the car is financed through Chase as opposed to the bank I ordinarily deal with for car loans.
Two weeks ago I received the paperwork to set up autopayments […]
Explain to me disclaimer again?
Hilarious quote from a not so funny situation:
“It’s for fun and games,” spokeswoman Katie Kroft said.“This is why we have everybody sign a waiver.”
Someone needs to go back to media training. When kids are injured, the words “fun” and “games” shouldn’t be in your lexicon.
Blogs as conversations
Just caught this 2 week-old quote from Mark Beese:
Rick Klau once told me that blogs are an online, two-way conversation about ideas. I am surprised, and very pleased, to discover this to be true.
Mark, I’ll assume your surprise isn’t because it was me saying it. Mark was writing about the conversation that ensued from […]
