So it looks like there is yet another Wal-Mart/Edelman blog controversy. The gist of the story is that a blog launched in late September that was supposedly written by a couple traveling across America in an RV and spending nights parked in Wal-Mart lots. It turned out the blog was paid for by a Wal-Mart funded group and one of the blog's authors is a Washington Post photographer. ...
Continue ReadingIn the wake of the purchase of YouTube by Google, there has been a lot of discussion about online video and the various companies trying to gain market share in the space. When you look at the various players, you’ll see a lot of different approaches. Some focus on viral video. ...
Continue ReadingWe’ve written often here about social news sites like Digg, Reddit and Netscape that give users control of what appears on the sites’ homepage through voting. Until a few months ago, these sites were really geared towards techies, so they were largely ignored by politicians and advocacy groups.
Now that these social news sites have built an audience and expanded their focus beyond technology news, ...
Continue ReadingUpdate: The folks at Blip Tv contacted me and corrected my statement that YouTube was the first company to allow bloggers to imbed third party video content on their own sites. Blip TV launched that feature one month before YouTube. My original post follows.
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Continue ReadingIt is just sort of a fact that very few trade associations blog. One of the few that does is the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), whose blog is called shopfloor.org.
Not only does NAM blog, it does so very effectively. What makes shopfloor.org work is that it is written by real live human beings who have opinions. ...
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