Techmeme Launches Mediagazer

Today Techmeme launched a new vertical called Mediagazer, which will aggregate news about the media industry.  This is the company’s fifth aggregation site, joining Memeorandum (politics), WeSmirch (gossip), Ballbug (baseball) and the original, Techmeme (technology).  You can read the post announcing Mediagazer here.  I’m sure this will quickly become a must read for those interested in the changing media landscape....

Oscar Sunday Gets Social on Facebook

As most of you may know, this Sunday is the 82nd Academy Awards.  While I’m not happy with some of the retro changes (let’s be honest and say that the ten Best Pic nominees could’ve been whittled down to four films, including one that was completely overlooked, The Informant) we’ll see in this weekend’s ceremony,...

Redesigning Websites in Public

Living in DC, I have a lot of friends that went to Georgetown University, and have been a fan of the basketball team since the Patrick Ewing days.  Given my loose ties to the school, I’ve been watching with interest as Georgetown staff blog publicly as they redesign their website,...

State of the Internet

Very cool video from the folks at Jess3, featuring tons of great stats on Internet usage around the world.

JESS3 / The State of The Internet from Jesse Thomas on Vimeo....

Finding Value in Google Buzz

I’m not an early adopter of the latest tool. I’ll happily  sit back and wait for the dust to settle before I consider using any new application.

It has been my experience that this is a good practice. Most of what hits the social web usually putters and falls into obscurity....