This is a teaser post. I am waiting to talk about this further, but to tease out the future of blogging economics I wanted to point out a great post worth reading. Blogging and social media is changing and is very relevant. Advertisers just don’t know how to engage with it. Example quote from ...

Kara Swisher has a classy post that pays tribute to Mike Homer.   Mike died in his home on Sunday of a rare, neurodegenerative “prion� disease, which in Homer’s case has occurred sporadically rather than via infection (the well-known variant that occurs in animals is called mad cow disease),...

I am launching a new blog next month and I really wanted to get a pulse from the twittersphere on what pisses them off about blogs.  I put out a tweet today about what pisses people off about blogs - the responses poured in so I thought I’d keep the list here. I will use the comments to docum...

Here is a great post by Jason Baer on the fallacies of social media. Social media is the email marketing of our web 2.0 everyone will do it but how is the question.  I’ve been doing it for years and I agree with this post.  I’ve added some of my comments in { } below.  Thanks Jason fo...

Comparing Silicon Valley to Detroit is ridiculous, but Dan Lyons does bring up a big issue worth discussing - innovation problem. Silicon Valley is not setup for long term research in a way that made it what it is today. We are seeing institutional research vaporize in front of our eyes. Checking ar...

Boomtown has a post speculating that Carol is taking the :bull by the horns” and charging hard to make changes. First up an earnings call that will surely be a bad report. In the NFL they talk about franchise players. In business and startups they talk about the management team. Here Yahoo has...

Memo from Jay Aldelson from Digg.  I really love to see how companies are trying to survive.  No doubt Digg will survive - Jay’s a good manager and he would have to seriously screw up royally to fail (that’s certainly possible but highly unlikely).  Techcrunch says it’s growth i...

By Anton Wahlman My fellow Americans, change has arrived in Washington.  Not as much in the area of foreign policy and homeland defense, because I realize that my predecessor and distant cousin Dick Cheney had it right in the hours and days following 9/11 when he set this great Republic on a war fo...

Furrier.org will be at the Mediabistro User Generated Content conference.  I will be covering the event and hopefully announcing some new things. I love mediabistro because it reminds me of my eastcoast upbringing - they have good content but edgy in a professional way. Here is the info on Mediabis...

What a sad week for Seagate.  CEO Bill Watkins (whom I like and have interviewed many times) was ousted and now they are cutting almost 3,000 jobs.  Folks we are seeing the beginning of the massive recession or depression.  Ok we are knee deep in the financial depression.  This is only going to ...