A Forrester report released yesterday kicked off once again the debate over paying bloggers to write about products and companies. Blogging purists, new media marketing experts, and Google’s Matt Cutts have all weighed in, indicating this is hardly a debate that will soon be put to rest. Sean ...

Forrester Research is out with a new brief this morning by analysts Jeremiah Owyang and Josh Bernoff that says that sponsored conversations on blogs - akin to what how Chris Brogan partnered with KMart - are going to become more commonplace. Further, they recommend the tactic provided that there are...

I need to get out more. Sitting here with a 40 terabyte direct cranial link to people who agree with me, it’s easy to forget that lot’s of people out there still have good reasons for deciding NOT to take advantage of all that social media has to offer, at either the personal or professi...

It doesn’t happen every day that someone tells me it is “ok” not to be a futurist, especially if that person is a Web celebrity. It happened to me today when Chris Brogan responded to a comment I wrote on his blog post about Google Lattitude (It felt a bit like a father tapping a c...

Image via Wikipedia Great post from JP Holecka here, on what happened to Audi brand mentions after a simple question was asked by Jedi Master Chris Brogan: Chris posed this question: “ What’s the difference, to you, between BMW and Audi ? Which do you feel more strongly about and why? &#...

Image byhttp://www.prestonlee.com/archives/67 via CrunchBase I am not sure any of the old media could ever pull off the a digital newsroom !  There are certain content creators like Chris Brogan Seth Godin Steve Rubel Dave Winer who could show them how, but will they understand !   I don’t ...

Unless you're new 'round these parts, you know that I've been working the CES beat on behalf of Panasonic (a crayon client.)  I had intended to do do lots of blogging and share lots of multimedia, but I was so busy over the past few days that -- other than a post on my first day in Vegas -- I haven...

Tonight I declared Twitter bankruptcy. Earlier today, I joked with a friend that had unfollowed me on Twitter. I said: Three – you unfollowed me on twitter. I almost deleted my account that day, because it was a black, black day in the micah twitter world. I am only joking through my tears… ...

A year ago I wrote about shooting free throws.  In that post I said, I decided that shooting free throws was an important thing to do. It would make me a better person. It would strengthen me. It would help me accomplish something. So I set a goal of shooting 50 free throws a day. I talked about ho...

It's little wonder that Paul Gillin cites Chris Brogan as the best new face in social media in his post on the Best of '08. Chris is not exactly a new face in social media - he's a social media pioneer who pulled way ahead of the pack last year. As Paul notes, he became "...one of the world's top bl...