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Blogging Networks Feeling The Economic Pain

January 31st, 2009 at 10:41 pm » Comments (1)

I have been following the story of Pajamas Media and the closing of their ad network operations as of April 1. This is not earth shattering news as we see the boom days of blog earnings begin to buckle under the economy and crash on the rocks caused by the storm. We have seen other [...]



Twitter Fearing To Make Money But Not Afraid to Borrow Money

January 25th, 2009 at 8:57 pm » Comments (2)

I am not in charge over at Twitter and perhaps after this post we will know why. I was catching up on reading about news on Techmeme this evening and saw that Twitter was raising more capital. I had the same reaction to this as did Ashkan Karbasfrooshan with his take on the similarities to [...]



Classmates Versus Facebook: The Social Network Dichotomy

January 21st, 2009 at 12:26 pm » Comments (1)

The bane of my existence currently is my ever increasing inbox of emails I need to respond to, and I am apparently only worsening the problem as I sign up for more and more social networks.  There is the wild game recipe club, the used furniture network, the parenting pull your hair out network, [...]



Speaking of Blogging For A Living At Las Vegas and Wordcamp

January 6th, 2009 at 10:03 pm » Comments (1)

I’ll be headed to Vegas this week to talk to people at CES and will be also headed to Affiliate Summit the first part of next week. Sandwiched between and/or during those events, I am lucky enough to attend and speak to attendees of WordCamp Las Vegas.
My discussion is one i have had before on [...]



Budgeting Social Media Management

December 4th, 2008 at 11:25 pm » Comments (1)

Reading Marketing Profs Paul Dunay’s post regarding the company budget for social media I found it interesting specifically about the idea behind content creation. Paul states:

Ok but the real cost (again unlike the traditional media stuff) is in Content Creation to fill up those social media / new media channels – here is where the [...]



The State of The Micromediasphere

December 1st, 2008 at 7:44 pm » Comments (0)

One of the things I used to love about Technorati was when Dave Sifry would come out with his State of the Blogosphere address to all of us bloggers.  It sort of gave us a pie in the sky look at the number of blogs and what was happening on the back end of the [...]



Jim Turner and WebProNews Talk About Professional Blogging in Las Vegas

September 24th, 2008 at 8:24 am » Comments (1)

Abby Johnson of WebProNews got a chance to catch up with me while we finished up our presentation about hiring professional bloggers while out at the Blog World and New Media Expo in the Executive and Entrepreneur Track. I moderated the panel of Darren Rowse of Problogger fame, Will Chen and Greg Go. [...]



Live From Las Vegas

September 23rd, 2008 at 12:28 pm » Comments (1)

It’s not exactly “Live From Las Vegas”, okay it is actually recorded from Las Vegas, but you can get a listen in on an interview that was done of me while I was out at Blog World and New Media Expo in Las Vegas last weekend. I intend to post some other thoughts on the [...]



Black Friday–Are We Seeing The Demise of Blogging Networks?

July 30th, 2008 at 12:28 pm » Comments (2)

I have been watching the recent demise of one of my favorite blogging networks called Know More Media. A business blogging network with its focus on the business world. I have been reading Easton Ellsworth’s blog since it’s inception at Business Blog Wire. As I understand it they intend to discontinue paying their bloggers as [...]



Meet Me in Austin at SXSW Interactive

March 6th, 2008 at 8:46 pm » Comments (0)

I’m headed to Austin today and I am typing this post from the airplane trip on the way.  It seems to be a good way to get a post up and I am using Windows Live Writer which allows me to post numerous articles and blog posts from my desktop.  I can draft a [...]