I’ve been getting compliments on this podcast interview all week. Turns out Sheryl is a great interviewer and I had just been to the dentist (I was sitting in my car in front of my dentist’s office when she called). Anyway, thanks Sheryl for a fun interview. In it I tell you where Facebook or [...]
In all the hype about celebrities over on Twitter and Facebook we’ve forgotten something: experiences you have with crowds of other people are rarely magical unless it’s a concert and, even then, I’ve seen musicians give concerts to four of my closest friends and then go out and give concerts to thousands of people. I [...]
I’ve been watching the tech bloggers quite closely for some time now. Here’s a database of more than 17,000 of my favorite posts, Tweets, and videos from them. But I’ve noticed a few things.
1. They are AWESOME at covering news. For instance, watch how TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Steve Gillmor, Louis Gray, Hutch Carpenter, and a variety [...]
I just changed my theme to one of the plain ones. I did that because we’re getting ready to make lots of changes. So, sorry I’ll be ugly for a while. Of course many of you are reading this in RSS so have no idea what I’m talking about. :-)
Last Saturday on the Gillmor Gang Mike Arrington wondered aloud whether Twitter had won a “winners take all” game and whether that meant that friendfeed was toast. He then wrote a blog post titled “FriendFeed is in danger of becoming the coolest app no one uses.”
If Arrington is right, then Friendster would have kept MySpace [...]
Instead of cleaning up their industry and getting rid of all the people who send me bad pitches, the industry has gone on attack. Shel Holtz has one of the kinder versions of this attack.
This is why I got out of the news business and why I don’t care anymore about getting on Digg or [...]
