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Media Hacking

On Wednesday Dave Winer posted something interesting about Google and its search services. Something that’s missing in Google’s repertoire of information searching tools. It’s something between Technorati, Google News, and Google itself. Think of it as the old-girlfriend query tool. Let’s say I used to date a woman named Tammy. From time to time I [...]

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Not everybody loves the guy, but he is smart and uncompromising when it comes to his beliefs. Blogging, RSS, Podcasting… he has either been in the center or the start of a lot of the social media spaces that have been developed since before the last bubble. For a while I have wondered what he [...]

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Got the chance to hang out this evening with the crowd for the first meeting of the NYC chapter of the Social Media Club (whose tagline is “if you get it, share it”). Chris Heuer (founder of BrainJams, Media Literacy advocate and Bloggercon/Gnomedex attendee) and Howard Greenstein (ex-member of the WWWAC, NYNMA, and all-around evangelist [...]

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Thanks to the J O B I have been neglecting the blogging again. This has to stop. The good news is we have a new NA Director of Technology, my current client is ramping up for a big launch in the coming months, I have made some decent progress on a project I started for [...]

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PaidContent.org (required reading) is running a post about how the LA Times is rolling out its own RSS newsreader. The paper, which has about 5.2 million unique visits monthly, is calling this aggregator NewsPoint. The newsreader has LA Times feeds pre-loaded, includes Video from a local partner and it is open so the user can [...]

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Seems that Steve Gillmor is closing down his ZD blog and is getting to work on Gilmor3.0 (pardon the pun). He is required reading and listening (Gillmor Gang) for me. While I am going to really miss his commentary and observations, it is very cool to see him coming out to NYC to meet with [...]

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Eric Rice is one of the interesting folks I met at Gnomedex this year. Very cool guy. Doing a TON of stuff – podcasting, Hipcast, and a lot of work in Second Life. I am still trying to figure out how he does all of this on a daily basis. We actually participated in a [...]

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Below, please find a screenshot from the WordPress Dashboard showing what Akismet is doing. I love Akismet

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Tom Hespos discuss another member of the Coalition of the Clueless: One of the challenges I face in pitching Conversational Marketing to clients is the notion of finding bloggers who will take up the task of blogging about the client’s business. Paramount is lucky to find not one, but several. And what does it do? [...]

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I will be posting a consolidated wrap-up of Gnomedex 2006 later (as soon as I can get links to the mp3 and video files for the conference) but for now… 2 things have happened post-gnomedex that need to be pointed out above all the news (how big Second Life is getting) and non-news (the discussion [...]

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