December 2006 - Posts

• Bloggers quiz Bill Gates

  Fourteen A-list bloggers spent 60 minutes in the company. I found reports of the event from Niall Kennedy, Michael Arrington, Steve Rubel, Molly Holzschlag, Liz Gannes and Chris Pirillo. In terms of the PR mechanics of this experiment Read More   Digg this |   Add to del.icio.us |   Post to reddit |   Add to facebook |   Add to StumbleUpon |   TwitThis posted 15 December 2006 08:06 by Steve Ellis | 0 Comments Filed Under: Blogging, PR, Trust & Ethics

• Leader to Pariah in a single leap

  Following on from Andrew's post from LeWeb3 about delegates' discontent with the political agendas that hijacked the event, the explosion of discontent continues to ripple outwards through various blogs and posted images. I don't know Loic Read More   Digg this |   Add to del.icio.us |   Post to reddit |   Add to facebook |   Add to StumbleUpon |   TwitThis posted 13 December 2006 19:05 by Steve Ellis | 0 Comments Filed Under: Blogging, Marketing, PR, Trust & Ethics

• Do top users Digg for dollars?

  Jason Calacanis thinks so. He is on a crusade to out PR/marketing agencies who he suspects are paying top Digg-ers to recommend clients products. He has called for support in outing these companies and even put up a nominal $100 reward for information Read More   Digg this |   Add to del.icio.us |   Post to reddit |   Add to facebook |   Add to StumbleUpon |   TwitThis posted 13 December 2006 10:33 by Steve Ellis | 0 Comments Filed Under: Blogging, Marketing, Media, PR

• How to make a statement in Second Life?

  If you are a large corporate, then don't enter Second Life in an obvious way. Make a statement. There's a challenge to Marketing. Tags: Second Life Read More   Digg this |   Add to del.icio.us |   Post to reddit |   Add to facebook |   Add to StumbleUpon |   TwitThis posted 05 December 2006 18:06 by Steve Ellis | 0 Comments Filed Under: Media, Trust & Ethics

• Citizen Paparazzi unleashed by Reuters and Yahoo!

  Reuters and Yahoo! have launched a citizen news and image publishing site called You Witness News located on Yahoo's site. The site opens for your news uploads tomorrow. Judging by the news story, its more about generating content for Yahoo! than Read More   Digg this |   Add to del.icio.us |   Post to reddit |   Add to facebook |   Add to StumbleUpon |   TwitThis posted 04 December 2006 17:59 by Steve Ellis | 0 Comments Filed Under: Blogging, Trust & Ethics

• Page views RIP

  Steve Rubel opened up a discussion about the demise of the page view as the defining metric for online media sales. I agree. In a separate life, over five years ago now, I helped start up a successful community site that is funded through online Read More   Digg this |   Add to del.icio.us |   Post to reddit |   Add to facebook |   Add to StumbleUpon |   TwitThis posted 04 December 2006 08:54 by Steve Ellis | 0 Comments Filed Under: PR, Random, Trust & Ethics

• Bill Gates for President

  Scott Adams of Dilbert fame is responsible for lighting the blue touchpaper on this trivia (but its Friday after all).  Scott's post here debated that Bill Gates would make a reasonable President of the USA. An idea that becomes less preposterous Read More   Digg this |   Add to del.icio.us |   Post to reddit |   Add to facebook |   Add to StumbleUpon |   TwitThis posted 01 December 2006 15:33 by Steve Ellis | 0 Comments Filed Under: Blogging, Measurement