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August 2007 - Posts
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Had an exhausting and enriching time at this year's Penny Arcade Expo, hanging out with 40,000 (!) of my best friends ever at the Seattle convention center. I attended panels on PR and community, the social component of gaming, blogs and podcasts Read More
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Steve Broback breaks the news that this year's event in Chicago is canceled:
Despite strong participation from sponsors and our long-time community members, we just weren’t seeing the registrations we hoped for from the local, Chicago-area bloggers Read More
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I tend to have whatever I'm actively working on in my right-hand monitor, and everthing else in the left. At the moment, "everything else" includes a live feed of Justine Ezarik working on her laptop.
Some thoughts:
MAN, live Web video has come Read More
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Thanks to the generosity of a co-worker's friend, I was able to drop by during setup at the PAX exhibit hall last night. (While I was there I passed Gabe and made eye contact with Tycho, but <del>chickened out</del> decided not to talk Read More
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Wikiscanner matches the IP ranges of various companies with edits to Wikipedia that were made from those IP addresses. This information was always available for anyone to see, but going through all of the pages and edit histories and Read More
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Wait, weren't MySpace and MTV just recently destroying the moral and intellectual fiber of the Republic?
From Future Majority:
Trumping even YouTube in interactivity, the forums will be held town-hall style in front of a live audience on yet-to-be-determined Read More
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Fig. 1. - The Cult of the Ball
I and a few of my unsuspecting co-workers at Metia's Seattle office are attending Penny Arcade Expo 2007 (aka PAX) this weekend. If you see me, please say hello! (To me.)
I plan to Twitter from the show.
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Reuters says Facebook surfers cost their bosses billions.
Cullen said his findings were based on a typical Facebook user, earning an average wage, spending an hour a day on line. He then calculated the cost to companies if one person in every organization Read More
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I have about seventy-three million high-priority writing assignments on my desk this morning, but I wanted to thrust a handful of links at you before I ran off (courtesy of Hugh MacLeod).
The story in a nutshell: Johnson & Johnson Read More
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Hey, it's one of those "meem" things! I remember those.
Jon Silk invited me and a few others to list "Five Tools You Can't Blog Without", something he asked us last year as well.
My List in 2006
Blogger
Flickr
iGoogle
Ma.gnolia
Technorati Read More
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I've been blogging less, lately. Of course, "less" for me might still be "an ungodly huge amount" for you.
Why? Well, until now, blogs did the heavy lifting for nearly everything I wanted to do online. With blogs I could keep in touch Read More
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I got this message when I logged in to Facebook today:
Best proposal EVER. Read More
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We recently pitched for a very large PR account. We lost.
But that was fine because we really enjoyed it. It was a better experience to lose that pitch than many we have won.
It was quite a process. First they qualified out nine agencies. Then they invited Read More
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Veronica Belmont reports from BlizzCon 07, interviewing the enigmatic Leeroy Jenkins of viral video fame.
...at least he had chicken.
Veronica recently left CNET's Buzz Out Loud to join Jason Calacanis' startup Mahalo, a human-powered search Read More
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Could the genetically modified, armoured game character take the cuddly big green ogre?
And where does Harry Potter stand in the line up?
Well perhaps not in the lovability stakes (see above), but in terms of launch day revenues?
Earlier this Read More
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In his post Covering an Apple press event, Robert Scoble offers sage advice on how to get your coverage noticed. The bad news is that it requires a team of four to five people:
"TechMeme will never link to video, streamed or otherwise, so if you’re Read More
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Linus Gregoriadis, head of research at E-consultancy has just completed their Social Commerce Report 2007 (sponsored by vendor BazaarVoice).
Eight hundred organizations responded to the survey, including 360 classified as online sellers, the Read More
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The People's Daily Online reports that Chinese authorities have set up a summer camp to cure youngsters addicted to the internet. The report says: "According to research by Shanghai's youth affairs office, those seriously addicted to the web should receive Read More
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The People's Daily Online reports that Chinese authorities have set up a summer camp to cure youngsters addicted to the internet. The report says: "According to research by Shanghai's youth affairs office, those seriously addicted to the web should receive Read More
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It's August. School has broken up. The customers are on holiday. The traffic is lighter. The floods are receding.
And our British newspapers are full of stories like The Scariest Underwear Adverts, Pigeons Attack Venice, Fifty per cent of Drivers Cannot Read More
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