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3 August 2008 154 Comments

Trolls and Adversity

This evening I spent a large chunk of time surfing through a variety of websited, perusing my feed reader and Googling stories for Green week this week. My perusing led me down a rabbit trail that, honestly, I’ve wanted to talk about but events of recent days now compell me to talk about.

Internet fame is a touchy thing. Some people call internet fame “being an a-lister”. This kind of fame belongs to a subjective selection of blogs that meet certain unexplained criteria for prominence.

Tags: attacks, cyndy aleo-carriera, leslie poston, mark hopkins, mashable, new york times, profy, steve hodson, subculture, triston mcintyre, trolls

24 July 2008 14 Comments

Consolidation in the Blogosphere – Part II

Yesterday, I posted a video that suggested that perhaps a little consolidation needs to happen in the blogosphere. I was not the first. At the time of that recording, it had slipped my mind that Mike Arrington predicted a roll-up of blogs back in March.

Regardless, the issue has sparked a very interesting discussion around the blogosphere. Duncan Riley took the first major step of actually putting out a call to action on the concept of an advertisement federation.

Tags: Advertising, blog consolidation, duncan riley, mark rizzn hopkins, mike arrington, steve hodson