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Ad Repping
Just a little bit of housekeeping and a cry for help to our readers… I’ve been desperately (admittedly) looking for means of monetizing this site recently. This site is in the awkward in-between stage of hot property and an long tail property where it cannot be repped by larger ad repping sites like Federated Media…
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Twitter Pitching
Yesterday, I released the WP-Twitterpitch plugin which has already gotten a few good writeups. The response is moderate. Some people don’t want pitches in their direct message box. Others think that TwitPitches should follow the Stowe Boyd model of public pitches. Still others could see the plugin being used as a contact form. Sure. Yes,…
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Google Cannot Fix Twitter
Jeff Jarvis thinks that only Google can fix Twitter’s woes. Google hasn’t fixed Blogger since acquiring it in 2003. In fact, it’s a spam sieve full of usability issues and lack of innovation. Meanwhile, Movable Type and WordPress keep plugging away at innovative approaches to blogging platforms. They haven’t innovated on Jaiku since acquiring the…
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WordPress Plugin: WP-Twitterpitch
Obviously, there’s been a lot of talk about PR pitches gone bad. Stowe Boyd coined the word Twit Pitches last month. The concept is to force PR firms to use the economy of words (characters?) to pitch bloggers. It’s a reality in life, and I fight with my wife on this regularly, that no one…
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In Memoriam
In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the Dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved, and now we lie In…
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The Art of the Mashup
The other day, I was talking to the CTO of a company that is working to build a web technology solution for a problem that exists due to the arcane infrastructure and systems already in place in the niche target industry. He was mourning the fact that, after spending gobs of time wireframing and re-wireframing…
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The Mind of Dave Winer
Dave Winer has a bad reputation. He’s got a reputation for challenging anyone who disagrees with him. He’s got a reputation for blocking people by default on Twitter. Yeah. It’s the rule, not the exception. See, blocking on Twitter is an acceptable action. I’ve blocked people that are so troll-like, I can’t deal with them.…
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Effective Presence Marketing in Social Media
“Presence Marketing” is a term that is being tossed around a lot more these days. Early Adopters (who remember, are useless) have known this for quite a bit now, and increasingly, we’re seeing later adopters catch that wave and jump on. Presence Marketing is the recognition and exposure that a person or company gets simply…
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Valleywag is reporting that Robert Scoble is working on FastWork.tv with Revision 3. This will probably be another demonstration of a super long and boring video that takes too long to get to the point and then offers very little takeaway. Maybe Seagate will like it though. Imagine how much more time Scoble could spend on FriendFeed if he wasn't filming these insanely long videos that require too much time investment.
Just like most Robert Scoble endeavors, the leadup takes forever and then there’s no content. [Source: Valleywag]
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The Four Year Birthday Bash Was a Success!
Last night we celebrated four years of Technosailor.com, courtesy of the Austin Grill, Livingston Communications and MyDropBin. I wanted to thank everyone who came out again, as well as acknoweldge the emails, tweets and phone calls congratulating me as well. Three of the four technosailor.com writers were present as well. Here’s a picture of us:…