Monthly Archives: March 2007

Decentralizing journalism and everything

Posted on March 30, 2007 by

Dave Winer said something the other day during the latest “Newspapers are dead” meme that I can’t get out of my head: “In the future, every educated person will be a journalist, as today we are all travel agents and … Continue reading →

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The Yahoo! Mail Web Service screencasts

Posted on March 28, 2007 by

The Yahoo! Mail team rolled out a groundbreaking service today — the Yahoo! Mail Web Service. As Chad says in the announcement: “With the Yahoo! Mail Web Service, you can connect to the core mail platform to perform typical mailbox … Continue reading →

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InfoWorld to close magazine business

Posted on March 24, 2007 by

Rex Hammock and Valleywag tip us off to Sam Whitmore’s MediaSurvey piece on the closure of InfoWorld’s magazine operation. Though still rumor at this point, the news doesn’t surprise me one bit. The “enterprise fleet”, as former IDG President Pat … Continue reading →

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Friday fun: The Daily Show on the Viacom vs YouTube dispute

Posted on March 23, 2007 by
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Are big product launches necessary?

Posted on March 13, 2007 by

A commenter in Mark Glaser’s recent post on MediaShift about the USA Today redesign sheds light on a problem that Internet companies seem to struggle with a lot. “I think there may be a lesson to be learned in how … Continue reading →

Posted in agile, collaboration, community, creativity, development, innovation, mainstream media, management, marketing, media, msm, peer production, process, publishing, research, socialmedia | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

Admin: My feed’s gone spastic

Posted on March 12, 2007 by

Big apology to everyone who subscribes to my feed. I should have tested things out more thoroughly before peppering your feed reader with hundreds of posts. If I haven’t lost you already, please hang on. I think it’s stable now. … Continue reading →

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Where are the best answers to business questions?

Posted on March 7, 2007 by

Reid Hoffman reminded me the other day that I needed to take a look at the LinkedIn Answers service, the peer-to-peer Q&A service for business. It obviously emulates much of the Yahoo! Answers product, particularly the user experience, so I … Continue reading →

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How to layer postproduction visuals in a screencast

Posted on March 5, 2007 by

Jeremy Zawodny and I produced another screencast last week, a look inside Pipes with Pasha Sadri and Ed Ho. The Pipes guys shared their insights while we asked a few questions and recorded the screen and the audio. I’ve been … Continue reading →

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Testing ways to splice my feeds

Posted on March 2, 2007 by

I started playing around with Pipes a bit more the other day and then found this handy tip via Lifehacker for nicer looking ways to link splice in your blog feed. You can already splice del.icio.us and flickr directly into … Continue reading →

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