Scoble Exit Creates Opportunity
Over at one of my other blogs, TechJots, I note that the reported exit of Robert Scoble from Microsoft creates some opportunities. I thought readers of this blog might find it interesting as well.
Steve Rubel labels the latest activity of "swarms of citizen journalists … mobilizing to settle scores" as "vigilante journalism." It’s an apt name for the phenomenon and it will be interesting to see how the debate moves on this. Frankly, I’m torn. Bloggers certainly have the write to "kvetch" (as BL Ochman woud say), but…
If true, this news from SiliconValleyWatcher.com would certainly be an interesting development in the area of online news aggregation. Silicon Valley Watcher has learned that Moreover Technologies, the San Francisco-based news aggregator, will announce within the next few days that it has been acquired by a much larger multi-national company. The announcement is expected by…
Paul Kedrosky points to the Financial Times’ list of six business books of the year. (Leave it to the Europeans to decide to end the year early.) I’ve read and enjoyed 3 of the 6 (The World is Flat, by Tom Friedman; The Search by John Battelle; and Freakonomics by Steve Levitt and Stephen Dubner). …
MediaPost Publications – IT.com Bows White Paper Search Engine – 10/11/2005 (tags: VerticalSearch Research)
The good news: 36 million Americans use text messaging. The understandable caveat: most are 18-27. Shel Holtz discusses implications for the PR industry broadly, but does text messaging have a future in politics? Could it be a way to engage younger voters with issue alerts? Or is it an Inside-the-Beltway pro tool that might work…
Today, I stuck the proverbial fork into Cork & Knife. In some ways, it was a difficult decision. In others, it was a no-brainer. Let me explain. When I started Cork & Knife over a year ago, I did so because I had a passion for fine food and drink and felt there was a…