I’m headed mostly off the grid for the next week as I enjoy one of my periodic recharging periods — in this case my annual winter visit away from the snow (yes, there’s still a lot of it on the ground here in New Hampshire).
There will be no new episode of Disruptive Dialogue this week and blog posts are highly unlikely until I return. In the meantime, feel free to check out the “most popular” posts in the right hand sidebar.
MediaPost Publications – Cymfony Meshes Blog, MSM Monitoring (tags: Blogs MediaMonitoring NewProducts) Mobile Media Measurement Firm M:Metrics Measures Gets $7 Million Invesment (tags: MediaMeasurement VC) AOL to take Blogs’ Pulse via Intelliseek (tags: Aggregation Blogs) Data Mining: SonicHealth is Yoogli Another blog monitoring tool to launch (tags: Blogs BlogMonitoring)
cgm: CGM, Blogs, and Politics Much of the innovation we’re seeing in the use and spread of consumer-generated media (CGM) draws from the political blog space. (tags: Blogs OnlinePolitics) Over 100M Blogs Served (tags: Blogs) How To Instantly Get Onto Newsweek’s And The Washington Post’s Website (tags: Blogs PR)
Time magazine was apparently motivated by the Google blog search announcement and decided to run a short piece on how to become a blogger and how to find blog posts. They decided this somehow amounts to the next version of blogging. The article itself seems to contradict the headline: "Google’s effort, while useful, is not…
MediaPost reports: DELL COMPUTERS, INC., WHICH CAME under fire this summer from blogger Jeff Jarvis, says it has new procedures for dealing with the blogosphere. The company’s public relations department monitors blogs, looking for commentaries and complaints–and, starting about a month ago, began forwarding complaints with personally identifiable information to the customer service department so…
MediaPost reports: BUZZ-TRACKING FIRM UMBRIA WILL UPGRADE its Buzz Report, which tracks conversations about brands on blogs and message boards, by offering users more refined demographic information and an enhanced method for dealing with blog spam. Buzz Report, which monitors about 11 million blogs and 100,000 public message boards, already analyzes posts to determine writers’…
I’m hiring two senior deputies for my new gig at DCI Group in Washington, DC. Specifically, I’m looking for a VP of Digital Operations and a VP of Digital Strategy.