Why SF Chronicle is Failing
John Battelle looks at what’s really ailing the San Francisco Chronicle.
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Some great advice from Charlie O’Donnell: I think marketing & PR firms, VC firms, anyone who has any kind of business interest whatsover in social media needs to mandate that the decision makers on your staff, right on up to the top, all “walk the floor”. Maybe Fridays should be “social media days” where the…
I had intended to begin my series about Blogs I Read by focusing on the smaller ones — the ones written by those who are not A or B list bloggers. And then I realized my blog reading heavily favors the big guys. So I need to make a better effort to find new voices. …
Two of my New England social media friends had a bit of a debate about content marketing yesterday. Chris Brogan strongly argued that your writing needs to contain an “ask” to be marketing and CC Chapman just as forcefully disagreed. First, let’s take a look at the actual argument. Then we can explore the more fundamental…
MG Siegler over at TechCrunch rolls out a litany of claims about the future of news that simply cannot be reconciled with reality. It’s a target-rich environment so I almost don’t know where to begin. So let’s just dive right in. First, let’s summarize MG’s case. MG writes: “Earthquakes, the massive San Diego fires, the…
Speaking of Shel Holtz, he has a great post about the next step in the live blogging revolution: live video. This has been a topic of conversation in tech blogs this week because of the Web 2.0 expo. I’ll let Shel explain: Over at PodTech Robert Scoble and Jeremiah Owyang took UStream for a spin…
Andrew Rasiej and Micah Sifry of the Personal Democracy Forum offer up an interesting column on Politico today where they argue that “we” replaces “me” in the online political lexicon. They note that Barack Obama’s campaign has clearly stimulated great interest in the use of the Internet for politics and advocacy, but they question whether…
