Clearly Doug Haslam has too much time on his hands. He came up with a fun little board game about social media. It’s largely about the efforts of those of us at the bleeding edge of this space to fight for beta invites, links, and allegedly “cool” stuff. Great for us navel gazers! 🙂
Jason Calacanis has argued in the past that users should be paid for content. He did just this at Netscape in what was viewed more as an effort to hurt Digg than to actually reward content creators, but that was OPM (other people’s money). Now comes word that he’s going to do this with at…
What do you expect from a blog? Fred Wilson points out what I have been thinking myself the past few days: Marc Andreesen is doing a great job with his new blog — but he’s setting the bar very high for himself. Nearly every day he has a relevant, provocative, and informative post. And they…
Christopher Penn of the Financial Aid Podcast discusses how the current economic environment impacts student options when paying for college. He shares tips and advice on how to minimize costs and maximize aid.
Call me a fuddy-duddy. Call me a curmudgeon. But I find the flurry of April Fool’s blog posts to be annoying. The best ones make it hard to tell fact from fiction (see TechCrunch & FC), but unfortunately that makes one doubt even real news today. Plenty of people have been caught in the fake news…
Katie Paine’s Measurement Standard offers up a quick guide to how to measure common goals in the social media space. Apart from being very simple to understand, it drives home the point that she and I both do regularly: you need to measure against your goals, not using some arbitrary scoring system that has no…
It has become increasingly common for me to find myself in conversations with colleagues where I recognize the reality that I have gone from being a young turk to a budding grayhair. I explain things that seem entirely foreign to the 20-somethings who I work with. For example, I did not have a PC or…
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Indeed I have open-sourced it. See my latest post, and message me for an invite to the “Tube” I have created for people to show off their own ideas on the topic.
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