Social Media Coarseness a Real Threat
The vile conversations taking place in social media threaten its growth. That’s the subject of my latest commentary at Media Bullseye. Check it out and let me know if I’m full of hot air myself.
The vile conversations taking place in social media threaten its growth. That’s the subject of my latest commentary at Media Bullseye. Check it out and let me know if I’m full of hot air myself.
I was listening to Joseph Jaffe’s Across the Sound podcast recently and he expressed the oft-heard point of view that “content wants to be free.” Though I often agree with what Jaffe has to say, in this instance I must say “hogwash.” Simply put, there is no such thing as free content. Content providers receive…
Brad Feld writes about the current debacle in Colorado where Amazon has shut down all of its affiliates in that state as a result of a new law passed by their legislature and signed by the governor to expand sales tax obligations. Eric Norlin, organizer of the Defrag and Glue conferences, notes in the comments…
There seems to be a lot of angst about content marketing these days. Perhaps its a reaction to the term itself (Christopher Penn points out that use of the phrase seems to have peaked). Or maybe it is a lack of innovation and meaningful use of metrics, as Gini Dietrich laments. Or might it be…
Most of the time I read recently released books, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t good books out there that were published more than a few months ago. I’m not talking the “classics” — which honestly don’t generally appeal to me all that much (with apologies to my old English teachers). There are books from…
I was stunned to learn today that the Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington, DC blocks employees from viewing videos posted on YouTube. Now, I know that many companies do this sort of thing, but for an important national regulatory agency to block access to potential useful information seems quite counterproductive. This means that no…
Next week I will join a panel of entrepreneurs talking to students in an entrepreneurship class at the University of New Hampshire on the subject of failure. This is a subject that numerous entrepreneurs and investors have talked about in the blogosphere in recent years. I’m certain I have even chimed in on occasion. But…