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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.

I took most of the day off yesterday to spend time with my family – and was I surprised to see my inbox when I got back to it! As a fellow blogger, I understand the importance of a fast, accurate response to issues raised in the blogs. Unfortunately, in a case of the cobbler’s…

I have decided to coin a new phrase today.  "Blackberry brevity."  I have realized that when I type emails on my Blackberry-esque device (it is actually a Palm Treo 700w), I often abbreviate — not only words, but I curb the length of my message to avoid having to do more thumb typing than absolutely…

Steve Rubel reports that BuzzMetrics and Intelliseek have been acquired by Nielsen.  This represents an interesting marriage between the old school media measurement (Nielsen) and the new world of blog measurement.  Previously, Nielsen has gotten into the web site measurement game generally. As companies begin to pay more attention to what is being said in…

My preferred RSS reader, SearchFox, will cease to exist in 2 weeks.  Esteban Kozak writes in his blog: Thanks for all your help in making SearchFox what it is. We have enjoyed providing this service, and hope that you have enjoyed using it. Please export all of your links and an OPML file with your…

For a few years now, there has been talk about phone companies successfully competing with cable companies for your TV programming dollar. Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg’s speech at CES seems indicate that company is well down the path to competition by wiring 3 million homes so far with plans to double that by the end…

The two regular readers of this blog may wonder where I’ve been the past month since I managed only one post in December.  Long story short, I was buried with tasks both at work and at home.  For some nutty reason, I decided to move my house and my office the week between Christmas and…

Interesting tidbit from PaidContent: The Virginian-Pilot–the largest daily metropolitan newspaper in the state of Virginia, has launched a standalone video site called HamptonRoads.tv. The site has local (both professional editorial and user-generated video) and national video (AP video feeds) and will funnel video to its local websites, HamptonRoads.com and PilotOnline.com.

P&G debuts measurement tool calculating PR’s value – PRWeek US (tags: PRmeasurement)

We’re going through a bit of a growth spurt over at CustomScoop and have a number of immediate job openings in our Concord, NH office.  It’s an exciting time for the company with lots of fun projects on the horizon.  Our five years of success in selling news monitoring services to medium to large businesses…