On the whole, this year’s Consumer Electronics Show produced few "wow" moments, but did show general technology progress on several fronts. There were interesting products that may one day become useful. One exhibitor had a monitor that produced holograms. Pretty neat, but the quality leaves something to be desired. Not yet Star Trek come to…
I have barely scratched the surface of the exhibition halls, but I already find myself wondering just how many TV’s one can look at before suffering from flat panel fatigue. I kid you not when I tell you that I have seen more than 100 LCD and plasma screens already, including at least 5 over…
I just checked in to the PodTech BlogHaus at CES and they really have a great setup. Lots of space to lounge, plenty of food, a table set up perfectly for blogging, a tv for relaxing, and a very friendly atmosphere. If you are a blogger who registered for the BlogHaus I’d encourage you to…
I am out at the Consumer Electronics Show this week and will be blogging as time permits about the interesting things I see. Last night I attended the Bill Gates keynote. It is receiving extensive coverage in the blogosphere (see TechMeme for a roundup), so I won’t rehash the details. I will say that I…
Shel Israel’s post over on Global Neighborhoods a couple of days ago got me to thinking. The thrust of his posting was that a lot of "recovering publicists" (his words) were now taking to providing PR services in the blogging/new media space. "We all see huge opportunities and expect to be joined by many other…
Steve Rubel seems to be spending the last week of the year writing obituaries as part of what he hopes will become self-fulfilling prophecies. First, he killed the page view. And now it is the term "social media" that he intends to send to the grave. I’ve already opined on the page view, now let…
Hitwise reports that for the first time Google Blogsearch has generated more pages views in a week than Technorati. So Technorati is now the second place blog search web site, right? Maybe, maybe not. Mike Arrington over at TechCrunch points out that the comScore numbers disagree. Unfortunately, the comScore numbers appear to be highly erratic…
If you take one look over at TechMeme today, you’ll see that there’s yet another ruckus in the blogosphere, this time over whether or not it is appropriate for a company to give away sample products to bloggers. The rhetoric of the Blog Mob, predictably, has launched itself to near hysterical proportions with accusations of…
Marshall Wittmann of the Democratic Leadership Council in Washington, DC joins Chip to discuss the political blogosphere from the perspective of someone who has worked for politicians of all strips, including Sen. John McCain, the Christian Coalition, and now a centrist Democratic policy group.