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America’s Tweethearts Story In Vanity Fair Is Good For New Media
While attending Affiliate Summit West earlier this week Joe Morin asked me if I had read the new Vanity Fair article America’s Tweethearts or Social Media Insider’s reaction to it. I hadn’t yet but Joe sent me a link to both and after reading them I of course have some comments.
I liked both the article [...]
Women in the Blogosphere: More Than Mommy Bloggers
Back in my blogging heyday, various traffic seeking bloggers inevitably rolled out lists of the “Top Bloggers” for each particular year. Thrown in at the very bottom of these lists, almost as if added in as an afterthought, was the name of a woman or two.
Comments and blog posts ensued. “Where are the women?” they [...]
Are Keynotes and Twitter A Bad Match?
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- Posted on November 18th, 2009 by
Jim Turner
I have been reading about a situation at Web 2.0 Expo that has me as an organizer of speakers a bit befuddled. Danah Boyd’s presentation took a turn for the worst and it turned out to be a bad experience for her and for the attendees. For the long story short version you can see [...]
Sponsored Conversations: Selling Out or Another Way to Make Money Blogging?
When I first began blogging five or six years ago, there were plenty of arguments over whether or not bloggers should use ads on their blogs. Those who did were considered sell outs. Then the “make money online craze” hit and everyone was posting ads on their blogs and all of a sudden they weren’t [...]
Chad Vader Breaks The Internet and Turns To Blog World Expo For Help
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- Posted on September 23rd, 2009 by
Jim Turner
If you have not seen this video of Chad Vader now is a good time to check it out. We have had quite a chuckle here watching and sending it out via Twitter. Our special thanks to Matt Sloan and Aaron Yonda for their hard work in putting it together and allowing us to have [...]
Ode to BlogHer ‘09 – Telling Dad Style
Were you at Blogher ‘09? Was it truly a swagfest? Would love to hear from folks who have good stories to tell. What did YOU take away from BlogHer – and by takeaway I don’t mean things that can be stuffed into a carryon.
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Ashton Kutcher Threatens to Stop Tweeting – Do We Care?
Dear Ashton Kutcher,
I have news for you. There was a Twittersphere long before you went on national television begging for followers, and there will be a Twitter long after.
Your threatening to stop Tweeting if Twitter turns into a reality television show is akin to the many Twitterers who threatened to stop Tweeting if celebrities (that [...]
Should Oprah Be Allowed To Speak At BlogWorld?
Wow people can really get their shorts in a twist really quickly in the Blogosphere or in this case the Twittersphere.
Tonight Twitter and the tech blogs were buzzing with talk about Ashton Kutcher’s little challenge to CNN to see who could be the first to get to one million followers on Twitter. Larry King Responded. [...]
Twitter Worm Spreads Over Easter Weekend
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- Posted on April 13th, 2009 by
Tyler Knott Gregson
Isn’t Easter supposed to be the time of getting dressed up nicely, maybe going to a church with your family, eating too much ham, eggs and rolls and finding bright colored eggs hidden all over the yard? I’m fairly sure the last thing it’s supposed to be about is the spreading of a new worm [...]
Google Wants Twitter…Is Twitter King?
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- Posted on April 7th, 2009 by
Tyler Knott Gregson
Unless you’re hiding under some sort of stone in the past few days and weeks, you’ve most likely heard the rumors circulating and floating around that Google has officially expressed some interest in acquiring the wildly popular microblogging site, Twitter. Wow.
Given the fact that newer rumors are now circulating that Twitter wouldn’t sell to Google, [...]
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