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Should Oprah Be Allowed To Speak At BlogWorld?

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  • Posted on April 17th, 2009 by User ImageRick

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.  [...]

MacWorld isn’t A Trade Show!

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  • Posted on January 26th, 2009 by User ImageRick

Excuse me but I have to rant for a moment. First Robert Scoble posts that Apple pulling out of Mac World is a sign that Social Media is killing trade shows. Which was bad enough but in Robert’s defense he is a tech blogger not a trade show expert.  But then Expo Magazine posts this:
Why [...]

Are You A Gadget Blogger Headed to CES? Don’t Miss the Big Blogger Party!

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  • Posted on January 5th, 2009 by User ImageRick

The Blogworld gang is headed to CES, and for the third year in a row we’ll be attending the “It won’t Stay in Vegas” blogger party hosted by our friends at the Parnassus Group and Platinum sponsor AMD.
As usual, they have an all star lineup of gadget and tech bloggers on the guest list, including [...]

Its a Phone!

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  • Posted on July 12th, 2008 by User ImageRick

Robert Scoble Sums up all of the insanity of this ridiculous iPhone fever in this one paragraph:
After playing with it today I’ve got to agree. This is the company that can give you a crappy camera. No video. Charge you more than other devices. Make you wait hours in line. Take hours to get your [...]

Blogs Receive More Clout Than Ever in 2008 Presidential Campaign

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  • Posted on May 19th, 2008 by User ImageRick

Presidential candidates began courting political bloggers before the 2008 nomination race even got started. Virtually every candidate hired bloggers on staff. Some successfully and some not so much. Many set up conference calls with bloggers (McCain has excelled here). Both the RNC and DNC are allowing bloggers access to the show floor during their [...]

Jason Calacanis is Right about Start ups.

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  • Posted on March 9th, 2008 by User ImageRick

lot’s of people like to hate on Jason and he loves it. If you haven’t figured it out yet Jason is a master of link baiting and this latest post is another classic example. I have only met Jason three times in very short and casual conversations. I have seen him give three keynotes. Two [...]

BlogHaus at SxSW

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  • Posted on March 9th, 2008 by User ImageRick

SxSW interactive officially opened registration yesterday morning and had some preliminary panels yesterday afternoon but today things really kicked off when the BlogHaus (sponsored by AMD, b5 media, and Podtech) opened. The blogeratti was out in force and social media gurus were elbow to elbow in the jam packed room. Robert Scoble, Chris Heuer, [...]