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Media Is Not Objective

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  • Posted on January 20th, 2010 by User ImageRick

As I was reading this post by Paul Carr at TechCrunch this morning it occurred to me that if you substituted the word “Obama” for the word “Apple” Paul would have just written a post that could have been seen on any given conservative political blog any day of the week.
That inspired me to hop [...]

What Is The Next Big Event?

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  • Posted on January 12th, 2010 by User ImageJim Turner

Do you have an event, conference or meeting, besides of course our event which I just talked about, that you want us to know about?   CES was a huge event in Las Vegas last week, and our very own Rick Calvert and Patti Hosking was in attendance along with the reported 150,000 other people [...]

Facebook and Everyone Else

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  • Posted on December 18th, 2009 by User ImageJim Turner

I have been trying to figure out how to keep up with the social networks I have for BlogWorld & New Media Expo and my own personal networks.  I have always touted that I can drink from the social media firehose as well as anyone but I have been noticing recently that I am having [...]

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.  [...]

Technorati State of the Blogosphere 2008 Now Available Online

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  • Posted on September 23rd, 2008 by User ImageRick

BlogWorld attendees were first to see this data courtesy of Technorati’s CEO Richard Jalichandra who opened the 2008 BlogWorld & New Media Expo with the highlights of this report. Today Technorati has released part 1 of 4 of the complete report.  Three more segments will be released this week.
My biggest take away from this report?
More [...]

Join Us Friday June 20th for BlogWorld Radio Our Guest Will Be Bob Cox of the Media Bloggers Association

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  • Posted on June 19th, 2008 by User ImageRick

***Update 10:09 pm PST****
The link below now points to the archived interview Jim Turner and I conducted with Bob Cox today. A very interesting discussion and I encourage you to listen to the whole thing and share your thoughts in the comments below.
The Media Bloggers Association has posted an update here.
Join Jim Turner, me and [...]