Boing Boing, Gaping Void and Johnnie Moore have all posted on Ben Hammersley's presentation at Reboot in Copenhagen last week. Here's a slide from Ben's Power Point deck. Mr. Moore reports: He gave a great talk called Etiquette and the Singularity, including the notion that the first blogger was Sir Richard Steele back in 1709. Steele wanted to circulate his opinions so started writing a thrice-weekly letter which …
Free Don’t Come For Free
Blogging has turned over another page. Thanks to Piers Fawkes of PSFK, we now have the subscription model to consider. Piers and cronies have debuted a new blog, IF, or Idea Forge, and they intend to charge for the content. IF is a daily digest of inspiration for brand planners and creative marketers. IF is an Idea Forge. Whether you work in a marketing department, a communications agency or are just involved in the …
The Making Of Blogebrities
Steve Rubel reports on a new documentary on blogs and bloggers. Steve will be appearing in the film, as will B.L. Ochman, Zeldman, Scoble, Rebecca Blood, Evan Williams, Jessa Crispin, Elizabeth Spiers, Lessig and many other blogging notables. The film is also looking for a corporate sponsor. There's already another documentary about blogs in circulation, but hey, one's never enough. …
I’m Sorry, Mr. Big’s In A Meeting. Can I Take A Message?
Ad Guy #1: Hey, I know. Let's meet. Then we can spend two hours making doodles while looking busy. Ad Guy #2: Excellent! Cartoon courtesy of Hugh MacLeod. …
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Word Problems
Technorati is tracking over ten million blogs today. If your blog appears is in their top 100,000 you are in some pretty select company, as that equals the top one percent of all blogs tracked. If your blog is in the top 10,000 blogs tracked by Technorati, you're in the top tenth of one percent. So, are there 10,000 A-list bloggers? Are there 100,000? One might reasonably conclude the term A-lister would apply to …
Make It All About Me
There have been a lot of creative uses of eBay of late. People have been auctioning off their names and their bodies (as human billboards) to advertisers. Here's a new twist. My name is Jellio, and I write for a blog called YesButNoButYes.com, proclaimed by almost all our writers to be the greatest pop culture blog on the net. We've been around for about six months now, and the response has been amazing. At this …
Jason Calls On His Jedi Powers
Weblogs, Inc. CEO, Jason Calacanis, claims he's being stalked by a deranged European cartoonist. The stalker …
Denton Stiff-Arms Blog Evangelists On His Way To The Bank
Nick Denton, publisher of Gawker Media's bevy of blogs, debunks the revolutionary nature of blogs in the New York Times, calling them, "just the latest iteration of Internet media." It's an interesting piece, given that Denton's a leading figure in the "blogs as business" movement. Perhaps, that's his point though …
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