Secrets to improving innovation within your business

December 2, 2009

Every business wants to be innovative. We all see other companies that are innovative and we wonder how can we pull off the same thing. Since we only see the results we sometimes think “How did that one great idea fall in their lap?” But it doesn’t work that simply. Talk to anyone in the […]

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How can policy makers find expert advice?

December 2, 2009

At the Supernova conference in San Francisco, Anil Dash, long time blogger and employee #1 at Six Apart, spoke about his new project, Expert Labs, which is an effort to connect policy makers with community expertise. The concept of matching questions with expert answers has already been playing itself out in the social media sphere. […]

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Bernie Madoff: Bad for the Jews. My sister's book: "Good for the Jews"

November 30, 2009

It was only a few months ago I learned that the Ponzi scheme scumbag Bernie Madoff was actually a classmate of my mom’s at Far Rockaway High in Queens, NY. While she didn’t know Bernie while they were at school, they were in the same graduating class of ’56. So after pestering my mom to […]

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I used to just be a geek, but now I'm a Traveling Geek

November 29, 2009

Just a short post to let you know that next week I’ll be reporting from LeWeb in Paris with the Traveling Geeks. This is a group formed by Renee Blodgett where more than a dozen tech bloggers attend tech functions and report on the event. Previous Traveling Geeks trips have gone to London, Israel, and […]

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Putting banner ads out to pasture

November 15, 2009

Here are some interesting statistics for you. Number of people who click on display ads in a month has fallen from 32% of Internet users in July 2007 to only 16% in March 2009. 8% of Internet users account for 85% of all ad clicks. (Source: comScore) Almost half (48%) of Twitter users who saw […]

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Summary of The CMO Club Summit San Francisco 2009

November 12, 2009

I made yet another return engagement covering The CMO Club Summit. Here’s my coverage from the 2008 Summit in San Francisco, and my coverage of the 2008 Summit in NYC. The topic du jour this year at The CMO Club Summit was definitely social media. I don’t think there was a single session where the […]

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Can't cope with Facebook changes?

October 27, 2009

How are you coping with Facebook’s changes? Do you freak out every time they move an option to a new location? Notice that whenever there’s a change with Facebook or other popular application that initially everyone gets upset about it, and then days later they completely forget about it. Well, it appears that’s what’s happening […]

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Acting like a TWiT

October 19, 2009

I just recorded TWiT (This Week in Tech) with Leo Laporte yesterday. Listen to the entire show (1 hour 33 minutes) with me, John C. Dvorak, Jim Louderback, Baratunde Thurston, and obviously Leo Laporte. The show is called the “A.I. Spy Club.” Listen and you’ll find out why. BTW, you can also watch the video […]

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A great quick appropriate response to blogger outrage

October 18, 2009

So often when we see social media stories that involve corporate outrage it’s usually the organization that falters. The swift and nimble bloggers who often who have no financial, corporate, or government responsibility can quickly tell a tale that will strike a chord with the community and drum up outrage. If the organization is too […]

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Adam Curry of Mevio: Making Money from Podcasting

September 30, 2009

Just before my appearance on Cranky Geeks today, I sat down with former MTV VJ, podcasting pioneer, and President of Mevio, Adam Curry, to be the last interview in my 15-interview “Making Money from Podcasting” series (read summary “9 Successful Techniques for Making Money from Podcasting”). Mevio is a podcasting network that sells advertising against […]

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