From Wired News today: Fark.com, one of the most popular blogs on the Net, has been accused of selling out — joining a growing list of new-media outfits willing to bend old-media rules. … Jason Calacanis, publisher of several rival Weblogs Inc. blogs, claims Fark offered him highly placed links to his sites in return […]
‘We the Media’ book party
One of the great things about living in the Bay Area is that it remains ground zero for cutting-edge technologies and social movements, including the personal media revolution (sorry, New York, but you’ll catch up). Tonight I attended Dan Gillmor’s official book release party for We the Media. (That’s Dan in a photo I took […]
BlogOn: Influence moves to the edges
On Friday I appeared on the BlogOn panel “Metrics of Influence” with moderator David L. Sifry, CEO of Technorati; Shripriya Mahesh of eBay; Mark Finnern of SAP; and Chris DiBona of Damage Studios (who left Slashdot two years ago). Here are some quick notes on some of what I said (and I’ll be writing a […]
Social media highlights from BlogOn
I’ll post a very large photo album of speakers and attendees at the BlogOn conference later today (possibly tomorrow), and I haven’t had a chance to blog entire sessionis (it’s a very fast-paced schedule), but here are some highlights from today: James Currier, Tickle: Social media has been there for 10 years, but no one […]
Readers gravitating to open media model
At Thursday night’s introductory panel at the BlogOn conference … Someone (perhaps John Roberts of CNET) said: “RSS is a Napster for ideas.” Tony Perkins: “I think this is the biggest thing that’s ever happened [in media]. Just as big media was bottoming out, bloggers came in and said, Wait a minute, we have something […]