One of the things we’ll look at on SocialMedia.biz is the use of weblogs (and other social media) in the workplace. Here’s an update on corporate uses of weblogs. Companies that have launched blogs include: • Microsoft, whose Channel 9 community weblog features 1,000 Microsoft employees using text and video blog tools. The blog drew […]
Weblogs
Why some readers trust bloggers over journalists
An article I wrote for OJR about why some people trust bloggers more than mainstream journalists has just gone live: Transparency Begets Trust in the Ever-Expanding Blogosphere The openness of Weblogs could help explain why many readers find them more credible than traditional media. Can mainstream journalists learn from their cutting-edge cousins? And don’t miss […]
Fark’s unethical behavior
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 […]
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 […]
Blogs, newspapers, and link authority
The most interesting thing to come out of last night’s Technorati Developers Salon — at least from the perspective of this new media guy — was the slide that David Sifry showed depicting the number of links back to each media site from the blogosphere. The importance of this measurement is obvious: The higher your […]