The Big Blogging Secret – Linkbaiting

The Big Blogging Secret – Linkbaiting

I was listening to This Week in Tech with Leo Laporte yesterday (Twit 171 – The Lemondrop Kid) which featured appearances by Jason Calicanis, Andrew Horowitz, and Geoff Smith.  At some point Laporte asked Calacanis about his decision to stop blogging (he hasn’t really stopped, but he has drastically cut back) and Jason said he’d realized that being at the top of the blog food chain, the return on value wasn’t there for him.  (I am paraphrasing here, and not directly quoting him.)…

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Post Olympics Reviews from Lenovo

Post Olympics Reviews from Lenovo

When a project ends, good companies do post-mortems to determine what worked, what didn’t to help them improve institutionally, while identifying possible opportunities created, and mitigating any risks exposed. Great companies do this and they do it in a way that the rest of us can benefit as well.  Such is the case of two excellent post Olympics assessments from Lenovo. First off, I’ve got to call attention to Esteban Panzeri’ post “End of Madness Recap” from his blog, “The…

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Mid-lining: Why Shooting for “OK” Gives You Incredible Results

Mid-lining: Why Shooting for “OK” Gives You Incredible Results

Mid-lining: Why Shooting for “OK” Gives You Incredible Results | Work Life Balance | Time Management Tips | Wake Up Early. We can’t be great at everything.  If the need for excellence is getting in your way of trying, then lower your expectations.  At least then, you try, and sometimes trying is enough. A very thought provoking post.  Utterly contrary to most of what you read, but has the ring of truth, and borne out by experience.

Geek.com Relaunched

Geek.com Relaunched

For the past couple months I’ve been devoting a lot of my time to the re-release of http://www.geek.com – the online technology resource and community for technology enthusiasts and professionals.  We’ve added a lot of social networking tools, and also done a general wordpress/bbpress upgrade which will allow us to easily take the latest releases in the future.   This is important on a couple of levels, first off, this is a site that has over 10 million unique users a month. That…

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Friday Music Video: The Bridge

Friday Music Video: The Bridge

These guys are tremendous – they’ve got the jazz, they’ve got the funk, they’ve got it all.  They’re from Baltimore, and if you haven’t seen them, you should.  They will be playing Boston at the Paradise on Friday, Sept. 26. Dig Deeper: Band site Archive.org Live Concert Downloads

Notice to Staff and Stakeholders: Reorg

Notice to Staff and Stakeholders: Reorg

Notice to Staff and Stakeholders: Reorg. One of the funnier blog posts I’ve read in recent memory.  Ann Handley gets what is is like to be support staff for a teenager. Greetings all staff and stakeholders of Coddled Teenage Boy Enterprises: It has come to my attention that there has been some confusion about your roles and responsibilities within the organization, which has led to infighting, yelling, and name-calling—this happened just yesterday, prior to 7 AM. Such behavior is both…

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Old Media Lessons for New Media

Old Media Lessons for New Media

Just because you’re new media doesn’t mean you can’t learn a few lessons from old media.  As we’re so fond of saying, new media is all about changing delivery channels of old media, hence I think it’s implied that the old school journalism rules have a place in our lives going forward. First off, we need to think about what type of journalism we’re doing.  In almost all cases for bloggers we’ll fall into one of the following three categories:

Fearless Marketing Tactic: Wear A Black Cocktail Dress

Fearless Marketing Tactic: Wear A Black Cocktail Dress

Jay Ehret comes through with another awesome post: Fearless Marketing Tactic: Wear A Black Cocktail Dress The little black dress may work for some, but you’ve got to have the right feature set. I don’t – I tried it and I was laughed out of the bar. Think about what the real assets of your product are and how to feature them in the best light and you’ll never be far from wrong.

How Does The Web Define Authority | chrisbrogan.com

How Does The Web Define Authority | chrisbrogan.com

How Does The Web Define Authority | chrisbrogan.com. A great post that really brings to light a lot of questions about how authority on the web is defined. Personally, when I think of Alexa, I think of the time when I had  Reel-time.com readers install the Alexa Toolbar.  Even though we were a niche site, we were able to get it into the sub-10,000 list which is a place that no niche site should turn up. So, for the record,…

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