Category: trends
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Twitter vs. Odeo
What made this happen? I’m going to hazard that it was: 1) Ease of registration and use 2) Call to action, i.e.: “What are you doing right now?” 3) Community interaction
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Audio vs Video at SXSW
I suspect it’s about time I got involved in video. Something weird is happening here at SXSW. Videoblogging is well-represented here, but podcasts, definitely not. I don’t see any huge podcasters either on panels, or in the audience. 2007 is definitely about video, and if you’re here, you see it clear as day. Is audio…
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Three Lessons from Podcamp
So I’m in San Francisco right now, chilling in a house we rented with Patrick and a certain girl. The next few days involve recording a podcast and general vacationing, getting together with some Podshow peeps and listeners to the show. Yesterday was Flickr’s 3rd anniversary party, which was super fun. The Podcamp Toronto thing…
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Your whole life on record
The ‘viral’ YouTube video that Bill took of me at Podcamp Toronto is up to 65 views. The day before it went up, Bob asked: “Are you sure you want me to put this online?” To which I said, sure. Before I had a podcast, I used to be scared of people seeing me look…
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Is Stumble Upon the next Google?
Bold Statement of the Day: Stumble Upon‘s traffic will be displacing the power of Boing Boing in a year. Possibly even less. The amount of posts I have seen in the past week talking about the power of Stumble Upon is shocking. Last year, I talked about how Stumble Upon was sending traffic to my…
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Shir Khan + Pitchfork = Madness
Yeah, I know– talking about web ecology one day and then dance music the next. I’m not sure what’s going on with Julien, either… but listen up. (Thanks Pitchfork, thanks Véro!)
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An Introduction To Social Currency
(Due credit: I first saw the phrase social currency on Aaron Wall’s blog, SEO Book, which is really worth a visit.) First, listen to the audio. That’s where the meat is. I don’t think it’s a secret that, over the past several months, my traffic has increased tremendously, and that my income has been increasingly…
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Ads in captchas
We see them every day. We type them in when we comment. Now, this idea for combining captchas with advertising. Loic seems to like it, but personally, I am repulsed by the idea. In fact, let me phrase it as straight up as I can: Putting an ad in your captchas is a great way…
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Rapper Talib Kweli joins Second Life
Holy crap, this is nuts. Talib Kweli, a conscious rapper best known for his work in Black Star with Mos Def (but also his albums Quality and The Beautiful Struggle), just joined Second Life. Go read it on his website. This is nuts. Here’s his island.
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Make some power moves
How to subscribe. Power moves and how to make them. [audio:http://m.podshow.com/media/170/episodes/31661/inoveryourhead-31661-10-17-2006.mp3] Howard Lloyd – Various Canibus – ‘Master Thesis I Am The World Trade Center – ‘The Postcard’