Submitted by Notronwest:
Will top advertising companies be replaced by influential twitter users? Did Wayne Campbell have it right in 1992?. (Read More)
: this is a really great post and identfies a number of key themes including - keep it simple, keep it personal, dont spread yourself to thin and work out how to monetize..
ProBlogger
Last week I shared a series of questions for bloggers to ponder as they look back on their last year of blogging. The point of the questions was not to engage in a navel gazing exercise but to look back with the objective of identifying how a blog has been performing in order to improve it moving forward.Today I want to sug (Read More)
Fast Company
The Global Innovation Index, a ranking of 130 countries released yesterday, calls the US the world's number one innovator. The index was created by Soumitra Dutta, a professor at French business school INSEAD, along with New Delhi based non-profit ...
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ReadWriteWeb
Two year old life-story repository Dandelife seemed to have everything going for it. It launched to praise from some of the biggest tech blogs on the web, it built a wildly loyal user base and its company advisory board was stocked with some of the biggest names in social media. Apparently that hasn't been enough, though. (Read More)
The Inquisitr
A break down in negotiations between Viacom and Time Warner Cable will mean customers on Time Warner’s cable network, the second largest in the United States, will no longer be able to view Viacom channels from January 1.Channels to go from Time Warner include (not everyone has all these to start with) Comedy Central, Logo, (Read More)
Nico's shared items in Google Reader
2008 has been a tremendous year for Lifestreaming. When I first began researching Lifestraming back in February of 2007 and then started this blog a month after there were only a few scripts available to create a Lifestream and not a single web service dedicated to them. Since then I have found over 50 services as well as t (Read More)
: "So Lifestreaming has really come a long way very quickly and although we’re not there yet, I think the foundation has been laid for it to make huge strides in 2009. I think Lifestreaming needs to go down 2 separate paths in 2009."
ProBlogger
Alisa Bowman from projecthappilyeverafter.com shares some tips on writing fast.So you haven’t quite monetized your blog. That means you’re still working 8 or so hours in the non-virtual world for that paycheck. You may also have many other time commitments. They are called marriage, parenthood, friendships and Twitter.With (Read More)
: In reading all the posted comments it appears that all the "experts" have had their say. Why haven't any of you stepped up to run for office if you're so darn smart? This is a country where the majority rules. And the majority for the last half of this sitting president's term has been trashed by the Democrats in Congress. Their pork barrel spending is bankrupting the country and you'd actually vote for more of them? Get a grip! Wake up and THINK for a change! Before the Dem's took over in the Congress there were LOTS of jobs and gas was really affordable. Now jobs are vanishing like the icebergs in the Arctic. (Maybe faster?) And gas is still WAY too expensive and I believe it's only lower than $3 per gallon until the election is over... and then, watch out! With the Socialists running Congress we're in for a REALLY rough road to travel. Our founding fathers would probably roll over in their graves if only they knew...