Why Does The Industry Standard Think Podcasting is Failing? (20)
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The short answer is that they want it to fail. There seems to be an underpinning of glee to get to deadpool it, and no one has told them it’s no longer trendy to call podcasting a failure anymore. The long answer has to do with a lot of factors. The subject is brought to my attention by Ian Lamont, who’s written another weekend article that takes a hit out on podcasting as an industry ...
Whrrl and the Attraction to Location Based Social Networks (video) (8)
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Last week, it was very clear to most of us not in line for the iPhone that the most exciting aspect of the iPhone 3G release were the GPS capabilities. We haven’t seen more announcements for locationally aware social networks come across our newsbox here at Mashable (or anything that takes advantage of GPS technology) before or since. One such network is one called Whrrl. It’s not particular to the iPhone, but it is one ...
Is RSS an Add-On Feature? (7)
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Wizzard Media, the podcast hosting and monetization giant, a couple of days ago released a letter to their shareholders that went towards explaining a bit of their corporate strategy: In a very short time, Wizzard has surprised many people by becoming the largest distributor of digital media via RSS (podcasting). While many other companies took the route of launching online video websites and treating RSS distribution as nothing more than an add-on feature, Wizzard has ...
The M in Meebo Means Missouri [video] (8)
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In what seems to be a continuation of a never ending growth pattern by Meebo, it was widely reported this morning that they’re now going to be offering branded chat for social networks and online communities. They have a staggering list of volunteer launch partners as well, including DanceJam, Flixster, myYearbook, Nickelodeon/MTVN Kids and Family Group’s AddictingGames, Piczo, SparkArt, Sugar Publishing and Tagged. Sean and I had a great discussion with two of the three ...
PodTech Sells Out; Why is Everyone So Glum? (3)
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PodTech, one of the earliest companies to form around the concept of podcasting, has finally seen an exit following what can best be described as an extremely tumultuous history. As someone who’s followed the saga of PodTech from the very beginning, the image to the public as well as what’s been going on behind the scenes has been at best, confusing. Today, Eric Eldon over at VentureBeat is reporting that PodTech has been sold for ...
Loren Feldman, The New Yorker, and Social Media Evil (16)
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I’ve gone to great lengths to avoid talking further about the race relations meme that ran around the tech blogosphere last week as a result of a year old Loren Feldman video cropping up in the news. The reason for this is pretty simple: I didn’t have the guts to talk about race. That’s right, you heard me. Me. The guy that’ll take on just about any controversial political topic (so long as I can ...
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Nav said:
This is essentially a covert way of chastising people by saying "Loren Feldman is no big deal man, it's Al-Qaeda you gots to worry about". It's quite the sleight-of-hand - and totally irresponsible.
Guy Kawasaki’s Frienderati Slightly Flawed [video] (8)
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This weekend and over the course of yesterday, Guy Kawasaki’s Alltop made the news for creating a new set of RSS feeds added to the site from FriendFeed. They called this the “Frienderati,” and it was a list of FriendFeed members as determined by a mystery algorithm worth following on FriendFeed. Stan covered this here at Mashable, but here was how Guy Kawasaki described its’ debut: I recently signed up for Friendfeed, and I had ...
Nas Can&8217;t Avoid the Machine (4)
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Just the other day I was musing in my personal video podcast over the odd similarities between mainstream rapper Nas and the underground geek movement of nerdcore hip hop. Nas recently released a video on YouTube railing against the media in general and Fox News in particular over his perceived mistreatment by the news channel. Shortly after the Virginia Tech shootings, in an attempt to lift the spirits of a beleaguered and shell-shocked student body, ...
Culberson’s Partisanship a Useful Tool? [video] (1)
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Controversy is good. Last week was full of controversy - from political controversy to racial controversy, the blogosphere was a buzz, and several issues rarely brought to the attention of the Web 2.0 set was put in the forefront. There was so much of it going on, it caused me to pause and reflect elsewhere about the usefulness of controversy as a tool. That’s the topic that Sean and I tackled today as we re-examine ...
Is Democracy and the Social Web Doomed? (33)
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I’m a strong believer in social media as well as the precepts of democracy. That’s probably why a headline from a recent article on ZDnet’s Managing L’Unix gave me pause: “Do problems with Wikipedia presage social networking’s end?” In it, ZD blogger Paul Murphy talks about the issues that are rearing their ugly heads within the anything goes publicly editable repository for knowledge Wikipedia, and in so doing makes some indictments of both the service ...
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Pat said:
The picture is the best part
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Haltse said:
Well duh! Democracy needed a better argument than 2 wolves and a sheep voting on dinner plans so lets just wait for wiki to show us the way. Anarchy once more gets a bad rap.
FAA Recruiting on MySpace (3)
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When I think of high-powered, high-intensity, highly skilled jobs that one can choose to take, I think of air traffic controllers. A lot has been said in recent memory regarding the stressfulness of blogging, and how it is quite possibly the most stressful occupation on the planet. By the numbers, though, we still owe that particular honor to the job of air traffic controllers. Daily, thousands (if not millions) of lives are truly in their ...
Three Very Important Plurk Statistics (24)
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The shine, glitter and buzz on Plurk may have faded, but there is a community there who remains, and apparently they’re pretty into … knitting. These are the updates from the Plurk community as brought to us yesterday by Duncan Riley over at the Inquisitr. He proclaims that the community, while it is no serious threat to the dominant Twitter, is alive and well, and folks are sticking around. While that may be anecdotally true, ...
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sour.patch said:
"there are almost no users left at Plurk, but the ones who do remain are incredibly engaged - almost unbelievably so" Interesting.
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Ryan said:
Ha! We had been trying to get Bex's Mom on Twitter for a while, recently she emailed Bex saying "have you heard of Plurk?" She heard about it from one of her knitting blogs or websites, I think.
Leo Laporte Does 24 Hourse of iPhone to Over a Quarter Million Viewers (31)
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Leo Laporte today proved more machine than man after successfully finishing his “24 Hours of iPhone” broadcast on the recently minted TWiTlive.tv effort. Just about anything Leo does tends to attract mountains of viewers and listeners, but according the statistics certified by Stickam, Leo has achieved new heights, even for him. According to an email from Stickam, at the conclusion of the broadcast, he had peaked out at over 10,000 concurrent viewers during the broadcast. ...
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Nicholas said:
Leo Laporte has out done himself once again and now the bar is set even higher for online broadcasts -- I thought the twitlive.tv iPhone coverage was brilliant. Well done Leo -- keep it up my friend.
Question: Which iPhone 3G GPS-Enabled SocNet? (7)
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Ok, so it’s iPhone mania, and I can’t hit ‘j’ in Google Reader without coming across yet another iPhone story. All that spells madness for someone like me, who isn’t a particularly large Apple fan, doesn’t live in a 3G-enabled area, and doesn’t leave the house much anyway (making a geographically mobile phone a largely pointless embarrassment). Still, most everyone on the planet gets off their couch more often than me, so it won’t be ...
Mashable Conversations: Viewer Feedback! (2)
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In what we’re hoping will become a regular feature on Mashable Conversations, we did an episode this week entirely devoted to the best of the comments from the previous week or so of shows. Due to Sean’s travel schedule, we had to shoot this one close to midnight our time, so we’re a little punch drunk, as you can probably tell, but we got to the more interesting comments left on our video posts. Much ...
Announcing BLVD Status: A New Way to Track Statistics [video] (3)
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Sean and I met with Chris Bennett from 97th Floor today on Mashable Conversations - and a particularly interesting conversation ensued. 97th Floor is a Utah based social media firm that has their hands in a wide variety of projects, almost all of which are instantly intriguing and interesting. We focused on just two of them yesterday - briefly we spoke about soapboxxer, an interesting and surprisingly insular online community that provides (as you might ...
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Bill Shakes said:
Oh my this is built for Patrick Clifton
No Sex in Lively? Yeah, Right! (18)
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I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again - the Internet has been built on two cornerstones: sex and hate. You’ll have griefers anywhere there’s a group of people, and if there’s anywhere that creativity’s encouraged, folks will use that creativity to come up with new ways to talk about, view, or engage in virtual sex. Virtual World News spoke a bit with the folks behind Lively at Google to get some background information ...
Are Pre-rolls Evil? (12)
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In context of online video and audio, no other type of advertisement causes quite as much polarization as the idea of pre-roll advertising. If online multimedia were US politics, talking about pre-roll ads would be akin to talking about cutting social security or flagburning. Conventional wisdom says that viewers hate them and if you use them in your media, they will complain to no end that you have them. On the other hand, the dollars ...
Silly Question: Is Congress Afraid of the Internet? (10)
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It’s hard to no where to begin in analyzing the fallout from yesterday’s “revelation” that certain members of Congress aren’t quite comfortable with other members of Congress conversing directly with the public via electronic means. For most folks who read the letter, it’s pretty plain to see that House Democrat Michael Capuano isn’t interested in de-regulating the processes by which Congress communicate with their constiuency. Some folks, most noteably a number of other Web 2.0 ...
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Soren said:
This guy gets it.
