Posts from ‘Blogging’
The barriers to founding a company today are lower than ever, and thus it’s more than important than ever to reach your potential and existing customers in new ways. Social media has become a valuable asset in doing so; here are some tips from new Media Bullseye author Jeffrey Vocell to help out.
The blogosphere is getting crowded, as is Ike Pigott’s Google Reader. Ike explains how he’s using Twitter as his blog aggregator.
Twitter’s ability to capture moments as they happen has obvious benefits but significant drawbacks too. Does the ease of use and immediacy–even more so than blogs–accelerate a reduction in thoughtful discourse?
It may be too early to label Arianna Huffington as a successful entrepreneur, but she certainly has made a name for herself in the online media space. Today comes confirmation that The Huffington Post has secured an additional $25 million in venture capital with an assumed company value of about $100 million.
Jeff Jarvis takes John Koblin of the New York Observer to task for misrepresenting an epithet uttered during a “fact-checking” phone call. He makes a good case, but it all goes downhill from there as he lurches to the conclusion that interviews themselves are bad.
BuzzLogic and JupiterResearch teamed up to conduct a study of consumer blog readers’ behavior and found that blog content and advertising can be very effective sales tools. The research focused on individuals who read blogs more than once per month.
Is ’sorry’ the hardest word? Mark Story, relaying a recent online exchange he had, explains that it doesn’t have to be.

