One of the last meetups I attended in Silicon Valley was by Tom Foremski, former columnist of The Financial Times, at the Jewish High Tech Community. He left his job as a paid journalist to start a new blog and he’s being doing well for a while. Not any more, as the advertising industry’s crisis [...]
As you know, I have being studying social and media and politics at Stanford University. And the relationship between blogging an democracy was one of the most relevant issues that we had to deal with. Obviously, there is not a single conclusion but some spare ideas:
I don’t believe in free things. Even on the digital era. It’s a marketing strategy, which should not be confused with a business model, as Chris Anderson has done in his last book, which Seth Godin is also defending. You give something for free because you expect users to come and later offer them some [...]
Last week I met Beto López, a videoblogger from Oakland who is currently driving a Ford Fiesta for free (including the gas) for 6 months. How come? Ford gave it to him so that we can test it with the condition that he videoblogs all his activities with the car.
“Dear X. I am proposing you to write two posts in your blog for two of my customers. They are both hotel chains. They offer two options: either to write a post I will be sending to you, in which case you would get 20 euros, or to write it yourself, in which case you [...]
We just asked Digg’s API which were the most digged blogs in the last 30 days and here are the results:
1. The Huffington Post. Number of diggs: 71593
2. Gizmodo, The Gadget Guide. Diggs: 55862
3. Ars Technica. Diggs: 38604
4. Engadget. Diggs: 27088
5. Techcrunch. Diggs: 20728
6. xkcd – A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language. Diggs: [...]
The Digg model is not working very well in Europe, at least in terms of money. The real time web, mainly Facebook and Twitter, and the crisis are hurting it. To death some times, as happened with the French Digg-like site Scoopeo, which is closing down.
The main Spanish press group, Vocento, is buying local review site 11870.com for an unknown amount, though some sources say it could be between 6 and 10 million euros. Vocento has been developing new sites in areas in which it used to be the leader with classified ads, such as Pisos.com (real estate) and Infoempleo [...]
I thought Dailymotion was bigger than Youtube in France, but it’s not. According to ComScore, the Google’s site had 15 million viewers in January 2009, 3,000 more than Dailymotion. The gap has even increased since 2008, which is shocking.
Santa Claus brought me a Flip video camera for Christmas and I am in love with it. I have been testing videoblogging for the last 3 or 4 years, but never got to enjoy so much as I am doing now. There is only one reason: it’s so easy with this gadget! You just have [...]
