2008
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February 24, 2008
June 6, 2007
BuzzFeed's what's hot
BuzzFeed shows what is infatuatingly hot.
April 7, 2007
The lost caclulated risks comments
Calculated Risk is an blog about the US economy, economics
and risk management, and these days it has a focus on
mortgages and underwriting, and the housing market.
Buck in 2005 it posted on pensions and trade and was only 50 %
real estate.
During recent designs to add adverts (CR and Tanta deserve
adsense revenue more than any refinance - your - mortgage splog)
the comment scheme has gone haywire, from haloscan to blogger
and back and down and up and ...
As a result, there are orphaned blogger comments now that their
system is back on Haloscan. Here's how to find the lost blogger
comments.
- In your web browser:
- Find the post of interest published on a date near early April 2007.
- At the bottom of the post of interest, find the envelope-arrow icon, something like
- Shift-click or right click or whatever and select Copy Link Location.
- Open a new browser tab or window.
- Paste the following into the address field:
https://www2.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10004977&postID=
- Do not hit return or click on go/right arrow.
- Switch from browser to a text editor.
- Paste in the copied URL in the text editor.
- See the PostID number at the end of what you pasted. Example:
https://www2.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10004977&postID=3036309384656383353
- Select and copy your postID, ex
3036309384656383353
- Switch back to you web browser new tab or window that you opened.
- Clci at the right end of the URL in the address field and paste
to append the postID to the right end of the URL in the address field
- Hit return or click on Go/Right arrow.
- Your browser should load the old blogger comments for the post of interest.
Examples:
48 comments about Alt-A
https://www2.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10004977&postID=568044880510793809728 comments about UBS vs New Century
https://www2.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10004977&postID=59272176594699573051 comments about LA office buildings
https://www2.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10004977&postID=7139436704760308787128 comments about March employment report
https://www2.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10004977&postID=303630938465638335319 Comments about AHM while you were out
https://www2.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10004977&postID=3795589692957347935
March 12, 2007
Meritocracy and Blogrolling
February 12, 2007
techpresident
Tech President covers the race for US President, 2008.
June 2, 2006
Blogging empires
The first—and most common so far—is the accidental tourist:
A lone writer who starts a blog as a mere hobby but then wakes
up one day to realize his audience is now as big as a small city
newspaper. The liberal journalist Joshua Micah Marshall went
this route: He started the Talking Points Memo blog during
the November 2000 election recount “just for fun,” and his
audience grew slowly, reaching 8,000 a day in the first two
years.
A variation on this theme is when a lone blogger teams up
with the mainstream media. Andrew Sullivan is the first example
of an endgame strategy that may become quite common in the
future. In 2000, Sullivan started his blog, The Daily Dish, as a
part-time sideline, funding it via donations and ads for five
years. Then in January, Time magazine agreed to lease his URL
for one year, making it part of its online offerings. Though
Sullivan says “I didn’t get rich,” he figures the deal will earn
him almost half his income this year.
The second basic blogging business model is the
record-label approach: Crank out dozens and
dozens of sites and hope that one or two will become
hits. The pioneer here is the new-media entrepreneur
Jason Calacanis, who founded Weblogs, Inc., in September
2003 and began rapidly shotgunning new blogs into
obscure niches: Tablet PCs, Microsoft Office, “telemedicine,”
and the like. It is not, many note, a recipe for quality writing.
Calacanis scored an enormous hit with Engadget, the second
most-linked-to site on Technorati. “AOL basically paid $25
million for Engadget”.
The third and final model? The boutique approach: a publisher
who crafts individual blogs the way Condé Nast crafts magazines
—each one carefully aimed at some ineffable, deluxe readership.
This is Nick Denton’s modus operandi. Though he set up shop
three and a half years ago, making his the oldest blog empire
around, he has launched a mere fourteen blogs. They are all,
however, in niches that target high-spending, well-educated
readers—such as gossip, sex, and politics. The aim is to hit the
sweet spot: big readerships, but not hoi polloi. Gawker even
claims to turn away advertisers that are too low-rent; the site’s
ad manager boasted to Mediaweek that it takes no Ford or Chevy
ads because “we hate American cars” and no pharmaceutical
ads because “our readers are healthy and beautiful.”
Denton is famous for spending months hunting for writers
with the snark and wit that his audience likes. He’s also equally
famous for being tight with a buck: His bloggers work from home,
get no equity, and make salaries that are by all accounts
unremarkable, even by the paltry standards of journalism.
May 7, 2006
Gratuitous trackback.
April 29, 2006
Bloggingstocks down 34 %
Bloggingstocks (AOL/Calacanis) is more about
numerology than insight.
April 6, 2006
Going Private
Private equity: Going Private gives catty take downs of
Guy Kawasaki and Maverick Mark Cuban.
March 9, 2006
Wal*Mart blogs
The 37-year-old Brian Pickrell who runs the Iowa Voice blog has written
at least three postings that contain language identical to sentences in
e-mail from Marshall Manson. In one, which Brian Pickrell attributed to
a "reader," he reported that
Wal-Mart was about to announce that a store in Illinois received
25,000 applications for 325 jobs. That's a 1.3 percent acceptance rate.
Consider this: Harvard University (undergraduate) accepts 11 percent
of applicants. The Navy Seals accept 5 percent of applicants.
See also Wal-Mart is a great American institution.
January 22, 2006
Liberal one party Canada 0 vs Blogosphere 1
For the moment, to put it nicely, the same thing has happened to the
Liberals in Canada, as has happened to other long-serving single-party
regimes elsewhere in the world. Technology has caught up with their
ability to manage information; and a sheltered population is losing
its fear. The more the ruling party tries to scare them, with
heavy-handed old-media campaigns, the worse things get --
for the ruling party.
Continue reading "Liberal one party Canada 0 vs Blogosphere 1" »
December 21, 2005
Evan Williams / EvHead Odeo
Evan Williams, blogging and podcast (Odeo) pioneer.
November 27, 2005
viral videos
MSNBC is using search engine marketing, buying keywords on Google, like
"viral videos." Computer users searching for articles with such words will
see ads alongside their search results with links to MSNBC.com.
"We want to find out something we haven't known before," said Frank
Radice, senior vice president for the East Coast office of the NBC Agency,
the internal unit that works on behalf of networks like MSNBC, NBC and
Sci Fi Channel. "Can we drive traffic from the Internet to the cable channel?"
Val Nichols, vice president for the creative services group at MSNBC,
estimated the campaign would get 114 million viewings in total.
Among the 800 blogs that will run the ads are Adrants, Althouse,
Curbed, Daily Kos, Gothamist, IndieWire, Largehearted Boy, Talking
Points Memo and TV Newser. Buying ads on 800 blogs is a major
commitment to that fledgling medium. Budget Rent A Car bought
ads last month on 177 blogs, and Audi bought ads this summer on 286.
October 18, 2005
Northern Voice, Moose Camp
A must for high volume social networkers and consumers and producers
of information, and self-promoters. 2006 Feb 10-11, Vancouver.
Friday will be a little more unorthodox for regular conference goers.
In the spirit of Foo Camp and Bar Camp, Northern Voice includes a
whole self-organized day dedicated to Moose Camp.