Archive for the ‘Link Love’ Category

• Washington Post on corporate blogging… worth a read
• Ontology is Overrated – Clay
• Interview with CEO of Vonage
• The Law Of Accelerating Returns… There is a parallel here with the Law of Participatory Communications – that is, the impact of messages and content isn’t in reaching 1+1+1 numbers (3 people) … When communicating to a community and activating that community, the effect is exponential.
• Terrific exchange. Must read for all marketers. Focus is everything.
• Love Google maps? You’ll love customizing them…
• Ten Thinkers…
• Making it (again) in Silicon Valley (PWR)
• More on EPIC… From Corante… From FindLaw
• Nice advert from Coke…

• WSJ says that Apple to use Intel chips, replaying the rumors running nearly everywhere… Yager has a good view on this.
• Seems Dell is hot water in China for remarks made by a sales person. China worried about Dell? Give me a break. Lets not confuse Dell’s competitors using this to turn-up the heat. I worked with Dell for years – it’s unlikely you’ll encounter a more professional, savvy company.
• Steve Jobs’ closet…
• Where to submit your podcast… a list of sites…
• And, five reasons to consider Podcasting… and some more… and some good thinking on the topic from Shel
• PubSub introduces LinkStats – shows inbound and outbound links from a blog. I’m not sure I see these as a complete  communications metric but they are useful in monitoring activity. And, they do point to how active the community is.
• Six reasons blogs are better than traditional journalism…
• Visual bookmarks for the Web…
• Worth listening to… PennSound… recording poets
• Big Kiwi wine tasting in SFO…
• Illuminata has a blog!
• Tim Porter on the future of the newspaper…

Radio Business Extension… Adage reports… Many podacasts are restricted to talk due to copyright issues. Not for much longer:

Podcasting, the new medium burst from the confluence of iPods and audio downloads, is advancing at incredible speed as more marketers and media owners incorporate it as an extension of the radio business.

Clear Channel’s Z100 initiative is the first in what it hopes to be a national podcasting strategy that allows listeners to download snippets of popular programming, either individually as an MP3 file or as part of an RSS stream (RSS stands for "really simple syndication"). The podcasts, free to consumers, will be ad-supported and the company is reportedly shopping 15-second spots to advertisers. – AdAge – Abbey Klaassen

• Yahoo publishes blogging guidelines – story via Jeremy
• RSS your press releases…
• How to do media training you are really going to need… the S49rs media training video fiasco… here are the videos… and as he says … "you do something controversial, it will have an impact on this team… and what you say is not only a relfection of yourself, its a reflection of the San Francisco 49ers…" OK, this was developed for a specific audience and is going to be taken wildly out of context but why would you do this knowing that everything you do is being covered by the media? Oh dear….

• VOIP lift-off… great read from Om
• Everyday illustrations
• Cool stuff…
• James on Friedman…
• Mitigating blog overload…
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