One of the best ways to bring traffic to your blog (or company) is by being available as an “expert” guest on radio or TV. If you focus on a nitch subject (your product or industry would be perfect if you are a business blogger) or issue, and consistently write about it, its only a…
Month: March 2007
WSJ Reviews Apple TV
The Wall Street Journal finaly got around to doing a review of Apple’s “Apple TV.” If you are tired of reading techy, fan-reviews from the tech sites, you might want to get the WSJ Rob Pegoraro’s perspective: Digital photos, music and video all conspire to fill up your computer — but eventually, you’ll want to…
WSJ: The Coming Exaflood
I was just made aware of a great article in January 20th of this year on the Wall Street Journal on Net Neutrality. I cant find it in the archives, and I don’t want to reprint the whole thing, but this is the gist of it: Net neutrality’s rules, price controls and litigation would prevent…
Busy, busy, busy…and stressed.
Sorry for the lack of posts these days. I have been real busy, and real stressed with work. I’m trying to create some margin in my life, so I’ve had to cut down on blogging. Its only temporary — come back soon for more. Josue
Blogging 101: How personal should your blog be?
Just discovered a valuable resource for those interested in getting started in blogging. Here is a good post to start with: Just about everyone will agree that the internet offers users a certain degree of anonymity. There will always be debates about whether that’s a good thing or not, but it’s the reality of the…
Is YouTube.com in trouble?
This article about YouTube on the Washington Post goes to show that in today’s fast changing competitive marketplace, no Goliath is safe from it’s David. YouTube is at a critical juncture. Since it launched in December 2005, it has ridden a wave of popularity that led Google to buy it in a $1.65 billion deal…
GodTube?
Fox News featured a new nitch competitor to YouTube, GodTube.com. The CEO and co-founder was interviewed. The video clip is available at GodTube.com, of course. http://godtube.com/flvplayer.swf Considering their target audience, it seems to me they should do fairly well. I’d like to see major churches posting their Sunday sermons. But of course, the audience-pull will…
YouTube and Politics: The Game Has Changed
It has indead. From Phil, AKA ParkRidge47: This ad was not the first citizen ad, and it will not be the last. The game has changed. In case you haven’t followed the story, here is part of it. The video was posted on YouTube on March 5th under the usernameParkRidge47 (Hillary Clinton was born in…
Magazines: no profit in shift to Internet
This is interesting comments coming from industry executives gathered at a two-day Magazine Media 2.0 conference in Hannover last week. After spending millions of dollars to buy digital media companies, online advertising firms and search engines, only a few of the 350 magazine and newspaper companies represented at the conference said, in a show of…
Talking Politics and American Idol on NPR
I had the opportunity to talk politics on “Rough Cuts” with Michelle Martin. Political Blogosphere — Bloggers Kim Pearson and Josue Sierra discuss this week’s news: Bush’s visit to Latin America, the recent controversial firing of U.S. Attorneys and the biggest election of all right now… American Idol. Check it out and listen to the…
From the vault: Brownback for President?
For those non-political readers, don’t say I didn’t warn you. I was at CPAC 2007 just a few weeks ago, and got to record Brownback answering some questions. Since I was just putting up some other videos, I thought I would throw this one up.
Google, Fairness, Bias: Talking to Eliot Schrage
Update: David All has posted some thoughts on the conversation with Schrage. Google’s top executives are known to contribute heavily to Democratic pols. And the allegations raised by prominent bloggers in the conservative ’sphere like Michelle Malkin and others brings to light the notion that at some time, some video might be removed, or perhaps,…