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What’s Wrong with Social Content Sites
I'll jump to the punchline first: What's the one thing that's wrong with social content sites like digg? The content!
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Paid Links Economy
Measuring the quality of an ad system Many bloggers and other website owners around the world aren’t selling their content these days, they’re financing their site with advertising. Almost every ad system seems to be a compromise. You can measure this compromise across different parameters: is the ad relevant? Is it unobtrusive? Is it disclosed? Is the product or service advertised fair to users? Is…
Web 2.0 Expo & Knowledge As Power
With 10,000 people at Web 2.0 Expo, a curtain was pulled back to reveal the room adjoining the echo chamber. With more people than Techcrunch subscribers, you had to ask, "who are these people?" Oh, right, our markets and communities. People of the web, perhaps with more zeal or entrepreneurial interest than people who "get their news from the web." The diversity was really refreshing…
The Most Important SEO Skill
Lee Odden posted an interesting poll today asking the question what type of SEO skill is most important. I think the best answer to the question really is the ability to gain expertise in a variety of the skills Lee listed. Lee himself says the best answer to the question should probably start with “It depends on the situation.” Still I voted for one and…
Web 2.0 Expo: The Social Media Revolution
web 2.0 EXPO: The Social Media Revolution | mad dog in the fog - Yesterday, Robert Scoble, Chris Pirillo, Jeremiah Owyang and myself participated in a panel on The Social Media Revolution at O'Reilly's Web 2.0 Expo.
Teens Are Careful With Their Online Information
Most teens are not as careless as is generally perceived when it comes to managing their personal online information according to a new report from the Pew Internet and American Life Project.
