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That Time You Met Krucoff Was Actually a Massive Paradigm Shift
Clay Shirky's Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizing is already set to be 2008's Gladwellian The Long Tailing Point Web 2.0 trend book of the year (especially after every blogger in Manhattan went to its release party). Former Gawker Mascot Andrew Krucoff is totally in the book! Because he was an early adopter of phone-based OG social networking gizmo Dodgeball, you see. Everyone else in the New York media scene signed up for it too, but only to write about it. The Krucoff excerpt, via noted music blog Young Manhattanite, is below, accompanied by a comment from mysterious YM contributer 99 that saves us the trouble of making fun of it. More »
Murdoch Chickens Out On Making WSJ.com Free
So much for Rupert Murdoch's crazy scheme to be smart and take the Wall Street Journal's website free: "The really special things will still be a subscription service, and, sorry to tell you, probably more expensive," the News Corp chairman said today at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland. Ooh, what could these "really special things" be? Top-secret News Corp blueprints for how best to simultaneously puss out and alienate readers and advertisers? [WSJ]
So much for Rupert Murdoch's crazy scheme to be smart and take the Wall Street Journal's website free: "The really special things will still be a subscription service, and, sorry to tell you, probably more expensive," the News Corp chairman said today at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland. Ooh, what could these "really special things" be? Top-secret News Corp blueprints for how best to simultaneously puss out and alienate readers and advertisers? [WSJ]
cautionary tales
Michael Wolff And Newser: No Contract, No NDA
Last night Graydon Carter's Waverly Inn was host to a party for Napeolonic media mufti Michael Wolff and former New York mag honcho Caroline Miller's new project Newser, the web 1.0 news aggregator. Ten years ago, Michael Wolff wrote Burn Rate; it chronicled the spectacular failure of his first web venture, NetGuide. Along the way, Wolff seriously burned his backer Alan Patricof and nearly everybody else he worked with. SoMore »
web 2.no
Who Are ASmallWorld's Members? Are They Prosties?
Today's Thursgay Styles piece in the Times on ASmallWorld.net, the "exclusive" social networking site with 150,000 members (this guy, pictured, among them), says members include "Hollywood strivers, fashion models, financiers and minor European royalty." But there's a dark side. And maybe a sexy side! More »
web 2.no
Salon Wants To Be MySpace For Old People
The other day, we were poking around various job sites (purely for educational purposes! Really!) when we came across an interesting listing on our own site. "Manager, Social Networking Site," the title read. Really? Social networking? People are still jumping on that bandwagon? Then it all made sense: The listing was for Salon, which has never met a misguided online business strategy it didn't like. Now, they want someone who "will help direct an ambitious new initiative in social networking." More »
user's guide
How To Befriend A Blogger For Real
The Politico is offering its audience of congressional pages and lobbyist interns a handy list of ways to get the ear of the blogosphere. While their tips are directed at those who want to make contact with political bloggers, many of them can be applied to those who blog about things like, say, media and celebrity gossip. And cats. And cheezborgahs. We've taken their suggestions and adapted them to let you know how to get your whatever placed right here. More »
blogger & podcaster
New Magazine Jacking Up Our Self, Other-Directed Loathing To Record Highs
Rocketboom present (Andrew Baron) and past (Amanda Congdon) were there, as were Kent Nichols and Doug Sarine, creators of Ask A Ninja. I also got fleeting glimpses of Cali Lewis from GeekBrief.TV and Alex Lindsay of Pixel Corps and This Week in Tech fame.That's Shelly Brisbin, asking the tough questions in a piece on South by Southwest from the inaugural issue of Blogger & Podcaster magazine ("For aspiring new media titans"). You can get a digital copy or a podcast of the title for free, or you can drop $79 on the print edition. We'd suggest the third option: Robert Scoble looks at lot less pasty on paper. Also, did we mention that we want to kill ourselves? More »
I say again. Where were the audio people?
