One great thing about being a good web publisher is most of us have OCD. I check my website 22 times a day stats, comments, everything. I’m all over it like rice on rice. I used to think this was a bad thing. But now I realize it’s part of the reason I’ve been successful. You have to work harder to get ahead. People used to say you could take the weekends off in publishing but today I just dont think you should. Not really anyhow.

I’m adjusting to the timezone here in the west again. I really like getting up early so it should be an easy adjustment to get back on my ‘East Coast’ Publishing Styles. I notice a marked increased in productivity when I’m up early with coffee in hand.

When I stumble out of bed at 11am I just don’t get as much done even if I stay up later. Remember you only live once might as well make the most of it. Wake up one hour earlier do one extra blog post every day and capitalize on knowing you can get more done than everyone else.

Originally posted on February 17, 2007 @ 7:14 am

You may have heard about Wallstrip, the video blog that I’ve railed against in the past for its lack of originality and its poor management is in the news again. Last week they were in the NY Intelligencier with one of the worst reviews in new media history. I didn’t comment on this article to spare Howard Lindzon the shame.

In the past I’ve questioned the leadership of Howard Lindzon as a new media producer as he often takes cheap shots and does things I’ve learned the hard way just don’t work. Yes, I used to be an uber snarky attack blogger. In fact I once had an ongoing feud with Loren Feldman, a New York City based ‘snobishly snarky video producer’ who is really hilarious.

Recently, in a comment thread Howard called Loren Feldman, “a putz and a small time thief“.

Loren and I are good friends and the comment thread got rather heated as Howard took off on some rabid trail of anger lashing out at good people. Including some of my best friends in the industry. I’m no lawyer but I think he crossed some lines, and possibly his intent was to cause harm towards Loren Feldman, and Podtech.net a company Loren works for.

Here’s another case when competion gets ugly. In school we would say, Howard be a good sport. But this is the real world, and now he faces a tough scathing legal battle that doesn’t look good for Wallstrip, or for Fred Wilson, an investor in the startup video company.

Loren has a video up that shares a bit more details on what’s going on:

Public Disclosure: Howard Lindzon was banned from publishing comments at 901am after starting fights and making immoral comments toward 901am staffers.

Originally posted on February 13, 2007 @ 9:45 am

Yahoo will be hosting this year’s Open Source Content Management Summit on its Sunnyvale Campus.

As I begin wrapping my head around Drupal a bit more I find it neccesary to head to conferences like these to get a better understanding of how different content management systems operate. And traditionally you can meet people in your field that will offer a different opinion about new media publishing.

I’ve found quite a few interesting sites powered by drupal that are more social networking sites than traditional blogs, or online magazines.

Originally posted on February 10, 2007 @ 11:37 pm