A recent article in some journal I would normally never read they reported Blogging linked to loneliness. They did a great job making me click on their headline. The guy is good. He even got a link.

But he totally misses parts of the equation. He starts off with a flawed argument about teenagers. And teenagers are going to do their own thing no matter how we attempt to slap a label on them. Heck, I know I would, and I did at that age.

Maybe parts of the blogosphere are driven by a need to ‘send an SOS’ to the world. But deep down I think it’s part of who we are. A large subgroup of our society really wants to share stories and recapture the concepts of community that we lack in our postmodern world.

I don’t think there are enough stories yet. This journey towards making blogging more mainstream isn’t over yet. It’s just beginning. In the time of old storytellers we could hear stories…now they have disappeared, so there are lots of untold stories…

Originally posted on February 13, 2007 @ 7:59 am

MySpace only makes 25 Million a month? I really assumed it was making a lot more in advertising. It’s the ONE PLACE that all the young folks hang out at in the world and it can only sell 25 Million in direct advertising and adsense?
That’s really not very good. Maybe we should all exit the ad game soon. I mean Calacanis could easily pull 100 million a month out of this if he set his mind to it. Although they did steal the old Weblogs Inc guy Shawn Gold to drive up revenue. Hmm, I wonder what the problem is?

From Mashable

As is often the case, the media is trying to extract the “interesting bits” from Rupert Murdoch’s keynote interview at the McGraw-Hill Digital Media Summit in New York yesterday. The best tidbit seems to be that MySpace is pulling in nearly $25 million per month in ad revenue, with a growth rate of 30% per quarter.

MySpace has grown much faster than anyone expected, says Murdoch, and they’re seeing strong growth internationally thanks to MySpace Australia, MySpace France and other spin-off sites. But nor is Murdoch scared of Facebook – he says that students “pretty much need” Facebook accounts, and that young people will happily have accounts on both services. MySpace won’t be the next Friendster, he says. That seems like a fair assessment: despite the skeptics, there’s no sign that these supposedly fickle teens have plans to go elsewhere.

Originally posted on February 10, 2007 @ 11:44 pm

PC World did a review of the top 5 blogging platforms. They obviously don’t get it.

Blogging Platforms need to be broken down into hosted platforms vs script based platforms that you host.

They list a mismash of platforms I assume they are only talking hosted platforms but hey what do I know. Here’s my five top ranked hosted platforms and top five non hosted script based blogging software.

5 Best Hosted Platforms
1. WordPress.com
2. Vox.com
3. Typepad.com
4. SquareSpace.com
5. Blogger.com

5 Best Non-Hosted Platforms
1. WordPress
2. MovableType
3. PMachine
4. TextPattern
5. Habari

I wonder if they see the difference now. Probably not.

Originally posted on February 9, 2007 @ 5:14 am

I used to run a campus ministry. Ugh, those were not the days to be me. However a service like this would have rocked my world. It would have made it easy to keep in touch with all the students. I can’t believe no one has done this before. It’s like the new age of Meetup.

LinkedCampus helps campus-focused businesses connect with their most valuable customers by harnessing the power of text messaging. We offer a web-based marketing tool that allows organizations to reach college students like never before. Gone are the days of ineffective email and flyers posted on bulletin boards; LinkedCampus allows local businesses the ability to impact college communities instantly and effectively.

Populate, Create, Deliver. It’s just that easy.

Originally posted on February 9, 2007 @ 3:51 am