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What Would You Do If You Were CEO of Technorati ?

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technoratiAccording to Web Pro News, Ogilvy North America is partnering with Technorati to offer clients blogs, vlogs, videos, photos, and other online user-generated media. The hope is for their clients to better understand the blogosphere and improve in building their brands. I’m a bit baffled by this but I’m starting to see the bigger picture of Technorati. I believe they see themselves more as a blog monitoring service to companies than a consumer search product. Atleast that’s my impression.

I really wish Technorati would fix their consumer side of things and provide more stability.

Paul Scrivens, CEO of 9rules asks What would you do if you were CEO of Technorati?

You know what. I’d fix the stability first off. And ignore some of these other side, blog monitoring tie-ins that seem to ignore the users of the site and focus on making money by data harvesting and tracking.
How about you?

Image Credit: Nikita Kashner

Originally posted on February 1, 2007 @ 10:09 pm

The Continuing Evolution of 901am

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When I started 901am I had visions of bringing on some of the uber talented guys with a deep history of blogging. So without much announcement, or accolades besides the fact of the matter that these guys are some big names, and are tremendous bloggers.

Announcing Matt Craven, as a contributor to 901am. He’s got his first post up might want to check it.

Vacations Are Good Things For Bloggers

Likewise, another addition to the team is Duncan Riley, the founder of The Blog Herald and an all around good bloke.

He’s got some posts up you will need to check out.

Originally posted on February 4, 2007 @ 9:31 pm

LinkBlitz: 9rules Edition

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When we were growing up my sister and I used to do blitzes to clean up the house. Today I’m blitzing to clean up my RSS Feeds. Here’s a run down of interesting stuff in blogging and new media that I don’t want you to miss but don’t have time to write a full post on. I’m cleaning up my 9rules folder today.

Tyme White, of 9rules has a two part series interview with Rick Klau of Feedburner concerning statistics. Part One | Part Two

Mike Rundle, of 9rules has a great interview with Juxtaviews up. Pretty interesting stuff.

Scrivs explores Why MySpace2 should be done over on Wisdump.

If you missed it Bad Behavior 2.0.1.0 was released via Have Laptop Will Travel.

A great conversation about site statistics follows the Mint 2.0 Release in the 9rules Notes Arena.

Originally posted on January 30, 2007 @ 9:57 am

The Wow Factor of Blog Network Design

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I used to spend 5 minutes each day this summer laffing at Syntagma Media. I just didn’t get their concept. Today it doesn’t matter because at least it’s beautiful and now I find myself reading a few of his periodicals. I’m hooked on Phi Magazine and its random content especially The Paranormal Watch.

Huge props for hiring our very own Thord Hedengren. The guy never ceases to amaze me.
To me this is a huge step in the right direction for John and his network. Great work on a budget.

Ok, I find myself eating my words up and down every British street at the moment. Seriously though huge props to Syntagma and Thord for The Wow Factor in this Blog Network Design.

Originally posted on February 1, 2007 @ 9:56 pm

The Best Kind of Superbowl Weekend

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Just imagine a weekend without The Superbowl. I will be taking off this weekend. I realize in the world of sports this is a huge weekend. But I badly need time away from this computer screen and to reboot. I’m heading into Pennsylvania Amish Country and relaxing. I might do a little bit of notebook journaling.

While many American’s will be gathering around watching in excitement as for the first time two quarterbacks with the word ‘Man’ in their name square off in a warm tropical place surrounded by ravenous fans to determine which team is well, which team wakes up and performs better this week. I want to be relaxing. I believe this is the first Superbowl in 20+ years that I will miss.

And doing it intentionally. Who knows I still might square off and watch the darn game. But I have no intention of it at the moment. So enjoy the commercials folks. I know I will be able to catch them on some website, probably YouTube.

Originally posted on February 2, 2007 @ 7:01 pm