Powazek: Just a Thought: Death to User-Generated Content: Derek Powazek: “So let’s not give in to the buzzphrase du jour. Let’s use the real words. Those people posting to Amazon pages? They’re writing reviews. Those folks on Flickr? They’re making photographs. And if we must have an umbrella term to describe the whole shebang, I have a suggestion. Try this on for size: Authentic Media.”
I like.
Joho the Blog: [f2c] Christopher Sacca, Google: “Chris Sacca is head of Google’s Special Initiatives. There are about 5 million terabytes of info in the world and google has collected about 170T so far.”
Gyre.org : New York Times: Iraqi documents are put on Web, and search is on: “The U.S. has put thousands of untranslated documents, captured from the former Iraqi government, online in an experiment to see if volunteer researchers can find evidence of weapons of mass destruction or ties to al-Qaeda that the official intelligence agencies could not.”
Videoblogging Week 2006 is a great way to get started with videoblogging. Just do it.
EricRice.com :: Let me break it down for you. Podshow = Old Media.: “So, yeah, let me be clear:
- Podshow is not a business I trust.
- I am concerned for friends and other very talented folks who are part of the organization. “
USATODAY.com - Google’s hidden payroll: “Because Adsense earnings can vary widely depending on a site’s traffic or subject matter, many Web publishers in the developed world don’t bother participating. Whereas a $25 monthly payout may not be worth the trouble to a blogger in Manhattan, it can mean the world to a blogger in Manila.”
Moving On and Trading Places (by Jeremy Zawodny): “I recently left Yahoo to go to work for Google.”