Who’s making money right now in the tech publications world? This BusinessWeek article by Sarah Lacy says it’s the “unsexy” email newsletter. Speaking of email newsletters, we find that a significant number of our readers have been getting our email newsletter for years. The earliest copy we still have around is from 1999 (has it [...]
Here’s an interesting article on The Twenty Five Most Valuable Blogs. Interesting exercise in acquisition multiples. But, it seems like many of these “most valuable” blogs are still (like the publishers who might look to buy them) losing money, plus there’s not a whole lot of return for their venture backers. Examples: #2 on the [...]
Jason Calacanis has reposted a long (but well written) discourse on the pitfalls of relationships going “all digital,” which provides more illumination on the whole Michael Arrington withdrawing from blogging story yesterday. Calacanis writes: I’m 100% convinced that the trend in 2010 and forward will be people trying to remove their virtual presence on sites [...]
TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington — probably the most watched technology blogger in the world — said this morning that he’s going on hiatus for the month of February, in the face of death threats, a recent event where someone spat on him, and because he “can’t say my job is fun any more.” The announcement follows [...]
Well, it’s a corporate blog, but Richard Rosenblatt — best known as being the CEO of Intermix and Chairman of MySpace before its sale to News Corp.–is now apparently blogging on Demand Media’s site. Not much there yet, except a promo on the firm’s new corporate web site, but there’s lots of folks who will [...]
It may be obvious to everyone else, but I’ve suddenly realized that social media and blogging is much more closely linked with evangelism than with personal expression. While blogging started out really as a way to communicate and express personal thoughts and ideas, it seems to me that blogging’s current incarnation is much closer to [...]
Okay, it’s 10:30pm on Sunday of the slowest news week of the year, and the day before Labor Day (so I expect–and hope–you’re off enjoying your weekend instead of reading a blog post). But, saw this great post by Marshall Kilpatrick explaining the why’s and how’s of embargoes (succinct, accurate, and well thought out) so [...]
There’s been a “meme” — a running theme through many blogs lately — about the role of public relations in the world of blogging. Nicole Jordan — who, here in Los Angeles, is well known for her work organizing networking events–and is the PR person behind some of the higher visibility firms here — weighed [...]
I was chuckling this morning a bit when I saw how many bloggers posted stuff at 2am on Sunday evening. If you follow the many technology blog news sites (aside from our own) you’ll notice some strange posting schedules where folks are posting news stories at all sorts of odd hours of the morning, plus [...]
The Technology Council of Southern California has just kicked off a blogging effort, the latest in the number of organizations who have launched their own blog site, with their Technology Council of Southern California Blog. Scott Fox, author of “Internet Riches” and a board member of the council, is heading up the blog effort. The [...]
Thoughts and commentary from Benjamin F. Kuo, publisher of socalTECH.com.
