My Blogging Workflow: Thoughts From My Podcamp Boston 3 Presentation

Yesterday I gave a presentation entitled “Discovery- How People Find Blogs, Video and Podcasts They Love & What That Means To You” at podcamp Boston 3. The powerpoint is available here, and the audio here.
After the presentation, I started to think of different techniques I use to produce and promote my blog posts and came [...]

Podcamp 3 Boston Panel: Discovery- How People Find Blogs, Video and Podcasts They Love & What That Means To You

The Powerpoint Presentation from my panel is available here.
The audio is available here.
So, this will be the most self-referential blog post I’ve ever done. I’m here at podcamp Boston 3, giving a presentation on Discovery- how people find blogs, video and podcasts they love and what that means.
After looking through all the panels and [...]

podcamp Boston 3


object:location Episode Seven

Today’s show will be broadcast at 4:00 PM EST. The call in number is (347) 539-5920
We’ll be talking about:

The new .me domain names becoming available and the ensuing debacle
SezWho’s partnerships with Izea, Entrecard and Creative Weblogging
Podcamp Boston 3
And the rel button

Don’t Bother With Buying A .me Domain: GoDaddy Blew It.

This morning was one of those times when I realized what a true web dork I am. I found out yesterday that the .me domain names were going on sale at 11 this morning, and I desperately wanted to get aweso.me. Godaddy had a little countdown timer for the days, hours, minutes and seconds until [...]

podcamp Boston Discovery Panel

Blogstring will be representing full force at podcamp boston this coming weekend (meaning Sarah and I will both be there, but it sounds better when I refer to “blogstring”). I will be there as a kind of split personality, as I will be wearing the blogger hat (not literally, unless I can find a hat [...]

SezWho Announces 3 New Partners- Is That Good? Bad? Depends Who You Ask. Here’s What I Think.

So, SezWho, the company that hopes to be the universal profile service for the social web announced three new partners causing speculation and controversy.
SezWho announced partnerships with Izea, Entrecard, and Creative Weblogging. The three-partner release was a conscious decision in order to show both momentum in partnerships as well as a demonstration of the [...]

mobissimo Launches MobiFriends Collaborative Community

So, looks like the travel space is heating up this summer. Get it? See what I did there? Heat. Summer. Travel. I swear, with news puns like this, I should be on the local news busting out fake laughter and bad news puns. Back to you, Steve.
Right. mobissimo. They are billing themselves as “the world’s [...]

Pure Verticals Trying To Monetize UGC

Pure Verticals, Inc. announced the launch of their Monetization of User-Generated Content (MUGC) platform called “Mugzy.” The idea is to let producers of UGC place targeted ads within their content. From the press release:
By using Mugzy, content creators can place relevant product endorsements and video advertisements in their video and text content. Through the product [...]

Is Perpetual Negativity Valuable?

Sorry about the title. I’m having a tough time figuring out a good title for this post.
If you use twitter with any frequency, you’re probably familiar with Amanda Chapel. “She’s” a fictional character created to do nothing but attack and contradict anything said by web 2.0 evangelists. Now, don’t read that last sentence as [...]