Category Archives: Blogging

The Year of the Editor Revisited

At the beginning of the year I predicted that 2008 would be the year of the editor. In that post I said:
“There is so much great stuff out there, but so much more crap. Up until now the model (gawker, weblogs inc, etc) has been to hire some of the best creative talent and pay […]

Real Time Blogosphere

On the rare occasion that someone links to my blog, I like to know about it. That is even more true for the websites of Plato’s Closet Cool Springs and Plato’s Closet Murfreesboro.
Enter Google Alerts.
I set up Google Alerts using my phone’s email address. It is like Twitter’s “track” for the entire internet. So hey, […]

Measuring Conversational Media

Rex Hammock has posted some thoughts on what he has termed Mediacasting. The basic gist is that “advertising” is the conversation with your customers. It is a conversation that is happening across a wide variety of communication channels on a wide range of devices. A key point is that the only barrier to entry is […]

2008: The Year of the Editor

I had lunch with a couple of the guys from StudioNow today. It got me thinking again about the value add good editors can provide in today’s world where we are all creating (blogs, pictures, videos, etc).
For those that don’t know, StudioNow is a local (Nashville) company that can take a bunch of raw creative […]

Attention Information Could Add Depth to Social Networks

I just read that Ma.gnolia (my social bookmark application of choice) is starting to provide APML information (read the annoucement). This is very cool.
At BarCamp Nashville I was talking about a concept I had termed “3D Social Networking”. The basic idea was to add attention information to social networks to provide relationship depth. Then that […]

A Better Wordpress Search

The search feature of Wordpress does not deliver good results. The good news is that I know how to fix it. First, let’s talk about the current Wordpress search.
As an example I will use the phrase “I will buy your idea”. I am going to search using the Wordpress search tool, Google, and a replicable […]