Month: March 2006

  • $5.5m for podcast venture

    Podcasting as a viable business venture takes another mainstream step with news that PodTech Network has received $5.5 million in venture capital funding from Venrock Associates, US Venture Partners, and Silicon Valley angel investors. In just under eight months, PodTech…

  • Go away, Kool-Aid and Star Wars

    Everyone believes that one of the points of blogging and the internet in general is to connect with other people, right? That’s why we pay attention to things like LinkedIn connections, Technorati rankings, BlogPulse conversation trackers and other tools that…

  • Comment is free

    An evolutionary development in mainstream media engagement with readers and others by The Guardian in the UK, which has launched Comment is free: Comment is free is a major expansion of Guardian comment and analysis on the web. It is…

  • Blogging past, present and maybe

    I can’t imagine how I missed Time for the last post, a story in the Financial Times last month (I read the online paper daily) – a lengthy commentary on blogs, blogging and bloggers. It’s not the usual mainstream media…

  • Getting my interactive kettle online

    I had dinner last night with an old friend who’s in town for a few days on a business visit. Much of our conversation centered on social media, technology and the results of some of the developments we’re likely to…