Category: Web

  • The news is dead; long live the news

    There’s much talk these days with various opinion and predictions of an unclear future for the newspaper business. We’ve seen some pretty radical events in recent months, notably in the US – the Chicago Tribune’s Chapter 11 filing last December,…

  • Tweeting the adventure of a lifetime

    Back in 2005, blogs and podcasts were the envelopes being pushed, so to speak, by many in organizations large and small. One push that captured imaginations – certainly it captured mine – was NASA’s podcast experiment from space. In August…

  • It’s all about the apps, Part 3

    I wrote last month that iPhone is all about the apps. It’s not really about the device itself, cool though it is – it’s much more about what you can do with it. I discovered a new one yesterday –…

  • Chat Catcher needs a white knight

    I was dismayed by news in an email the other day from Shannon Whitley that he could no longer continue supporting Chat Catcher. This is one of the most useful tools on the web that links disparate conversation on Twitter…

  • Cluetrain #9: Trust is the key

    Ten years ago, in April 1999, The Cluetrain Manifesto was published. This seminal work introduced 95 separate theses based on the concept that “markets are conversations.” Pretty radical stuff for many people in many companies to think about at the…