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30 Things I Learned From Blogging Heroes Part 1 I've finally managed to finished a book I've been spending the last few months reading called "Blogging Heroes" which was authored by Michael A. Banks. The book contains interviews with (at the time of writing) 30 of the world's top bloggers. People such as Joel Comm, Gina Trapani, Frank Warren, Peter Rojas, Robert Scoble, etc. offer their stories on how they have become successful through blogging. This post is the first in a two part series which will highlight 30 things I have learned by reading this book. Dave Taylor 1. Write only when your inspired and write more...
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15 Secrets of FriendFeed's Power UsersShared by Mike Fruchter "The FriendFeed social network is a powerful resource. With it you can connect to some brilliant people and learn new things as they learn them. Converse with interesting people around the world around similar interests. Stream together separate news sources into a single place and then kick off some great discussions about them. Read on for fifteen ways that other users are making FriendFeed a more valuable tool for all of us." By Daniel J. Pritchett of SharingAtWork.com (FriendFeed/Twitter)The FriendFeed social network is a powerful resource. With it you can connect to some brilliant people and...
When I first saw this headline I thought to myself I hope this isn't like Valleywag. :-) Although, I guess you all have seen my shower pictures so not too many more secrets than that. Other than I do sneak into the peanut butter occassionally. Seriously, good tips. I couldn't see any holes to fill in, so that's good! - Robert Scoble
Daniel, you nailed it. Excellent spot on post! - Mike Fruchter
I am a pretty new ff user...this was great information for me...thank you. - John-David Lusan
I saw this heading and though of DIGG. Don't get me wrong Digg became what it is today due to the fact that people did most of this stuff to there community. I find that you need to have several Sources of sharing your content, for example: Google, FF, DIG, Stumbleupon. Here is a good discussion on that http://friendfeed.com/e/93692823-4b07-e7d9-281d-51c4b68da1d3/How-To-Get-People-To-Link-To-and-Talk-About-Stuff/ - Paul
It's nice to finally see a Daniel Pritchett post, on Louisgray.com - Mike Fruchter
Congrats to Daniel on your post! One thing I like to do is hide aggressively and partition users into lists. This allows me to focus on the content that I find helpful and can contribute to the conversation. Sorry, I realized that is two things, not one. - Rob Diana
I just added a few more tips to the comment section on Daniel's post on Louis' blog. - Robert Scoble
Thanks everyone for your support, especially Louis for giving me this chance to share my ideas with a wider audience. - Daniel J. Pritchett
awesome post! Pritchett is to be lauded. - genieyclo
@Paul: There is certainly an element of marketing to promoting content on FriendFeed, whether it's your own or someone else's. I don't think there's anything wrong with that though. Paying close attention to metrics and the "success rate" of posts (as judged by likes and comments) helps each of us to understand what makes posts really useful to the community. I'd never suggest that anyone abandon their favorite site in favor of FriendFeed - you can have more than one favorite! - Daniel J. Pritchett
15 Secrets of FriendFeed's Power Users - Sarah Perez
Congratulations, Daniel!! You're a great addition to LG's site. :) - Mona N
Great post Daniel...congrats. - Mark Krynsky
Funny, everyone who clicked like on this post BUT Jesper Lind subscribes to me (and me to them). What's up Jesper? :-) - Robert Scoble
This is a very good post, kudos Daniel. And I'm not just saying that because I got a mention. LOL. It's hard for new people to figure out exactly what to do with FriendFeed. THere are also not enough posts like this one to help them along the way. - Rahsheen Porter
Robert, not everyone wants to listen to you :) - Rob Diana
AND he's only SUBd to males, Robert. What's up with that?! - Mona N
Rahsheen, I agree - Shevonne Polastre
15 Secrets of FriendFeed's Power Users - Steve Rubel
Offended, Mona? - Andrew Trinh
Observation, Andrew. - Mona N
lmao, Robert, there's more than 45 people who've liked this...did you take the time to check if each was sub'd to you and back? :) - genieyclo
Rob, I know that. I just wanted to hear the reasoning. But, still, one out of 40 ain't bad and I'm still following him, so if he posts anything interesting the rest of you will see it too. - Robert Scoble
genieyclo: yup. I manually checked each one. I was looking mostly to make sure I was subscribed to everyone here. - Robert Scoble
louisgray.com: 15 Secrets of FriendFeed's Power Users - Marshall Kirkpatrick
Thanks for the mention! - JMS
Excellent post Daniel! The tips are definitely spot on. My sentiments about FF are summed up well, it's definitely about conversation, sharing and promoting things not just from your feed but in others too, especially if you like it and it interests you! Together with Zee's 'unofficial guide' posts, this constitutes a great resource for those who are new to FF! - mokargas
Oooppsss, Jill, Superhero Librarian isn't following me either. Sob. Heheh. - Robert Scoble
Great stuff!!! Congratulations!!!!!! :) - Susan Beebe
How can someone using FriendFeed not subscribe to at least one female? Just off the top of my head, you have to subscribe to Sarah Perez, Corvida, Cynda, Mona and Tina. Those are just the "active" people, not to mention the various people who tweet or write for big blogs like Veronica B, Kristen Nicole and several more. And I apologize to any of the women I have missed in this quick list. - Rob Diana
No I'm not Robert. No really need to because I follow so many people who follow you. The naked shower pictures freaked me out too much. :-P - JMS
very good, great information and gets you thinking about optimization thanks for sharing. - Ray Marr
This was great. When I clicked I was skeptical but I was won over quickly. - Andrew Burd
i don't subscribe to robert, i just go there directly - gregory lent
Jill: they freaked me out too. Remind me never to get drunk with Valleywag reporters again. :-) - Robert Scoble
Gregory, you might not subscribe to me, but I got a photo of you: http://www.flickr.com/photos/scobleizer/3044998104/ - Robert Scoble
So is this likebait, instead of linkbait? :-) - Louis Gray
Good stuff but as a FF newbie, I would have loved to seen a few tips about friend discovery. I get your point that the idea is to help people find you, but I wonder if there are search capabilities like a Twellow for Twitter. Thanks - Brian Schwartz
What i like is the way your personal page can somehow "recommend" users to help you know who to subscribe to. - tony
Brian, the best way to "find" friends, is to look at the posts people share and the comments they contribute. If you like those parts, you probably found someone worth subscribing to. - Rob Diana
15 Secrets of FriendFeed's Power Users - Louis Gray
Good find Steve, similar principles that are applied in all Social Media, but its good to hear the specifics of FF - Ed Richardson
louisgray.com: 15 Secrets of FriendFeed's Power Users - Matteo
15 Secrets of FriendFeed's Power Users - Rob Diana
You're exactly right, Ed. Most of those tips can be repurposed for other services but I found that focusing on FriendFeed helped direct my writing. - Daniel J. Pritchett
louisgray.com: 15 Secrets of FriendFeed's Power Users - Daniel J. Pritchett
I am now slightly embarrassed... - Daniel J. Pritchett
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Andrew Warner is an Internet entrepreneur and the founder of Mixergy.com. Tim Ferriss’ relationships with bloggers helped him reach the New York Times bestseller list with his book, The Four Hour Work Week. I recently called Tim to ask him how to market to bloggers. Here’s what he taught me: Start before you need something “I reached out to certain bloggers as far as a year in advance of the book being published,” Tim told me. By building his connections ahead of time, he never had to start a relationship with a blogger by asking for a favor. Meet bloggers...
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Beyond being an online media cultist, I’m also a devout TV geek. So therefore I’m of course obsessed with Dexter, Showtime’s wonderful, whimsical, and occasionally haunting tale of a “good serial killer.” Every episode has a theme, and this week the Butterfly Effect was thrown around, which is described as “the idea that a butterfly’s wings might create tiny changes in the atmosphere that may ultimately alter the path of a tornado or delay.” While that’s a little dramatic, it led me to think about cause-and-effect with relation to social media. I’ve been thinking about and writing to an extent...
The Butterfly Effect and social media - Rob Diana
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Charles Darwin & the Tech Conference Business?        [Gary Bolles (r) with my other former partner Robert Scoble. Photo by Shel] Chris Hoet has posted some spot on observations on conferences over at his blog, Cross The Breeze . His sharp and specific comments bring back to Conferenza Premium Reports, which I co-founded with Gary Bolles in 2001. It has since evolved into the Conferenza Blog, where some of the pioneers and leaders of social media post about events they attend. During my three-year Conferenza tenure, our product was a subscription-based e-newsletter. Some of the current Conferenza bloggers, like Doc Searls and David Weinberger,...
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Version 1.0 Blog: My First PostI will be writing over at the GlobalLogic Version 1.0 blog starting this week. I have been advising GlobalLogic, a leader in global software development services, on the company's Version 1.0 initiative which targets startups and new product development. I plan to discuss product development and enterprise 2.0 issues there, but obviously will continue to blog actively here, as well. My first post is based on some observations made by Steve Gillmor and Robert Scoble regarding Adobe and Microsoft: Microsoft, Adobe: A New Battle For The Future Of The Enterprise? | Version 1.0 Blogs....
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China's Web 2.0 & CensorshipWhile I was in China, the top subject people in west asked me about was censorship. It was difficult to fully answer because we were talking mostly on Twitter. Many people have obvious misconceptions about how bad it is. At one point someone tweeted: Are you being filtered from saying sensitive things?" I Tweeted back and said: "You mean like human rights in Tibet?"  Came the reply "Yes, exactly." There is little doubt that censorship exists in China and it is an annoyance. But how much of an annoyance is really a subject of debate. As I've mentioned a couple...
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China 2.0: Will bottom up collide with top down? [Honor Guard at Forbidden City more for tourism than intimidation. Photo by Shel] I read about half of Paul Theroux’s 1988 China travel book, Riding the Iron Rooster through China on my way over. It would prove to be a mistake. First, he and I tend to have different attitudes, I see light. Second, the China of 20 years ago is dramatically different from today as perhaps the China of 50 or 100 years ago. This is a country that is evolving rapidly, dramatically, at a pace and with numbers that takes a Westerner's breath away. Robert Scoble had...
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Scoble and CNN prove me right…I just saw this exchange from Robert Scoble and Rick Sanchez, so my previous analogy wasn’t so far off the mark. @PRsarahevans any PR person on Twitter is one of the good ones. @Bluraven USA media only shows small part of China (and world). 03:28 PM November 12, 2008 from web in reply to PRsarahevans @Scobleizer ur right, trying to get us all to think beyond the norm. twitter can lead the way. aint going to change overnight though. 03:34 PM November 12, 2008 from web in reply to Scobleizer @ricksanchezcnn just Twittered me. Now THAT freaks me out! It’s...
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What is Social Media? A not so critical review of concepts and definitionsIn 1952 Alfred Kroeber and Clyde Kluckhohn published their seminal work “Culture: A Critical Review of Concepts and Definitions”. They provided a systematic overview of 164 definitions of this anthropological key concept. I did not find as much definitions of social media and furthermore the differences between definitions social media are far smaller than the differences between different concepts of culture. This is a quick overview of the first 14 definitions of social media by the following people: Ben Parr Anthony Mayfield Robert Scoble Brian Solis Stowe Boyd Chris Heuer Joseph Thornley David Meerman Scott Ike Pigott Deirdre Breakenridge (PR...
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Facebook’s ties to Microsoft go back to 2006 when they first signed an advertising deal. A year later they took a $240 million investment, and the advertising relationship was extended this year. Those ties explain why Facebook was willing to ignore it’s own privacy policy in March 2008 and give Microsoft access to Facebook user emails. Despite shutting down Plaxo and Google products that tried to access Facebook users over privacy concerns, they were ok with sending and displaying emails to Microsoft to let users invite Facebook friends to Windows Live Messenger. Facebook’s privacy policy says “We do not provide...
"Those ties may explain why Facebook was willing to ignore its own privacy policy in March 2008 and give Microsoft access to Facebook user emails. Despite shutting down Plaxo and Google products that tried to access Facebook users over privacy concerns, they were ok with sending and displaying emails to Microsoft to let users invite Facebook friends to Windows Live Messenger." - David Recordon
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Valleywag's closing shows Silicon Valley ain't Hollywood It's more than a rumor: The great Silicon Valley gossip-rag experiment has come to a humbling conclusion. Two-and-a-half years after launching Valleywag, blog magnate Nick Denton has decided to fold it into Gawker, which covers the media business. For the past month, Denton has been saying to everyone who will listen that online advertising is undergoing a sharp slowdown as the economy continues to tank, and Web publishers are going to get nailed. After recently paring the Valleywag staff down to two, Denton is now keeping only one -- Editor Owen Thomas, who will write as many as a...
Valleywag's demise shows Silicon Valley ain't Hollywood | Technology | Los Angeles Times - Dave Winer
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A concept in video advertising has been bubbling up amongst the professionals I’ve been listening to over the last six months, one that makes a lot of sense and is already in use by several successful podcasters, but one that is rarely described explicitly and definitely lacks a cute buzzword-y name, at least as far as I’ve seen. Most advertising in video and audio media is treated separately from any other content, text or otherwise. Most blogs and news organizations that regularly (or irregularly) produce and feature video and audio content don’t monetize it at all. Those that do monetize...
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Is Social Media Killing PR? (Or Maybe Vice Versa?) Last night, BoomTown was at the Horn Group offices in San Francisco, to appear on a panel called “Is Social Media Killing PR?” Focused on the “future of the media ecosystem,” it was moderated by Media Survey’s Sam Whitmore. Besides me, the other panelists were the Horn Group’s Susan Etlinger and Jeremiah Oywang, a Web strategist with Forrester Research. The panel topic was inspired by recent blog rants by Jason Calacanis, Robert Scoble and Michael Arrington, all of whom have taken potshots at the PR industry as unnecessary or broken in the new social media order. Of course, as...
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Bambuser takes on Qik's live mobile broadcasting If Bambuser's mobile live broadcasting app sounds familiar, it's because it's trying to unseat Qik. As one of the companies presenting at Wednesday's Under the Radar conference in Mountain View, CA, Bambuser is trying to convince investors and future partners to propel their business forward. Like Qik, Bambuser broadcasts the contents of your view finder from your mobile phone, which viewers can watch live online. Also like Qik, Bambuser viewers can chat with the filmmaker when the video is live. However, Bambuser throws in recording and geotagging from the Webcam in addition to the phone. As an extra touch,...
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Tesla chief's actress girlfriend into his "physics" [Geek Love]The liquored-up consensus at San Francisco watering hole Joey & Eddie's last night: Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk is actually kind of hot. Musk, who drove up in one of his electric car startup's Roadsters to speak to me yesterday, is divorcing sci-fi novelist wife Justine and has taken up with a British actress, Talulah Riley, whom he squired to a party earlier this year at Tesla's Silicon Valley showroom. Riley told the Daily Mail that she "fell in love with Elon because of our mutual love of physics." Perhaps it was "physiques." Those British accents are tricky. Justine Musk's...
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Robert Scoble now reports to my ex-boss [Too Insidery]This will be hilarious: Self-obsessed videoblogger Robert Scoble, managing director of FastCompany.tv, has a new boss — who's the same as my old one. Noah Robischon is leaving his job as managing editor of Valleywag's publisher, Gawker Media, to run Fast Company's websites, which include Scoble's personal blog, Scobleizer.com. Everyone assumes Gawker Media publisher Nick Denton personally pulls the puppet strings at Valleywag, but since I was hired last year, I've reported to Robischon, a friend I've known since we were both at Time. Damn: This means Denton actually is personally pulling the puppet strings now, doesn't it? I'm in...
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Do you think that posts with "question" titles encourage conversation?Hey, Floyd Teter had his "A-Ha!" moment, so I'm gonna have mine. In Teter's case, Oracle's "stack" strategy suddenly clicked in his head. (Read his post, in which he compares and contrasts Apple's and Oracle's strategies for complementary product sales.)In my case, the thing that clicked in my head is probably something that you've known for years. But it just hit me with full force a few hours ago.I read Google Reader at various times, and when I find something interesting, I'll tend to share it in Google Reader, which also populates my FriendFeed. In the middle of the night...
It's possible, yes, but why you asking? ;-) - Robert Scoble
Holy meta-recursion, Batman! - thePuck
Neal++ LOL - Rahsheen Porter
Eh, you're just spreading comment bait, OnEm. :-P - Heather Mina
Better than spreading spiders and snakes, I guess. (And yes, I did comment at Cobb's post, and pointed her to the FriendFeed discussion that she sparked.) - Ontario Emperor
I don't like spiders and snakes, and that ain't what it takes to love me... oh, um, sorry. I'm easily earwormed. - Heather Mina
It's very possible. - David Cook
Liking for Neal's comment. And sometimes it does. - faboo mama
Absolutely. Is the same true for comments? - Fraser
As I've noted, a comment (or even a like) makes a FriendFeed entry visible to many more people. So when Peter and the rest of you commented (and liked), the visibility of the FriendFeed entry increased. - Ontario Emperor
In fact, as I noted, there are things that have to do nothing with the wording of a post title that influence its popularity. I suspect (I won't try it) that a post from Benjamin Golub about FriendFeed will receive more activity on FriendFeed than a post from me about MacDraw. - Ontario Emperor
Yes. Few can resist answering a question - especially quick poll-type questions. On Chris Pirillo's Geeks site the "X or Y?" discussion posts and blog posts get tons of answers. It invites participation yet doesn't require much thought to answer. Here on Friendfeed, more complex questions tend to get answered also, likely because we are a cerebral bunch. - Laura Norvig
No, not at all. :) - Morton Fox
sometimes, but we don't use it as a strategy....others do though :-) - Duncan Riley
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Webcam + software = multi-touch control... without touching anything This video interview and demonstration is the definitely the coolest thing I've seen in a while. Robert Scoble interviewed Andy Wilson from Microsoft Research and gets a hands on look at an impressive multi-touch solution. Here's the thing though: there's actually no touching involved! Andy's demonstration uses a $30 web-cam and a software solution that analyzes the view from above his keyboard. When the software can't see the keyboard behind Andy's hands because he's completed a thumb and forefinger pinch gesture, it gives his hand control of the cursor. Essentially, it sees that his fingers have completed a circle...
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First impressionsImage by thinkjose via FlickrThis evening whilst online frequenting my usual sites I was alerted to a video reaction by Gary Vaynerchuk to comments that Howard Stern had made. The tweet from Robert Scoble was hard not to be intrigued by as when I noticed his enthusiasm on Twitter I couldn't help but feel the need to watch the whole reaction.Howard Stern was asked which was more popular - social networking sites or pornography - clearly social networking is the Internets darling at the moment and Howard acknowledged that but also poked fun at it as more of a joke....
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