Lance Knobel's back-up weblogA place to file postings relevant to current projects(Untitled)- January 29, 2004 The new influencers. Can one person decide what the entire industry will buy and use Anita Rowland points at one story (the Zamboni) where that seems to have happened. That's precisely why evangelists like me pay attention to influentials so much. The problem is, now EVERYONE is an influential. Why Weblogs. That's why I subscribe to 1227 RSS feeds. In the new world I have to pay attention to everyone. Here's an example. One of my influentials, Ryan Dawson, is about 20 years old. Most other...http://radio.weblogs.com/0001257/2004/01/29.html#a5 (Untitled)- January 29, 2004 Coming soon, branded RSS experiences. Don Park: "I think the next step in content-syncation markets is emergence and proliferation of OEM news aggregators for premium content service providers." You mean like this Howard Dean aggregator (which was built in .NET) I totally agree. If Microsoft were smart every product team here would start publishing its news in RSS, and then we could build a Microsoft-centric news aggregator like the Howard Dean one. How powerful a marketing channel would that..http://radio.weblogs.com/0001257/2004/01/29.html#a4 (Untitled)- January 26, 2004 The Hard Way. My summer holiday activities over the last couple of months included a lot of work on my music collection (I&146;m slowly transferring from vinyl to MP3AIFF) and rereading Nick Hornby. So, I was naturally struck by how rapidly the skill of making compilation tapes, a central theme of High Fidelity has gone from the esoteric to the everyday. Not surprisingly, not everyone is happy about this. Joel Keller, writing in Salon, says Putting together a home-brewed compilation of songs...http://radio.weblogs.com/0001257/2004/01/26.html#a3 (Untitled)- January 20, 2004 The meme you've never seen.Big media sleaze. If po .... The meme you've never seen.Big media sleaze. If power corrupts, then being a press baron corrupts preeetty sweetly, thank you. Robert Maxwell was a crook. Conrad Black ahem "borrowed" a few million dollars from his company, but forgot to tell anyone. Even Murdoch has secured his empire by grovelling to a totalitarian state and censoring criticism of it. Yet Big Media never gets called on corruption. Sure, the stories get coverage, but just.http://radio.weblogs.com/0001257/2004/01/20.html#a2 |