Archive for the 'A-List Bloggers' Category
Literary sensation Margaret B. Jones immortalized on YouTube
2 Comments Published by Siddiq Bello April 29th, 2008 in A-List Bloggers, Book Reviews, Conjecture, Entertainment, Humor.[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVxs5t2wyzs]
Hip Hop veteran and habitual scowler, Harry Allen, has an “exclusive” video of literary sensation Margaret B. Jones on YouTube, she discuss her upbring on the mean streets of LA and her new book Love and Consequences. The video is excellent as it is one of the few were we get to see Margaret Seltzer [...]
1000 Fans of Natalie Merchant: 2 essays for artist in the digital age
0 Comments Published by Siddiq Bello March 7th, 2008 in A-List Bloggers, Blogosphere, Blogs and Blogging, Conjecture, Digital Music, Music Musings, a-listers.The recorded music industry has become the global icon of how to destroy customer goodwill and torpedo an industry, in the digital age. Their mis-steps go from the tragically self-defeating (suing fans, grandma and apple pie) to the spectacularly ineffective (seeding corrupt files on P2P networks, malware and DRM). The US recorded music industry isnt [...]
Stan Schroeder over at Frantic Industries did a more though and in-depth review of the WebOS options then the blurp i posted a few days ago If your interested in how folks are expanding the functionality and depth of web applications, this post is about as insightful as they come.
Stan Schroeder over at Frantic Industries did a more though and in-depth review of the WebOS options then the blurp i posted a few days ago If your interested in how folks are expanding the functionality and depth of web applications, this post is about as insightful as they come.
Andrew Keen’s Against You: Why Old Folks Hate Web 2.0
1 Comment Published by Siddiq Bello June 9th, 2007 in A-List Bloggers, A-List Blogs, Andrew Keen, User Generated Content, Web 2.0, a-listers, polemic, trend.Yesterday, ChangeThis posted an essay entitled “Against You: A manifesto in favor of audience“, by Andrew Keen. Keen is famous for two things, the 18 month flame-out of Audiocafe.com and the merciless taunting of Web 2.0 boosters. The essay is a jaded, bitter and over-simplified rehashing of Jaron Lanier’s more academic essay, Digital Moaism. [...]
Andrew Keen’s Against You: Why Old Folks Hate Web 2.0
0 Comments Published by Siddiq Bello June 9th, 2007 in A-List Bloggers, A-List Blogs, Andrew Keen, User Generated Content, Web 2.0, a-listers, polemic, trend.Yesterday, ChangeThis posted an essay entitled “Against You: A manifesto in favor of audience“, by Andrew Keen. Keen is famous for two things, the 18 month flame-out of Audiocafe.com and the merciless taunting of Web 2.0 boosters. The essay is a jaded, bitter and over-simplified rehashing of Jaron Lanier’s more academic essay, Digital Moaism. [...]
AnywhereCD back in CD Business
6 Comments Published by Siddiq Bello June 7th, 2007 in A-List Bloggers, Digital Music, Foolishness, Fun with PR, anywherecd, deals, lawsuits, michael robertson, streaming music, warner music.Back in April, Michael Robertson launched his latest Internet venture called AnywhereCD, which was supposed to sell CD’s with MP3 tracks that could be downloaded immediately. No sooner had the companies press release hit the Blogosphere then Warner Music pulled its music from the site. The lawsuits started to fly and the AnywhereCD was reduced [...]
Blogosphere by Numbers
0 Comments Published by Siddiq Bello April 9th, 2007 in A-List Bloggers, A-List Blogs, Blogosphere, Blogs and Blogging, BoingBoing, Quantification, Research, trend.Technorati has belatedly released their State of the Blogosphere report, which runs through some of the stats from their index of the Blogosphere. Its kinda like Yahoo or AOL putting out a report on the state of the Web, it may be great directional information but with more possible meanings then an interpretive dance. Some [...]
A 5 Site Guide to Web 2.0
1 Comment Published by Siddiq Bello March 21st, 2007 in A-List Bloggers, RIA, Tech 2.0, Web 2.0, a-listers, reddit, social media, twitter, web 3.0.If you follow any of the Web 2.0 A-listers, like Pete Cashmore, Frank Arrington or Om Malik , then you know that the only thing anyone can agree on is that no one really knows what Web 2.0 is. Folks seem to agree that it’s got something to do with the rise of social media, [...]
The Formula of Web 3.0 (is it Wrong?)
2 Comments Published by Siddiq Bello February 20th, 2007 in A-List Bloggers, A-List Blogs, Web 2.0, a-listers, business, samantic web, social media, web 3.0, web math.Web 3.0 = (4C + P + VS)
According to a great post by Sramana Mitra this formula is the future of the web. The four C’s in this formula are content, community, and commerce with a fourth C representing context. The P is for personalization and the VS is for vertical search. Sramana believes that [...]
