Archive for the 'a-listers' Category
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 [...]
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. [...]
Digg Bows to Spontaneous User Protest
0 Comments Published by Siddiq Bello May 4th, 2007 in Blogosphere, a-list, a-listers, copyright, digg, drm, riot.[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jn0QoUpPG80]
A must read article over at Rev2.org on the Digg rebellion and its outcome. Two items that I think are really interesting and deserve more thought:
1) spontaneous user protest
2) siding with your users is a winning strategy
DVD’s, cracked. HD-DVD’s, cracked. Blu-Ray disk’s, cracked. There has to come a point where the movie guys realize that [...]
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 [...]
Blog Castes: The Real Ranking of the Blogoshpere
15 Comments Published by Siddiq Bello November 7th, 2006 in A-List Bloggers, A-List Blogs, Blogosphere, Blogs and Blogging, Conjecture, Hugh MacLeod, Tech Musings, User Generated Content, Viral marketing, Vlogs, a-list, a-listers, blog rank, social ideas, social networking.In ancient India, along the scenic Indus Valley, someone came up with a system of social control so good it survives to this day. It was called the Caste system and basically it codified the privileges reserved for the in-crowd and the drudgery dished out to everybody else. While the Caste system is no longer [...]
