Online analyst n. Hired by companies like Coca-Cola and AT&T to monitor what’s being said about them on social networks and blogs, online analysts use the Internet as a vast unpaid focus group. Via New Media Strategies Career Page and New Media Sense by way of Wired’s Jargon Watch Continue reading
Monthly Archives: May 2007
Road Trip Driving Gelles to En Why See (NYC)
I am sitting next to Mr. David Gelles of Blog Vivant fame as he pilots my 530i up I-95 on our way towards moving him to the East Village for the summer. He is going to be a summer intern at Forbes, a pretty sweet gig. We’re listening to old Springsteen on route to the New Jersey Turn Pike. I am moblogging from my T40 laptop thanks to a T-Mobile data PC card via slowass GPRS. Mildly frustrating.
News Feed Aggregation Solutions
A web-based news aggregation strategy is simple if the solution is Drupal, the solution I chose for both my personal and corporate websites. There may be other super-easy solutions you may want to chose, but the solutions here are simple in Drupal. There are two of them: News Aggregator and Leech, one built-in module and the other a simple download; one offers a simple news aggregation solution, the other able to completely clone the content of one or more remote sites. Seriously. Continue reading
Interference Mishandled a Brilliant Opportunity
When You Blog You Are Not In The Bar
Just to be clear, when you blog it is not the same as taking the piss out of your boss and the job down at the pub. Blogging is public and universally-accessible so you will be discovered and probably fired if you bite the hand that feeds you. Continue reading