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Comment on SEO is bullshit by jeff

jeff — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:45:13 +0000

awesome read, dude. i couldn’t have said it better myself.

Comment on Oh, you gotta kill the print edition by Oh, you gotta kill the print edition. « Chamber13

Oh, you gotta kill the print edition. « Chamber13 — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 06:02:00 +0000

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Comment on I-News. OMG. Stupidest Idea Ever by Laird Farquharson

Laird Farquharson — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 04:53:32 +0000

I’m all for choice. I’m all for personalized news. I totally believe consumers will vote with their clicks, and purchase habits. I sure hope there’s something really extra special being offered here, because I just don’t see anyone under 60 wanting to have a special newspaper-printer-slash-modem hooked up to their homes. I’ve seen (and participated) in all kinds of newspaper experiments too, I’ve been working with them for over 9 years. I don’t think this idea has legs, but there are parts of the idea that will win (as I mentioned, the idea of aggregated content also being delivered). So, in your examples of Napster/iTunes, Blockbuster/NetFlix, etc, parts of ideas win and parts loose. VHS/Beta? Not always does the better technology win. Personalize my news, and send me a PDF (or a morning digest newsletter into my inbox). Fine! Beautiful. I get that. Great Idea. Ask me to set up a printer for my home? No. Parts of this will win. Parts of this will fail.

I wish MediaNews the best, because I don’t want to see Newspapers collapse and become obsolete. I applaud efforts to try. I applaud and pay for smart efforts.

Comment on I-News. OMG. Stupidest Idea Ever by Stephen Keating

Stephen Keating — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 21:19:44 +0000

I am working with MediaNews on this project. A few points:

- The totality of this service, both in technology and content, is not yet public. Stay tuned.

- The operative concept in I-News is choice. The demand by individuals for choice in media drives innovation and new business models. File-sharing music sites innovated and iTunes made the market. Blockbuster built a video store franchise and NetFlix brought the video store home. Starting with choice and figuring out how best to deliver that is the constant question.

- For more on the Individuated News conference this summer, check here: http://www.individuatednews.com/

Comment on I-News. OMG. Stupidest Idea Ever by Tim Hewetson

Tim Hewetson — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 17:01:52 +0000

I especially like the line,

“You’ll be able to choose the news you want about anything, whether you’re a Detroit Red Wings fan or if you’re green-oriented,”

Doesn’t using ink, electricity to print it, and paper defeat the purpose of being ‘green’???? This idea fell out of the stupid tree and hit it’s head on every branch on it’s down to the ground.

EPIC FAIL!

Comment on Google Website Trends … drool by Julie Smithers

Julie Smithers — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 20:25:13 +0000

I agree with you. I don’t think Google Website Trenks marks the death of Comscore or Neilson, but it’s still fun to use, and a great resource for competitors and also a great tool to drive keywords for search ad campaigns. That’s how I’ll use it.

Comment on A New slice of the pie by Julie Smithers

Julie Smithers — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 20:22:35 +0000

Interesting. I had thought that the new web slices were going to be an interesting technology for users to use, but I hadn’t thought that some sites may not want to make use of them, like you say, those that need traffic ON thier pages to serve ads.

However, I wonder if this is the same fear those kinds of sites had when RSS first came out? I guess time will tell if technologies like RSS or Web Slices (or anything else the next-gen broswers will invent) will help drive traffic to sites by giving users notification, or if they will drive traffic away because people are simply OK scanning the headlines and not drilling in for the full story.

In either case, this is just further proof that the home page is no longer the home page. All these (RSS & Web Slices) drive people directly do the article page (or the detail page), bypassing the home page. This is not new; usability folks have known that the detail pages get seen without home pages for a while.

Great article, thanks!

Comment on Environmentally Green Working by Environmentally Green Working

Environmentally Green Working — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 03:20:36 +0000

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Comment on SEO’s (and SEM’s) Long Tail by admin

admin — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 07:04:51 +0000

Thanks, Mike. I love to hear about my awesomeness and totally correctness. Good for the ego.

Comment on SEO’s (and SEM’s) Long Tail by Michael Tighe

Michael Tighe — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 16:58:29 +0000

Awesome article and totally correct! When people are working on optimization of their site (especially an existing one), they too often get caught up in keyword research and looking for what general users are looking for in a wide scope.

It should start with your own site, researching both how people are ‘currently’ finding you, as well as developing a profile for who your visitors are – via your analytics.

I find that looking at my long tail searches also give me more ideas for future articles.

~mike