Archives for August 2007
R.I.P. EarthLink
Today, internet service provider EarthLink laid off 900 workers, or about half of its work force.
Among those cut were the vast majority of the Marketing Communications Department, where I worked for four years, the department’s VP and the entirety of my old team in the editorial department– including my old boss the editor in chief […]
Storytelling tip from Billy Wilder
A while ago, I wrote about how NOT spelling things out for your audience, making them to some of the work to connect narrative dots, can more powerfully bond them to your ideas than if you lay it all out for them. It was a fairly long post in which I talked about memes, […]
Trust the Search community to figure out SEO
On Monday, I sat on a panel with ClickZ’s Rebecca Lieb about how editors deal with PR. We had fun. See this photo of us onstage with moderator, and my dear friend, Kevin Ryan of SES:
The funny this is this:Â I’ve given dozens of talks but I’ve never seen link love like this… dozens of […]
Now tracking: Google’s latest deal
Don’t miss iMedia’s recent coverage of Google’s deal with Media Rights Capital (You can also see the Variety story here) to create online content and syndicate it with ads thoughout the web. Google is making the content free to sites but will monetize via ads. This is similar to the Brightcove, Fifth Network, Broadband Enterprises […]
Disoriented without my dog.
I came back late last night from an appearance at Search Engine Strategies in San Jose, too tired to go collect Dexter, my seven year old Corgi, from my folks’ place where he was staying.
Then, in the middle of the night, I woke up and stumbled around unable to figure out where or even who […]
