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Digital Slob, A Hot Naked Model
He's a funny storyteller. She's the reason you want to visit his website. Curt
Brandao, otherwise known as Digital
Slob, is a syndicated columnist and podcaster focusing on the lighter side
of technology. Digital Slob's spokesmodel is Olga
Timakova, who was the number one cause of whiplash at the Podcast and Portable
Media Expo.
"Fossilized
Media" Should Take Up Podcasting
A number of print publications are taking up podcasting, and according to Marcus
Chan, the multimedia editor of the San Francisco Chronicle, they're wise to do
so. Chan spoke openly about the trend at the Podcast and Portable Media Expo in
Ontario, California.
Podcasting
As An "Investor Relations Tool"
Podcasting is a fine way to communicate your personal thoughts and feelings on
any subject. It can also be useful in the business world as an "investor relations
tool." A session at the Podcast and Portable Media Expo focused on this application.
Podcasting
Tips, Tricks For Viral Promotion
It's a rare podcaster who would turn down the chance to get new viewers, and most
video bloggers are actively trying to expand their audiences. According to Ben
"Bendrix" Williams, there are a few key ways to achieve this growth:
Rocketboom's
Ad Policy Returns Power To People
Andrew Baron of Rocketboom fame may have sealed his position as an advertising
visionary. His approach, detailed during a keynote address at the Podcast
and Portable Media Expo, had everyone buzzing. A $20,000 discount for likeable
commercials?
Google
Begins AdWords Training Push
AdWords Seminars for Success will be presented in six cities during Google's first
round of introducing these one-day training courses aimed at informing entrepreneurs
on the benefits of AdWords...
Netflix
Offers $1 Million "To Build A Ferrari"
Earlier today, Netflix announced that it's putting a $1 million prize up for grabs.
The Netflix Prize, as the online movie rental company calls it, will go "to the
first person who can achieve certain accuracy goals in recommending movies based
on personal preferences."
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Podcast Monetization Strategies
Paul Colligan seems a big fan of over-delivering. Though his presentation at the
Podcast and Portable Media Expo was entitled "7 Proven Strategies to Monetize
Your Podcast in 30 Days or Less," my notes reached a length of five pages, containing
no fewer than 20 websites...
Google
Adds A Garage
At 1,880 square feet, the house at 232 Santa Marguerita Avenue in Menlo Park,
California could fit neatly inside the Googleplex, but once upon a time all of
Google occupied that home's garage.
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Tuesday October 03, 2006 |
Getting to Robert Scoble is like trying reach something that fell behind the refrigerator;
he's right there, you can see him, but people-shaped obstacles are preventing
you from really being in the room with him.
Eventually, the CBS MarketWatch reporter scampered off with his own piece of the
Scobleizer, and just as I was settling
in for an interview, someone else plops down on the beanbag chair next to him.
Robert was reclining on the floor, using the beanbag chair as a pillow, taking
a break from the hectic pace of the Podcast and Portable
Media Expo.
I'm from the South, where manners and politeness are important. I was taught not to interrupt, but something had to be done or I may never actually get to interview him.
"I know how to settle this," I thought. I tossed a beanbag chair next to Scoble's, and spread myself out on the floor next to him. A 250-pound reporter lying in intimate proximity to Robert Scoble was a bit difficult for everyone in the Blogger's Lounge to ignore. People were staring immediately, their heads cocked doglike to the side with curious smiles.
Gotcha! Roll camera.
"This is going to end up on Valleywag,"
he said. And so begins my interview with the former Microsoft blogebrity, Vice
President of Media Development at PodTech.net,
and author of the book Naked Conversations. Fortunately for all involved, neither
of us was naked for this conversation.
Also fortunate, as his position in the Blogger's Lounge would indicate, Robert is a pretty laid back guy, engaging a man he's barely heard of, who's certainly not from CBS MarketWatch, who just threw all the rules of interviewing out the window.
But if you don't really know the rules, you can't really break them now can you? Or maybe it's more that you're more easily forgiven on your first day on the job. I'm a writer - what do I know about video interviews?
But then again, that was a major theme of the conference: anybody can do this podcast/vidcast thing. It's raw, honest, unpolished. With that in mind, I think it fits.
We talked about what Robert was doing with his new company, the photo-walk with
photographer Thomas Hawk on his new show, the
ScobleShow, whether or not Steve Ballmer actually throws chairs, and about
swimming in the lake outside Bill Gates' house.
I asked him if he
ever thought blogging would lead him to celebrity status.
"I'm not exactly Paris Hilton," he said.
Well that's true, and Miss Hilton probably would be better to look at across the beanbags, but who could stand a conversation with her?
After the interview, Scoble sprang up and switched his attention to the shotgun
mic and tripod our videographer was using, more interesting than me no doubt,
and began asking Richard questions about where we got them. And who would blame
him? We did have some of the sweetest equipment at the conference.
Editor's Note: Web 2.0 has largely been about the liberation
of content producers and content consumers to interact with, promote, and build
upon each other. Podcasting, as it fits into that world, is both loved and criticized
for it's rough edges, it's casualness, it's disregard for the rules of conventional
media. Is this, in your estimation, a good thing? Share your
comments with us at the WebProNews
Video Blog.
About
the Author:
Jason Lee Miller is a staff writer for WebProNews covering technology and business. |
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Matt
Cutts Talks PageRank
 By
David A. Utter
The guide to Google's world takes your coin*, ushers you into the boat, and guides
you across the river to the place where search's great adventure resides - his
blog post on PageRank.
Saying Matt Cutts knows a little about PageRank understates the concept. There's a reason why Cutts has so many followers chasing him at conventions that they are collectively called Cuttlets. If one of them can phrase a question that Cutts can answer about a website, that answer could prove to be the advice leading to a better rank.
That leads to a higher position in the organic search results at Google, and as our readership understands, higher placement equals a greater percentage chance that a given searcher will click on that link. A lot of money is at stake, so interest in Google and its technology like PageRank will remain high.
Cutts' latest
post, "More Info on PageRank," takes the form of a question and answer session.
Questions ranged from technical minutiae ("How is the PageRank value stored internally,
is it a floating-point number as many people suggest or is it just the integer
value itself due to the heavy recursive PR computations?") to the general ("Why
you are bothering telling us about a new PR update…. is this the first time you
ever did?")
About
the Author:
David Utter is a staff writer for WebProNews.
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Supporting Breast Cancer Awareness With Your Site
In the US, October is designated as Breast Cancer Awareness month and because
of that, a number of companies hold and perform a number of supporting activities
and now there's one you all can take part in as well - redesigning your site in
pink to indicate your support. Considering just how effective the Internet is
at virally relaying messages and ideas, it certainly seems like the perfect medium
to undertake such a demonstration. If you'd like to know more, please check out
the snippet below and continue reading in WebProWorld.
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Sport
a Pink Redesign
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month in the United States, and many sites
across the internet, especially concentrated within the blogosphere, have redesigned
their layouts in pink monochrome to promote awareness of this disease.
Breast cancer is the most common and second-most fatal cancer among females, effecting
one in nine females who reach age 90. In America, 211,000 women are diagnosed
with breast cancer each year, and there are an average of 43,300 female fatalities
attributed to breast cancer annually. Despite this alarming statistic, the five-year
survival rate of females who have detected breast cancer early surpasses 95%.
Many companies and organizations are doing their part this October to promote
awareness of this fatal disease. For years, activism in this arena involved wearing
a pink ribbon and distributing literature to any curious schmuck who inquired.
Thankfully, the internet has become a great front for this cause as well.
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How can I get a background centered and still enter coordinates? I have a problem
because I have a a layout that needs to be synchronized with the background, but
when I enter "center" in the CSS property, it is off. How can I remedy
this?
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