The Cult of Me

How Social Technologies Will Save the Story

Book Review: Groundswell (Part 2)

Note: Groundswell is a wonderful road map for how — and why — you should implement social technologies. This review both pulls out some pertinent facts that I find relevant and has stories specific to newspapers that I think would be helpful for those working in online news operations. To get the full scope of [...]

Book Review: Groundswell (Part 1)

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Note: Groundswell is a wonderful road map for how — and why — you should implement social technologies. This review both pulls out some pertinent facts that I find relevant and has stories specific to newspapers that I think would be helpful for those working in online news operations. To get [...]

Book Review: The Wisdom of Crowds (Part 2)

Note: This is maybe the most important book I’ve read for my research. This review is going to be long and exhaustive. So, I’m breaking it up into multiple parts. You can read Part 1 here.
Surround Yourself with Overconfident Dissenters: “Overconfident people don’t do that. They tend to ignore public information and go on their [...]

Book Review: The Wisdom of Crowds (Part 1)

Note: This is maybe the most important book I’ve read for my research. This review is going to be long and exhaustive. So, I’m breaking it up into multiple parts. Read Part 2 here.

I spent the day reading James Surowiecki’s The Wisdom of Crowds, one the books in my reading list and one of the [...]

Cluetrain and Crowds: The Philosophy of Modern News Thinking

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I’m not finished reading either of these books; however, there’s enough percolating around in my head that I wanted to make sure I got it down before the next set of ideas washed them away.
I’m a proponent of reading books at the same time because it allows the ideas to [...]

Book Review: The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

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I’ve been threatening to review Joe Trippi’s book about his role with the Howard Dean campaign in 2004, the campaign that tapped into the social media networks emerging online to not only raise more money than a candidate had ever done before but also to galvanize voters by going around traditional media outlets [...]

The Accurate Audience Measurement Tools are Here. The Accurate Audience Measurement Tools are Here.

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PaidContent.org is one of the best sites on the Web. Grab their feed.
They have a piece today that discusses a new tool that combines mobile and Web traffic stats. This comes on the heels of their service that tracks PC-TV viewing alongside traditional television viewing.
Once of the fights we always [...]

Book Review: The Cult of the Amateur

Research for a book means reading lots of other books, finding out what discussions other experts in your field are having and parsing out the salient points they miss.
For all intents and purposes, this is social media for authors. Those of us who still love the written word and long form.
During my research, I came [...]