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Variety just laid off the one columnist of theirs I read (online) religiously, Anne Thompson. Anne will do fine. Variety, I’m not so sure. Seems like nose cut off to spite face. Old media seems to have enough challenges, without doing things like this to hasten their own demise… Good luck, Anne. I’ll link to [...]

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I’m working on a big Enterprise 2.0 project for a client. Have read a bunch of books on the topic. This one (Enterprise 2.0 Implementation, by Aaron C. Newman and Jeremy G. Thomas) I’ve only just started, but looks to be quite good. Check it out:

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Well, I’m not happy to have been prescient in this case, but… Here’s what I wrote in this blog in January 2008, in response to a blog post touting Web 2.0 as an antidote for economic recession: A stock market crash is going to sink Web 2.0 ships, just as surely as it sinks others. [...]

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My Red was out last week shooting up-and-coming New Zealand hip-hop artist Maitreya‘s new music video, “Lotaluv”. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to make the shoot (DPed by Roman Baska of Salon Films and directed and produced by Digger T Mesch and his Dig Deep Entertainment). But looks like they did some great work, with my [...]

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Check out this good and thoughtful post by Mr. Vix on his experience doing post-production and editing of Red footage from the Blind Generation music video shot on my Red #1304.

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Jason Calacanis, who rose to fame on his blog (and blog company) has stopped blogging. He’s now sending out an e-mail missive to a select few. As he explains it in his first missive: Comments on blogs inevitably implode, and we all accept it> under the belief that “open is better!” Open is not better. [...]

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Zendesk gets it. They have drunk the 37signals Kool Aid and are now serving up a monthly online subscription-based help desk ticketing system which is elegant and simple in design is well-thought-out, with battle-tested features has key Web 2.0 elements “baked in” that make for “joy of use” and increase efficiency (e.g., tags, smart folders, [...]

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Check out this interesting article in today’s International Herald Tribune, on how a protest (against import to South Korea of perceived un-safe U.S. beef) initially ignored by traditional media, snowballed after being covered by citizen journalists on Web 2.0 sites. This article dovetails with another article on Wired (“Media Death March: Newspaper Ads Tumble”) reporting [...]

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[UPDATE 17:45 HK time, 11 May: Matt Mullenweg, founder of Automattic Inc., the company behind WordPress.com, just wrote a comment to my post here that the down-time of a few hours ago was due to a fire in a data center. This downtime in the middle of the day in Asia for long periods of [...]

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Dion Hinchcliffe posted this excellent up-to-date diagram and accompanying text on “Tips for Building Next Generation Web 2.0 Applications”, in preparation for a talk he’s giving at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco 22-25 April. Given this teaser and preview, the talk seems it would be well worth catching (either live or hopefully posted [...]

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