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Monthly Archive for December, 2005
OK.. you want predictions? You got predictions!
- Mike Arrington gets his own late night TV show. Broadcast nightly from the Tech Crunch Mansion, Tech Crunch After Dark features guest appearences by Mort Sahl, Chris Messina and Barbi Benton.
- Naked Conversations shoots to the top of the bestseller list. Shel Israel and Robert Scoble go on a talk show junket. Due to widespread missunderstanding of the phrase “naked conversation” used in conjunction with the names Shel Israel and Robert Scoble, the Today Show experiences its lowest ratings ever. Shel Israel chides me for not linking to him in this paragraph.
- The phrase “Web2.0″ is replaced with the phrase “Not your grandfather’s dot coms.” An army of 40-something tech industry workers suddenly feel very old.
- After a series of 43Folders entries like “Your paycheck, put it in the bank so you can pay your bills,” and “Post-It Notes – little, yellow, different, better,” Merlin Mann is voluntarily admitted to the Steve Rubel Center for the Treatement of Bloggers’ Block.
- Shel Israel smacks me upside the head for not linking to 43Folders.
- Figuring if Brian Oberkirch can do it… blogging conferences receive a glut of entries from PR people for case studies on disaster-related blogs. Typical entries include “The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia and I Couldn’t Find a Flashlight” and “Are You Chilly? Should I Close a Window?”
- Steve Rubel’s entry “Hacking Starbucks: just buy a small coffee – it costs the same fifty cents per refill as the large” provokes an outraged Jeremy Pepper to accuse Rubel of encouraging theft. The hack is recounted on LifeHacker, provoking a ‘duh!’ from the Starbucks Gossip Blog.
- Shel Israel takes away my blogging merit badge for not linking to any of the above.
- The other 25% say ‘wha?’
Got a problem with any of the above??
Jeremy Pepper points out the real fallout for PR and marketing bloggers from Jeremy Hermann’s recent adventure with Alaska Airlines.
Anyone care to take a wager that the muckity mucks at Alaska Airlines urged their minions to make those comments on Hermann’s blog?
In my conversations with PR agency types over the past couple of years about how to engage the blogosphere this is exactly the type of ‘engagement’ most agency higher ups envision on behalf of their clients. Not that I’m going to name names but in the past year a VP at one agency told me he’d ’sue the pants off of anyone who blogged about my clients’ (not very likely). The head of another firm told me he was really excited to get his clients in the blogosphere because his staff could just ‘cut and paste clients’ releases into the comments section.’ And in this here blog I’ve had to clear out comments from agency bots pretending to be just plain folk.
These are probably the same people who respond to help wanteds with their company email address.
The question for 2006 is.. what are we all going to do about this?\
Update: Blogebrity asks the truly important question…. what, no podcast?
This is that wonderful time of year when I feel like a six year old on a snow day. Happy that the whole world is home for school but dreading what’s coming when we get back.
I’m shifting down to first gear for the rest of the week. If I get the inspiration I’ll post my 2005 Year in Review and Predictions for 2006 entries (I know you are all waiting for those… really… come on… you are.. aren’t you?). Otherwise my blog to-do list has a big fat upgrade this guy to WordPress 2.0 on it, and nothing else.
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