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BlogTalkRadio

Published on 7/25/2006 in Client News. Comments

BlogTalkRadio (aka, what I’ve been working on that’s kept me busy) is up, live and on the air.

TechCrunch has a nice write up to kick things off.

Podcasts are fun to listen to, but they’d be even cooler if you could listen live and IM your feedback to the host in real time. The soon to launch service BlogTalkRadio will make that possible.

BlogTalkRadio is targeting bloggers who want to hold a live telephone conversation with up to 5 people on a phone line at once. Anyone can listen live to the call on the phone or through Windows Media Player, like a live web radio show. Listeners can also download an archived copy of the conversation later. Revenue from contextual advertising is split 50/50 with show hosts

There’s also a thread on Digg. Founder Alan Levy is blogging here.

BlogTalkRadio is an exciting idea and I’m sure many of you will be considering playing with it and setting up your own shows. Trust me, it’s easy and I’ll be doing one of my own pretty soon.

PS: An extra added bonus, I have Shel Israel and Robert Scoble to thank for this client since Alan Levy got religion from reading Naked Conversations.

Update: Alan blogs about the launch.

Within a few hours of the Techcrunch piece, blogshows were set up in Germany, France, and the Mauritian Islands. We also have our first political candidate, the Democratic candidate of Hawaii scheduled on August 21. Personally, I think BTR will be a teriffic platform for political candidates.

Update II: Gizmodo has more:

One of the weaknesses of podcasts has now been eliminated with BlogTalkRadio, a hosting service that lets podcasters broadcast live over the Interwebs, accepting live callers or instant messages while on the air.

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Take the train

Published on 7/11/2006 in Clue-full. Comments

In the ‘right in my backyard’ department, the Derailed blog by Bobby, a MetroNorth conductor who works the New Haven line.

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Finding blogs

Published on 5/31/2006 in Client News. Comments

It’s all very well and good to tell PR peeps that you need to talk to bloggers. But with 40 million blogs, and more coming online every day, finding the right bloggers in your client’s space is always tricky. And very often the so-called top bloggers can change almost in an instant.

To address this PubSub (disclosure – they are a client) has been quietly rolling out community lists. These are human-edited lists of the top bloggers in any particular field, ranked according to links in and updated daily. So if you are looking to find out who is the most linked-to blogger covering real estate (for example) you can go to PubSub’s real estate list and find out.

The secret sauce here is that the lists are maintened by people in that particular field, and the lists are updated daily according to the most current link activity.

This week PubSub announced some new lists coming in the next few weeks. The literature blog list is already up. Next week a couple more come on line. Stay tuned to this space for the news.

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New Blog Alert

Published on 4/6/2006 in Clue-full. Comments

PR rockstar and social media queen Annie Heckenberger is blogging!

Annie is spreading the good word on social media and PR in the agency world. Plus she has excellent taste in music. Subscribed!

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Dave Barry, media prophet

Published on 2/1/2006 in Clue-full. Comments

In an interview with the San Francisco Chronicle’s C.W. Nevius, Dave Barry talks about blogs

“About five years ago, I went to the Herald and I told them, ‘I’ve got this blog and maybe you’d like to run it,’ ” Barry said. “And they said, ‘It’s a what?’ But then they had a committee meeting or something and now they want everybody to have a blog. They want the security guard to have a blog.”

podcasting,

Barry says his wife, Michelle Kaufman, a sportswriter at the Miami Herald, is covering the Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy. She’s been asked to podcast the Games. That doesn’t seem like a bright idea. “Explain it to them,” Barry remembered telling his wife. “THE OLYMPICS WILL BE ON TELEVISION! You’ve got people saying, ‘Let’s see, I can watch this on my 57-inch TV in living color, or I can download this thing from the speed-skating rink.”

and the future of the newspaper business,

“It has to start with the kids,” he said. “My son is 25. He’s been around newspaper people all of his life. He doesn’t get the paper. That’s the first problem. The second problem is: We can no longer compel people to pay attention. We used to be able to say, there’s this really important story in Poland. You should read this. Now people say, I just look up what I’m interested in on the Internet.”

Barry, who recently retired from his 20+ year gig with the Miami Herald, clearly gets it. The kicker – when Nevius showed up at Barry’s hotel room for the interview, he had just finished another interview… with a podcaster.

Read the whole thing, it’s worth it.

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