


Here are two fresh interviews that might be of interest. The first covers blogging's place in a microblog world. The second captures the essence of my productivity system, how I work and the tools I use

Earlier this week I appeared on Canadian TVÂ (specifically BNN.ca) where I discussed blogging vs. lifestreaming with Lainey Lui of Laineygossip.com and eTalk. During the interview I maintained that it's difficult today to build a profitable blog since many of the big niches are taken. Lainey disagreed. What's your view?
Want to know what's cool and emerging? Me too. That's why I subscribe to dozens of blog feeds from cool companies large and small. They include all the Google blogs, the Twitter, Friendfeed and Facebbook blog and many more.
I have decided to share these with you by rolling them up into single feed, which you can browse or subscribe or even download the OPML file. I have also published a list of all 60 blogs that are in this bundle below. I am constantly adding/removing companies from this list so please leave a comment if I omitted some big ones. (Note, some are Edelman clients.)
Also, I might at some point port the feed over to Twitter via Twitterfeed and/or add it to post to my Linkstream site so that we can discuss these items as well.
Akiva: "I keep thinking that I need to get back to blogging but then I think of how it seems like a step backward from what I'm doing here. Is the only difference really a personal domain and the ability to have longer posts? I have a thousand subscribers here; why start over?"
Great thread on Friendfeed. Seems to me like he doesn't need to start over since he can use Posterous to optimize all his hubs. I suspect other platforms will follow. If you're on my site, I have embedded it below.
A little over five years ago, sites like Typepad, Blogger and WordPress dazzled by empowering anyone to instantaneously share his or her thoughts with the world; My how times change. Today, however, in a world where thousands of status updates and tweets whiz by our screens every hour, blogging arguably feels slow.
So is blogging dead? It depends on who you ask. After all, TMZ and Mashable are blogs and they’re doing quite well. However, it’s definitely time for a closer examination of the blog – where it sits today and where it’s going.
Over on Mashable we are exploring this further by setting up a mind map that can be edited by anyone who signs up for MindMeister. Please edit it! Tell us what are we missing here. How can we paint a more comprehensive view of where blogging is going? Help us shape the right picture and we’ll report back on what we learned. It's also embedded above.
I spoke with Rubel a couple months ago when he was visiting San Francisco for the Ad:tech conference. We met at B Restaurant near Moscone Center and I interviewed him with my Flip camera.
Timestamps of the interview are on the PBS site if you want to drill down into a topic.
Robert Scoble is back to blogging, investing more time and attention this week there as opposed to Twitter and Friendfeed. He linked to me this week, which sparked my curiosity and encouraged me to dig into my Google Analytics archives to see a) how my traffic drivers have changed and b) what, if any, broader trends can be discerned.
For the purpose of this experiment I looked at two times when one of the web's most influential voices - then and now - linked to me: his post from earlier this week and another from December 27, 2006. While not entirely scientific, what they have in common is that a) Robert put the link at the top of the post and that b) both came during holiday weeks when web traffic typically slows. (In theory, to really test this I should track referrals from Scoble's Friendfeed/Twitter accounts - I suspect that they drive tons of traffic. However, that's hard to do given the way the sites are structured. Perhaps we can use Bitly stats to run a test)
Here's are my three takeaways from this little experiment (I am discounting the links from my old blog to this new one. It's an anomaly since I just switched) ...