Wine bloggers continue to evolve with all the growing pains

A few months ago I shared my love for watching how the wine industry and wine blogs have been growing. I feel that they are evolving and while they are behind some of the much more established niches like technology you can watch the parallels and how they are doing things differently. You can see the growing pains that these established niches dealt with and watch how the wine niche …

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Wednesday, May 27, 2009 @ 8:27 am by Kevin

Mobile 2020

Mocom 2020 is an open think tank to envision the future of mobile media and communication.  It takes you back to how the mobile revolution began in 1973 when the first mobile phone call was placed in NYC, then into the logical progression of how mobile will usher in a world of disruptive, engaging and interactive new media. They expect in the year 2020 mobile media and communication will radically …

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Wednesday, May 27, 2009 @ 8:27 am by Tim

Kim Kardashian and her massive growth on FriendFeed: abusing the system or FriendFeed looking the other way?

Yesterday afternoon I received a message via e-mail with the following subject: Kim Kardashian has subscribed to your FriendFeed Since the FriendFeed redesign I have seen my follower numbers increase rapidly. To be honest though I am not a big FriendFeed guy; it isn’t that I don’t like the service I just have a limitation on how much information I can ingest and a routine down on how to get …

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Saturday, May 16, 2009 @ 8:39 am by Kevin

How to become a social media expert (besides self proclamation)

Every few months there seems to be a debate about what makes someone a social media expert. This is something that is sort of a pet peeve of mine because this seems like the only industry where you can proclaim that you are an expert without really doing anything. If I walked into a hospital and proclaimed that I was a neurosurgeon it probably wouldn’t work out well for anyone …

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Wednesday, May 6, 2009 @ 9:17 am by Kevin