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Re: We are so F##%^$ked…Continued

elliottng — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 16:23:24 -0000

Calacanis is right about 1 thing: we Americans have gotten fat, lazy, arrogant, entitled. But the good news is that we can change!

Re: Blogs are so over, Wired magazine says

elliottng — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 17:24:02 -0000

Agree. Paul's original post was well summarized in his 140 char Tweet. Why am I even wasting time commenting?

Re: UpTake And Nombray Are Hiring

elliottng — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 05:18:27 -0000

Thanks for the shout out Stowe! And personally happy to other edglings however we can during these potentially rough times.

Re: Is the link economy really broken?

elliottng — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 04:32:30 -0000

My pet peeve: Twitter is a (micro)blogging service right? Well, it turns out all of the links that you use to share information on Twitter are tagged rel=nofollow by Twitter. Well that means that my vote in the link economy just got stripped by Twitter. And instead only links to *other* Twitter accounts are followed.

We need to rise up as users of Twitter and demand that our voices be heard, our links be followed. Disenfranchised twitter users, rise up! stand up! you have nothing to lose but your voice!

Twitter: @elliottng

Re: The Hunt For Nonexistent Experts on Social Networks

elliottng — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 12:36:08 -0000

Thank you Steven. This needed to be said. I love the cool Stormtrooper pix and Lolcatz, so its a fun little place to hang out. But on substantive issues (outside of social media) I go elsewhere looking for intelligent conversation.

Re: Top 30 FriendFeed Users Based on Google Ranking

elliottng — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 12:54:50 -0000

Can you periodically recalculate this? Thanks!

@elliottng

Re: FriendFeed Is Growing Nicely Regardless Of What Scoble Says

elliottng — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 07:01:10 -0000

So where is Robert going next? I think Twitter and FriendFeed can coexist. Twitter as the rollicking memory free cocktail party, and FriendFeed as the salon or dinner party with more in depth information. And Wikipedia for the lectures and symposia.

Re: TC50: Twitter-for-business startup Yammer wins TechCrunch50, I may eat my hat

elliottng — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 21:07:54 -0000

OK so it has a solid free-to-premium model. OK so adoption is easy. OK so it leverages the personalization via fragmentation that Facebook and Friendfeed has. And it might be successful. So what? It seems like these conferences should be trying to find the massively disruptive new ideas that will change how people do business, etc. Which products represent that? Which products are really pushing our thinking about what is possible? Which products just might change the world?

Or are we so jaded that we're just happy that Twitter now has a business model? :)

Re: TC50 v DEMO: The startups are the losers

elliottng — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 04:28:27 -0000

Well said, brother. Its interesting how the "herd mentality" causes startup people (like me) to want to be part of the club, even if the club is a total of 52 + 70 (Demo) + 200 (TC50 demo pit) = 322 startups trying to get everyone's attention. Chris Shipley is indeed a great person, thoughtful, inquisitive, and with an occasional cutting sense of humor. Sorry that she got checkmated by the Mike/Jason show, but maybe they just checkmated themselves too.

Re: The Inquisitr at 4 months

elliottng — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 12:18:34 -0000

Great status Duncan. +1 for Zee's comment about not merchandising the RSS feeds, especially the category feeds. I find myself coming to Inquisitr a lot for one-off posts but wasn't motivated to add it to my stuffed feedreader. Only after I read this did I go figure out that Inquisitr has 3 channels and that I was most interested in tech, odd, but not pop. So that division may be ridiculously clear to you and most readers but for this continuous-partial-attention-deficit-distracted reader it was not. Take this random reader feedback for what you will. Added Odd and Tech to my reader. Keep up the great work!!

Re: The social media bloggers you read the most?

elliottng — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 15:51:59 -0000

Can you put links to all these blogs on this post? Your searchme widget doesn't show up on my iphone!

Re: Celebrating Blog Day 2008

elliottng — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 05:29:59 -0000

Duncan, thanks for the shout out! I've paid forward the love to another 5 bloggers. Thanks again and enjoyed our discussion on the podcast a few weeks ago.

Re: Not only were the Olympic Fireworks fake, so was the 7 year old singer

elliottng — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 15:49:52 -0000

I agree with John Pomfret's take on this: totally befuddling how this decision was made, apparently at the Standing Committee of the Poliburo.

Re: Silicon Valley: If we ignore China, will it go away?

elliottng — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 14:48:10 -0000

Nice piece. Just as we are moving into a post-American World (Zakaria), we are also moving into a post-Silicon Valley world in tech. I think that appealing to "greed" (huge global opportunities) may be more effective than "fear". But agree in general with your premise.

Re: Things You Can’t Say About The Internet Episode 5

elliottng — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 02:42:27 -0000

Fun mixing it up with you Duncan and Cyndy. Now I understand the cryptic comment about "are you still blogging Cyndy and where." :)

Update: in response to the international uproar the Chinese government opened up unprecedented access to Amnesty, Radio Free Asia, Wikipedia (Chinese), and other sites. So acting up does sometimes work with the stakes are high.

Anyway, my blog team will be blogging about random Olympics topics at CNReviews.com and unlike NBC I assure you we are not making any money on our blog! :P

Re: louisgray.com: Can Microblogs Just Talk To Each Other?

elliottng — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 05:35:47 -0000

Seems like Summize was a virtual federated system for search and discovery of tweets. and people were using it for discovering @ replies too. Maybe all we need is for the posting services like Ping.fm to cache tweets and expose pre-submitted tweets to Summize, and then Summize can search across these caches. Totally seems possible, and why wouldn't Twitter want to do this with Summize? BTW, I still miss Summize classic branding. It seemed "smarter" with the old branding than with the new Twitter color scheme that just evokes Fail Whale to me!

Re: Podtech failure: Scoble’s lessons

elliottng — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:16:06 -0000

These are all great points by Robert.

Re: PodTech purchased by ViewPartner, ending a bloody story

elliottng — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:35:50 -0000

Nice work uniblogger. :) So what was the assumption that was fatally wrong, or was it just execution? Perhaps the whole trend of podcasting as a standalone delivery vehicle was overblown and the company was not equipped to compete with blogs and other cross-media-type businesses?

Re: louisgray.com: I Woke Up to My First Disqus Comment Spam Attack

elliottng — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 01:07:00 -0000

Can someone confirm that Discus uses Akismet?

Re: Jason Calacanis Retires From Blogging, Listen Up Bloggers – This Means Something

elliottng — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 00:39:57 -0000

The options that "normal people" have that Jason doesn't is to engage in the blogosphere (and the twittersphere and friendfeedsphere) in the tailored way that you want. There is no "Blogosphere." It is just who and what you want to make of it, of course. A few thoughts on his critique:

A-List Pressure - self imposed. No need to aspire to be A-List.
Link Baiting - everyone makes their own decisions about what they want to spend time posting about. If you focus on building quality viewers with similar interest and a community then the focus on link baiting goes away...at least on your personal blog (maybe not on your "day job" at a top tech blog like RWW)
Charged - that's the way the world is
Polarized - that's the way the world is...except that polarized, controversial views are disproportionally rewarded with traffic.
Haters - that's a function of who you are and how you have behaved in the past. There will always be haters if you are doing what you are passionate about. Just have to filter them out.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts Sarah!

Re: Friends Outweighing Hatred On The Web

elliottng — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 08:14:48 -0000

Excellent response Corvida. I'm not surprised you are prepared for the encountering of racism because clearly racism exists and in many forms. I do think it is our responsibility to shape the context in which dialogue happens. That's easy when its your blog, but less easy in a more forum, chat, or shared commons area. Yes, fine-grained controls for hiding and ignoring are good, but we should take the responsibility through our words and our deeds to tell people what kind of behavior we find acceptable or not.

Re: Syncing My Friends, Feeling the Social Media Burn

elliottng — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 13:44:16 -0000

Yes I feel the pain on this too. The whole issue of "friend management" (if that is even a good term to use) needs to addressed by vendors. Small ways like the Twitter to FriendFeed importer is a nice step but hardly ready for prime time.

Re: louisgray.com: The Importance Of Blog Linking Seems to Be Declining

elliottng — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 18:01:16 -0000

Got it. This was helpful. I think Google will have to evolve to capture signals sent via TinyURL, GoogleReader sharing, Twitter, FriendFeed. This will be much more difficult because the context is more difficult to decipher than in blogs. But I'm sure Google will figure that out.

But I see what you are saying about the oxygen being sucked out of the ecosystem by the big blogs and aggregators and the increasing difficulty of monetization.

All I ask is: for people like louisgray and centernetworks and scoblelizer, give out links generously to smaller bloggers because it is the fuel that will power their discoverability through Google.

I don't have anything intelligent to say about the monetization issue other than to say thanks for explaining!

Re: louisgray.com: The Importance Of Blog Linking Seems to Be Declining

elliottng — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 17:31:34 -0000

I totally disagree with this comment from Allen. Certain kinds of amplification blogging or repeating will be sucked into FriendFeed and other aggregators, as will commenting. But long-form prose will continue to be needed for making more complex arguments where people need more control over content presentation than what you get in FriendFeed or a Disqus comment. And people will continue to pursue long-term and larger courses of study/discussion/dialog in the form of a blog.

Also, there is the issue of Google. I'm not sure what Google will be doing with the distribution of comments and content into Twitter, FriendFeed and other aggregators. There will be a slow evolution but in the meantime, Google's algo will probably still reward high quality blogs with lots of high quality links and high quality content.

If Allen amends his comment to be: "Blogging is Dead! Long Live Blogging!" then I will agree. But this new form of blogging will be have to be much higher quality as certain types of blogging behavior migrate into Disqus, FriendFeed, Twitter, GoogleReader, etc.

Re: louisgray.com: The Importance Of Blog Linking Seems to Be Declining

elliottng — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 17:26:12 -0000

Louis, your blog post "Seems to be misleading". I echo Danny's comment. There is no more powerful signal to Google about your importance and your thematic area and your keyword space than links from authority blogs and websites. Especially for new bloggers and new blogs, getting links from established blogs is paramount if they are to be discovered for topics that they are focusing on, and that relevant traffic via search is super important in that initial 6 months when you are just writing for yourself...wandering in the desert looking for the promised land of readers and feedback. So I think this post may be correct for well established older blogs with lots of links from other established authoritative sites already. But for the new blogger, links can be the difference between the search traffic that keeps them in the game and another failed blog lost in the wilderness.

Disqus - Latest Comments for elliottng

Re: We are so F##*%^*$ked…Continued

Re: Blogs are so over, Wired magazine says

Re: UpTake And Nombray Are Hiring

Re: Is the link economy really broken?

Re: The Hunt For Nonexistent Experts on Social Networks

Re: Top 30 FriendFeed Users Based on Google Ranking

Re: FriendFeed Is Growing Nicely Regardless Of What Scoble Says

Re: TC50: Twitter-for-business startup Yammer wins TechCrunch50, I may eat my hat

Re: TC50 v DEMO: The startups are the losers

Re: The Inquisitr at 4 months

Re: The social media bloggers you read the most?

Re: Celebrating Blog Day 2008

Re: Not only were the Olympic Fireworks fake, so was the 7 year old singer

Re: Silicon Valley: If we ignore China, will it go away?

Re: Things You Can’t Say About The Internet Episode 5

Re: louisgray.com: Can Microblogs Just Talk To Each Other?

Re: Podtech failure: Scoble’s lessons

Re: PodTech purchased by ViewPartner, ending a bloody story

Re: louisgray.com: I Woke Up to My First Disqus Comment Spam Attack

Re: Jason Calacanis Retires From Blogging, Listen Up Bloggers – This Means Something

Re: Friends Outweighing Hatred On The Web

Re: Syncing My Friends, Feeling the Social Media Burn

Re: louisgray.com: The Importance Of Blog Linking Seems to Be Declining

Re: louisgray.com: The Importance Of Blog Linking Seems to Be Declining

Re: louisgray.com: The Importance Of Blog Linking Seems to Be Declining

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