Forget the logo, the brand and the label, savvy companies want you to love their human side. The future of corporate blogs, however, is difficult to predict. Trevor Cook says that at some point companies will "get used to the idea that a bit of untidiness is attractive to people". These little bloggers went to market also via Cook Most Advertisers Interested in Blogs and Feeds
This is how the Internet was supposed to help music: last year, J. P. Connolly, a science teacher in Brooklyn, heard a song by one of his students, a rail-thin 15-year-old named Oliver Ignatius, who is the lead singer for a band called the Hysterics. Mr. Connolly, who had bonded with his student over independent music, loved Mr. Ignatius's song and posted it on Music for Robots, an influential blog he helps run and the rest is Hysterics Little-Known Bands Get Lift Through Word-of-Blog It seems there are moves afoot to give even more oxygen to Cold River soon ;-) Blogs give little known writers going under the pseudonym of Imrich a bigger reach
The Blog, The Press, The Media: Meet the Masters: Around the World in 80 Blogs
The latest smart marketing tool, film directors' 'making-of' weblogs stoke fans' zeal by drawing them into what feels like an inner circle.
Consternation spread quickly across the Internet movie fan universe. In April, Peter Jackson, director of the big-budget remake of "King Kong," broadcast his plans to expand the ape epic (due in theaters this December) into a trilogy of films. But his "exclusive announcement" wasn't delivered through the usual channels — the obligatory press release or television interview. News came via his video production diary on the fan website kongisking.net
Using his weekly weblog, Jackson presented digital mock-ups and demonstrated motion capture technology to be used in the sequel, intercut with an interview with its star, Naomi Watts
• Another Blog is Possible The new kids on the blog [Besides LSblogs that I have just mentioned the other directory that generated some traffic was Blogarama Blog directories are they worth it ; You know blogging’s arrived when people start: 1) making movies about blogging; 2) fighting viciously over making “blogumentaries;” 3) conducting Stalinist-style blood purges of their fellow bloggers for purported ideological non-conformity; and 4) claiming that the liberal blogosphere has now surpassed cable TV news ]
• · Rarely can it be said that a blogger has defined a entrepreneurial sportsmanship, but never is that more true than in the case Mark Cuban who has well thought out and informative posts on every sporting subject under the sun NBA Refs and the playoffs ; For a while there, the Internet and the World Wide Web showed great promise. They whispered sweet nothings in our ears, promising to be the voice of the marginalized, the new democracy, the great equalizer. But it wasn’t to be, for the Internet has a new master. No, it’s not Google. No, it’s not Microsoft. And no, it’s not even good ole’ Uncle Sam. Is the Internet History's Greatest Hoax? ; Most of the time I don't buy into conspiracy theories. I no longer believe, for instance, that anyone shot JFK from the grassy knoll. Deep down I don't really think that Harold Wilson was the victim of an MI5 coup either. And I certainly don't believe the only reason why Gerry Adams isn't part of a power-sharing government in Belfast today is because the Special Branch will stop at nothing to prevent it Is Rupert Murdoch the man who saved Europe?
• · · The reality-TV graveyard is haunted by the ghosts of Donald Trump's "The Apprentice." Richard Branson’s "Rebel Billionaire" and Mark Cuban’s "The Benefactor" Tops on the tube: Mini-Mes ; In addition to serving as the most powerful vice president in history, Dick Cheney also finds time to be the King of Irony
• · · · Don't go toward fake blogs. Don't launch character blogs. Use a blog for what it's for, transparency Corporations turn to blogs as a way to talk directly to consumers ; Robert Manning Blogging Is Not Fundamental ; UPS guy says that blogs are overhyped, but he's on top on Google ; Shipping
• · · · · Naked blogger attracts thousands ; Sarong Party Girl ; A Singaporean blogger is now taking it off on her blog
• · · · · · How can readers determine that their newspaper has a watchdog culture? How could they identify or measure it? What should they expect from a watchdog paper? Watchdog Culture ; Bark and Bite Analogy: How to Create Watchful Culture Blogger Bites Dog at Bankstown ;-)