Let me make a prediction. Five years from now, the blogosphere will have developed into a powerful economic engine that has all but driven newspapers into oblivion, has morphed (thanks to cell phone cameras) into a video medium that challenges television news, and has created a whole new group of major companies and media superstars. Billions of dollars will be made by those prescient enough to either get on board or invest in these companies. At this point, the industry will then undergo its first shakeout, with the loss of perhaps several million blogs — though the overall industry will continue to grow at a steady pace.
And, at about that moment, Forbes will announce that the blogosphere is the Next Big Thing for investors.
-Boing Boing
Maryam Ghaemmaghami Scoble's musings about Life, Love and Everything Else ... Advice To My Step-Son as He Begins His Blogging Adventure
Art of Naked Conversations and Blogging Educating Steve Forbes about Honest and Naked Conversations
Well the saga continues. After Forbes Dan Lyons did a cover story likening bloggers to a lynch mob, all 20 million of us met secretly last week in my backyard.
Shel and Robert ere ready to string him up, but no one remembered to bring any rope, so I published an open letter to Lyons. A day earlier, Steve Rubel had suggested Dan read Naked Conversations so that topically, he could learn the difference between an elbow and a buttock.
• The future will make liars out of blogless PR [Shel Israel on lynch mob An Open Letter to Forbes Magazine ; If markets are conversations. And blogs are the power tool of that, how are you gonna pull off having a conversation with a moos? Naked Conversations will actually have some new content in it, and not just be a re-hashing of what we've been reading on the web over the past year ; Get over Command and Control PR ]
• · Richard Dudley This seems like a perfect time for anyone at Sony to read Chapter 13, "Blogging in a Crisis" (Maybe Shel or Scoble will e-mail them a PDF of the chapter) Naked Conversations Comes To Life ; Ken Yarmosh: If I were to be on the back cover of Naked Conversations, what quote would be attributed to my name Naked Conversations
• · · Neville Hobson Naked Conversations Is A Cracking Read; Randy Holloway: Executive blogging matters- the more senior people in your organization that join the conversation, the more impact you'll have. Passion & Authority- A review of Naked Conversations
• · · · Jeff Clavier Naked Conversations: why corporate blogging is for you - indeed ; Adrian Kingsley-Hughes Naked Chefs
• · · · · Jack Nork ; Dan Farber An antidote for blogs attacks
• · · · · · Jozef Imrich A Small Virtual Key Open Big Door ; Jason Boog Why Corporate Blogs Are Boring (and How to Fix Them)
• · · · · · · James Governor: Shel says the way we live and govern is not about rich and poor, us and them, red and blue, rather it should be about decency; making a contribution My inaugural Got The Funk award goes to... ; James Governor: Shel has a widespread readership, which could be significantly magnified by the Scoble effect Could Shel push up Sun's share price? bloggers and stock pickers ; Backbone Blogging Survey Blogger Relations Is Not Public Relations
• · · · · · · · Pencil Bros. Geology, Inc. VistaDB Takes A Page From Naked Conversations ; Shel Israel: Ever since you broke Kryptonite's nine months of silence and joined the conversation at Naked Conversations, you have been doing a remarkable job on behalf of your company - Not only does the blogosphere need more “good, intelligent conversation,” as you put it, the whole world needs it Open Letter to Donna Tocci: Time to Blog ; Shel Israel at Naked Conversations liveblogs the Blogging Enterprise event: If you are not participating in the conversation the silence is deafening. That goes back well before Cluetrain. IBM was active on Compuserve chat. In a way, we've come full circle except now the audience are much bigger Shel Israel's notes from Blogging Enterprise