Last night I had the good fortune to exchange sat sree akals and charge royal glasses with Dial and Bawa ;-) In person, we had the benefit of using all our senses and time capsules ... The first time capsules were found in temples in Egypt and Babylon. Those ancient time capsules were filed with small statues and scrolls as was their custom. At Bawa's place the albums and paintings on walls serve as a time capsule of Kenya, India, England - entire Asia. As I tasted Roti, I have been thinking of different smells and how easily I can be transported to a memory by certain smells. The smell of fresh bread baking takes me back to my days as a young boy. That was a wonderful time in my life, as my family made heaps of homemade bread!
Among my concerns is how little I bring to the blogging editorial sensibility. The magazine's market position is everything I am not: light, engaging, easy, original, sophisticated ... Context is crucial in online media, especially in weblogs. You never know where your online audience is coming from, and what background or context they have. More than 75,000 new blogs are launched each day. David Adams finds out who's talking - and who's listening Why bloggers blog: These Media Dragons seriously need a reality check
The Blog, The Press, The Media: Calculating the ROI of blogs – it’s not about the math
Media Dragon fuels Cold River distribution far and wide from Siberia to Kenya to Finland to Newt Ziland
One of the most frequently asked questions I get about blogs is how to justify them on a ROI basis. In many ways, blogs are like PR – you know there is a benefit but it can be tricky to quantify it. Unfortunately, all too many businesses won’t move forward until they “know the ROI of blogs”.
• Forrester analyst Charlene Li $1 million of revenue [An article from Intranets Today (see link below) by Martin White answers the question of ROI in the context of implementing content management, search solutions, etc. for corporate intranets. Opportunity Costs ; Bloggers are mostly saluting entrepreneur billionaire Mark Cuban for backing a new journalism site aimed at exposing securities fraud and corporate malfeasance Mark Cuban: Now that's investing in journalism ]
• · I just know in my case that we deliberately got all of our facts together, and then and only then did we go to the military We didn't rush to publish our Haditha story; From the Right" and "From the Left. David Broder's Friday afternoon chat: Mastio: "What was the last thing he wrote that really mattered?" (IO)
• · · DC report cites "multiple failures" in Rosenbaum case The fatal assault on New York Times reporter David E. Rosenbaum.; Jim Cramer has finally crossed the line from harmless entertainer to public embarrassment. Jim Cramer has become an embarrassment
• · · · William Powers complains that Ann Coulter has gotten endless coverage, "despite the fact that this is exactly the same show we've seen before, an ideological circus act indistinguishable from Michael Moore's and with exactly the same goal: cash. They're Easy: Where's the media outlet that's willling to ignore Coulter? ; I'm kind of obsessed with making advertising on the Internet more like content, JWT buys all the ad space on HuffPost home page for a week
• · · · · Sando: "A blog will expose a poor reporter more quickly" Using blogs to make newspaper reporters more relevant; Former DTH editor is W’s “blind scribe” "One Party Country" by Peter Wallsten and Tom Hamburger was ranked #513,432 on Amazon.com on Wednesday. After President Bush asked LATer Wallsten about his sunglasses, it moved to the 2,513th position. The book comes out next month. Wallsten's book climbs the charts after W's "shades" remark ; Bush Asks Peter Wallsten About Shades ; "When he got in your face about something, as he often did, his index finger jabbing at you for emphasis, you were on the receiving end of what my colleague Rem Rieder called 'the full Phil.' That was the passion talking, and Phil was passionate about a lot The untimely death of a towering figure
• · · · · · It's pretty hard for me to work up much sympathy for these whining Chandlers, although I certainly will support them for a Pulitzer Prize for Gall In the true spirit of the transparency that we all embrace, it's time for Neil Sedaka to issue a correction. Give Me a Break: It's pretty tacky for the Chandlers to start raising a ruckus ; The Trib's out with its fourth annual "50 Best Magazines" list. The Economist, which gets top ranking, is "in a class by itself as the best English-language newsweekly, with each issue unavoidably reminding readers of the weaknesses of Time, Newsweek and U.S. News & World Report." Vogue Knitting comes in at #50. The Trib says "the instructions are always reliable, and the designs are fabulous 50 BEST MAGAZINES ; AOL turns Netscape.com into a news aggregation site - Media Dragons at Netscape.com will link to news articles, then add original material to stories that are of most interest to the audience. Marrying the great editorial skill of humans and what systems and software ; "Many years ago, before anyone heard the term 'blog,' I came up with the idea of running multiple items in a single column." Not true, says Eric Zorn, who tells the Sun-Times scribe: "Rich, buddy, put away your horn. Let others do the tootin One observation for the price of one