Stuff I think

Brian Solis has authored an op/ed aimed at redefining “how startups (not solely tech companies) view and define early adopters and the ‘echo chamber’ in order to gain momentum in order to ‘cross the chasm’ to the next tier of evolution, adoption, and monetization.” Reading through the article I couldn’t help but reflect on the [...]

There are strong indicators that the initial blogging rush has slowed considerably. In July 2006, there were 175,000 new blogs posted per day compared to 120,000 as of March 2007 according to Technorati and according to Gartner, there are already over 200 million ‘ex-bloggers’ accounted for. In the midst of the blogging craze, a small [...]

A study was recently conducted by TWI Surveys, Inc. on behalf of the Society for New Communications Research that explored current awareness and knowledge of social media, as well as prioritization of social media. The study used a survey method amongst a sample of 260 senior PR and marcomm professionals. According to SNCR: 70% are [...]

I somehow missed this when it first came out, but was recently directed to a fantastic Wall Street Journal article on a new wave of influencers and figured it was worth a blog posting. I suppose it is simply a natural law that power-law distributions will gradually emerge in any controlled system – even those [...]

TechCrunch covered start-up Strayform recently and their business model sort of piqued my curiosity a bit. The basic gist of it is that music producers and consumers sign-up for a community where the consumers can basically sponsor the producers. I don’t know how successful the site is, especially because their branding and general design strike [...]