Thoughts from a Bafta nominated Podcaster, Blogger, Writer and Commentator.
There’s going to be lots of suppressing and covering fire over Michael Arrington’s new investment fun, but I’m watching AOL to see who’s chosen as the new TechCrunch editor. Whether they go for an AOL’er to take the chair, an internal promotion, or poach someone from outside, that’s going to tell us a lot about the upcoming direction of one of the tent pole technology sites on the internet.
Over on the Blogworld blog… My podcasting work at the Edinburgh Fringe in the last fortnight has led me to think about what qualities are useful in podcasting and social media content creation. And I think I need to add another one to the list. I just can’t make up my mind if it should be courage or confidence.
Let’s say that Tumblr, right now, Â has 21 million blogs (give or take). And they get an investment of $100 million (at a valuation of $800 million). So each Tumblr blog, on average, has earned that team four dollars and seventy five cents (or a valuation of $38) in the investment. I wonder if the Tumblrs will get their slice of the pie?
Last night’s live blogging the Proms (specifically Prom 47 as Bernard Haitink conducted the Chamber Orchestra of Europe through Brahms 3rd Symphony and 1st Piano Concerto) was fun. A lot more fun that I expected and hoped for, so thanks to Jon Jacob for the suggestion. As it was an experiment, both Jon and I were unsure what was going to come out of the live blog. Having seen his comments on the rehearsals this morning, that gave me something to latch on to – but once the show started it morphed into something else. You have to remember that I came
A few weeks ago, Jon Jacob reached out to me with a little experiment he was going to run, and wondered if I’d be interested. He was going to live blog one of the BBC Proms, namely tonight’s Prom (#47) with Bernard Haitink and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Given my live coverage of the Eurovision Song Contest, would I like to try this one? A little break, half way (ish) through the Edinburgh Fringe coverage? Doing something that, frankly, sounds challenging, fun, and slightly outside my comfort zone? Yep I’m in! Jon’s thoughts can be found at his blog, and
So when The X-Factor had an “exclusive app” deal with Nokia there wasn’t any press waves, but now the upcoming season looks to be iOS only, it’s time to drum up a news story. Isn’t SEO for page views wonderful?
