Last week Scoble complained that too few bloggers linked to his Intel video. This week Valleywag reported that Scoble was paid by Intel to create the “professional” video. OMG! Denton explains:
“The hypocrisy of bloggers, so quick to accuse reporters of conflicts of interest and so blind to their own, is nothing new. But it’s truly bizarre that Scoble would, by whining about discrimination against bloggers, draw so much attention to a video feature which could only embarrass him. The moral: fame can go to anyone’s head, even a formerly modest geek’s.”
My hats off to Valleywag for putting this one together! FYI – I am not linking to Scoble on purpose…
Update: turns out Scoble’s company shot two videos, one Intel paid them to shoot and another Scoble posted on his blog. Scoble was annoyed no one linked to the one he posted on his blog. Sort of seems like a distinction without a difference, but I am not a journalist so I am sure they have exceptions for the B roll footage…
Posted by amuse | January 29, 2007 - 9:23pm | No Comments
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Jake volunteered to speak at the Community Next event and, through the “Community Choice” (i.e. vote from the people) was given one of the coveted speaking spots. He’ll be speaking alongside Guy Kawasaki, Tara Hunt, Ted Rheingold, and more community brains.
Here’s the skinny on the event:
Community Next – Feb. 10
Stanford University (California)
More info: communitynext.com
Jake will be speaking on the topic of “Community Ecology” – the idea that there is a balance that must be maintained when working with fan groups, and sharing a few techniques about the best way to find and maintain that balance.
If you’re in town, give Jake a shout. He’ll buy the beer (just make sure to let him know after the tab comes).
Posted by admin | January 29, 2007 - 10:50am | 6 Comments
Category: Uncategorized | Tags: community, community next, events, Social Media, speaking
Have you seen the newest commercials UPS is airing? I actually liked them. Check out the campaign here. The guy’s hair is too long and the background music was familiar. Turns out the featured song is by a band called “The Postal Service”. I thought this was a little ironic and quickly realized that I was not alone in my observation. Its not too often that I actually follow up on a commercial I see on TV so UPS must be doing something right…
Posted by amuse | January 27, 2007 - 6:03pm | 5 Comments
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It is a little depressing when our leaders start looking to Yahoo Answers. According to Joshua Porter, Senator Clinton posted the following question to Yahoo Answers:
“Based on your own family’s experience, what do you think we should do to improve health care in America?”
Joshua is positive indicating, “Clinton is actually asking the American people what they think, rather than assuming or generalizing from the party she’s a part of.”
Turns out there are over 35,000 answers in just two days with various responses including:
Allen – “We should recall ALL the loans made to foreign countries,and use the money for health care,poverty etc.”
Zero Cool – “The biggest problem we’ve faced is the fact that it’s barely affordable. Cost for healthcare needs to be reduced in some way.”
McGill – “KEEP THE GOVERNMENT OUT OF IT! My state goverment has totally screwed up our automobile insurance. Health insurance in their hands would be a tragedy. I don’t want your “help”.”
Did Hillary’s people have a plan for the responses she would get? Jumping into the “social media” craze is actually a good idea for politicians, but make sure you have a plan before jumping in. Interestingly Yahoo notes,
“Yahoo! Answers Staff note: Yahoo! Answers is a forum for people from all over the world to engage with one another and to find information on topics that interest them. This is not an endorsement. We are not siding with any candidate or party — in general or for the 2008 US elections. We’re hopeful that people from all perspectives will realize the great insights that the Answers community can have, and will turn to us for future discussions.”
Posted by admin | January 26, 2007 - 1:19pm | 2 Comments
Category: Uncategorized | Tags: answers, hillaryclinton, Social Media, yahoo
Last year Alex wrote a post on the Texas Startup Blog announcing that a Texas based startup called eSports Partners (evidently backed by Jerry Jones) raised $5MM (the post is likely removed from here, but Google has a cache here). The text of the post is below:
According to Todd Anders from GuideCap, Coppell based eSports Partners raised a $5,000,000 senior credit facility from Compass Bank (GuideCap arranged the financing). Never heard of eSports? Todd explained, “The company is very low profile and wants to keep it that way.”
Run by CEO Michael McKay, eSports is a merchandise service provider offering solutions for NFL and collegiate markets. The company reported revenues of $31.5MM with 250 employees.
Their solutions include ecommerce (site design, content development and management), retail consulting (store locations, build out, merchandising and management), game day operations (venues to sell team merchandise), catalogs (creation and order fullfullment) and several other related services.
eSports’ clients (gathered from a quick Google search) include the San Diego Chargers, Washington Redskins, University of Arkansas Razorbacks, Miami Doplhins, University of Tennessee, Miami Hurricanes, Denver Broncos, Dallas Cowboys, New York Giants, Detroit Lions, Tennessee Titans, Indianpolis Colts, Arizona Cardinals and Texas A&M University.
He never took much notice, but evidently the post received a few negative comments and as a result the company requested that Alex remove the negative comments and provide the identities of the people who made negative comments. After talking it over with a couple of lawyers he was assured that he would prevail, but only after $20,000+ in legal costs. Alex contacted the company and their lawyers and suggested that he was willing to remove the post and the comments, but he wasn’t willing to provide the identities unless ordered to by a court. The company demanded that he backup the database and retain it in the event that the company can secure a court order for the release of the identities.
Do you think Alex is doing the right thing? Should he remove the post? What obligation does he have to stand up to companies who receive a few negative comments? We would love your comments (positive or negative). Letter below:
Posted by admin | January 18, 2007 - 1:20pm | 28 Comments
Category: Uncategorized | Tags: alexandermuse, alexmuse, Social Media
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