Nathan Gilliat offers a roundup of bloggers who work in consumer-generated media measurement, and related consumer listening and analytics services — including moi. These are the most notable bloggers publicly connected to their respective companies and industries, but you can bet there are many more employees from these companies who are expressing themselves through unrelated personal blogs as well as other emerging social-media venues.… Read the rest
Category Archives: Fun & Random
There Are Newspapers And Journalists Flourishing In Second Life
My recent MediaPost column on the adult-underground contributions to Second Life prompted some thoughtful feedback, on the record, off the record, as well as via public comments and email. Surprisingly, it also spawned complements and an interview request from a journalist at the AvaStar newspaper in Second Life.… Read the rest
Why Porn and Gambling Could Be Good For Emerging Virtual Worlds
In his most recent podcast episode of Across The Sound, Joseph Jaffe reacted with irritation to a commenter downplaying Second Life because of its infiltration by porn, prostitution and gambling. Joseph responded by underscoring that that where there’s sex and gambling, there’s life.… Read the rest
Google Gmail Seeks To Save Us From Embarrasing Ourselves
Google today promoted on my Gmail home page that it increased its email attachment limit from 10 mb to 20 mb. It’s an awesome feature, and will come in handy during last-minute frenzies to share and edit high-density presentation files with colleagues around the country:
Anyway, that link took me to a “What’s New On Gmail?”… Read the rest
Bilingual Web Barriers Underscore Power of Sight, Sound and Motion
Do you follow any blogs that spontaneously switch between multiple languages? I do, and my friend Laurent Flores is one of those cases. He lures me in through our friendship and his interesting content — in English — and then forces me to revert to my amateur, high-school French at the drop of a dime.… Read the rest