When I first heard about AMC's series Mad Men, I was going to pass. I thought, "Uh oh. Here's a chance for a network to unleash all that's unholy on the industry that it already forces to bend over and take it in the upfronts every year ... Go to Full Article

Bad blogger pitches. We've all been on the receiving end. Or if you haven't, you will be. It's almost a mathematical certainty. I recently wrote about a pitch that I received that generally was very good; the only problem was a gaffe ... Go to Full Article

While single purpose Web 2.0 sites like YouTube and Facebook were the big stories of 2006, “mash-ups” – sites that offered multi-functionality and communications tools to their communities – seem to be taking the spotlight this year, ... Go to Full Article

It’s official, I have signed on as the Emerging Media Analyst with the ecommerce software afficionados Elastic Path and will be blogging a whole lot more for the GetElastic ecommerce blog (now that it’s my day job). ... Go to Full Article

Viral marketing is like the weather: everyone's talking about it, but no one is doing anything about it. You know why? Because you can't. That's right. You can't simply manufacture viral marketing. But don't tell that to some marketers. ... Go to Full Article

It seems I'm in good company. Blue is in right now - my official color with crayon is Midnight Blue (Greg is green and Joseph is Aquamarine. I'll let them explain their own choices, if they wish). ... Go to Full Article

It's that age-old conundrum. Quality vs. quantity. Mitch Joel got me thinking - not an unusual result after reading his stuff. On Twitter, he opined:. "I am disappointed that most of my favourite Blogs have become receptacles for ... Go to Full Article

by Rod Amis. The Online Journalism Review featured a great interview with Steve Outing of Boulder, Colorado’s Enthusiast Group on October 1 about building niche communities on the Web. The case in point in Outing’s example was a series ... Go to Full Article

As new sites and applications appear on a near-daily basis (think I'm kidding? Put TechCrunch in your RSS feed and see how many posts a day they crank out), you'll inevitably get shut out of sites with beta invites. ... Go to Full Article

I get a lot of industry news in my RSS reader and my inbox. You probably do, too. Typically I parse through it with a eye for what would be interesting to share with you here. Lately, there have been some great examples of Top 10 or Top ... Go to Full Article

Is Google planning to take over the world one social media app at a time? Just announced, Google’s got some plans for Jaiku. And isn’t that every startup’s dream, to get bought out by the big G? My question is, why didn’t Google buy ... Go to Full Article