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What does a brand learn from criticism? Mostly nothing

What does a brand learn from criticism? Mostly nothing

It’s more than three years now since everyone started to evangelize new media and, basically, to preach social media theories and strategies. What do brands understand? Some of the companies get the point: it’s good to be there and it’s better to join the conversation, reply and be ... Read more

Saying that blogging is dead is as stupid as claiming classic media’s death

While browsing, I couldn’t notice that once again, some smart guys proclaimed the sudden death of blogs. Once more, blogging is dead. But this time, the killer is called Twitter, “the king of speed”, so to speak. While saying such a stupid thing, I remembered a similar claim: classic media is dead, blogs killed it. Right. And I’m the Pope, ain’t I? Let’s see if that’s true. ... Read more

One damn ugly blog, DeadlineHollywoodDaily.com, sold for $10 million

As you might have heard, Nikki Finke’s blog was sold to Mail.com Media Corporation for no less than 10 million dollars. That’s actually huge for such an ugly blog. I might say, that’s one of the ugliest websites I have ever seen in my 25 years lifetime. Still, DeadlineHollywoodDaily.com is ranked 455 by Technorati.com, which means it’s in Top 500. It probably worth the money ... Read more