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Smart to duck the networking bullet?

Ian Schafer looks around online for ads for the Smart car and finds none.

... it seems that that support would logically come from some tech-savvy, highly-connected, vocal groups of people that use the web to find each other. So if the Smart car is so smart, where�s the love of the people that it needs to succeed? Where�s the embrace of the (measurable) medium that...

The good old days

SWSX mag

I had a short piece in the SXSW quarterly mag that just came out. It was fun to try to carve the thing down from 400 words to 200. Here she is:

My favorite hour at SXSW '08 began with boredom. I was watching a panel on social media metrics gum its topic. I shuffled my feet, opened my laptop. Twittered. Stewed. Ian Schafer leaned over. "Get...

Read this

Clay Shirky ties together gin, sitcoms and lolcats:

It's better to do something than to do nothing. Even lolcats, even cute pictures of kittens made even cuter with the addition of cute captions, hold out an invitation to participation. When you see a lolcat, one of the things it says to the viewer is, "If you have some fancy sans-serif fonts on your computer, you...

Wonkette chapter 2

As you may have heard, Blogads is once again repping Wonkette.com. More here, here, and here. The latter link,...

Final(ish) Blogads intro video

Check out the latest (and last for a while) version of our "intro to Blogads" video. Thank you Nick Faber!

Al Gore's $300 million

We're thrilled that Al Gore's Alliance for Climate Protection is spending some of its $300 million ad campaign on blogs. (BTW, we've lobbied hard for multiple links, better images, more information and sizzle. I wish the ad and its landing page were about more than harvesting e-mails. Oh, wait, that's all The Internets are good for. TV is the...

Minnie Skirt and the Bootlegs

From a show we saw in January.

Youtube =

Boggling at the claim that Youtube sold less than $20 million in video ads in '07.

SXSW echoes

Jeannine and Kevin took a bunch of great photos at the party that Blogads through with our friends at Deepfocus, Indiewire, IndieLense, NPR and PBS. SXSW has posted the podcast from the Suxorz panel I organized and moderated. Former Ad-tech chair...