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Digg — worthless, or just misunderstood?

by Mathew on December 11, 2006 · View Comments

Maybe it’s just meant to be “Digg-bait” (as Nick Denton at Valleywag likes to call it), but Jason Clarke of Download Squad has a long post up about Digg and how it is destined for failure. As Jason mentions in the post, Download Squad is part of AOL, which owns the revamped Netscape — a [...]

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Diggers will find a way to get paid

by Mathew on December 7, 2006 · View Comments

(Cross-posted from my media blog) If nothing else, Jason Calacanis did one thing while he was running the revamped Netscape.com: By hiring away some of the top users at Digg, he ignited a debate about whether to compensate the top submitters to a “social media” site. Digg co-founder Kevin Rose said that he would never [...]

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Have cellphone-camera, will report

by Mathew on December 4, 2006 · View Comments

There have been several forays into “citizen journalism” — or “networked journalism” as Jeff Jarvis likes to call it — with the BBC being one of the major media outlets to have invited users to submit photos and stories. ABC News is also working with Vancouver-based social-media site NowPublic, as described here. Now, Yahoo and [...]

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Andy Rutledge thinks you’re a moron

by Mathew on November 29, 2006 · View Comments

My friend Rob sent me a link to a recent blog post by Web designer Andy Rutledge because (I suspect) he knew that it would drive me up a wall, and he was right. It’s entitled “Anti-Social Media,” and it is a treatise on why social media is bad, why Web 2.0 is bad and [...]

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Media: Get in my fat belly

by Mathew on November 28, 2006 · View Comments

There are a few different threads weaving through the blogosphere related to the evolution of media — not just TV but all different kinds of content. One thread is the Bear Stearns report by Spencer Wang, in which he looks at how the TV content business is changing, and the rise of “user-generated content.” You [...]

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