And another reason for companies and organizations to take an interest in actively listening and monitoring consumer generated media.

There has been much talk in the blogosphere about how bloggers simply amplify the news. The Project for Excellence in Journalism recently released a 2006 report that estimates only 5 percent of blog posts are original reporting. (And yes, it is 5 percent and not the 1 percent widely reported thoroughout the PR blogosphere based read more...

My Fed-Ex man just dropped by and my business became instantly mobile.

I have been out on my own for just over four years now, and I have operated my business on a Dell Dimension 8200 desktop computer. I have no real complaints about the setup, the Dell has been a real workhorse. It would have been much cheaper to go with the read more...

Have we entered a new frontier for journalism? Probably not, but it is no secret that reporters are turning to blog authors more and more to get expert quotes and to track emerging industry trends.

David Strom, a blogger and professional trade journalist, today published an article for Computerworld titled, "How to be a blogger and still keep your day job."

A catchy title. He asked bloggers to respond to his query at ComputerWorld blogger Maian Prokop's read more...

Last week, Darren at Problogger.net held a group writing project asking people to write about the habits of effective blogger and submit them. He then posted the entries to his blog. The project is now closed, but 80 blog posts were selected.

I wrote the “read more...

My techCrunch Shirt
Originally uploaded by Orli Yakuel. Instead of attending endless conferences and collecting fancy Web 2.0 schwag, you can purchase it from Valley Schwag for $14.95.

The height of Web 2.0 hilarity.

Even more bizzaare? Someone willing to pay over $100 for a t-shirt ;-)

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