Feb

Episode #53 – Is Old Media Finally Getting It?

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Some recent hires and policy decisions would seem to indicate that old media companies are finally starting to get digital. Is it too little to late?
Mentioned in this episode:

“Yahoo News Head Khemlani Departs for Hearst as VP Digital Media” on Kara Swisher’s All Things Digital
“Sun publisher to cut 10 per [...]

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Feb

Why I Love the Podcamp Toronto Wiki

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Wow. What a mess. The Podcamp Toronto wiki, the anyone-can-edit site that we are using for scheduling and registration, is a wreck right now. Multiple edits by multiple people on multiple platforms have created a hodgepodge of formatting, fonts and very ugly exposed HTML code. Sometimes pages have disappeared completely. The [...]

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Feb

You’re Stupid

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This is Macy. She’s 16 months old.
She’s much smarter than you.
And please don’t misunderstand me, that’s not a brag, it’s not an “oh, my kid is so smart for her age” thing. I could have put a picture of any average 16-month old.
It’s also not a relative thing.
She’s smarter than you. Straight up.
Here’s why:

She has [...]

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Feb

Episode #52 – Your Content is Worthless

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So Facebook owns your content… so what? Your content isn’t worth anything.
Mentioned in this episode:

Facebook Terms of Use

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Feb

Dinner Doesn’t Scale

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As events like Podcamp Toronto grow bigger and bigger (we’re closing in on 800 registrants, which will probably translate into 400-500 attendees) there is a temptation to try to do everything that you’ve done in previous years, but just more of it. But that doesn’t approach doesn’t always serve well.
Take meals. In previous years at [...]

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Feb

Episode #51 – Adding New Value to Old Formats

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Thinking about ways of making old formats more desirable.
Mentioned in this episode:

Bruce Springsteen – “Working on a Dream”
Bookcamp Toronto
Hugh McGuire – BookOven

Popularity: 16% [?]

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Feb

Why you SHOULD NOT come to Podcamp Toronto

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As I write this, we’re rapidly approaching the 700 registrant mark for Podcamp Toronto, which is quite amazing. I expect we’ll be over 800 by the weekend of the event. Now, experience has shown that only about 50-60% of those who sign-up actually show up. As an organizer, I’ve often been asked if I find [...]

Popularity: 17% [?]

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Feb

Episode #50 – Friends vs. Fans

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Facebook has the right idea — most of us really don’t have (or need) 5000 friends.
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Feb

Worried about calling yourself an “expert”? Instead, you can be…

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So, you want to hang out a shingle as a social-media-human-for-hire, but you don’t want to raise the ire of the fishbowl by being so presumptuous as to call yourself (gulp) an “expert”? Well fear not! I’ve compiled a list of alternate terms that will help you skate gracefully under the radar of the Twitterati [...]

Popularity: 15% [?]

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