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Re: 6 Steps to Dramatically Improve and Profit from Online Radio

Greg_MediaZoic — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 08:41:04 -0000

Excellent interview. I learned a lot. We are certainly coming up against exactly the kind of head-scratching arguments that Paul mentions, but the one positive I keep getting is the admission from some of these broadcasters that they don't really understand all the opportunities in the digital space and are open to talking to people who do.

Re: Communicate Like Drugs

Greg_MediaZoic — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 15:09:23 -0000

Verbal Valium and mainline euphoria? In that case, may great communication continue to course through your bloodstream!

Re: http://gcn.tumblr.com/post/723597716

Greg_MediaZoic — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 09:25:38 -0000

I'll be there!

Re: http://gcn.tumblr.com/post/711294459

Greg_MediaZoic — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 07:38:19 -0000

Good choice, Gabriel. I've had the Joe Strummer only version in my Mediazoic stream for a while now, but I think this one may be even better. Thanks for sharing!

Re: http://gcn.tumblr.com/post/405118367

Greg_MediaZoic — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 11:59:04 -0000

Love it!

Re: Video of my TEDx Toronto talk

Greg_MediaZoic — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 08:43:17 -0000

Great talk, Mathew! I particularly liked your point about the "journalistic priesthood". To be honest, I had never been a fan of the Globe partly because I felt such a sense emanating from some of the journalism there (here?), and you have been almost singlehandedly responsible for making me revisit that notion. If "traditional" media outlets such as the Globe embrace that kind of perception change on a larger scale as being not only good for journalism but also good for business, I think they'll have a much better shot at evolving enough to survive.

Re: Serve Well and Be Well Served

Greg_MediaZoic — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 08:24:31 -0000

Reminds me a bit of the sound of an Estonian band called Dallas. Thanks for posting.

Re: Deep Spam Thoughts…Media is Free. Attention is Priceless.

Greg_MediaZoic — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 17:50:21 -0000

Well, Howard, if personal relevance is the difference between spam and valuable messages, this blog was becoming RSS spam in my reader, but this post definitely got my attention. To me, there is a pretty big difference between the Experians of the world and the local real estate agent using the post office's admail service to send out a flyer s/he hopes will catch the attention of a few potential clients, but I do agree with you that it's getting harder to tell the difference, and that it is indeed due to lax information collection policies, both on the part of the corporation and the consumer.

Re: Musicstream.fm - Weekly summary of new music (June 1st - June 7th)

Greg_MediaZoic — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 11:17:17 -0000

Thanks for posting that Yves Klein Blue tune. It's the music from the Mitsubishi commercial running here in Ontario and I kept pointing my iPhone at it to find out what it was, but Shazam doesn't recognize it (yet)! Now I know who it is!

Re: Metrics Migration

Greg_MediaZoic — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 08:09:49 -0000

The traffic on my posts to Twitter (http://twitter.com/oryx_ora... was showing up fine until a couple days ago (May 30, to be exact). Now, it is still posting to Twitter, but the Twitter icon doesn't show beside the post title and it doesn't seem to be pulling traffic stats.

Re: Exit Strategies for Angel Investors and Entrepreneurs - Part 1

Greg_MediaZoic — Tue, 19 May 2009 08:19:36 -0000

Very interesting presentation. Thanks for sharing it on video.

Re: Life at Facebook

Greg_MediaZoic — Fri, 08 May 2009 14:06:38 -0000

Very interesting. A very creative approach to accomplishing a monumental task. It must have been fascinating to watch the uptake rates across language groups to see where Facebook users were most engaged. I'm curious as to what exactly is meant by the statement that 90% of the whole site was translated into French within 24 hours. What is meant by "the whole site"?

Re: Revenue 2.0: Practical solutions

Greg_MediaZoic — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 11:32:05 -0000

Interesting post, Matthew - thanks for sharing. For a bit of a different take on the impending death of the newspaper, there's a great video presentation by a guy who isn't quite so convinced that the newspaper is a dead duck. The usual debate tends to focus primarily on content, but his argument is that design plays an important role as well. You can view his presentation here:

http://www.ted.com/index.ph...

Re: How to Introduce Social Media to Youth Sports Programs

Greg_MediaZoic — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 07:32:57 -0000

These are all great ideas - thanks for sharing. The trick, of course, is not to convince the tech champion in the group (ie. the coach, a wired parent) to adopt these but to get buy-in on the concept from a significant group of the parents. My experience is that, even with great ideas and corresponding great tools, there's still only a very small core that will pick it up, most usually citing privacy concerns. Only educating the whole group can change this, but it can be an uphill battle.

Re: Are comments valuable or a waste of time? Yes

Greg_MediaZoic — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 09:32:40 -0000

I loved Judith's column, but I don't think the phenomenon of being a troll just because you can is all that new. Free speech finds its way somehow into interactions within all human communities. The anonymous (or even signed) troll post is not that much different in my view from that offline phenonmenon we call gossip.

Like comments in social media, gossip takes place within the confines of a community of people with whom one identifies, creating an atmosphere where one feels one can speak freely about others without repercussions. In both environments, when the nature of the discourse happens to be negative and heard by the subject of the gossip, both the true and the untrue can be hard to hear. I've always felt that the impetus for gossip comes from an innate and universal human tendency to find and illuminate at least some small area of superiority over other members of the species. Those who like to gossip are perhaps more likely to be the type to leave anonymous comments, and those who "call 'em the way they see'em" may be more likely to stand behind their words with an actual identity. Either way, it's just an age-old human tendency played out through a new medium, and I don't think that any one of us is any more or less personally responsible online than we are offline.

Re: Social Leverage…Invest. Syndicate. Grow…Hello!

Greg_MediaZoic — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 10:53:21 -0000

Bravo, Howard. The message that announcement of a venture like this sends is that, if indeed smart money is the new dumb in terms of investment strategy, then using social leverage and technology to build and pursue new strategies is the new smart.