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Re: On Citizen Journalism, The Degradation Of Society, And Bitchmemes

Antje Wilsch — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 22:22:44 -0000

actually went back and looked, and he did say a general thanks, which is cool. I only saw after many had posted (after MG had already posted).

So, cool. Be glad that you have that many people who care enough to acknowledge. I would be touched if that many people gave me well wishes. I doubt on mine there will be many, so that's nice. I guess we should all be grateful for the small things :)

Re: On Citizen Journalism, The Degradation Of Society, And Bitchmemes

Antje Wilsch — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 22:16:49 -0000

whatever , @nothing identifiable... how about one post to everyone "hey eveyone, thx for the b-day wishes kthxbai" - wow, that took me all of 3.2 seconds to type

I certainly wasn't expecting a personal thank you. I'm merely pointing out that if someone's going to bemoan the degredation of society's manners then be aware when they do the very thing they are bitching about.

MG hope you had a great one!

Re: On Citizen Journalism, The Degradation Of Society, And Bitchmemes

Antje Wilsch — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:10:51 -0000

well paris lemon, you are not exactly helping society get any more decent. For example, several people including myself posted a happy birthday to you last week, but did not see you acknowledging all the nice birthday wishes you received anywhere. It's as if you were too busy writing to get page views to take two seconds to say you appreciated all those folks who wished you happy birthday. Matt Ingram would definitely say "thank you" and that's why Matt has more class than 90% of the writers out there today.You brought it up, so I'm just saying my piece.

Re: The Cost of Social Media to Worker Productivity: $2.25 Billion [Survey]

Antje Wilsch — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:02:53 -0000

haha, close to 0. But also depends on the medium. If you're typing as @joeblow on twitter then 0. Facebook marginally better IF you list your work etc on your bio (note that MANY people do not). Also depends on what you're posting, but my guess is 90% of all posts are personal and nothing to do with brand awareness or external (business) comm.

Re: The Cost of Social Media to Worker Productivity: $2.25 Billion [Survey]

Antje Wilsch — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:52:27 -0000

spare me the lame justification. 95% of the people are poking friends, spying on their kids and checking out past classmates to see if old/bald yet. They are not evangelizing their company in the least.

Re: Where To Go For Inspiration?

Antje Wilsch — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 16:14:16 -0000

Hi Fred, I'm a writer for a site that features interesting people, and I have to say that I went thru a big cycle of what you refer to above. I even (ahem, sorry) stopped reading your blog for a while and many others I used to enjoy because I had to kind of de-process myself. After reading Scoble's post about whether to change his baby's diaper or answer another email I was really disturbed (not specifically at him just this whole plugged in thing).

I'm now finding inspiration in every day people. They are doing great things, and many of them are *barely* online.

If you want to read some interesting stories totally outside tech, feel free to take a break and read about interesting people on www.storyofmylife.com/storytellers. The only reason I'm here plugging the site is b/c I have been struggling with exactly what you were/are above and finally feel great about what I'm doing - what I'm doing now is not about me at all. I started and stopped my blog a hundred times, and wondered why I was doing it. When I started shining the spotlight on people who are out there doing great things and not very often getting recognition, my entire perspective changed. I must say, I'm a much, much happier girl now that I'm not plugged in 24/7.

Re: The Post American World

Antje Wilsch — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 14:29:57 -0000

higher education - maybe. But on the lower education rungs, the US is slipping and slipping badly. I have dual US-EU citizenship and have been working in the US (even did a short stint as a substitute teacher in an inner city school district), Germany, Czech, Russia and compare notes with my friends around the world. The US needs to get its act together on public education on the K-12....(I could write a book on this but I'm too lazy!)

Re: My Thoughts On "Startup Depression"

Antje Wilsch — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 16:41:49 -0000

Jason's comments are not atypical of the valley myopia on this subject that frustrate me b/c I used to deal with start-ups day in and day out, although now I'm somewhat removed but I still maintain professional contacts and check in with them.

>1% of all companies who seek money get it. That's not even ALL start-ups; just the ones seeking money. I don't understand why people look at funded start-ups as any bell-weathers for what the entire start-up community is doing. Most companies get funded b/c they have good contacts, a leader who's been there before (prior success) or has another personal connection. VERY few companies walk in off the street and ever get funded.

Yet if you talk to all the hopefuls at all the various silicon valley events, you'd think that's the only way any company ever makes it is by getting VC funds. Most companies don't. And most start-ups eventually fail. I guess it's the dream that's sold that keeps them coming back and trying. But I wish language like this was tempered down b/c you're right Fred, the ones who are funded right now, again less than 1% of all companies who sought funding overall, aren't the ones who need to worry. It's everyone else.

I've always said thank god for technology and innovation - without it, where would the US be right now?

Re: Barack Hussein Obama, President of the United States

Antje Wilsch — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 10:38:31 -0000

I'm with Jeff!!

Re: Why most conferences suck (Scripting News)

Antje Wilsch — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 11:15:29 -0000

Dave, that's why companies pay good money to have booths in the exhibition halls... hoping some of the lonely, bored souls will come and talk to us about what we have to offer and learn more about us. Go look at the small booths, the one who have balanced if they can afford the booth/ transportation/ flyer/ employee etc. costs, not the big fancy ones (although some of those are fun too but usually more for show).

Re: Why most conferences suck (Scripting News)

Antje Wilsch — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 02:04:43 -0000

wine writer's? Isn't that kind of an oxymoron? :) what's the group name/ url/ etc?

Re: Yet another beautiful Berkeley street pic (Scripting News)

Antje Wilsch — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:56:45 -0000

oh my gosh that's gorgeous... did you guys take that on the photo walk? nice.

Re: The Techmeme pile-on — good or bad?

Antje Wilsch — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 19:17:29 -0000

new comment system Dave?

I would take this also why everyone is so gaga over facebook in the valley. Not taking away from the impressive levels that FB has achieved but it's not MSFT and it's not Google and I just don't see it being so. But based on the wisdom of the crowds in the valley - if your start-up doesn't have a FB strategy then you're not in the game. We've only talked to one (big) VC firm who thinks that FB and others will have a hard time making money in the future.

Re: Google scared of Facebook? Puh-leeze

Antje Wilsch — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 01:26:00 -0000

I read that too and laughed all the way to my meagre appartment to work on my dream of hitting it big time with my start-up too :)
funny article Matt, haven't heard you be that blunt in a bit now.
~!Antje

Re: Is email dead? No, but it’s not well

Antje Wilsch — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 01:26:18 -0000

just wait until they will get jobs (well we hope) and yes they will have to use email and, god forbid, letters/phone. How can one do business on twitter, social networks, text and IM? There is a time and a place for all of these. Kids have no reason to send email b/c they are instantly connected and know each other. But the same personal rules of engagement don't apply in a professional setting. Just give them a few years. They said email would be the post office killer and I still get daily mail from the post office.

Re: Can Hollywood be like Silicon Valley?

Antje Wilsch — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:45:59 -0000

I'll buy you a drink to that amen "being lucky" :)

Re: Facebook: Beacon woes are overstated

Antje Wilsch — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 00:19:19 -0000

I disagree with you on this one. I think people's actions outside FB (e.g. shopping at Overstock) have nothing to do with their online personal interaction and behavior inside their social networks and should be one's own choice whether to broadcast their online habits with others. Do I really want people who know me to know what I surf, read, and shop for online?

Is it a wonder that people are looking at the Experience Project with interest? It still kind of freaks me out when I click on a link in somehwere and end up on another blog that's a part of MyBlogLog and it automatically shows that I was there reading it. I didn't sign up to be shown as a reader on that blog (and tacitly give my "endorsement" by showing I was there reading it). For my regular reads, that's fine, but not my random web surfing. I think it's creepy and feels invasive. I asked Yahoo about it and they said I had to log out and completely clear my cache to remove my path (even logged out it still showed me when I was reading a blog).

Re: Facebook: Beacon woes are overstated

Antje Wilsch — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 14:09:39 -0000

well maybe porn sites or sex toys shop or wifeswapping.com won't partner, but what about an innocuous site such as amazon or netflix or even target? Maybe I still don't want everyone to know what kind of feminine products I use or what books I'm purchasing. And I NEVER read those disclosures - I just close the windows or click "I agree" to everything (I have no patience).

by the way you can say apeshit in a blog? :)

Re: Twitter: Waste of time or social tool?

Antje Wilsch — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 13:07:07 -0000

Definitely a waste of time. I work in high tech and no one i know over the age of 30 uses (or even really understands) twitter - except the blogosphere who, in all fairness, needs to keep up with this constant news feed as it's part of their job. This is not saying there isn't a place for it. But older people (meaning: older than 30!) are generally too busy solving problems at work, home lives with families, etc. I have a cell phone, email on my cell, skype, and IM. People can reach me if they need but they certainly do not need to be kept updated of my every useless thought.

Re: Twitter: Waste of time or social tool?

Antje Wilsch — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 20:41:03 -0000

Hey, I read your blog every day..... :)

Re: What are we doing when we Twitter?

Antje Wilsch — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 16:27:49 -0000

I view Twitter like Britney Spears. This audience-hungy girl cannot stand to spend one night in her (mansion!) alone - she has to go out and aimlessly drive around so the paparazzi can photograph her, and then check into hotels so the world follows her every move. She needs the attention. She can't stand to be by herself and feels empty when doing so. Twitter just seems to me to have the same function for many (not you Mathew of course!) :)

Re: The Scoble mess and data portability

Antje Wilsch — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 15:31:36 -0000

Still just seems a big difference in allowing you, as my friend, to move my data to your email client, which I would have no problem with, but to Plaxo (or a worse)- I would definitely have a problem with that. I wouldn't know how delineate the intentions of the user, but it would seem that companies need to be cognizant of this. Plaxo's intentions seem to be to want to do something with that data (my contact info), whereas an email client it seems more a tool of practicality for the user, not the company (email client company).

Re: Huge: Facebook, Plaxo and Google open up

Antje Wilsch — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 18:18:12 -0000

I love how Plaxo is getting put alongside Google in FB in all this press, good move for them I'd say.

Re: Pirates bugging you? Get more efficient

Antje Wilsch — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 19:08:56 -0000

Mathew would love to hear your thoughts on my boss's take on a related topic of software piracy:
http://www.storyofmylife.com/User/user_journals...
(yeah yeah, just hoping for some work related brownie points) ;)

Re: Pirates bugging you? Get more efficient

Antje Wilsch — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 20:48:43 -0000

M - really? Do you by chance recall where that might have been (dag he's softening in his old age... lol). My Indian colleagues tell me that MSFT is one of the biggest proponents and supporters of the piracy police via the government and continues to push them to crackdown, but then again many of them are the same folks who like to bash MSFT for all the evils in the world.

Re: Gizmodo: Wrong, yes — but also right

Antje Wilsch — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 16:02:02 -0000

There is too much testosterone in tech.

Re: Why Nick Denton is good and/or evil

Antje Wilsch — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 13:05:18 -0000

You know, in all seriousness, Nick Denton is a smart guy who knows how to find people's weak spots. And - he will exploit them. But when he was writing for ValleyWag I know a lot of people were concerned about being targeted by him - mostly because he was so often spot on, and cruel about whatever he was skewering.

But - Silicon Valley is a bit too full of self importance sometimes. I worked on a lot of events with a lot speakers - most of them wonderful as indviduals - but often you put them in a room full of their colleagues and boy oh boy the social and life-as-a-bigger-picture limitations are painfully obvious. Denton threw some oil on that rain parade and maybe the valley needs someone poking at it when it starts to lean towards the too self-righteousness side.

Re: Why Nick Denton is good and/or evil

Antje Wilsch — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 17:12:18 -0000

Frankly I can't imagine how bad it might be without him, so I'm glad he and his crew are all there taking the piss out of everything; keeps people on their toes.... still wouldn't want to be on his bad side tho!

Re: How much is a SuperPoke worth?

Antje Wilsch — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 14:01:48 -0000

this is seriously starting to piss me off - excuse my french - I talk to companies who are doing great things all the time, much more sophisticated and interesting than an embedded photo displayer (I like Slide but come on), and a widget company getting this kind of money at that valuation is asinine.

Re: How much is a SuperPoke worth?

Antje Wilsch — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 15:18:14 -0000

hmm, 30 M unique users. Active users? Based on the backbone of another company (who could theoretically cut them access at any time)? and most don't have much revenue other than advertising? Not so sure I'd base an entire investment firm on "Facebook-only" but WTH do I know....

Re: How much is a SuperPoke worth?

Antje Wilsch — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 21:02:00 -0000

I'm looking at this while trying to find past articles about valuations of pets.com and bluelight and webvan in the day. At least they SOLD something. They had product, they had something tangible. This just blows my mind. Companies making biomedical devices can't get $5m and Slide gets $50M. For what?!! Please someone elighten me. I am either a total idiot or I don't get something major here. And - in a saturated market (photo sharing)?

Re: Fred is right and Rupert is wrong

Antje Wilsch — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 11:30:24 -0000

Blogging in general to me still seems like passive "journalism" and much more opinionated and reactive towards news than traditional journalism. I don't see bloggers jumping on planes to Afghanistan or Kenya (or even the front door of Heath Ledger's apartment building for that awful matter) to report on news. They let journalists dig, do research, and come up with stories, and then react to them. Blogging has a definite, and positive role to fill in the "new media" era but I don't seem bloggers who sit in front of their screens being fed data and blogging on it replacing paid journalists any time soon.

Re: Facebook wants to be the Web OS

Antje Wilsch — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 12:49:37 -0000

oh no, you didn't just say social graph.......................................... :)

Re: Qtrax: How not to launch a product

Antje Wilsch — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 21:18:01 -0000

eh, if they can come back with a good return, this will be forgotten about and they got a lot more press than they probably would have had with another boring "another start-up launches yay!" post .... people's memories are short about stuff like this (again assuming they come back with grace).

Re: Qtrax: How not to launch a product

Antje Wilsch — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 22:25:38 -0000

If they can't legtitimize themselves, then yes. But still getting harder for most start-ups I talk to to rise above the noise lately...

Re: Mike Arrington, Fox Business host?

Antje Wilsch — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 10:26:46 -0000

frenetic — good word to describe; they're practically pushing each other to get face time :)

Re: New York Times vs. blogs: wrong question

Antje Wilsch — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 15:06:44 -0000

Interesting points both of you (Dave & Mathew). Not everyone needs in depth analyses on everything, and I'd say that economics, technical and science conversations are some of the easiest to get "wrong" because they are so complicated. Most people just want an overview.

People read newspapers because they want the news. They delve further when there is a topic they are interested in such as electronics, finance, creative writing, whatever it is- there are magazines that go in depth (know how many scrapbooking magazines there are?) into EVERY subject, there are online resources, and there are blogs.

Blogs are often created by people knowledgeable in their industry and add additional information layers on top of the peripheral or perfunctory news out there. Newspapers play an active role in taking on news - news that's out there. Journalists also hold themselves [most of the time] to ethical standards of journalism and reporting, often which bloggers don't (& some even wear as a proud badge that they don't).

Not all of us can spend all day researching, reading all the blogs. We skim the newspapers for headlines that catch our eye, we scan rss feeds for things of interest. I think bloggers tend to forget this sometimes. They spend all day every day scanning the online world, the news, TV, wherever they glean information on and then often react to it. Journalists play an imperative role in informaiton dissemination.

I read blogs to get opinions, and frequently the news is mixed in there as well. I read papers and articles to get more factual data. I'm not saying that professional reporting is not biased, it is, but there is a difference between reading some schmoe's rantings online and reading the WSJ.

To that you might argue that there is a difference between the elite bloggers and the riff raff. Riff if off pontificating about his hatred of whatever. But bloggers get noticed precisely because they have opinions and off commentary. Some of them do a more in depth job of interviewing, getting facts, reviewing (sites, products etc) but a good majority of blogs are just stream of consciousness spewing. Journalists are out there doing investigative research, digging into the stories (not just putting into a call to the PR person and waiting on a response), often putting their lives in danger to get the story, get the scoop - many times such stories would otherwise never be heard by anyone.

Big publications can afford to pay journalists to go out into the world (plane ticket, hotel, and guard to Kenya? Burma? Darfur? Afghanistan?) and get the investigative reporting done. On ANY topic. Anywhere in the world. Their relevance is not going to disappear. It may consolidate and change, but it's hardly going away. Bloggers and other forms of news and opinions help keep journalism on its toes, more honest, and working harder to get these hard to reach stories.

I would like to see these worlds complement each other - I fail to see why they have to be seen as in competition.

Re: New York Times vs. blogs: wrong question

Antje Wilsch — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 09:49:18 -0000

Unfortunately I don't hear about anyone blogging right now from Kenya, Darfur. One in Burma got arrested / silenced. So, not sure if they're everywhere already. Nor does just being there make them an expert. So, often it's a numbers again (if enough people are blogging/ speaking out/ citizen journalism) vs. a need for professional investigave journalism.

They can complement each other.

Re: Video interlude: Grand Central freeze

Antje Wilsch — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 03:10:31 -0000

the drunken santa hoarde in downtown SF was great too....

Re: The Obama video: media at hyper-speed

Antje Wilsch — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 18:08:48 -0000

well again the bloggers gotta go nuts by being controversial...

Re: Seesmic: Still don’t really get it

Antje Wilsch — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 15:00:42 -0000

nice comment thread here (esp if Vanessa Williams is on it, that's hot) :)

Especially interesting:
- you can't comment, scan, or make notes on video / hard to easily forward to share (gotta' worry about video formats, players, flash etc etc)
- many people cannot, or will not, watch video at work (!)
- this seems to be ahead of its time - imagine those sci fi movies where the actor sits at his desk and everything is there - big screens, audio, video etc. You can easily turn on/off what you want. Right now it all seems like such a chore and inefficient.
- time savers - difficult to briefly skim a video to see whether worth watching the whole thing like one can quickly do with text
- it's not that interesting watching unattractive people (had to say it!)
- quality takes time to put together - esp on video costs go up (vs. say re-writing and editing text) so the quality vs. speed thing is an issue

nice investment group, although it's still kind of sad to see the same group of people always sticking together for the same types of things....

Re: Truth vs. traffic: An age-old battle

Antje Wilsch — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 16:39:37 -0000

Amusingly, one of our recent press releases actually got a response from a CNN Editor who said something like "love the idea overall but we're focusing on the economy right now..."

Re: Ankle-deep in the Newspond

Antje Wilsch — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 11:56:41 -0000

well, I tried to use Digg exactly 3 times. WIthin minutes, my two images and my one story all "disappeared" or buried or whatever they say. If there was any reason, I was unable to figure out how to see it. I just couldn't find my stuff. So I never tried again. I wonder how many other people are like me, who get irritated by getting buried for unknown reasons and just leave, thus diminishing the aggregrate component of the site? Maybe a new one without those users will attract others. [Maybe the users who have a lot of the control of Digg and Wikipedia's fanatical editors are the same.] I'll try it as a welcome alternative if I am able to actually get somewhere with it.

Re: Ankle-deep in the Newspond

Antje Wilsch — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 00:41:53 -0000

right, i am mixing up my oddly-named start-ups now! :)

Re: Google News comments: More examples

Antje Wilsch — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 00:13:37 -0000

I wish Larry got more credit. Man is S.M.A.R.T.

Re: Like, Facebook is so over, dude

Antje Wilsch — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 14:00:24 -0000

It will level off, it has to. Most people I know who are not involved heavily in technology (mostly outside the valley) can't or don't use facebook at work, and a lot of the parents I know are on it simply to monitor their kids.

Re: Like, Facebook is so over, dude

Antje Wilsch — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 17:55:15 -0000

I think at the end of the day, since these sites are all ad supported, it doesn't matter so long as wherever the data is being pulled from can show ads to the users. That'll be the challenge - if everything is open, determining where the user will see the ad and whoever controls that - wins.

Re: Jimmy Wales is not Wikipedia

Antje Wilsch — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:36:45 -0000

Hi Mathew, have to disagree with you on this one. The personality at the forefront of the non-profit needs to be above reproach. If you've ever had the pleasure of working for or with a non-profit, to get 501(c)(3) status is actually a big deal, can be lost (taken away by the IRS) and when people in charge blur the lines between for profit and non-profit, it hurts all non-profits. Most non-profits toil tirelessly to do some good in the world. They have a lot of regulations on their shoulders and a lot of tedious and never ending fundraising to do. They struggle as much to get the money to survive as they do to continue their actual operations.

On the Wikipedia side, having tried to "learn" the Wikipedia way and edit things, only to spend a lot of time learning their weird formatting and rules, spending time editing and adding things only to have them deleted within 5 minutes from some editor nazi who gives no other reason than "this violates the terms" and how incredibly frustrating this is, WIkipedia is used by MANY people to be a voice of fact and data. It's referenced, it's quoted, it's used as a tool for many different things. Thus, it should be above reproach and this includes the leaders at its helm. If they can ever show me that some things on Wikipedia are fair, I would have a better opinion of them. But they don't, and trying to get into Wikipedia is difficult especially when I've seen cases of two companies who do the same thing - one gets an entry and the other does not. Does that economically hurt the one not there? It might!

These accusations about anyone from the org making strong "hints" that donations = better profiles, if true, is a blatant violation of the spirit (if not the legal) terms of agreement for what Wikipedia is, and for what it got its 501c3 status for. That friends can get better wikipedia entries dilutes the value of Wikipedia. I don't know whether the allegations are true, but if they are, they have nothing to do with who is sleeping with who but rather that the entries can be bribed, bought/paid for or even influenced - and that makes it wrong.

That being said, the issue here seems to be the blurring the of lines between the non-profit regulations that thousands of other non-profits must live and abide by.

Scandals involving the Red Cross, Goodwill, United Way and others that hurt the organizations' reputations and brought individuals down, as well as making people (rightfully) question whether their donations and dollars were being spent appropriately, and whether the tax exempt status is deserved.

Re: Jimmy Wales is not Wikipedia

Antje Wilsch — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 16:59:56 -0000

But you say this one digression is ok, no big deal. What if Wikipedia is rife with this? What if anyone with enough money can buy their way to a favourable entry (even if via only one channel, ie him)? Then as far as I'm concerned they've thwarted their charter and deserve to lose their tax exempt status, possibly owing back taxes. How do we know this isn't indicative of a larger problem? I guess I just don't understand how the integrity of Wikipedia overall is unharmed by his behaviour. If it were for-profit I wouldn't be complaining. They don't pay taxes. They make millions of dollars. Taxpayers subsidise non-profits. Therefore, his behaviour, IF it happened, is inexcusable, and IMHO has tainted Wikipedia's integrity. Honestly I'm kind of surprised that a reporter would take this lightly. But I agree to disagee as well, but I definitely vehemently disagree.

Re: Jimmy Wales is not Wikipedia

Antje Wilsch — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 14:48:03 -0000

Yes, I know I'm dragging this out... :) To me, even one instance of pay per play is too much, especially coming from the main man himself. If the top does it, that sends a clear message that the lower ranks can do it too. I don't care a whit about his personal life either. I care about his personal life affecting or influencing posts as Wikipedia's leader though.

Soooo, know any editors my clients can bribe? ;)

Re: Newsweek does UGC drive-by

Antje Wilsch — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 16:59:54 -0000

heh, nice one Mathew "I like to put people's nomikers in quotes" Ingram :)

Re: Blogs and the settling of the Wild West

Antje Wilsch — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 14:02:06 -0000

HMMM you're one of few that straddle both worlds. Your professional job as a journalist, and your "job" as a blogger (I don't know if you get paid for blogging, I see a couple of ads is all). If I'm wrong let me know but it seems your Globe articles are more researched, your blog is more editorial/op ed. This is how I divide the blogging world, in general, in my mind, and I'd like to see it stay that way because each plays a vital role.

Do you put on a different thinking mentality, or approach, to writing your blog posts vs. your globe articles? I'd be willing to bet you do. Journalism articles are less frequent, less emotional, usually more researched, but leave little room for opinion and such (leaving out all the dramaz, which to me is all a big turn off).

Antje "can't decide if she's agreeing or disagreeing with Mathew on this one" Wilsch

Re: Blogs and the business of community

Antje Wilsch — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 17:07:34 -0000

One thing I doubt has been studied yet - the more I read a blog, the less I notice what goes on "around" it. I skip right over any ads - i know exactly where they are and my eyes are trained now to jump automatically. Every once in a while an image might catch my eye but it's rare. And obviously on feeds I don't look at any ads at all.

So I wonder if having a loyal & repetitive core audience that reads blogs regularly is more fruitful than new eyeballs. I actually notice print ads a lot more than I do online ads, probably b/c of their strategic placement (newspapers, magazines) - fit in and around the cotent. But that's not really working on the web, and even worse (IMHO) on blogs.

Re: Blogs and the business of community

Antje Wilsch — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 17:52:50 -0000

I wonder what the value really is of a social network user or a blog reader, vs. a reader of a portal or someone using a search engine. Working with design I'm all about standardisation, consistency, and following norms so users don't get lost or confused But I'd bet this conformity is an anathema to Advertisers.

Speaking of, this has got to be one of the most clever ads I've seen in a long time (send it to yourself first so you see how it works): http://www.icetruck.tv/index.php

Re: Blogs and the business of community

Antje Wilsch — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 11:36:50 -0000

no no no sorry - you want the ad, not the crap underneath so unfortunately you *have* to fill out the form, send it to one of your list or reserve emails (we all have them!). It's clever.

Re: Blogs and the business of community

Antje Wilsch — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 14:37:15 -0000

no idea, I didn't get that. This wasn't meant to be dragged out. If you don't want to fill in your info then don't. I used my "other" email - the one for all my lists" and used it.

It's still pretty cool marketing thing and it's just for fun.... can't help that you canucks are spammers and not real people ;)

Re: Google: Why not make the cloud free?

Antje Wilsch — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 14:13:52 -0000

D***t Mathew I have to disagree with you!! j/k

It's just all about page views/ viewers/ readers. Controversy sells. Agreement is la de da and life goes on (boring). Lives are boring enough if everyone agrees.

You were quoted in the Silion Valley Web Guild email blast yesterday by the way.

Re: Note to startups: Turn off “track changes”

Antje Wilsch — Sun, 11 May 2008 19:43:41 -0000

Those poor guys.... lol..... good thing they have a sense of humour

Re: Twitter: The first draft of history?

Antje Wilsch — Mon, 12 May 2008 20:07:54 -0000

Am I the only person who is tired of every "A List" blogger talking about Twitter? Not one person outside my technology bubble has ever even heard of it..... :( The most posts about it, the more I feel it's this exclusive club of cacaphony.... just saying. It's great you guys are all early adopters and maybe it's totally disruptive but to me it's just a time wasting jumble of people talking about their farts or where they are (at the drive in now, listening to the radio, had a thought!)

Re: Twitter: The first draft of history?

Antje Wilsch — Mon, 12 May 2008 21:54:25 -0000

the internet vs. twitter? :) Hardly on the same planet IMHO. More like facebook vs. Twitter.

For journalists, I totally see it. Bloggers too. But others.... - most of the stuff that comes through:
a) is referring to someone to whose twitter account I'm NOT following so I hae no idea what the person is referring to
b) obscure references to articles i"ve not yet read
c) too short to often make sense
d) boring (farts, naps and 'where are you you' posts as stated above)

Re: Craigslist returns fire in eBay suit

Antje Wilsch — Tue, 13 May 2008 21:54:46 -0000

This is sad. It's going to take 2 good companies and get ugly.

But maybe it'll push CL to come into the 21st century... I can't even sort or filter search results yet on CL.

Re: Google: Is it getting big and stodgy?

Antje Wilsch — Tue, 13 May 2008 21:56:41 -0000

Next will be facebook getting old and stodgy. It's the cycle.

Re: The “Twitter ain’t all that” backlash

Antje Wilsch — Wed, 14 May 2008 01:57:26 -0000

hmm you are all so obsessed maybe I should give it another try. Who do you follow Mathew and how do you keep up with the conversations? they seem like I entered the twilight zone .... or inside someone' s head (even scarier)

Re: The “Twitter ain’t all that” backlash

Antje Wilsch — Wed, 14 May 2008 13:20:06 -0000

ok but more importantly, how do you follow the conversations? Do you go to twitter site and just read and try to figure out the list of threads? I mean the design hurts my eyes :) but it'[s more about trying to figure who's responding to @someone that I don't follow that makes me have any idea what's going on.

Meaning, if you have no network, or don't follow the same people other people who are responding to other people are, how do you follow the conversations? Do you just keep adding people everyone else you follow is following?

Re: Arrington and Wired: Keyboards at dawn

Antje Wilsch — Wed, 14 May 2008 13:52:05 -0000

I agree, made me laugh. I can see a furious write-off.

Re: The “Twitter ain’t all that” backlash

Antje Wilsch — Wed, 14 May 2008 15:02:17 -0000

seems more like a good way to avoid real work... lol

Re: Facebook blocks Google, for your own good

Antje Wilsch — Fri, 16 May 2008 16:54:35 -0000

As a developer, I can totally understand the desire to keep a walled garden because of privacy and control. As working for a business with users who give up their time, their content, their connections - I can totally see why wanting to keep them in the fold is important and doing your best to bar them from being harassed. As a consumer, I am 100% about not re-entering my data, and going for standarisation, but not sure WHO I want or even trust to "guard" my data. At the end of the day, these sites are nothing without their users.

What a messy smorgasboard of conflicting feelings.

Re: We live in public — some of the time

Antje Wilsch — Sun, 25 May 2008 14:27:47 -0000

Interesting post Mathew!
Good insight: "a kind of stress-testing approach, as though by subjecting that person to the full glare of the public floodlights, they could ensure that their significant other was good enough to hang onto."
- true for some cases; probably the myriad of reasons people publicly go through is as varied as the reasons relationships fail.

It's true that reasons for writing about ourselves is narcisstic, vain, or a need for attention or just purely validation of Self. It's also true that there are more important things to write about that impact the world and future generations.

But being noble can be exhausting, and not everyone is cut out to be a world shaker. It's why the world-shakers stick out. Most peoples' worlds are pretty narrow. I'd say that a lot of people are lost, hurt, lonely, scared, curious, wanting to know if they're normal, looking for some validation. This often comes from seeing other people, particularly if they're in the public eye and good looking, going through the same things as we do, but being emotionally impacted and wondering if we're crazy....

I was standing in line once at a supermarket behind two young adult, hispanic females, heavily made-up, overweight, dressed in flashy clothes and gawdy jewelry paying with food stamps (the reason why I mention these facts is in reality they are about as far away from hollywood as anyone) talking about "Brad" and "Jennifer" and "Angie" as though they were discussing their BFFs. This disconnect between facing the harsh realities of their own lives and into the glamorous lives of others is as old as the hills. Schadenfreude and voyeurism go hand in hand to validate that our lives aren't just "quiet lives of desperation" or if they are, others are too.

Re: Bloggers get “paid” with comments

Antje Wilsch — Thu, 29 May 2008 12:08:30 -0000

You and I have been chatting about this a little bit. I still read my paper every single day. I also read the news online (and as the AP becomes more and more filler) I'll find I've already read many of the articles.

So with one foot in each world (and I prefer Huffington's ménage à trois idea of journalism-blogger-reader better) one of the things I"m finding irks me is that it's nearly impossible to get to an individual AP writer. They bury their contact information. On the flip side, bloggers who never comment on their own posts or post with mostly negative comments (ie only comment on trolls) I also find myself reading less.

I am tending towards idea that a blog post is the beginning of the discussion / conversation (albeit usually short lived) vs. a newspaper article that I read and am usually finished with by the end (ie I have no expectation of anything further) whereas a blog post is a starting point.

Re: Mixx: Growing, but is it enough?

Antje Wilsch — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 01:34:12 -0000

350 pounds, not bad.... :)

The reason most people I know don't care about/use Digg is that it's got this control-freak group of "groupies" who control everything. Mixx is kinda new, but not driving much traffic to its font page 'winners' yet. Catch-22 in a way.

Re: Google brings the hurt to comScore

Antje Wilsch — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 15:23:46 -0000

wait a minute.... if I use google analytics in my site, this stupid pop up i keep getting every time I log in now asking me if i want to share my data (to which I always vehemently click "no no no") they are going to just share my data with anyone who wants it?

I'm noticing issues with google analytics NOT matching my own database data (google analytics has worse numbers). So they're going to share this crap data with others??

Re: Google brings the hurt to comScore

Antje Wilsch — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 17:24:45 -0000

that SUCKS. Am I the only one who doesn't want accurate site stats flashed to the world? I wonder if people will leave google Analytics now b/c of that, so no one can be sure if the google Ad Planner is accurate or not (creating the same problem as currently exists). I realize mostly smaller companies will be more worried about this vs. the facebooks of the world, but it still feels really violative (is that a word?) since they own such a large portion of the REAL analytics market.... I don't know. I just feel this should be a private communciation between a site and its advertisers.

Re: Google brings the hurt to comScore

Antje Wilsch — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 17:34:39 -0000

Ok TechCrunch says: 'underlying data—”aggregated Google search data, opt-in anonymous Google Analytics data, opt-in external consumer panel data, and other third-party market research.” If that sounds kind of vague it is because it is. '

I was afraid they were going to make this mandatory... good

Re: Don’t worry, media: Old people love you

Antje Wilsch — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 21:57:14 -0000

lol yeah, crap, I'm getting closer to 50 than I am to 21!!!!

Re: Umair: It’s user-generated “context”

Antje Wilsch — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 03:48:29 -0000

I don't think anyone mistakes comments or wall postings or my social network itself as content. But I think blogs, story & literary sites, citizen journalism sites, and sites like Yelp and even a few forums are content. They are not context. Yelp maybe is straddling the middle but I don't think all user generated stuff is "contextual" (blogs being the best example) unless we assume that any blogger is now the content provder (not a user) and users are everyone else who reads and comments on the blog.

Re: New Yorker cover sparks blog firestorm

Antje Wilsch — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 04:03:11 -0000

I like this comment someone left on Gawker about it :
Lalina: But is it funny? Does it work? My feeling is, if you have to explain the joke, it's not a good joke.

Re: Podtech failure: Scoble’s lessons

Antje Wilsch — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 22:14:54 -0000

1. Make sure people are judged by the revenues they bring in. Those that bring in revenues should get to run the place. People who don’t bring in revenues should get fewer and fewer responsibilities, not more and more.

assuming their job is to bring revenue.... :)

I'm curious what measurables he means here: 1. if your engineering team can’t give a media team good measurements, the entire company is in trouble (metrics?)

Re: A tribute to Randy Pausch

Antje Wilsch — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 14:27:49 -0000

I LOVE that he did this (yes repeating my comments on left on Allen's site about it) but this guy brought forward a discussion that so many of us in the western world don't talk about. Our lives, and our inevitable deaths.

That he reached beyond his own pain, his own life jolt, and shared his talks and life story with so many is simply a gift that takes a huge soul to give back to the world. Since I moved into my (current) company and have moved out of silicon valley, I have to admit that my life is so much richer now. I talk with people who are have led amazing lives, do inspiring things, and many of them get or take no credit for it - they do it because they care.

In a world where we worship at the alter of an awkward 23 year old for his skill and luck, getting outside my myopic world is simply the best thing that ever happened to me.

Silicon Valley is a place for dreams. I would even go so boldly as to say that if the USA didn't have the leads in so much in technology and innovation, much of it fueled the cradle of SV, then it would be hurting a lot more than it is today. But SV can also suck you dry, because it's not about who's the best and what's the best solution but too much about cronyism and nepotism.

That /rant/ being ended, i can't thank Randy Pausch enough for what he left us. And you all should do the same - take your life down for you family and loved ones.

Re: Was Hasbro right to kill Scrabulous?

Antje Wilsch — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 14:06:57 -0000

They copied the entire game outright. They even named it practically the same. Should they just be able to do that and get rich off of it? Why would anyone want to create anything if anyone can come along, copy the idea, and make tons of money off of it? I'm with Hasbro on this one. Maybe their methods were short sighted but they have every right to protect their IP.

Re: Delicious 2.0: Who bookmarks any more?

Antje Wilsch — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 12:56:37 -0000

There's a compliment Mathew, not only a reader for over a year, but one that remembers what you wrote about. Nice :)

Re: Hitler sure made some funny videos

Antje Wilsch — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 17:08:45 -0000

even funnier if you can understand what he's really saying :)

Re: Hitler sure made some funny videos

Antje Wilsch — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 21:01:11 -0000

I"m German, I hate Hitler like you can't believe, yet I still think it's funny. Tasteless, yes, but making fun of twitter is the point.

Re: No one actually “follows” 2,000 people

Antje Wilsch — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 13:41:52 -0000

me three

(normal) People don't know how to get followers or how to respond to people they're following but who aren't following them. To them it's just useless noise to most people except the same people over and over who like to hear themselves talk.

Re: No one actually “follows” 2,000 people

Antje Wilsch — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 16:12:00 -0000

PS those new up and down "voting" things sit on top the names on the page here and I had no idea what they meant......

Re: Mac vs. Windows: Does it even matter?

Antje Wilsch — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:12:38 -0000

You must be a developer :) I can't even remember which VMware environment I'm in half the time.

OS is not important to most end users except for how the browser behaves. I still prefer aethetically the way that most sites look in IE7 over Opera, Safari and FF (even FF3 - not that impressed), but FF is more stable so I switch between them constantly, and they behave differently depending on which system I'm on.

Re: Chrome may be great, but will it matter?

Antje Wilsch — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 15:03:51 -0000

I think it will take more from FF than anything (doesn't Google support Mozilla anyway? How's that going to play?)

The IE6 users are not going to move unless forced. There is a huge market out there with a mentality of "don't touch my system, don't upgrade, don't do anything - it works and I want it left as is..." Huge.

PS some of our users still use netscape....

Re: Google’s Chrome is great, but…

Antje Wilsch — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 13:21:15 -0000

I actually use IE7 a lot because I'm an aesthetic junkie and sites simply look nicer on IE7. However, it crashes a lot and thus I usually have FF open at the same time.

Two things on FF though that are a godsend: firebug and adblocker. Will never give up FF for those 2 reasons alone.

Re: Yammer: This thing is a prize winner?

Antje Wilsch — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 14:36:01 -0000

It might help to explain that David Sacks is CEO of Geni, which is a sponsor of TC.

Re: We may die, but the Web lives on

Antje Wilsch — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 15:27:54 -0000

Well i'm going to jump in here and make a plea (plug). Our site is exactly for this reason - to leave your footprint behind. I think it's important for your girls that you save those memorials you created so they can learn about their grandparents and tell their kids. Those sites get lost when someone stops paying the hosting fee, or the blog goes out of buiness or "retires" old, inactive blogs etc. Putting stories and keeping pictures and videos stored online is not a be-all-end-all but it's another insurance policy these precious things are lost.
Plus - there is a lot of stuff about you (anyone) out there already, so why not control the story that your childrens' children will be reading years from now.... I am a big big advocate of doing this. I do genealogy and it's so cool when I find some document in the archives like a draft card or an old photo, but who are these people? What did they think? What did they do? Those are, to me, more valuable than riches.

Re: We may die, but the Web lives on

Antje Wilsch — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 21:39:23 -0000

I saw that - that was a good one. It's one of the problems we're trying to provide a solution for. There was a story on MSN not too long ago about a gentleman whose father passed away suddenly; he had an online business, and the son was trying to get into his computer to access all his files to fulfill orders, get the financials in order etc. He spent six months calling various service providers to explain the situation and try to unlock passwords and let those customers know, answer emails, etc -- it was a nightmare, and this will happen more as everyone moves online.

Re: CBS: Caught between a rock and… another rock

Antje Wilsch — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 12:09:55 -0000

since it's letterman, everyone knows who he is and where he belongs. Someone uknown or a new show they'd probabaly want their branding all over it. Probably the most press letterman has had in a while :)

Re: Steve Jobs and the licence plate mystery

Antje Wilsch — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 15:10:45 -0000

Oh no you didn't post that about Gasse...... love the French :)

Re: Is online advertising heading for a cliff?

Antje Wilsch — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 14:15:10 -0000

I hope all search doesn't just stay in PPC and crappy banners. I'd like to see a lot more targeted search, and better options for ads etc.

I think there a lot of opportunity out there yet to be discovered. Haven't seen anything too new or exciting in a few years now. One ad sequence I saw was pretty brilliant, for that serial killer-does-good tv show but other than that -all ads are still pretty damned boring.

Re: Blogs are so over, Wired magazine says

Antje Wilsch — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 12:56:02 -0000

Mathew, sarcastic?? Never......

Re: Goodnight, Opus — sweet dreams

Antje Wilsch — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 01:39:59 -0000

We're on a same wavelength today MI..... that panel made me tear up, I'm not afraid to admit it :)

Re: Can Oprah overcome the Kindle’s looks?

Antje Wilsch — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 12:16:34 -0000

It IS butt ugly. Just saw one on a plane for the first time up close. It reminds me of this weird little gadget my dad had that was supposed to teach me multiplication (he got it from the gov't). And that was in the late 70's.

copulating with their iphone/ipods? um, yuck, it's too early in the morning for that image to be floating in my head all day

Re: Personal note: A job change for yours truly

Antje Wilsch — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 00:29:35 -0000

Congrats & good luck. You already do a good job of being inclusive, and trust me, this goes a long way building good will, which eventually turns into loyalty. Building community takes work and sometimes your'e the only one putting in effort it seems, and sometimes the only glue keeping it all together. But eventually the ties bind....

PS that image was on a "team building" seminar workshop (I was forced to) attend... lol

Re: Flash flood: Mom bloggers and Motrin

Antje Wilsch — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:17:43 -0000

Update: they took the video down, and have now put an updated apology on the site.

Re: Your life — and death — online

Antje Wilsch — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:05:43 -0000

dag.... that is tragic. It's so easy when you get in a hole to think you'll never see the sun again. People feeling connected 24/7 but lonelier too, and the holiday season sometimes exacerbates it :(

Re: Yes, Twitter is a source of journalism

Antje Wilsch — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 13:12:05 -0000

So Twitter is like the water cooler of the world!

Re: MSFT and Yahoo: Nom nom nom

Antje Wilsch — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 13:20:36 -0000

I make my living off of MSFT products and use them extensively (.NET development). I am not afraid to be the first to criticize nor the first to praise even if it's not cool among my techie friends to defend them.

Microsoft needs to get it together. It needs to understand what it wants to be. It's like it's having a midlife crisis trying ot figure out what's next or "is this my life?" I think it needs some new meat gunning the ship, one who gets the web and where things are moving. They keep changing their name, putting out shoddy products that push even loyal users slowly away, and are all over the map. They have divisions that overlap work and don't even talk to each other. Way too many meetings, way too little QA, way too little user acceptance. Just b/c they put out some funny commericals on Vista doesn't mean that Vista doesn't give me all sorts of headaches.

Capturing yahoo is either going to make both of them irrelevant eventually by mucking it up, or if they could figure out how to use the best from both, get a consistent name branding thing going on, fix the flaws, then they can win.

Re: Inside Google’s Canadian HQ

Antje Wilsch — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 02:48:01 -0000

looks like the child's section of IKEA

Re: Mike Arrington stars in The Ugly American

Antje Wilsch — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 18:40:09 -0000

What I notice:
1) no women on the panel
2) alcohol on the table

:)

Re: Is Craigslist the victim of a witch-hunt?

Antje Wilsch — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 17:02:51 -0000

The community is kind of nazi-like about postings, so i'm surprised that, if #'s are true, so many escort ads fronting as prostitution actually make it through?

Re: Cluetrain: Human speech, human concerns

Antje Wilsch — Fri, 08 May 2009 15:17:01 -0000

Print has so many limitations (delivery, size/length, page layout), so many things that are not constricted by web, I'm surprised that more aren't embracing in their cost cutting efforts. A local paper by us just started publishing a "morning edition" that they publish just prior to actual delivery to make sure they get the latest news. Better step, but usually the news is still a day behind and I've already read it online.

What I don't get online though are the big, in depth, investigative pieces. The ones that take months to research and write and are vitally important to the news cycle.

Re: The downfall of female role models

Antje Wilsch — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 00:58:45 -0000

I agree with you Shelley except that also as Charles B said - you're thrust into the limelight, you should take your obligation seriously while enjoying the perks (power?) that goes along for the ride.

Maybe it's because we're indoctrinated to finding women as being nuturing and supportive (leaving out the b*tchy cat fighting) that it's more shocking to find women doing "evil" things vs. men doing such things; men who are often viewed as more cut-throat.

But I'll tell you, when I see men interact I see two things happen on a very regular basis - they ask each other what they do (and if they even superficially like each other) they ask how they can help each other.

Women too often are not helpful towards other women. There is more jealousy and guarded behavior or searching for ulterior motives. I think if women could understand this and could view fewer things as competition more women could open more doors for other women. I don't necessarily mean creating an "old girls' network" but rather enjoying competition for what it's worth (inducing better, sharper behavior) and help each other out. I see far too little of this.

Re: louisgray.com: Matthew's Story: From CenterNetworks Future to Fired In A Month

Antje Wilsch — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 14:04:02 -0000

you guys are cracking me up. I've got another contender. He's white, kind of on the small side too (so glad you don't disciminate) and his name's Harry (well it's really Hairy but we try to make him feel he's among peers). His only requirements: water bowl, the mailman coming once in a while for a mental diversion, and plenty of chewies. He's cheap!!!

Re: louisgray.com: Statistics Are Your Friend, Even When They're Bad

Antje Wilsch — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 19:26:11 -0000

Interesting. Did you see the study that Mint.com did with their re-design? They've increased their capture (conversion) rates by a lot with their home page redesign too.

I've noticed that often referral traffic has a high bounce rate, but often have users who look quickly, bookmark it and return (directly) later....

Re: 120+ Agency & Brand Christmas Cards

Antje Wilsch — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 15:29:09 -0000

some of those are downright hideous!

Re: Redheads & Pratfalls

Antje Wilsch — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 21:49:57 -0000

or the worst of the worst on today's shows... Grey's Anatomy

Those actors have to read their lines and then think "Do I REALLY have to talk like that? who talks like that?"

Good article Anna!

Re: About | The Beta News

Antje Wilsch — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 12:17:28 -0000

hi Dennis, would like to chat with you about how to break into the Danish market for Story of My Life? Can you email me? Thanks, Antje

Re: 2008/11/18/consequences-of-social-media/

Antje Wilsch — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 13:45:24 -0000

All the more reason you should use StoryOfMyLife.com to leave your REAL story ...... :)

Re: Breaking: Most Web Companies FAIL

Antje Wilsch — Sat, 16 May 2009 17:47:33 -0000

JuMpInG uP aNd DoWn - we're still here! :)
Actually haven't heard of a lot of those companies but would love to have someone try to aggregate some data into a report. Might even pay for that data.....

Re: HOW TO: Take Control of Your Google Search Results

Antje Wilsch — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 22:06:17 -0000

This is exactly one of the biggest reasons we exist. Our site is about preserving your legacy for the future generations, so that you can help control what your ancestors read about you, rather than leaving it up to others. Our site is very well liked by Google so start telling your stories :) www.storyofmylife.com

Re: HOW TO: Take Control of Your Google Search Results

Antje Wilsch — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 22:07:46 -0000

PS have you checked Mashable comment's FB connect? Shows me logged in with my name and pic, but when i go to post, asks me to login again, and when I try, doesn't let me ... got a bug

Re: StoryofMyLife.com - Write Down Your Life's Story | Visit sto

Antje Wilsch — Thu, 21 May 2009 22:07:34 -0000

why are my comments erased?

Re: My Festivus Grievances

Antje Wilsch — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 12:00:16 -0000

My gripe is that NYC keeps stealing all our cool women tech peeps (from silicon valley) like Natali! :)

Re: Review- Gourmet Food Online For Reasonable Prices

Antje Wilsch — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 13:42:43 -0000

Seems a little expensive though..... (even if "award winning chefs"). Any diet-friendly menus?

Re: Microsoft tells MVPs “we’re in it to win” — Really?

Antje Wilsch — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 12:42:15 -0000

It's interesting how Oracle has gone pretty quiet lately. It seems the more posturing the "leaders" rant and rave about the more desperate they seem. No one wants talk, they want OSs that are fast and don't crash. They want cross-app functionality (still can't believe the issues I have with Outlook & Word). Like my dad says, using Windows '95 - "Don't Touch my stuff! It works and every time I get an update or something it stops working and I can never figure out how to fix it so don't touch it!"

Re: Microsoft tells MVPs “we’re in it to win” — Really?

Antje Wilsch — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 16:19:00 -0000

PS their MVP process is stupid. I know people who should most definitely not be representing MSFT as MVPs and others who should (and have been nominated and not chosen).

Re: Why Valleywag is only right 17.3% of the time and why we like it

Antje Wilsch — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 15:47:21 -0000

Scoble enters TechCrunch deadpool.” Etc. Etc.

You made me snort my cheerios :)

Re: I’ve redesigned

Antje Wilsch — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 21:35:23 -0000

hi Robert, we emailed you last week about the photo walking group - can you point us in the direction to sign up for that? thx

Re: Blogging for Dollars

Antje Wilsch — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 07:47:02 -0000

I think part of it is also how often they do it. There is a judicious call between people who post to "spam" (sell) and throw in some tidbits in a futile attempt to not sound like a marketing department, and someone like them (above) who give a LOT of content and fully disclose what they're doing.

The advertisers need to be aware of the audience too. One of the biggest problem with bloggers is that the audience make-up is laregly conjecture.

Re: Painting A Picture

Antje Wilsch — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 16:56:54 -0000

good story :) sometimes the pictures need explaining, sometimes the story needs a picture to put it all together

happy storytelling!