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10 months ago
in Looking up (and down) at the blogosphere’s ivory tower on Online Media Cultist
You are right! Just imagine how this looks from other parts of the world. Scoble, Arrington and co talk like their blog space connects with everything. In reality, they connect with other tech bloggers only interested in new news focused around english-language, U.S. interests. A tiny slice of the marketing pie.
A few examples - Every time they talk about T-mobile, they forget to mention that they're talking about T-Mobile USA and not T-Mobile (the German company). Every time they twitter about Obama being internet savvy, they forget that most people don't actually give a shit! Every time they blog about Twitter being a marketing platform, they forget that only english-speaking tech bloggers are listening.
Their blogging worlds have become so blinkered that they forget that 99% of the worlds population probably hasn't even heard of anyone in the top-100, let alone this Brian guy.
Thanks for the opportunity to let off some steam!
Steve - proffesional tech journalist.
A few examples - Every time they talk about T-mobile, they forget to mention that they're talking about T-Mobile USA and not T-Mobile (the German company). Every time they twitter about Obama being internet savvy, they forget that most people don't actually give a shit! Every time they blog about Twitter being a marketing platform, they forget that only english-speaking tech bloggers are listening.
Their blogging worlds have become so blinkered that they forget that 99% of the worlds population probably hasn't even heard of anyone in the top-100, let alone this Brian guy.
Thanks for the opportunity to let off some steam!
Steve - proffesional tech journalist.
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You bring up an interesting point too about twitter: Twitter certainly is a great marketing platform, and it's also wildly popular in places like Japan. Are the Japanese using it for marketing, or more simply for personal communication... or in other ways?