DISQUS

A lot of companies are asking us to trust them with our data and there's a frightening number of cases of them taking access to our data away without warning or recourse. Facebook seems to be the most notorious, which is too bad considering how simplistic it would be to share more data with my contacts there. I don't trust that they won't yank my account away from me at any moment, so I engage there less.

Earlier this week, Twitter yanked accounts away from a few people without warning, LinkedIn has had some problems this way and now Google. That's a real shame, since I was intended to move my iCal info over to Google Calendar to have it accessible anywhere.

Where can I reliably publish my data so I can trust it will be there next time I need it?

I also bookmark a lot and rarely go back, but I use Delicious as my own search archive. I know if I found something interesting, I go back to my Delicious account and look. I also only bookmark if a site doesn't have an RSS feed. If a site has an RSS feed and goes into my reader, I'm very likely to be back again multiple times.

I agree with a lot of the comments... there are very different types of risks. Successful entrepreneurs think of risks like a scientists comes to a hypothesis. A hypothesis isn't just a guess, it's an educated guess and that's a big difference.

Commercial email is spam if there's no existing business relationship between the two parties. As you said, you emailed people who were in your LinkedIn circle and provided an opt-out, so... it's not spam. If it were, I wouldn't have subscribed, but I did. :)

I like the option of video replies. If we were only given the option to do video and NOT text, that would drastically reduce the amount of conversation a blog would get. Providing video replies as one option is nice.

I don't buy the argument that it disrupts conversation flow. I took a look at the long thread at A VC and it was easy to scan and play video clips if I chose to. I didn' t have to play them at all if I didn't want to and still could follow the conversation easily.

I also don't buy the argument that video = rambling. Text does not mean the reply will be a better value. Either can provide value to the conversation or be completely useless.

My first steps would have been around 1999/2000 when I was encouraging clients to allow their guests (in tourism based businesses) to upload photos from vacations spent at their resorts directly to the resort's web site. That was quite early to suggest such a thing and every resort I helped get that started still does it today.

I started my 1st blog in 2003. I LOVED the immediate, non-formal method of communication it allowed and started encouraging clients to blog about their own organizations as well.

My biggest social media project has been launching showmeyours.tv, which is MuchMusic's social media site.

To this day, I integrate some type of social media (whether it be blog comments, photos or videos) into all of the shows I work on.

I love the video. Boombiatta!

Thanks for the congrats Matthew! But, the real pats on the back belong to Tessa Sproule. It was her idea and she waded through all the approvals, I simply helped and was happy to be involved with such a great project.

For those who are engaging in it, the experiment has 2 main goals:

#1 get new viewers for the actual show on broadcast TV
#2 build a business case to prove we need a long term business model for distributing content digitally