Fine Print

A regular posting from some of my feeds about who is saying what out there …

“The #080808 campaign allows microbloggers to participate in a worldwide timeline of online Twitter chatter about August 8, 2008, the start of the Beijing Olympics games.”
http://www.tag080808.com/

“Hate to tell you, but Web 1.0 was social too.”
http://gregverdino.typepad.com/greg_verdinos_blog/2008/08/hate-to-tell-yo.html

“Of course, ‘web version’ hints at the problem, because most editorial workflows are still built around print publishing and so are blind to all of the web value being figuratively left on the cutting room floor or literally tossed in the trash.”
http://publishing2.com/2008/08/07/how-newsrooms-throw-away-value-by-not-linking-to-sources-on-the-web/

“You are killing the paper. You might as well just burn the place down. You’re setting a match to it. This is insane. Even the slowest, most curmudgeonly, most backward in your dying, suffering industry would not be this stupid anymore. They know that the internet is the present and the future and the paper is the past. Protecting the past is no strategy for the future. It is suicide. It is murder. You should be ashamed of yourselves.”
http://www.buzzmachine.com/2008/08/07/a-stake-through-the-heart-of-the-has-been-inquirer/

“The thing about social media isn’t about the cool enhancements that Flash allows, or the greater stability and scalability of PHP over Ruby on Rails. The thing about social is that it is … social.”
http://redcouch.typepad.com/weblog/2008/08/why-im-the-late.html

“Saying ‘I don’t know’ or ‘I’ll have to check’ or words to that effect is critically important when it comes to being able to build trust, understanding, etc, between the VC and company.  I respect, admire, and appreciate ‘I don’t know’ and ‘I’ll check’ as signs of maturity and professionalism.”
http://ricksegal.typepad.com/pmv/2008/08/ruh-oh—time-for-a-butt-whoppin-mine.html

~ John Carson, Senior Digital Media Specialist, GCI Canada