I’ve had at least a few people pitch me their RSS readers in the last few weeks telling me how their method of news consumption is so far superior to the Google Reader method. If I thought that GReader sucked, I wouldn’t be upset that it was gone. I’d have migrated away years ago – it was certainly easy enough to do. Don’t pitch me your RSS reader or newsreader by telling me you’re better than GReader....

Justin Kownacki put together a thought provoking piece, and addresses what is, to me, the most interesting aspect of not just writing, but anything that involves audience building (which for me, includes building blogs and video vehicles like like and on demand programming). He quotes George Saunders (emphasis, Justin’s): "If there are 10 readers out there, let’s assume I’m never going to reach two of them. They’ll never be...

I’ll make this quick, because I’ve spent most of the evening searching my old coverage of Facebook from 2007 in an unsuccessful bid to back up with written word what I remember predicting repeatedly back then – that Facebook would (or should) launch an external ad network. I distinctly remember feeling a bit embarrassed when I had to publish this post at Mashable, that detailed precisely what Project Beacon was (and...

Richard McManus and Robert Scoble have been poking around at the edges of this most recent Facebook privacy scandal. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, here’s the whole thing in a sentence: If you used Facebook in 2010 or earlier, you may have used your profile wall as a way to message your friends. I didn’t, and no one I know except Robert Scoble did, but that’s what’s being said, apparently. Richard...

This is a post about Big Data, and our inevitable near future. [View the story "Is Big Data Scary for Most People?" on Storify] Is Big Data Scary for Most People? This is a post about Big Data, and our inevitable near future. Storified by Mark ‘Rizzn’ Hopkins · Tue, Aug 14 2012 16:54:20 I’ve been covering the Big Data movement since before we called it that over at SiliconANGLE. It’s interesting to see the...

It’s strange to see what is normally a spontaneous event happen with such predictable regularity as the May Day riots in Kreuzberg, Germany.  Fabrizio Bensch, a blogger/photojournalist for Reuters, talks a bit about how the coverage of the event has evolved since the late 80′s, when he started covering the occurrence. Share undefined Reuters Fri, May 04 2012 15:46:22 “Since 1987, May Day...