Technorati CEO Interview: State of the Blogosphere

This article originally appeared on iMediaConnection. Technorati released its 9th State of the Blogosphere this week which featured a first-ever survey of Technorati’s registered users, and includes a new wave of information each day this week. iMediaConnection sits...

Navigating the blogosphere’s biggest ad networks

This article originally appeared on iMediaConnection. If there’s one buzzword that has spread like wildfire through the entire media business in the last five years, it is blogs. Universal McCann’s global “Power to the People” Social Media Tracker...

The Secret of Dora The Explorer’s Success (3 seconds)

This week I am attending the Association of Hispanic Advertising Agencies “Look Who’s Leading” conference in Los Angeles.  Today I got to hear Brown Johnson speak about the process of developing and launching the character English and Spanish...

Peter Horan on email’s role in the future of advertising

This article first appeared on iMediaConnection. In May, Peter Horan took the helm as the new CEO of Goodmail Systems. An industry veteran with decades of leadership experience, Horan joined the company following a 16-month stint as CEO of IAC Media and Advertising,...

John Battelle on how to beat Google

This article originally appeared on iMediaConnection. John Battelle, CEO of Federated Media and author of “The Search,” chats with iMedia about Google, privacy issues and the future of digital. Since publishing his groundbreaking book “The...

New Business Models as Described by Peter Horan

A couple of weeks back at the IAB Mexico annual conference, I had the chance to hear Peter Horan, CEO of Goodmail Systems, speak about new business models in our era of “me media” as opposed to mass media. Today, consumers are their own editors and...

Free Culture Versus Big Media

Recently, I finished reading Lawrence Lessig’s book Free Culture and recommend it for anyone interested in preserving America’s spirit of innovation and creativity. Mr. Lessig is was a Law professor at Stanford University and CEO of Creative Commons, a...

A cell phone with a 212 area code?

This article from the Wall Street Journal last week – The Landline That Refused to Leave – reminded me of a question that many friends and colleagues ask me, “how did you get a cell phone with a 212 area code?” About 4 to 5 years ago when I...