• Seth’s Blog: Do you have to be anti-change to be pro-business?
  Change is good! “Business as usual is almost always lousy marketing, because there isn’t a lot of room for growth. The opportunities kick in when an external force requires a brand new story, when consumers are choosing to pay attention because they’ve go
  (tags: Business process marketing)

• Dandelife.com : A Social Biography Network.
  Dandelife, the social biography network,
  (tags: socialsoftware aggregator history Visualization)
• Project Apollo: Old Media is Watching | Marshall Clark
  “Project Apollo is a cross-platform analytics program developed by Proctor & Gamble with Arbitron (radio) and Nielsen (TV) to track all aspects of people’s advertising consumption and purchasing behavior. The project is basically a grab by Old Media to tr
  (tags: Advertising media analysis statistics UGC Social_Networking)
• Revish to Launch Social Network for Book Lovers
  Revish, a book lovers’ site planned to launch on Friday, has taken a rather academic approach to book reviews. Revish allows you to search books from Amazon’s database, and add them to any of your lists, such as “favorites,” “watch,” or “rea
  (tags: socialnetworking socialsoftware Books culture)

• Internet Video Hyperaggregation
  “lightweight web services that empower users to select videos from the hundreds of video sharing web services and point to them for distribution. Om Malik coined the term ‘hyperaggregators’ to describe this approach on the web in February’s Business 2.0″
  (tags: video aggregator syndication RSS tagging socialsoftware)

• AbbyMe
  “With AbbyMe you can: Broadcast phone messages to many friends at once. Schedule reminder and birthday calls in advance”
  (tags: Phone Service VOIP)

• Alanis Morissette Causes a Stir with “My Humps” Parody - ARTISTdirect News
  “News outlets and music blogs have been abuzz this week with reactions to Alanis Morissette’s hilarious video spoof of the Black Eyed Peas’ “My Humps,” which she posted to YouTube as an April Fool’s Day joke.’
  (tags: Music video youtube Google media socialsoftware Humor)

• Town Hall Meetings 2.0
  D Lasica asked US presidential candidate Joe Biden a question via a YouTube video. That’s not news, but what is news is that Biden responded with his own vid. The use of technology by the campaigns - almost all of them - has been impressive. It gives new
  (tags: media government youtube Google video web2.0)
• Sifry’s Alerts: The State of the Live Web, April 2007
  “With this report, we expand on this tradition by introducing information and analysis relating to the broader range of social media on the Web”
  (tags: blogging socialsoftware technorati trends Web analysis statistics)
• Online Ads Tested
  Duh! “The study at MarketingExperiments.com showed that ads which are aggressive, are not effective. Advertisements that blended in and looked like a site content performed significantly better than ads that stood out from the rest of the page.”
  (tags: Advertising Business statistics online)
• Podcasting News » Microsoft Zune Will Get DRM-Free Music Someday
  “Microsoft’s Zune system will eventually get DRM-free music, according to Zune marketing director Jason Reindorp, but the company has no time frame for offering songs without copy-protection.”
  (tags: Music DRM Microsoft)

• The UNOFFICIAL Guide to PodCamp NYC
  “Here’s the unofficial guide to PodCamp NYC! It’s a 35 page guide including some maps, directions, schedule, events, restaurants, parking, phone numbers, and stuff that the Student Loan Network is doing at PodCamp NYC.”
  (tags: Podcasting PodCamp directory conference)

• John Battelle’s Searchblog: Google TV Trial Details
  “Advances in set-top-box technologies make it possible to report aggregate statistics on how many times an ad was viewed and whether it was watched through to the end. As part of this trial, we will be working with partners to use aggregate, anonymized se
  (tags: Google TV Advertising IPTV Search Business)

Ok. I’ll let the secret out… I’m a Podcaster. Alright, maybe it’s not really a secret that I’ve been one of the co-hosts of the weekly On Digital Media Podcast for a few months (especially if you’re a listener), but given the fact that I’ve neglected to mention it on my blog until tonight, you might think otherwise.

“On Digital Media is a podcast about the technology, creation, distribution, consumption and monetization of digital media and its effects on traditional media and marketing.”

That’s John’s way of saying it’s our excuse to talk shop and drink wine.

On Digital Media (aka ODM) is John Federico, Chia-Lin Simmons, Ken Gellman and me, Steve Hatch.

The other great news about ODM is that we will be appearing at Podcamp NYC on April 6th and 7th at The New Yorker Hotel.

It should be a lot of fun. So if you’re in the NYC area next weekend, come see us. If John has his way we’ll be the group with the goofy black shirts ;-)

Oh yeah, this is not an April Fools Joke! I’m actually posting and not lazy blogging.