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Sunday, July 29, 2007

Blogging Here Again

So, it’s been a while. But the itch is there again. No promises on how long this will last! But I’m going to blog here again about things I see across the web, and maybe, even, outside of the internets. We’ll see!

Posted by Hadley Stern on 07/29 at 08:44 AM
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Saturday, March 18, 2006

The Great Comment Count

Jason Kottke has a piece about stories that get record numbers of comments. In my experience writing and running Apple Matters there is a great thrill in seeing stories take off with a ton of comments. Indeed, the thrill is so good I sometimes found myself thinking about it while writing. I could also tell that some of the other writers on Apple Matters were doing the same thing. This is dangerous. Trying to write for commenters leads to stories that aren’t genuine.

So I decided to set a policy for the site and make it clear to everything. As a publisher I would much rather have a well-written piece on Apple Matters that doesn’t get a lot (or any) comments than a story that is just inflammatory.

That said, the site is as much about the readers (and commenters) as much as it is about the writers. Building community is important, and if stories aren’t getting any comments (with the occasional exception) I feel like we aren’t engaging our reader base.

Not sure though, care to comment!

Posted by Hadley Stern on 03/18 at 07:30 AM
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Friday, March 10, 2006

What is your EQ?

A great piece on Guy Kawasaki’s site about entrepreneurial quotient. I got most of them right. Give it a spin! It would be great to see a follow-up quiz that focussed on questions for the lone entrepreneur who is starting out at a smaller level.

Posted by Hadley Stern on 03/10 at 09:24 AM
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Friday, March 03, 2006

Newsvine Launches

I had a peek at this before it launched and was very intrigued. Newsvine is up and running. What is interesting about Newsvine is that they have taken the model that Digg and Delicious are well known for, community-based tagging of information, and taken it to the next level. You can participate in Newsvine by just tagging, but you can also create your own Newsvine page where your links will appear, and, you can also use it as your own blog. What is interesting is that Newsvine is planning on sharing any ad revenue from your Newsvine page (90 percent, which is a nice cut!) with you.

This model of allowing people to not only tag content, but create unique pages out of it and add their own content could either be the next evolution in tagging, or simply just too much. At the very list the model of taking Digg to the next level and not only showing stories based on how many vote they get, but exposing the first few sentence of the stories content is a step in the right direction.

Posted by Hadley Stern on 03/03 at 11:49 AM
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Saturday, February 25, 2006

The Power of Digg

Recently Apple Matters got digged, slashdotted and cneted (is that the word?). What is interesting is that the so-called slashdot affect is no longer what it once was. Don’t get me wrong, I love being slashdotted! But Digg has really taken off, and getting on page 1 of Digg can be greater than getting slashdotted. In fact in January Apple Matters reached Digg Page 1 three times, and each time the server came down. This finally prompted me to do something I should have done a long time ago, which is move to a dedicated server.

Servers aside what I think the tremendous growth of Digg shows is the power of community. Slashdot and it’s ilk (including Apple Matters) are like the Web 1.0 version of community. Digg allows people to submit stories and comments, like Slashdot, but it puts the community front and center. Indeed all Digg is is a platform for community. This makes me think of the next evolution of Apple Matters. Right now we have a great ever-growing community but should I be thinking of taking a Digg like model and becoming more of a platform the Apple community.

Posted by Hadley Stern on 02/25 at 08:18 PM
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