Saturday, October 08, 2005

Flash Drives: Digital backpacks. Flash Drives Make Any Computer 'Personal' (AP). From [Yahoo! News: Technology News] 2:54:20 PM

Dept. of Not News. Blogs Beginning to Merge with the Mainstream. It looks like blogs have hit the big time, joining the media mainstream and beginning to fetch significant amounts of money in the market, writes ClickZ, citing recent deals by AOL and VNU with two... [MarketingVOX - The Voice of Online Marketing] 2:44:16 PM

What's the difference between Branding and Advertising? PodCast Radio Show - Friday, October 7, 2005. In today's PodCast Radio Show (Internet Radio Show - Radio On The Net), Live from the PodCast Marketing Promenade we look deeper into PodCast Marketing, Best PodCasting Practices, Working From Home (Home Business), Internet Marketing and today's Internet Marketing Tip, Branding and Advertising... Grasping The Difference. We enjoy another 97 Second Internet Marketers Marketing Update, 'Geting Your Press Release Attention It Deserves' with Randall Blaum. And, we play another edition of the PodCast radio Show - '5 Questions'. PodCast Radio Show Liner Notes: Feature: Inner Circle - Free Sign Up Application - Details Special Exclusive: FTC - OnGuard Online - Details Stream IT Now! (Instant Player - Click Arrow) .mp3 Instant Download [PodCast Radio Show - PodCast Marketing from the PodCast Promenade] 2:35:31 PM

By way of George Siemens: Gartner Highlights Key Emerging Technologies in 2005 Hype Cycle: "Gartner today released its 2005 Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies, assessing the maturity, impact and adoption speed of 44 technologies and trends over the coming decade." Comment: All the good stuff is here: podcasting, P2P voice, blogs, wikis, RSS, etc. [elearnspace] 1:48:46 PM

Podcasting not doing the job for e-Learning. Thanks to George for validating my opinion about podcasts. They aren't an automatic winner for e-Learning. They are ok for marketing if well done. Podcasting for Knowledge. Poscasting for Knowledge: "Currently podcasting is very much one-way broadcasting, true it lowers the barriers and access to radio sound bites, but there is limited feedback opportunity and almost no interaction. Affordances for annotation, commentary, refutation and analysis are missing or serial at best." [elearnspace] 1:36:23 PM

Catching up. Radio crashed again, and it took me a couple of days to find time to reinstall it (about a 30-minute process). It's done, but now I need to filter several hundred items from my RSS subscriptions. Should be back online before Monday. I love Radio's features, but these once-a-quarter crashes are starting to annoy me. 12:23:57 PM

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