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Nokia Debuts Conversations with the Blogosphere

21. April 2008

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Nokia Conversations goes live April 21st, 2008, led by Nokia’s social media expert, Charlie Schick. As a member of the newly minted Social Media Communications group inside Nokia, Charlie has built what he refers to as a “mud hut,” and which he plans to transform into a blogosphere palace. Mark Squires describes the [...]

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Blognation: The Blogger’s Prelude and Tale

5. December 2007

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Canterbury Tales Woodcut 148 To telle yow al the condicioun, Of ech of hem, so as it semed me, And whiche they weren, and of what degree, And eek in what array that they were inne, And at a knyght than wol I first bigynne. [...]

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Andrew Keen, Attention and Moment of Zen

22. August 2007

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Andrew Keen writes Cult of the Amateur, $15. Andrew Keen speaks at Supernova, $2,000. Andrew Keen reveals his inner amateur, priceless. So now that he’s joined The Cult…wonder what his next book will be called? IRONY ALERT: Didn’t Keen talk specifically about people on the Internet “stealing” from Steven Colbert? He forgot to mention that he was [...]

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Return of Oliver Starr

14. August 2007

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Oliver Starr, who originated MobileCrunch and The Mobile Weblog before it, has returned to the blogosphere today. Oliver has joined forces with former TechCrunch UK editor and current Blognation CEO, Sam Sethi both with highly public departures from Mike Arrington’s company. Blognation’s mission is - wait for it - reporting on startups. Blognation [...]

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Google Adsense Nonsense Final Chapter?

17. July 2007

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The bad check story seems to have struck a chord with lots of people. I’ve enjoyed reading the various posts and comments left here and elsewhere. Thank you to everyone who added to the conversation. First, the story was picked up by Valleywag and the avalanche began from there. The [...]

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Adsense Nonsense - by the numbers

12. July 2007

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Two days have passed since I tried to cash my Google Adsense check. Two days ago, I tried to call someone, anyone at Google to find out what to do. I’ve replied to the email address from which Brian the Adsense payments operations guy wrote to me. Who knows where that thing goes as [...]

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Adsense Nonsense 2.0 - Google writes a bad check

11. July 2007

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If I tried, I couldn’t make up a story like this. First, there was the problem, then, there was the solution, and now comes the comedy. I hope you’re wearing your laughing pants. Catching everyone up to date quickly: Google Adsense technical gitch screwed up my address change for a month The check is already six weeks [...]

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Adsense Nonsense or Dell Hell 2.0

4. July 2007

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I’ve been interacting with Adsense customer service for a week now, and I empathize with Jeff Jarvis’ Dell Hell saga and the resulting frustration that he must have felt. I know I’m frustrated. After a full week of email exchanges (there is no other method provided to contact Adsense), I’m turning to my [...]

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