May 23, 2008

“We’re On Vacation”

Hey everyone:
Sorry for the radio silence. We’re both on vacation. Marie is preparing for a big move, and I’ll be doing a little fiction writing. We’ll be back next Thursday with “3Q’s in 3Min.” In the meantime, catch up on all of this season’s interviews on our blip.tv channel page.
Again, thank [...]

May 12, 2008

“3Q’s in 3Min: Joel Postman, Socialized”

A little late–technical difficulties–but still equally full of content, it’s last Thursday’s “3Q’s in 3Min.”
Every Thursday, socialTNT channels the spirit of citizen journalism by putting bloggers, reporters, PR pro’s or anyone with something to say about social media in front of the camera for a short, three minute interview. The videos are meant to encourage [...]

May 10, 2008

“Gina Responds! And: About Yesterday’s Post”

Late yesterday, I received the following email from Gina.  My reply is further down the page:
Hi Chris,
Thanks for your email. My name and further explanation appears on the
wiki, which anyone can leave a comment on. (You just need to log into
PBwiki to do so.)
Also, as I say on the wiki, I welcome story [...]

May 9, 2008

“Unsubscribe Lifehacker: My Email to Gina Trapani”

This morning, the Twitterverse was a flame after Gina Trapani from Lifehacker tweeted a link to a wiki she had created. The wiki, PR Companies Who Spam Bloggers, is a ready-to-paste-into-your-spam-filter list of domains belonging to a good chunk of the tech PR firms out there. Her response, thus far, has been linking [...]

May 8, 2008

“PROGRAMMING NOTE: 3Q’s in 3Min Delayed”

Dear friends of socialTNT:
Last night, my MacBook decided it wanted to be ornery. I tried repairing the OS, but that didn’t work. I ended up having to do a clean install of Leopard. After that didn’t work, my happy MacBook has to spend today at the Apple Genius Bar. Luckily I [...]

May 6, 2008

“Yahoo’s Jerry Yang Doesn’t Understand Blogging”

This weekend, all eyes turned to the blogosphere to watch as the Microhoo deal fell through. Jerry Yang, CEO of Yahoo, also turned to blogging to plead his case. Sadly, the blog became a PR mechanism and one-sided message delivery system. Take a look at a few quotes:
“Our first quarter was probably one [...]

May 1, 2008

“3Q’s in 3Min: Geoff Livingston, The Buzz Bin”

It’s May Day, and people all around the world are marching towards better rights for workers. That’s right, people everywhere are chanting for more time on Facebook and the ability to watch “3Q’s in 3Min” at their desks.
Every Thursday, socialTNT channels the spirit of citizen journalism by putting bloggers, reporters, PR pro’s or anyone [...]

April 28, 2008

“Top Tech Bloggers Define Web 2.0″

Last week, all eyes were on San Francisco. Up north in Sonoma, the NewComm Forum debated how to incorporate social media technologies with communications (Step 1: Add socialTNT to RSS reader). Down in the city, the tech community rallied around the Web 2.0 Expo. But two years after Tim O’Reilly defined the [...]

April 25, 2008

“Web 2.0 Expo, Day 2: Marshall Kirkpatrick, Loic LeMeur, Simeon Margolis”

Web 2.0 Expo marches on, and socialTNT has been there day and night. On Thursday, Day 2 at Moscone Center, socialTNT ran into ReadWriteWeb’s Marshall Kirkpatrick , Loic LeMeur from Seesmic, Simeon Margolis from Utterz, the Seybold Report’s Chuck Lenatti and BlogTalkRadio’s Hilary Leewong.
In today’s short video montage, we talk with folks on the [...]

April 24, 2008

“Web 2.0 Expo, Day 1: Kristen Nicole, Dave McClure, Josh Bernoff”

As part of what seems to be a conference marathon month, socialTNT is at Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco this week. Instead of our usual “3Q’s in 3Min,” we will be doing short video interviews throughout the conference. On Wednesday, Day 1 of the Expo, socialTNT chats with Mashable’s Kristen Nicole, Web [...]