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Tuesday
Dec232008

Retro Scobleizer Will Return to His Roots

AuthorYoung Urban Professional

Interesting discussion overnight between my friends Robert Scoble and MIke Arrington over whether Robert's personal brand diminished because of his love for Friendfeed. How refreshing and retro that this conversation is actually taking place via blogs instead of just on Twitter and Friendfeed, where I am sure it is also happening.

Arrington opines:

 

So Robert has spent 2,555 hours spent reading tens out thousands of mostly inane Twitter and Friendfeed messages, and has written a few thousand messages of his own. Meanwhile, we as a community lost the regularly entertaining and thoughtful posts of a great writer.

Like I said, it’s time for an intervention.

I want Scobleizer back.

 

Scoble responds with pros and cons.

I have to agree with Mike here. I don't follow Scoble as much as I used to. And I am someone who has been reading Robert over five years now. In fact, one of my very first posts was about him. The reason I stopped tracking Santa Scoble was simple - I don't spend a lot of time on Twitter and Friendfeed. RSS is my addiction and I dip into these other streams and then dip out as I have time. I never miss a post in my reader.

In 2009 I think we're going to see a lot of the old guard return to their roots - their blogs. The reason is home field advantage. Why build build Twitter or Friendfeed's equity, when you can invest in the turf you spent so much time on? That said, there are tremendous advantages to doing all of the above.

Louis Gray, Chris Brogan and Jeremiah Owyang all seem to have the right model. They do it all. How, I don't know but they do. I have been blogging more lately too. I missed writing long form. My roof has a leak and I am fixing it. Scoble should do the same and I bet he will.

I wrote a post on this earlier this year: Should You Rent or Buy Social Real Estate. The answer - both. But ask first which helps pay the bills. In my case it's my blog. Twitter and Friendfeed are steroids.

As personal branding becomes a weapon in a down economy, look for blogging to make a return run.

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Tuesday
Dec232008

RetweetRadar Adds Context Around Re-Tweeting

AuthorYoung Urban Professional

Although there's not a lot of space when it comes to retweeting, you can extract insights from what people are saying around them. That was what many of you said in commenting on my post the other day. That's where Retweetradar comes in.

Using the Google App Engine, Retweet Radar looks for trends in all of the re-tweeting over the last hour and pulls them into a nice tag cloud. It auto-refreshes every two minutes. Click on a term and it will take you to the conversation on search.twitter.com. (One of my hopes in 2009 is that Twitter finally integrates this into the main site.)

Nice effort by Ben Hedrington

Retweetradar

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Tuesday
Dec232008

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Sunday
Dec212008

Calculate the Cost of Information Overload to Your Company

AuthorYoung Urban Professional

If the stock market and housing crashes aren't costing you enough, just wait. The Attention Crash may also be eroding your company bit by bit.

According to Basex, a research firm, information overload cost the U.S. economy $900 billion per year in "lowered employee productivity and reduced innovation." Up to 50 percent of our day is spent managing and searching for information.

Now Basex has created a a free, Web-based "information overload calculator" so that anyone can now can estimate the dollar impact of the Attention Crash on their own business. There's also a free report, "Information Overload: We Have Met the Enemy and He Is Us."

Simply visit the web site, identify your industry and the percentage of your employees who are highly skilled, skilled, single skilled or unskilled and it will give you a number. I am not sure how they are doing this though without asking for revenues. Still, it's a fun - yet scary - tool.

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Sunday
Dec212008

Re-Tweets Comprise Two Percent of All Twitter Volume

AuthorYoung Urban Professional

Back in January I wrote about the Lazysphere and it's impact on blogging. My point then was that many tech bloggers have become lazy in simply re-blogging links rather than breaking news or writing essays that outline powerful new ideas or big questions. Now there are signs that the same is spreading to Twitter.

As of this writing, approximately two percent of tweets - or a staggering 34,000 Twitter postings per day - are simply re-shared content. I calculated the figure by tracking the number of mentions per day for either RT or retweet using Twist. Then, I compared the data to the daily volume statistics on TweetRush. Below are two charts from the last seven days. Using Thursday as a moment in time, 1.9% of the 1.8M tweets used either the word retweet or RT (approximately 34,500).

Retweets Volume is 2% of Tweets

Twitter Volume

My frustrations with the Lazysphere led me to set up a special "Thinkers" folder in Google Reader that I treat like a mutual fund. I love this feed because it's a fountain of new ideas and debate. It's like visiting Ben Franklin's Junto. And it reminds me about what attracted me to first reading blogs in 2003.

Twitter is different that blogging, of course. It's not a Junto. It's more like visiting a party and eavesdropping on conversations between friends. However, if the two percent of the volume overall is re-tweeting it's conceivable that it might be higher within your network.

In my case it is and it's why - for as much as I enjoy Twitter - I take Leo's approach and treat it like a swimming pool where I take the occasional dip. I get far more value out of my RSS reader than I do from Twitter but nothing beats it for getting answers to questions. So each medium fills a role in my information diet. But I wonder overtime what impact re-tweeting or lazy blogging might have on the conversation overall

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