Archive | November, 2005

Women in podcasting – here we go again…

Posted on November 28th, 2005 by Tyme White in Miscellaneous

Here were go again, with the “women in…” list – this time podcasting. If you read my blog you know…I’m not into lists that much…not like this. I listen to podcasts because they are good, not based on gender, race, etc. Not to say people shouldn’t make the lists (it’s their right) but it is [...]

Blog networks – we need to clean this up

Posted on November 22nd, 2005 by Tyme White in Business

Yesterday I questioned what the definition of a network is. Measuring is pointless unless the person measuring discloses:

The definition of a blog
The definition of a network
Honesty about the sites included – don’t leave any out that fit the description

Unless those three things are disclosed the numbers are meaningless. Of course focusing on the numbers does [...]

OSM concrete? I don’t think so

Posted on November 21st, 2005 by Tyme White in Miscellaneous

I was reading my feeds, deciding what I wanted to write about and I came across an article by ClickZ that says something I said six months ago:

I asked Kaplan what he thought about 2005’s blog phenomenon. If he launched his site today, it would very clearly be called a blog. His response clarified the [...]

Fake dates? Match.com? Why not just use your blog?

Posted on November 20th, 2005 by Tyme White in Miscellaneous

It seems Match.com is being sued by a man who claims Match.com is paying employees to go on fake dates. I have to admit, every time I hear Match.com I think of Chris and Ponzi who I “think” met through Match.com and are happy as long as they aren’t in Hawaii. I personally don’t see [...]

It’s Friday – get my data day

Posted on November 18th, 2005 by Tyme White in Miscellaneous

I’ve written about this before and it’s finally gotten to the point I’ve snapped. You know the quiet snap where one becomes determined to get their way. I merged my blogs together to Not Too Geeky. I love the name and it suits me. I’m a totally geek but I don’t look like one. I [...]

Several hundred thousand for a web ad? That’s crazy…

Posted on November 16th, 2005 by Tyme White in Business

From WSJ: “MSN says it currently charges between several hundred thousand dollars and $1 million for a prime, 24-hour ad spot on its home page. That’s up from about $25,000 to $50,000 four years ago.”
I’m sorry but that’s stupid (in my opinion). This is what I would do…
Let’s say I was in charge of advertising [...]

Only 80 Games a Year Will Succeed

Posted on November 16th, 2005 by Tyme White in Technology

From Next-Gen Biz – “Screen Digest estimates that the number of profitable titles per year could fall as low as 80 as developers and publishers are forced to focus on fewer titles.” This is not surprising since it seems that most PC games released will not play properly or just plain sucks. Let’s look at [...]

Audible’s service – trouble ahead for podcasters?

Posted on November 15th, 2005 by Tyme White in Business

Audible announced their new service, the ability to “measure” podcasts. It is based on technology already used by Audible for distributing magazines, books and newspapers in audio form (I don’t use Audible so it is already tracking people and do they know it’s doing that?). The idea behind this is that for podcasting there is [...]

47% of females play video games?

Posted on November 15th, 2005 by Tyme White in Technology

I’m really not into advertising that much but I subscribe to AdRants because they always post something that makes me shake my head in bewilderment or makes me feel really old. Today, it is a bit of both. They posted an article about gaming being a marketing tap for advertisers. A report was referred to [...]