Technically Speaking

BlogCatalog and SezWho will integrate SezWho’s conversation platform for tracking and ranking comments across BlogCatalog’s social network. The partnership leverages the value of meaningful dialog encouraged by SezWho and the member-driven network of bloggers on BlogCatalog.

SezWho provides eBay-like ratings and reputations, revealing valuable information about the history and expertise of individual readers through embeddable widgets and one-click panels. BlogCatalog is the fastest-growing social network for bloggers on the Internet. Members will be introduced to the feature soon after the news breaks and will include all instructions. BlogCatalog members can extend the reach of their BlogCatalog profile across other sites within the network along with their reputations across the blogosphere.

BlogCatalog is the fastest-growing social network for bloggers on the Internet. Since early 2007, it has evolved from a blog listing service into a vibrant member-driven online community with tools, features, widgets, and forums that help bloggers connect. More than 100,000 approved bloggers interact on BlogCatalog everyday. SezWho, launched in June 2007, is a collaborative review and reputation service that informs and improves conversation across distributed social spaces.

Technically Speaking, blogging is beyond a social network, it could be a super duper social monster if the right people put it together. Many have tried, and many have also failed. BlogCatalog and SezWho seem to realize that collaborating and working together to utilize the other companies technology is better than being the small fish swimming in the big ocean of the blogosphere. hoodia

Lunch Across America (LAA), is starting to take on more of a meaning these days. As pointed out in this NY Times article today, it seems that people have finally figured out what I already knew. It’s nice seeing the mainstream getting on the same wavelength as the hardest working person in the web 2.0 business.

Now I do need to set the record straight about this article where I was referred as such. I appreciate the props by the one and only @marshallk, who is the most sought after blogger and overall online media guru. I did do some minor regional touring and was an active musician in many bands over the years.

As far as LAA goes, if people took this long to get on the same page, that is quite a statement. I’m glad to see people are now strategically timing the releases of their videos and other items to coincide with LAA. The thing is you have the time zones to accommodate which is a challenge in itself.

For awhile, I did try as the Director of Social Media Content for Lending Club to hit that LAA time. It’s quite a challenge when you throw in the multiple time zones. The above article is a validation of the facts I already knew.

In some offices, workers coordinate their midday Web-watching schedules, the better to shout out punch lines to one another across rows of desks. Some people gravitate to sites where they can reliably find Webcasts of a certain length — say, a three-minute political wrap-up — to minimize both their mouse clicks and the sandwich crumbs that wind up in the keyboard.

“Go take a walk around your office” at lunchtime, said Alan Wurtzel, head of research for NBC. “Out of 20 people, I’m going to guarantee that 5 are going to be on some sort of site that is not work-related.”

Along with LAA, you have the evening reading rush, which is a bit harder to time. Those that are not benefits of lack office policies can only surf at home. That time line is usually 7pm-10pm - again dependent on the time zone you live in. For that it’s almost best to release something right about dinner time (Dinner Across America - DAA). DAA is a much harder target to reach.

Now for the bloggers, you have that last one to reach - Anytime Across America (AAA). AAA means you are the cream of the crop and that my friends is how you end up the hardest working person in the biz. You end up getting very little sleep because the AAA time is never early, or it’s actually very early or very late.

Technically Speaking, that was quite a ramble. LAA - reaching the video masses, DAA - another time line to reach, and AAA - for the bloggers who want to take it to the next level. Learn them. Use them, and happy blogging to all. baby furniture - baby cribs

Blognation, Sam Sethi’s answer to TC is shutting down as of last night. According to this article, it appears the official announcement isn’t anywhere but insider information.

Speaking of assholes, I couldn’t let this go without a mention of Sam Sethi. He provided last year’s entertainment at LeWeb and earned an ‘assholing’ from Loic LeMeur. If Sam shows up this year then I suspect others will have more to say about the latest shenanigans. (listen to MP3 at the bottom of this post.)

Debi Jones also has a few comments about this.

Sam Sethi has thrown in the towel. There’s no place to take Blognation given the reality of zero funding and mounting debt. No bills were paid and the train wreck has run over Sethi. He announced today that he will not continue and steps down from Blognation.

Technically Speaking, I’m sure we will hear more throughout the day on this issue. Maybe Sam himself will stop by to leave a comment. Maybe it’s time Rex Dixon hooked up with some of these people and did a version of Blognation that works. Ah, only thing - I have no time to do that, but would be willing to be on the board of directors of the new company. sexy corsets

I’m in good company according to this site. It rates your blog’s readability. I’m proud to say that I write on a Jr. High Level. So does TechCrunch and CenterNetworks. Two blogs that I frequent a lot for the latest news. Even ValleyWag is on the same level, but Om takes it to the High School level.

I’ve always believed it’s much easier to talk (or write) in simple sentences, with tiny words if you can. There are however sites that I read daily such as VentureBeat that is on a postgrad College level. There is also RWW that checks in at the College (undergrad) level. Than there is Steve Rubel’s blog where he checks in on the Genius Level!

Technically Speaking, that was a fun site, and if you are blogger you hope to reach as much of an audience as possible - TechCrunch and CenterNetworks - the West coast Big Dog and the East coast Big Dog - write on the same level as I do, but of course my reach is nil compared to either one of those blogs. Only two weeks until Thanksgiving - Shopping season is here, and if you want to be prepared, you should read this.

TechCrunch, the tiny blog that went big time for Mike Arrington looks to be on the verge of a deal of astronomical proportions. Now if the deal is true, this could make TechCrunch another thing that CNET destroys. I think that the offer is probably going to be hard to refuse, and for Mike maybe it’s time he cashes out and leaves the rental he lives in.

CNET’s growth has stagnated, while TechCrunch is growing like a weed. And so are SeekingAlpha, GigaOm, Huffington Post and other new media companies. These companies have filled a niche that appeared when traditional media began cracking apart–and they’ve taken full advantage of it.

The main question is why have big sites like CNET have supposedly stagnated? Well the answer is that Mike worked his nutz off making TechCrunch work. He put in the time, the hours, and did what it took to make it work. CNET rested on it’s already established place, and that my friends is the reason TC took off like a rocket and surged in growth like nobodies business.

The blogs I look to do the same very soon of course are Allen Stern’s CenterNetworks, often overlooked but out of nowhere he is going to drop a DDT before you know what hits you. Than of course there is Read/WriteWeb, who has had tremendous growth over the past year. RWW is another contender for the crown. We mustn’t count out VentureBeat, the scrappy true journalism integrity site left in the blogosphere. If you want the complete story, you go there. Matt Marshall is one heck of a reporter and person. GigaOM, well Om already has his money and he is building a fine network of blogs; GigaNET if you will. Lastly we must not forget the blog that posts 900 items a day of course - Pete’s Mashable.

Technically Speaking, there are a lot of great blogs that have the news when you want it. TC becoming a CNET property is interesting and for one thing, it will free up the blogosphere and put in a new fight for #1!