This bears repeating and spreading around. It’s a quote from Jay Rosen (NYU, Pressthink) that appeared on his Facebook status today: “News people who wonder why their industry gets creamed by Google and Yahoo are the same news people who dismiss an idea after it fails once.” He may be referring to the trashing that…
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I did something this afternoon on a couple of my company’s websites that’s probably unusual: I admitted that they’re having a hard time, and asked users of the sites to help out if they’d like to see the sites survive. Here are the notes: on YourClimbing.com and on YourMTB.com The short version of our story…
Company portrait: Enthusiast Group LLC, Boulder, Colorado (Neal, Liz, me, Ben, Derek, Yann)
My business partner noted an item in Keith Huang’s Blog Watch column of the Wall Street Journal on Monday that talked about one of my company’s bloggers, Katie Brown, and her blog on YourClimbing.com. He saw it in the print edition. So I wanted to put a link to the column on YourClimbing.com, but of…
On one of my company’s websites, YourClimbing.com, a 15-year-old from Tennessee is our most avid member. She’s constantly posting photos and blog items, and chiming in on discussion threads. Not a day goes by that her presence isn’t obvious on the site. She’s won prizes on the site, and been our “Member of the Month.”…
Today is a personally significant one. You see, I’m moving out of my home office into a real office for the first time since December 1993! That was when I left my last “traditional” office job (at the San Francisco Chronicle). The only other time I spent in an actual office was on my several-time-a-year,…
During my blogging hiatus I failed to mention that my company, the Enthusiast Group, has debuted its second website: YourClimbing.com. Take a look! Enthusiast-in-chief Katie Brown (one of the world’s best climbers and former competitive climbing world champion) has already published some very cool content, including a great blog, Katie Brown’s Rock Talk. We’re looking…
Whoa! That was a long time between blog posts. Y’know, sometimes you get so busy that it’s hard to keep the old blog going. … OK, I’m back at it. (Not that I’m any less busy, but I really do miss blogging when I take a too-busy-to-blog break.) Anyway, here’s something interesting from my company’s…
In my company (the Enthusiast Group, publisher of a network of citizen-media-based online communities revolving around adventure and participant sports), I get to work with some very cool people — many of them athletes, of course. There’s Walker Thompson, who is enthusiast-in-chief of our YourMTB.com site. He’s a semi-pro bike racer and all-around fun and…
Lots of folks squawked about Galker Stalker, the celebrity sightings on a Google Map feature from Nick Denton’s Gawker blog. Next comes something considerably more benign from Microsoft: Celebfavorites.com, which identifies celebrities’ favorite hangouts and adds them to Microsoft’s new mapping website, Windows Live Local. No real-time celeb spotting, just a list of places where…
A key premise of my company and its websites (like YourMTB.com) is that technology is enabling people to share more of themselves with the rest of the world. Cellphone cameras, tiny digital cameras and video cams … all make it easy to document more of your life and share it with others. Sites like YourMTB…
My company’s (Enthusiast Group) first website has opened the gates: YourMTB.com, an online community for mountain bikers that’s based on some of the principles of citizen media. This is a soft launch. We’re issuing no press releases or otherwise trying to make a big fuss. The site has basic functionality, but is still missing a…
Chris Pirillo stuck a microphone in front of my business partner, Derek Scruggs, while both were at the recent South By Southwest conference, and turned it on. Here’s the result (which includes Derek talking a bit about our new company).
I guess this marks the inaugural entry to the Press Coverage page for my new venture, the Enthusiast Group. Publish (part of Ziff Davis) online media columnist Stephen Bryant interviewed me yesterday about my transition from the non-profit world (the Poynter Institute) to the for-profit world. As part of his “Five Questions” feature, we discussed…