So what prompted TechCrunch Editor Michael Arrington to pen a pugnacious piece on how blogs should not be raising so much venture capital and instead roll themselves into a “Dream Team,” with the unusual title of “More Bloggers Raising Money. Here Comes Politics. And Here Comes My Rant” yesterday?
Well, besides garnering Arrington a big dollop [...]
Speaking of Rafat Ali, here is a video of a panel I did at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills. Calif., on April 26 at paidContent.org’s conference, “The Economics of Social Media.”
Our session covered how mainstream media looks at the explosion of social media, but really was about the woes of the traditional news business [...]
On a recent trip to Los Angeles, I went to visit Rafat Ali, the energetic founder of ContentNext Media Inc.
While publisher and editor Ali’s got two other sites, the flagship is paidContent.org, which covers the business of digital content with a fine-tooth comb.
Ali started the site in 2002 after stints at Silicon Alley Reporter [...]
So I spent Thursday at the first conference outing by paidContent, the excellent news site dedicated to covering the business of digital media and helmed by Rafat Ali. As a conference producer and host with Walt, I know all the myriad challenges of organizing such an event and the paidContent team (including, but not limited [...]
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