Mitch Joel's Blog: Six Pixels of Separation, page 424

Picture This

There is lots of discussion around how certain companies have adapted to the digitization of their industry. From music and movies to books and newspapers. One industry that's equally as fascinating is photography.

Let's begin with two disclosures:

I'm not much of a "picture guy". I have a camera (both for photos and videos), but I'm definitely not a shutterbug (unless you count having an expired pro account at Flickr as a shutterbug).

My agency, Twist Image, works with Fujifilm.
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When Do You Sleep?

That is one of the top questions I get asked. Often. It's either that one, or "do you ever sleep?" Same question, different connotation.

My general response is, "I don't work hard, but I do work long." Meaning, I don't consider what I do "hard work," but with travel and my personal lifestyle, I have long (sometimes very long) days. That being said, when I first joined my other business partners at Twist Image, I did make a personal promise to myself that I would go to sleep when I was tired ...

Picture This

There is lots of discussion around how certain companies have adapted to the digitization of their industry. From music and movies to books and newspapers. One industry that's equally as fascinating is photography.

Let's begin with two disclosures:

I'm not much of a "picture guy". I have a camera (both for photos and videos), but I'm definitely not a shutterbug (unless you count having an expired pro account at Flickr as a shutterbug).

My agency, Twist Image, works with Fujifilm.
...

What Will Be An Unpopular View Of Twitter At Conferences

First off: I love Twitter. On top of that, there is no right or wrong way to use Twitter. People will either follow or ignore you.

So, if someone is following you, clearly they are deriving some kind of value from you. And, if you can't find a follower to save your life, it's equally obvious that your 140 characters bursts of content are not resonating with an audience. The rub may be when you're forced to endure (or follow along) even when you don't want to. That was the case at this past w...

Media Hacks Audio Podcast #20 Is Live (And Live From New York City)

Episode #178 of Six Pixels of Separation - The Twist Image Podcast is now live and ready for you to listen to. It's also episode #20 of Media Hacks.

This episode was recorded live in New York City. In a very rare moment, the entire Media Hacks crew - Chris Brogan, C.C. Chapman, Christopher S. Penn, Julien Smith and myself (with the exception of Hugh McGuire) - converged in New York City for the Web 2.0 Expo (and Web 2.Open). Wednesday night after dinner, we all met up at the Roger Smith...

Two "Must See" Presentations From Web 2.0 Expo

This past week was the Web 2.0 Expo in New York City. It was a great event.

I was fortunate enough to have attended on both Wednesday and Thursday (I presented some new content at the unconference part of the show, Web2Open - organized by the PodCamp folks). For those who didn't make it to the event, the good people at O'Reilly (who produce the show) were kind enough to post some of the presentations online.

Here are two presentations that were fantastic and well-worth your time to...

Video Games Are The Newest Cable Channels

Trying to understand the real size and scope of the television viewing audience is near-impossible. Even with all of the new monitoring systems, it's hard to really figure out who is watching what (and how much attention they're paying to what's in front of them) - especially when compared to web analytics.

Beyond the introduction of newer types of media and beyond the general fragmentation of television (from cable to specialty channels), the TV industry is also dealing with issues like...

The Next Twitter?

When something becomes popular, the fashionable thing to do is to figure out what comes next. Even if we still haven't really figured out the value of the thing we've already proclaimed dead (or slowing down).

On July 13th, 2009, Winston Ross posted to his Blog the article, The Next Twitter?, which was supposed to run on the Newsweek website but got killed because Time Magazine did a Twitter cover story around the same time. Within his article/Blog post was a very interesting quote from Ian...

The New Search Landscape

When you think of search engines and the Internet, it's hard not to think of Google (and not much else). When you think of Google, it's also hard not to think of the classic children's tale, The Little Engine That Could.

When Sergey Brin and Larry Page incorporated Google as a business in late 1998 out of a friend's garage in Menlo Park, Calif., there is no way they could have envisioned what the company would become. Beyond being worth billions of dollars, beyond its 20,000 employees...

H1N1 And Social Media (There Is A Connection)

Are you going to get the H1N1 vaccine?

There are many people who are very on-the-fence about this vaccine (well, actually, all vaccines). One of the better sources that persuaded me to get the shot (got mine today) was this: World Heath Organization: Safety of pandemic (H1N1) 2009 vaccines (hat-tip to Amber MacArthur). Without going into the medical and ethical discussion about vaccines, while waiting in line for my turn to get poked (and I don't mean that in a Facebook kind of way), it got ...