Dropsafe

by Alec Muffett

“It’s regrettable, but many companies out there are less than 40% geek …” # business blogging innovate or die

I’ve reposted my 2006 public lecture and masterpiece / entrypoint to social media punditry onto YouTube, gradually migrating stuff off of Blip before the latter succumbs to un-usability.

It stands up pretty well, even now; the only major thing I’d change would be about commenting – DaringFireball and a few others still get away without a comment facility, and some achingly pomo blogs invite us to start our own comment threads on Reddit and YCombinator to discuss articles in the hope of garnering pseudo-importance; but anyone who’s having an honest conversation with their readership must now have a comment mechanism.

Overall, not bad. Won best presentation.

Business Blogging: Innovate or Die (2006) – YouTube.

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2 responses to ““It’s regrettable, but many companies out there are less than 40% geek …” # business blogging innovate or die”

  1. Dave Walker

    I watched this again last night; other than a couple of very minor points (eg MySpace), it’s stood the test of time very well indeed.

    Speculating idly, I wonder whether the last couple of years’ developments (in particular, the considerable improvements in consumer-level speech recognition) will result in people putting their views “out there” in a choice of formats – in particular, will podcasters also provide transcripts, as it’s now rather easier to do?

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    1. alecm

      Transcripts are sorta coming by default, look into the YouTube autocaptioning…

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