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Nashville blogger and rexblog friend, Jackson Miller, says he didn’t plan on live-blogging the birth of a new baby son today, but it just sorta worked out that way. His blog commentors are offering suggestions for a first name to go with _________ Jackson Miller — I guess it gets more difficult when it’s your 4th son and all of the obvious names have been handed out already. (Andrew, Jesse and Michael are obvious rejects.) My suggestions: Plato, Harley or Wordpress. Or, perhaps a good jazz musician’s name — maybe, Bird. So is wifi now a feature of hospital maternity wings? Maybe Wifi would be a good first name.
Congratulations…and turn off the computer.
While Wired Magazine editor Chris Anderson says, “We’re launching new blogs right and left,” I feel certain he is not referring to the political leanings of the new blogs at Wired. And while I could say, “Magazine publisher Conde Nast” is launching lots of blogs, I’ll skip chasing that long tail. The blog launched today is Danger Room, a defense technology-oriented weblog that is being produced by a crew of bloggers that Wired recruited from a similar blog, DefenseTech.org, at Military.com. Apparently, the lesson here is: If you are an expert analyst or journalist and you are producing an authoritative, popular, tightly focused blog, there’s a future for you at a large magazine company that publishes Vogue. However, this may make me rethink my previous prediction that “No one at Conde Nast will ever publish a manifesto in which they say, ‘Let’s shake off the image of being in a beleaguered print industry.’”
Technorati Tags: blogging, chris anderson, magazines, wired.com
 Canon has announced a new high-end professional digital camera (I estimate the price will be in the $3,500-$4,000 range) that amateurs like me should not be allowed to own. And I won’t be owning one anytime soon — however, I’ll be checking eBay for used versions of the cameras people will be selling to buy these. Frankly, unless your camera is a significant revenue source or you’ve totally run out of stuff to buy, don’t even click over there.
Technorati Tags: photography
Do I find it ironic that the Internet Advertising Bureau is launching a print magazine to reach marketers? No.
Think of it this way. If you were in charge of getting tourists from the U.S. to come visit, say, France, would you advertise in Paris or in New York?
Quote from the press release:
“The Interactive Advertising Bureau, the leading trade association for the Interactive Advertising industry, today announced the launch of the first issue of MIXX Magazine. MIXX, which stands for Marketing and Interactive Excellence, will provide marketers and agencies with Interactive advertising primers across all platforms including: mobile, digital video, display, search, user generated content, email, gaming, lead generation, local, and more. The IAB and Adweek Magazines have partnered to produce MIXX Magazine with the help of Media Ventures Inc, a custom publisher. Each issue of MIXX builds on the work of the IAB committees highlighting a specific sector of the Interactive advertising industry.
(Disclosure: For any readers who may have missed it during the past six years of this blog, my day job is helping marketers — including large associations — create and manage both print and online media to reach and build strong relationships with their customers, members, etc. None of the parties mentioned in this post are clients of Hammock Publishing. However, they know where to reach me.)
Technorati Tags: advertising, custom publishing
CNET and others are reporting that Google will officially launch the anticipated subscription-based version of its Google Apps hosted services for businesses. The Google Apps products, previously called Google Apps for Your Domain, also now include Google Docs & Spreadsheets, which combines online word processing and spreadsheets, and they will support Gmail on BlackBerry devices. The $50-per-user-account service will offer more storage and customer support than the free, ad-supported Apps product. (It’s free through April 30.)
If all of this is sounding familiar, it’s because Google first announced it on November 14 of last year. I blogged it then with a post titled, “Google vs. Microsoft vs. Intuit vs. Yahoo! for small businesses update” which includes a screen grab of an account on which the folks at Hammock Labs were testing the service.
Later: InfomationWeek reporter Paul McDougall’s article on the announcement says Google is targeting large corporate customers (i.e., Microsoft’s customers) as well as the small business market.
Quote:
“But it’s not just penny-pinching small businesses that are eyeing Google Apps. Corporate powerhouses General Electric Co. and Procter & Gamble are among the early adopters. For GE, it’s less about the cost and more about “the easy access that [Google Apps] provides to a suite of Web applications,” said GE chief technology officer Gregory Simpson, in a statement.
Technorati Tags: google, small business
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Bob’s new book, The No A**hole Rule, is a must-read. His blog posts are also.
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I never point to people-moving stories, but this is a significant move as it involves the two most brilliantly advertised brands in America.
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The redesign (or, as others have said, “the design”) of Esquire.com has generated several reviews and comments on the tech and media blogospheres today.
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