von Roland Hachmann | Feb 13, 2007 | Ad News, Blog, Digital Marketing, Marketing
One of my favourite advertising related news sources has retired. The blogs network Weblogs, Inc. has retired adjab.com.
It has been a good source of advertising and marketing input for me. Sometimes I could hardly catch up with all the posts that they put out everyday. And especially after not having read the blog for quite a few days (which is why I only found out now) I had expected more than only 30 unread posts – it already made me a little suspicious…
Shame. But, as it is written in a post of the 1st of February:
It’s important to point out that a blog retirement is not a blog failure. Here at Weblogs, Inc. we are continually honing our network to be the best content engine for readers and bloggers both. In part, that means figuring out how to divide our resources that, sadly, are not infinite. We have changed tremendously in the last three years, expanding wildly at the start into a sort of bulk publishing model, then refining and contracting somewhat into a leaner machine. We have more bloggers than ever before, and fewer blogs. That means a dazzling concentration of minds and voices in our chosen fields of publication.
Many thanks to you guys, I enjoyed the show.
On a side note, it seems like a few blog networks are consolidating. I know of at least another one in Germany, that stopped a few of their blogs. Anyone heard of any others? Does Gawker still run all its blogs?
von Roland Hachmann | Feb 1, 2007 | Blog, Digital Culture, Marketing Trends, Social Media Marketing
Seems like there is no age limit for any web2.0 application. We were already amazed with geriatric1927, who started fiddling with a webcam and quickly gathered a huge crowd of fans.
As of August 16, 2006, geriatric1927 was the most subscribed user on YouTube. His rise to the #1 position took place in just over a week.
Not quite as „multimedia“, but a little older instead, is Don. He blogs on his blog „Don to Earth“ and with 93 years old, he is probably one of the oldest, if not THE oldest blogger on earth.
I am certain, that in 40-50 years time, there will be millions of 80+ year old webusers blogging and youtubing away (if blogs and youtube then still exist). But at the moment this is an amazing step by these two guys. If I look at my grand dad, who has trouble understanding the concept of any modern digital device, I cannot imagine him writing a blog. (He does own and use a cell phone, though).
At the same time, I am curious (as I already wrote earlier on), how much (personal) content will float around a most probably gigantic social web. There might be 80+ year old bloggers who have an archive of 40+ years of blog posts…
von Roland Hachmann | Jan 30, 2007 | Blog, Digital Culture, Digital News
It’s this blogs 2nd Birthday today. Yes, Web Jungle is two years old. I am rather excited about this, as it doesn’t appear to me as if I have been working&writing on blogs for so long. I can still remember having started on the old blogger.com space: http://jungleweb.blogspot.com/
Then, when I noticed I would indeed continue with blogging, I moved everything to my own domain with a much more flexible blogging software. So I moved to web-jungle.com and wordpress. Now this again is even more than a year old.
I have blogged with wordpress since September 2005. Since then I have abandoned the blogspot location. Interesting, that my content is still there – talking about digital trash!
Looking around, I notice that some blogs are already a few years old (but still only up to 6-7 years at the most!!), and I wonder, if blogs will, from now on, continue to be part of some peoples lives? Will I still blog in 5, 10 or 20 years time? How big would my archive of information be? What wealth of information and links would it provide?
What wealth of information and links would generally exist in 30 years, if bloggers and content-/link-platforms continue they way they manage content these days?
All these are faszinating thoughts, theoretical in nature, as we’re all going to experience the effects of the web at the same time, with lot’s of people putting out theories, with only a few really succeeding in implementing good platforms and everybody learning and adapting as they go along.
I already enjoy the ride, how about yourself?
von Roland Hachmann | Jan 25, 2007 | Blog
Some might have seen it already: I had some database problems over the last couple of hours. This was due to the fact that during some maintenance work the databases got lost (don’t ask!).
Unfortunately, my brothers and I were moving to a new, much better server over the last few months. This blog was already sitting on the new server, on which – because of some miscommunication – nobody had turned on the automatic backup function yet. So it’s back to december, when the last backup was made on the old server…
So that’s why the last post before this is was from xmas.
But I made use of something that usually bothers webmasters: the fact that Google caches websites for at least 2 weeks. I copied the contents from the Google cache and will repost them under the respective dates in the next few days. That way, I will only have lost a few days worth of posts from the first half of January…
[26.01.07: Most posts of January are now recovered.]
von Roland Hachmann | Jan 17, 2007 | Blog
A quick one: a list of executives, who blog, compiled on the NewPR Wiki.
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