Sam Whitmore's Tech Media This Week 
Sam Whitmore's Tech Media This Week
| Fri, May 02 2008 |
Brenner Joins CSO, Which Has Redesigned |
| After four years at TechTarget, Bill Brenner now works for CSO, which this week launched a web site redesign. -- Sam Whitmore |
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| Fri, Apr 11 2008 |
"Off With Their Heads" at eWeek |
| There's a hell of a lot of tech reporting talent now on the street. -- Sam Whitmore |
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| Fri, Mar 28 2008 |
BusinessWeek Arcade -- No Kidding! |
| You've got to hand it to BW -- it takes chances. -- Sam Whitmore |
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Posted at 11:40 AM |
| Fri, Mar 21 2008 |
Arrington Angst |
| The TechCrunch founder decries other A-listers who take venture capital. Ally with me instead and let's kill CNET, he says. -- Sam Whitmore |
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| Fri, Feb 08 2008 |
We Analyze RSS Feeds from IT Trades |
| eWeek edges out Computerworld for the most. InformationWeek.com has the least. -- Sam Whitmore |
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| Wed, Jan 09 2008 |
Heard and Seen at CES 2008 |
| More video is being shot than ever before. -- Sam Whitmore |
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Posted at 10:18 PM |
| Fri, Jan 04 2008 |
What CMP Can Do with David Berlind |
| How 'bout a three-ring circus at John Battelle's Web 2.0 event? -- Sam Whitmore |
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| Fri, Nov 30 2007 |
Enterprise Tech Making a Comeback |
| Virtualization is but one reason why, said an editorial panel at this week's PRSA symposium in Mountain View, Calif. -- Sam Whitmore |
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| Fri, Nov 16 2007 |
Ziff Davis on the Rebound? |
| Former editorial employees want to return, says eWeek editorial director Eric Lundquist. -- Sam Whitmore |
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Posted at 11:56 AM |
| Fri, Nov 02 2007 |
Neil Cavuto on Advocacy and Point of View |
| Two separate and distinct things, sayeth Fox's double-duty on-air talent. -- Sam Whitmore |
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| Fri, Oct 19 2007 |
TechTarget's Authoritative Study on IT Buying Trends |
| Search engines rule, and vendor web sites are creeping up on the trade publishers. -- Sam Whitmore |
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| Fri, Oct 12 2007 |
Vendors as Publishers |
| IDG and CMP deploy vendor-generated content as "editorial." Welcome to the new world. -- Sam Whitmore |
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| Tue, Oct 02 2007 |
Repost: Who is Mark Anderson? |
| We asked Eric Savitz, Tom Krazit, Eric Auchard and Mark himself. -- Sam Whitmore |
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| Mon, Oct 01 2007 |
Who is Mark Anderson? |
| We asked Eric Savitz, Tom Krazit and Eric Auchard -- and Mark himself. -- Sam Whitmore |
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| Fri, Sep 21 2007 |
Once an Editor, Now in PR |
| Former editor-in-chief Brian Fuller discusses his new job as VP at Blanc & Otus. -- Sam Whitmore |
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| Fri, Sep 07 2007 |
Tasks and Topics |
| Tech publishing experts are moving beyond "editorial" to task-based sites that, one day, tech PR will recognize and respect. -- Sam Whitmore |
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| Fri, Aug 31 2007 |
Local Editorial on the Rise |
| BusinessWeek's Chicago edition is only the latest example. -- Sam Whitmore |
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| Fri, Aug 24 2007 |
Changes and Opportunity at the WSJ |
| Check out Andy Jordan's Tech Diary video podcast... it's good. And what he's doing, you can do, too. -- Sam Whitmore |
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| Fri, Aug 17 2007 |
Ziff Davis Media Misses Debt Payment |
| In other news: a new leader for InfoWorld and unrest at Conde Nasty. -- Sam Whitmore |
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| Fri, Aug 10 2007 |
CMP Gets a Second Life |
| It's now a certified Second Life developer. Also this time: TechTarget scores record profits. -- Sam Whitmore |
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| Fri, Jul 20 2007 |
David Anderson, GreenOptions.com |
| The leader of a hot clean tech blog network shares with us his latest news. -- Sam Whitmore |
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| Fri, Jul 13 2007 |
No Softball Questions at Fortune's iMeme Conference |
| Adam Lashinsky, for one, kicked ass and took names. How refreshing! -- Sam Whitmore |
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| Fri, Jul 06 2007 |
Odds and Ends from a Hot Holiday Week |
| Layoffs at IDC and the San Jose Mercury News, and Backfence gets torn down. -- Sam Whitmore |
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| Fri, Jun 29 2007 |
Vendors as Publishers -- Get Used to It |
| That's where so much of this laid-off tech edit talent is headed. -- Sam Whitmore |
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| Fri, Jun 22 2007 |
Ziff Davis "Enterprise" Sold; Wall Street Journal Reorganized |
| Meet the new bosses, same as the old bosses? -- Sam Whitmore |
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| Fri, Jun 15 2007 |
David Strom on CMP Layoffs |
| Did 200 people really need to lose their jobs this week? The founding editor of the now-defunct Network Computing sounds off. -- Sam Whitmore |
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| Fri, Jun 08 2007 |
Why Renay San Miguel Left CNN |
| It must have been tough to do. Weber Shandwick Worldwide is his new home. -- Sam Whitmore |
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| Mon, Jun 04 2007 |
Virtualization Belongs in the Controllah, Suckah! |
| From the back of a taxicab in NYC, we discuss Mr. T and other topics of potential interest to tech PR pros. -- Sam Whitmore |
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| Fri, May 25 2007 |
On Our Minds: Fortune and BusinessWeek |
| "Place your BusinessWeek column in the folded and upright position..." |
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| Fri, May 18 2007 |
Joe Panettieri on Custom Publishing at Microcast Communications |
| The two-time Ziff Davis veteran discusses his company's unique approach to exploring new tech markets. -- Sam Whitmore |
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| Fri, May 11 2007 |
NYTimes.com Launches Small Biz Section... and We Correct Ourselves |
| Tech Media This Week is seven minutes or less each week or double your money back. - Sam Whitmore |
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| Fri, May 04 2007 |
Two New Features at InfoWorld.com |
| InfoClipz are cool animations of technical concepts. And Gina Smith this week debuts "The Week Ahead." -- Sam Whitmore |
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| Fri, Apr 27 2007 |
We're Shortening This Thing Up |
| Even ten minutes is too long these days. From now on, our podcast will take six to seven minutes of your time and no more. -- Sam Whitmore |
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| Fri, Apr 20 2007 |
Mike Arrington and Steve Rubel in Hot Water |
| Ready-fire-aim is not the sequence. -- Sam Whitmore |
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| Fri, Apr 13 2007 |
The End of the Line for Line56 |
| The enterprise site is still up there but not for long, so we're told. -- Sam Whitmore |
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| Fri, Apr 06 2007 |
CMP, The Register, CIO.com and YPulse |
| A little bit of everything this week. Still under ten minutes each week or double your money back. -- Sam Whitmore |
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| Fri, Mar 30 2007 |
Jennifer Fader on BarCamp; Tom Foremski Hooks Up with PodTech.net |
| Listen to a model of tomorrow's tech PR pro: Jennifer Fader practices traditional tech PR but reads 200 RSS feeds a day and runs a social media practice, too. -- Sam Whitmore |
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| Fri, Mar 23 2007 |
News from IDG, ZDM and CMP; Two Tech PR Podcasts Debut |
| Online continues to drive the business; David Strom and Paul Gillin launch the Tech PR War Stories podcast. -- Sam Whitmore |
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| Fri, Mar 16 2007 |
Tom Foremski Debuts Two New Sites |
| Siliconvalleyminute.com showcases vendors' elevator pitches; Newrulescommunications.com is built especially for PR pros. -- Sam Whitmore |
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| Fri, Mar 09 2007 |
Will Forrester Sell to Gartner? |
| Gartner CEO Gene Hall told Wm. Blair & Co. that he'd be interested if Forrester was willing to sell. -- Sam Whitmore |
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| Fri, Mar 02 2007 |
News of CMP, IDG and Word with PR Blogger Phil Gomes |
| Phil was the first PR blogger... now there are more than 600, he says. -- Sam Whitmore |
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| Fri, Feb 23 2007 |
Re-post: Ziff Davis Media Raises $20 Million; CNNMoney.com Reigns Supreme |
| We re-recorded the portion of the podcast concerning the Virtutech contest. -- Sam Whitmore |
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| Fri, Feb 16 2007 |
Enderle and Kay Speak Their Minds |
| Former Forrester and IDC analysts Rob Enderle and Roger Kay talk frankly about the old days at their respective Tier 1 shops. -- Sam Whitmore |
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| Sat, Feb 10 2007 |
Conde Nast Portfolio...The Future of American Business Magazines |
| ...but is this necessarily a good thing? -- Sam Whitmore |
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| Fri, Feb 02 2007 |
SWMS at AlwaysOn Media NYC |
| Lots of VCs and start-ups, but where was the media? Also, we fish through our reporter's notebook for juicy items, and interview execs from BuzzLogic. -- Sam Whitmore |
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| Fri, Jan 26 2007 |
Should PR Badmouth the Bad Guys? |
| Some say yes, others say no. Also, Red Herring is struggling... and try to guess our mystery blogger. -- Sam Whitmore |
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| Fri, Jan 19 2007 |
Ziff Davis Media's Final Days? |
| We hear bidders must now put up or shut up. Meanwhile, editorial cost-cutting industrywide continues unabated... here's what PR pros can do. -- Sam Whitmore |
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| Fri, Jan 12 2007 |
Audio Grab Bag from CES |
| Audio from Wall Street Journal and USA Today reporters... check out Paul Kedrosky, and how 'bout that father-and-son team at BusinessWeek? -- Sam Whitmore |
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| Sat, Jan 06 2007 |
Behind Valleywag's Jan. 5 Mention of SWMS |
| Here's how it happened and why we judge it a mixed blessing. -- Sam Whitmore |
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| Fri, Dec 22 2006 |
Word of Mouth, Credibility Branding and Thank You! |
| We explore two paths to greater business success, and we thank you for our best year ever at SWMS. Happy holidays! -- Sam Whitmore |
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| Fri, Dec 15 2006 |
Tom Foremski on India, China and SVW in 2007 |
| Look for Silicon Valley Watcher to break out its "new media" commentary into a separate site called New Rules Communications, Tom says. -- Sam Whitmore |
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| Fri, Dec 08 2006 |
Tony Perkins on Inevitable Social Networks |
| They're coming whether we like it or not, the entrepreneur says. Also this time: press release embargoes, and a correction. -- Sam Whitmore |
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| Fri, Dec 01 2006 |
Three Tech Edit Operations to Watch in 2007 |
| Techdirt, TG Publishing and Podtech.net are growing and have the right ideas. And let's play Google trivia! -- Sam Whitmore |
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| Tue, Nov 21 2006 |
Bill Laberis Returns to Computerworld |
| The former EIC now runs "custom content" -- in other words, advertorial. It's a big business and growing fast. -- Sam Whitmore |
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| Fri, Nov 17 2006 |
You Too Can Work with Hubbub PR |
| Giovanni Rodriguez and Rebekah Mitchell are looking for savvy PR pros who appreciate the power of social networking. -- Sam Whitmore |
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| Fri, Nov 10 2006 |
Robert Scoble: Life after Microsoft |
| Like any start-up, Podtech.net has its challenges, Scoble says. But he still loves his new job. -- Sam Whitmore |
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| Mon, Nov 06 2006 |
A New Chief at Fortune, Shaky Earnings at Ziff Davis Media |
| Time Warner taps Andy Serwer to fend off Conde Nast portfolio; Ziff Davis, meanwhile, is down to its last $10.8 million with big debt looming. -- Sam Whitmore |
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| Fri, Oct 27 2006 |
Four Blogger-Podcasters Launch Crayon |
| One of them, Shel Holtz, explains what's different about the firm. -- Sam Whitmore |
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| Mon, Oct 23 2006 |
TechAddress Debuts; CNET Traffic Dipping? |
| We look at the new Web 2.0 blog called TechAddress, and point to some of the 72 comments TechCrunch's Mike Arrington received on his Oct. 13 story dinging CNET. -- Sam Whitmore |
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| Fri, Oct 06 2006 |
Ad Page Stats; Podcasting's Slow Climb |
| Ziff Davis Media grew its ad pages in Q2, according to IDG's own stats...and the king of tech podcasting sees the new medium at a "plateau." -- Sam Whitmore |
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| Tue, Sep 26 2006 |
eWeek and PCMag.com's Larry Seltzer Speaks Out... |
| ...on alarmist virus alerts, custom publishing, the masking of caller ID info, and why he might have made a good product reviewer for the Wall Street Journal. -- Sam Whitmore |
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| Thu, Sep 21 2006 |
"At the End of the Day" and Other Horrifying Cliches |
| We humbly offer an audio "reporter's notebook" of items, some useful and others that might -- we hope -- bring forth a smile. -- Sam Whitmore |
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| Fri, Sep 15 2006 |
Rebecca Blumenstein, WSJ's Beijing Bureau Chief |
| Hear what pleasantly and unpleasantly surprised Rebecca in her first year as bureau chief, as well as some of the obstacles she faces in China. -- Sam Whitmore |
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| Sun, Sep 10 2006 |
Jake Ludington Discusses DEMO China |
| The well-known blogger shares his views of DEMO's first foray in China, as well as his personal impressions of the Middle Kingdom. -- Sam Whitmore |
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| Mon, Aug 28 2006 |
Text 100 in Second Life |
| CEO Aedhmar Hynes discusses why a global tech PR agency such as Text 100 is spending time and money to understand the virtual world of Second Life. -- Sam Whitmore |
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| Thu, Aug 24 2006 |
Giving Readers What They Want |
| Business 2.0 and Advertising Age this week came down on opposite sides of an all-too-familiar issue: the influence of blog publishing. Both readerships got what they wanted. -- Sam Whitmore |
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| Thu, Aug 17 2006 |
Why Do So Many Women Populate Tech PR? |
| Sharon Barclay has been looking into this, and this Blanc & Otus general manager has intriguing things to say. -- Sam Whitmore |
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| Fri, Aug 11 2006 |
BusinessWeek's Boner |
| The venerable business mag damages its credibility as it has never done before; meanwhile, TechTarget prepares to challenge CMP in the channel. -- Sam Whitmore |
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| Thu, Aug 03 2006 |
Ziff Davis Media Up for Sale... and other tech media items of note |
| Ziff Davis Media is on the block and is likely to be split up. Who cares? The titles will forge on. Also this week, tech media gossip and Estes rockets. -- Sam Whitmore |
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| Sun, Jul 16 2006 |
Sam Whitmore's Tech Media This Week 7-17-06 |
| Some podcasters read to us, others talk to us. Which would you rather listen to? -- Sam Whitmore |
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| Fri, Jun 30 2006 |
Sam Whitmore's Tech Media This Week -- Jun. 30, 2006 |
| Podtech CEO John Furrier lays out his content strategy. Don't think of it as editorial. -- Sam Whitmore |
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| Tue, Jun 13 2006 |
Sam Whitmore's Tech Media This Week 6-13-06 |
| Is Ziff Davis Media looking for a buyer? Who can blame it for wanting to exit, when individuals such as Om Malik and Mike Arrington can build successful publishing brands all by themselves? -- Sam Whitmore |
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| Sun, Jun 04 2006 |
Sam Whitmore's Tech Media This Week 6-5-06 |
| We dissect ZDNet editor Dan Farber's recent podcast interview with "the father of Java," James Gosling. It was excellent. -- Sam Whitmore |
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| Tue, May 30 2006 |
Sam Whitmore's Tech Media This Week 5-30-06 |
| Hear Bob Angus from A&R Partners discuss why he sold to Edelman, and hear Richard Edelman on why he was a buyer. -- Sam Whitmore |
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| Mon, May 22 2006 |
Sam Whitmore's Tech Media This Week 5-22-06 |
| We interview former Computerworld and TechTarget editor Paul Gillin, now a columnist, consultant and author specializing in social networking. -- Sam Whitmore |
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| Mon, May 15 2006 |
Sam Whitmore's Tech Media This Week 5-15-06 |
| Find out what's going on with Going On, from Tony Perkins... also, Ziff Davis deepens its efforts in the channel, and a web site makeover from Computerworld. -- Sam Whitmore |
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| Tue, May 09 2006 |
Sam Whitmore's Tech Media This Week 5-9-06 |
| Voce's Mike Manuel, Eastwick's Giovanni Rodriguez, Edelman's Phil Gomes and Weber Shandwick's Jeremy Pepper collaborate on "Third Thursday," a professional development event for PR pros. Hear their story. -- Sam Whitmore |
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| Thu, May 04 2006 |
Sam Whitmore's Tech Media This Week 5-4-06 |
| We catch up with eponymous Bay Area scribe Tom Foremski, who briefs us on his latest gig with the San Francisco Chronicle. -- Sam Whitmore |
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| Wed, Apr 26 2006 |
Sam Whitmore's Tech Media This Week 4-26-06 |
| On Apr. 7 The Register criticized industry analyst Rob Enderle for badmouthing Sun Microsystems when Enderle receives consulting fees from Sun rivals IBM, Dell and HP. Enderle tells his story to Tech Media This Week. -- Sam Whitmore |
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| Thu, Apr 20 2006 |
Sam Whitmore's Tech Media This Week 4-20-06 |
| Editor-in-chief Rusty Weston describes Global Services, a new monthly jointly published by CMP Media and Cybermedia, Ltd. of India. -- Sam Whitmore |
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| Thu, Apr 13 2006 |
Sam Whitmore's Tech Media This Week 4-13-06 |
| How the Techdirt blog was born; a new IT expo from IDC; blog syndication from Pluck; and more. Drop us a line sometime: sam@mediasurvey.com. -- Sam Whitmore |
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| Wed, Apr 05 2006 |
Sam Whitmore's Tech Media This Week -- 4/5/06 |
| Dennis Callaghan left his reporting job at eWeek to become an enterprise software analyst with The 451 Group. How does he like it? -- Sam Whitmore |
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| Wed, Mar 29 2006 |
Sam Whitmore's Tech Media This Week 3-29-06 |
| Announcements from Ziff Davis Media, IDG and CMP -- and when did you last sit down with a copy of Red Herring? Check it out sometime. Good stuff. -- Sam Whitmore |
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| Fri, Mar 24 2006 |
Sam Whitmore's Tech Media This Week 3-24-06 |
| Leading bloggers need help selling ads and could use some overall tech and management support. For a piece of the action, Federated Media Publishing is happy to oblige. FM VP Chas Edwards explains how it all works. -- Sam Whitmore |
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| Wed, Mar 15 2006 |
Sam Whitmore's Tech Media This Week 3-15-06 |
| Ziff Davis kills Smartcompany.com; BusinessWeek to launch a quarterly pub on "Innovation." Drop us a line sometime -- sam@mediasurvey.com. We'd love to hear from you! -- Sam Whitmore |
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| Tue, Mar 07 2006 |
Sam Whitmore's Tech Media This Week 3-7-06 |
| PC World Communications CEO Jeff Edman discusses IDG's recent experiment auctioning print advertising through Google. Everybody involved seems to be happy with the results. -- Sam Whitmore |
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| Thu, Mar 02 2006 |
Sam Whitmore's Tech Media This Week 3-2-06 |
| InformationWeek EIC Rob Preston describes how his publication has changed -- and how it hasn't. Also: how del.icio.us bookmarks and web forms will alter the story-pitching landscape. -- Sam Whitmore |
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| Wed, Feb 22 2006 |
Sam Whitmore's Tech Media This Week -- Feb. 22, 2006 |
| Back after a four-week hiatus...it's good to be back. CMP folds two pubs and shuffles editors; Business 2.0's readership spikes 19 percent; and new blogs about pitching. Write to us -- sam@mediasurvey.com |
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| Wed, Jan 18 2006 |
SWMS Tech Media This Week 1-18-06 |
| News of a BuzzMetrics-Intelliseek link-up and an interview with Cymfony CMO Jim Nail -- and we have some fun thrown in there, too. -- Sam Whitmore |
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| Tue, Jan 10 2006 |
SWMS Tech Media This Week 1-10-06 |
| Does spamming tech editors pay off? Listen to these two editors and analysts. You might be surprised at what you hear. -- Sam Whitmore |
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| Mon, Dec 05 2005 |
Tech Media This Week -- Dec. 5, 2005 |
| Condé Nast begins hiring for its forthcoming business mag; six tips on getting to know bloggers; and how to pitch a columnist headed for CES. -- Sam Whitmore |
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| Mon, Nov 28 2005 |
Tech Media This Week -- Nov. 28, 2005 |
| Paying attention to attention; AccelaCast inBanner is something to see; and Tom Foremski seeks the culture of Silicon Valley. Write to us: sam@mediasurvey.com -- Sam Whitmore |
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| Tue, Nov 22 2005 |
Tech Media This Week -- Week of Nov. 21 |
| Michael Vizard returns to Ziff Davis; Tom Foremski now a ZDNet blogger; and who are the most influential tech bloggers, anyway? Write us: sam@mediasurvey.com -- Sam Whitmore |
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| Mon, Nov 14 2005 |
Sam Whitmore's Tech Media This Week -- Nov. 14, 2005 |
| A successful debut for the Portable Media Expo and podcasters everywhere; a new SMB site from Ziff Davis Media; and here's how not to influence a tech editor. -- Sam Whitmore |
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| Mon, Nov 07 2005 |
Tech Media This Week -- Nov. 7, 2005 |
| New jobs for Michael Miller and Jim Louderback at Ziff Davis Media; restructuring at CMP; and Tom Foremski hears "The Call of the Rooster" -- Sam Whitmore |
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| Thu, Nov 03 2005 |
Tech Media This Week -- Oct. 31, 2005 |
| Forbes senior editor Daniel Lyons explains his cover story on blogs, called "Attack of the Blogs." Also, TechTarget just keeps on earnin'... -- Sam Whitmore |
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| Mon, Oct 24 2005 |
Tech Media This Week -- Oct. 24, 2005 |
| Computerworld editor-in-chief Don Tennant denounces competitive publications that cover insignificant press conferences. Don't miss this fiery interview. Send feedback to sam@mediasurvey.com -- Sam Whitmore |
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| Mon, Oct 17 2005 |
Tech Media This Week -- Oct. 17, 2005 |
| A plague of blog spam in the world of Blogspot; the WSJ gets a trim; and News.com revisits its Big Picture. Drop us a line: sam@mediasurvey.com -- Sam Whitmore |
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| Mon, Oct 10 2005 |
Tech Media This Week -- Oct. 10, 2005 |
| News.com introduces the Blog 100; venture capitalists discover blogging; SiliconValleyWatcher.com's Tom Foremski has a question for you. We hope you enjoy TMTW. -- Sam Whitmore |
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| Tue, Oct 04 2005 |
Tech Media This Week -- Oct. 3, 2005 |
| Yahoo makes an end run around mainstream business and tech media; Google climbs down off its high horse; and how about all those revenue streams in 21st century tech publishing? Send e-mail to sam@mediasurvey.com -- Sam Whitmore |
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| Mon, Sep 26 2005 |
Tech Media This Week -- Week of Sep. 26 |
| News.com redesigns; the Wall Street Journal belatedly gives a blogger his due; and InformationWeek now has 500,000 readers weekly. Drop us a line sometime at sam@mediasurvey.com -- Sam Whitmore |
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| Mon, Sep 19 2005 |
Tech Media This Week -- Sep. 19, 2005 |
| CXO Media CEO Michael Friedenberg looks ahead and behind; Time Warner consolidates its business web sites; and News.com debuts a new story type. Got feedback for us? Send it along to sam@mediasurvey.com. -- Sam Whitmore |
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| Mon, Sep 12 2005 |
Tech Media This Week -- Sep. 12, 2005 |
| CXO Media lays off ten percent of its staff including senior sales and marketing executives; Hurricane Katrina provides weeks worth of edit opps for tech PR pros; and BusinessWeek poaches a WSJ page one editor for BW's new investigations team. -- Sam Whitmore |
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| Mon, Sep 05 2005 |
Tech Media This Week -- Sep. 5, 2005 |
| Tom Steinert-Threlkeld leaves Baseline for Multichannel News; Jason Pontin is now publisher as well as editor-in-chief of MIT Technology Review; and the Economist stands tall. Drop us a line at sam@mediasurvey.com -- Sam Whitmore |
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| Mon, Aug 29 2005 |
Tech Media This Week -- Aug.29, 2005 |
| InfoWorld remains committed to print; The Economist spoils for a fight with US business magazines; Cisco begins podcasting as News@Cisco gains steam. Drop us a line -- sam@mediasurvey.com |
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| Mon, Aug 22 2005 |
Tech Media This Week -- Aug. 22 |
| CMP expands while InfoWorld contracts and Ziff Davis Media is broadcasting online, again. Drop us a note to tell us what you think of Tech Media This Week: sam@mediasurvey.com. Thanks! -- Sam Whitmore |
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| Mon, Aug 15 2005 |
Tech Media This Week -- Aug. 15, 2005 |
| Why did Google screw up so badly with News.com? Who can stop TechTarget? Will CXO Media be transformed under new CEO Michael Friedenberg? Drop us a line and tell us what you think of Tech Media This Week: sam@mediasurvey.com. Thanks! -- Sam Whitmore |
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| Mon, Aug 08 2005 |
Tech Media This Week -- Aug. 8, 2005 |
| Marketing Sherpa publisher Anne Holland discusses Jupitermedia's sell-off of the Search Engine Strategies event series and the Click-Z network of web sites, and analyst Dana Gardner explains why he left Yankee Group to go solo. -- Sam Whitmore |
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| Mon, Aug 01 2005 |
Tech Media This Week -- Aug. 1, 2005 |
| Tom Foremski, editor and publisher of Silicon Valley Watcher, discusses the upcoming Vortex conference and the BlogHer conference just concluded. Also covered: Executive moves at IDG. -- Sam Whitmore |
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| Mon, Jul 25 2005 |
Tech Media This Week -- Jul. 25, 2005 |
| eWeek loses two beat reporters, but that doesn't necessarily reflect poorly on the publication... and how does InformationWeek editor John Foley describe the ideal PR pro? Enjoy our latest podcast! -- Sam Whitmore |
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| Mon, Jul 18 2005 |
Tech Media This Week - 5 |
| Have you heard of The News Show, the daily web video production from CMP's TechWeb? You'll hear all about it in Tech Media This Week. We also discuss a search engine that can pinpoint specific words spoken in podcasts. We'd love to hear from you: drop us a line at sam@mediasurvey.com -- Sam Whitmore |
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| Mon, Jul 11 2005 |
Tech Media This Week - Jul. 11, 2005 |
| Two key departures from "old" tech media to new... what's up with these thin IT publications this month... and new Technorati blog-monitoring tools on the way. Send your TMTW compliments, comments and criticism to sam@mediasurvey.com. Thanks! -- Sam Whitmore |
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| Fri, Jul 01 2005 |
Tech Media This Week -- Jul. 1, 2005 |
| Business 2.0 senior writer Michael V. Copeland describes changes at the B2 web site -- and is CNet Networks really for sale? Let us know what you think about Tech Media This Week -- send your comments to sam@mediasurvey.com. Thanks! |
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Posted at 09:08 AM |
| Fri, Jun 24 2005 |
Tech Media This Week - 2 |
| We report on location from Gnomedex in Seattle. We interview blogger/podcaster Dave Winer on what tech media pros need to know today about b-to-b podcasting. -- Sam Whitmore |
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Posted at 01:39 PM |
| Fri, Jun 17 2005 |
Tech Media This Week - 1 |
| Welcome to the first podcast from Sam Whitmore's Media Survey. It's called Tech Media This Week, and it looks behind the scenes at what's happening inside the business of tech media. This week we focus on the impending sale of Fast Company, and analyze from a PR perspective BusinessWeek's Jun. 20 cover story, entitled "The Power of Us." -- Sam Whitmore |
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