Steve talks about Chris worshippers on uStream. How they left the Registration party, went to a two and a half hour ball game, and came back… and the party was still going on!

Geoff marveled at the power networking that occurred from day 1.

Steve rapped on the Ignite movement (something I’m interested in getting going in the Baltimore/Washington area). Kris Krug did a 15 minute session on how to make your photos look better.

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The larger issue was in regards to the live online coverage of NBCOlympics.com. Is online sports viewing the new black?

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So the show was 15 minutes, as opposed to 30. We’re always trying to buy you more time in your day.

In this episode I expounded on the ideas laid out in my article on gap marketing. A brand can buy up advertising and target key demographics, but at the end of the day there are little things that can be done to assure a wide range of marketing efforts that don’t take a lot to do.

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The NY Times wrote a big article on troll culture online. We discussed the phenomena of the troll – bad people on the Internet. Shocking, there are bad people online, just like there are in real life. Shocking!

The nuances and motives of trolls are interesting. We talked about our personal trolls, Geoff discussed Loren Feldman and Amanda Chapel. The key is to ignore that person, because they either go away or look foolish.

Aaron validates with his own unnamed troll experience one year ago. He then says if you achieve any kind of Internet fame, you will attract this kind of attention. Thick skin is mandatory, especially if you end up on Valleywag. We discussed a few more troll stories.
Then we bridged into fatigue, blogger exhaustion. You get sick of the blogs you are reading, you see nothing new, it’s time to shake it up. We talked about Corvida’s blogger burn-out.

When you are getting indirect or direct business benefit you have to plow through it. Aaron and Geoff use different methods of shaking it up to keep it fresh. We use different sources, themes, etc. If you get tired of the blogosphere it’s because you are sick of the people you are reading. We talked about looking at NY Times blog engine, Technorati, Ice Rocket, and Google as places to look for new content.

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Welcome to Episode 29, though. Geoff and I kicked off the discussion talking about job searches and a story originally posted in the Wall Street Journal. The story talked about how many college grads are playing it a little loose in their job searches, using shorthand, etc. I wrote about it on Technosailor. You can also read what Jen Nedeau, who was quoted in the story, had to say on her blog.

We moved into the New York Times story discussing Comcast and their Twitter personality, Frank Eliason (aka @comcastcares). Geoff is a bit skittish of this new found new media presence being a lasting (and changing) effort within the Comcast organization. Does good customer service on one hand actually speak to a cultural change across the board?

Finally, we discussed the new Cuil (pronounced “cool”) search engine that members of the traditional media branded as a Google-killer. Bloggers drank the kool-aid too. However, Jeremy Tanner called in to discuss the FAIL aspect of this engine. I think we all agree here.

Enjoy!

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