Well, when you’re Mike Arrington you do. GigaOm reports that TechCrunch has hired a CEO, named Heather Harde who is formerly senior VP of acquisitions and mergers from Fox interactive. Now you may be thinking: “a blogger hiring a CEO — wtf?!” But hiring someone to manage the business (amongst other sides [...]
Its the weekend and what better time time to catch up on some comments here at DJI.
Jason Calacanis decided to weigh in on a post I did a few months ago, wherein I took exception to the shrill tone of the anti-PPP rhetoric. I also ranted a little about how A-list bloggers didn’t “get” [...]
… to *FOUR*!
Thanks to Hart of 1-800-hart (a fine fellow Canadian blogger), we now have a total of four invites to the closed beta of Joost, the online video concern from those wild and crazy guys at Skype. Since the number of invites has doubled, its only fair to extend the deadline by [...]
BusinessLogs, the personal blog of Mike Rundle of 9rules, has been acquired by Splashpress Media. Splashpress has been on a bit of a tear recently, acquiring the BlogHerald (of which I am the current editor), Performancing, the Cutline Wordpress Theme, and Tubetorial.
Having all of these blogging brands under one umbrella poses interesting challenges for Splashpress, [...]
Well, Nick Denton not only said it best, but demonstrated it best: Viacom’s titanic 1 billion dollar lawsuit is nothing but a huge pile of hypocrisy. Quick recap (since I failed to blog about it when it broke) — Viacom’s negotiations with YouTube/ Google were widely reported last fall as a prelude to something special [...]
April 7 Update: If you would like another chance at an invite, please head over to the East Weekend Joost Invite Contest. Leave your name, and be sure to fill in the email field. The draw will occur Monday night and I’ll post the results on Tuesday.
Joost is a new online video concern from the [...]
Every time I read news about Pay Per Post I feel a little more ambivalent about them. A recent press release on their efforts to enlist College students to as paid word-of-mouth bloggers makes me only more so.
On one hand, I am all for small bloggers trying to earn a tiny sliver of the [...]
