Blog Marketing Rule #42: He Who Is The Most Controversial Wins (Bigger Bloggers Are Best)

by Tony Hung on February 18, 2008

Over a year ago, I had the opportunity to step into the rarified boots of Darren Rowse for a week while he was one vacation. During that week, one of my more popular posts was one called “how to market (…)

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On Media Literacy, “Email Apnea”, and Wonderfully Large Leaps Of Logic.

by Tony Hung on February 17, 2008

A rather apropros piece, this about “email apnea”, courtesy of the Huffington Post, pimped by Robert Scoble, while in turn was of course reflexively promoted by Techmeme (and other news aggregators, possibly). “Apnea” referring to a period of time where (…)

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Hollywood Going After Chinese Torrent Sites? Oh, The Droll Naivite!

by Tony Hung on February 17, 2008

I promised myself I would wean back my blogging, but I came across this piece of news, and I just couldn’t help myself: looks like Hollywood (read: the MPA) is unsheathing their knives and have targeted Chinese torrent sites, in (…)

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I Love Techmeme, But …

by Tony Hung on February 17, 2008

Update: My faith in Techmeme comes through — Techmeme finally gets it right.  Yay! {albeit more than 24h after the original Reuters article was pushed out} To be honest, Blogrunner seems to have the same “problem”. But for my money, (…)

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High Definition Format War Over — Blu-Ray The Winner

by Tony Hung on February 16, 2008

Looks like Wal-Mart dropping the HD-DVD format in favour of Blu-Ray was eerily prescient of what was to come only hours later.  In fact, the New York Times reported that Wal-Mart’s support for the Blu-Ray format *was* HD-DVD’s demise yesterday. (…)

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