Ken Yarmosh is a web strategy consultant who helps organizations, businesses, VCs, and technology developers maximize their Internet and web investments.
Does “social media,” the collection of user-generated content provided through blogs, wikis, podcasts, and the like, make you dumb? It’s a theme that’s been explored by a number of bloggers, spurred by a study of the Project for Excellence in Journalism.
At first glance, the answer to the question, if it’s worth addressing at all, […]
If you have ever visited a museum, the first thing you’d likely look for is a map. The map provides you with a guide for where to find objects of a similar theme. If you went to the National Museum of American Museum of Natural History in New York City, you would notice that parts […]
“Hello, my name is Bob and I check my e-mail while on the toilet.”
That’s a line from a piece I wrote about the digital urgency problem. It seems my editor liked the line enough to also entitle the article with it.
What is the digital urgency problem? It’s the problem that has caused the interruption filled lives so many have now […]
Note: I wrote this post before Scoble, Steve Rubel, and others began a discussion on this exact topic. As it turns out, it seems people have been thinking about these ideas too, so I’m publishing these thoughts in advance of my originally planned date.
Do your professional colleagues know your home address? Do they have your […]
I’ve written about being unplugged and offline in the past. I feel the need to re-iterate and expound briefly on these thoughts because “in the moment sharing” (i.e., Twitter) did not exist and social networks had not yet reached the attention they now receive.
In a world of absolute connectivity — mobile cell phones, 24-7 cable news, and instant access Internet […]
Andrew Keen, the author of The Cult of the Amateur, is often labeled a polemic, a contrarian whose sole aim is controversy. Indeed, the subtitle of his book “How Today’s Internet is Killing Our Culture” is a bit over the top; much of his book reads like a diatribe. I’ve expressed my disagreement with Keen before but […]
Our world is becoming increasingly digital. From media and advertising to dating and music, the 1’s and 0’s of digital technology have touched nearly every aspect of our culture.
Up to this point, the digital medium often ties back to the physical world. A hopeless romantic, in the non-metaphorical sense, might use an online dating service to […]
If you are keeping tabs on the 2008 Presidential campaign, you probably know about the hoopla over the Fred Thompson pre-announcement of his entering the race.
I’ve been thinking a lot about SEM as it relates to these campaigns and actually had an article published yesterday at The American Thinker called: Fred on the Web (or […]
“This week, there was a tragedy in Kansas, 10,000 people died.”
- Barack Obama, courtesy of YouTube
The Obama campaign actually does quite a nice job on their YouTube page - but I’m sure Barack wishes he can have that one back.
Online video sharing is going to have a tremendous impact on the 2008 presidential campaign . […]
Twitter - the “what are you doing?” service - is far and away the new craze of today’s early adopter crowd. The idea behind Twitter is simple; send mass updates about “what you are doing” to the Twitter community via SMS, IM, or the web.
There are some powerful uses for Twitter. For example, imagine […]
I have a piece up at TCS Daily entitled Goldilocks 2.0. I think the Editor described it best in the tease:
Goldilocks 2.0
Ken Yarmosh on Web 2.0, its fans, its critics, and why everyone is a little bit wrong and a little bit right.
I wrote this commentary because I saw somewhat more of a middle ground in […]
I have a piece posted on the American Thinker - I originally entitled it De-Generation Net? but the Editor changed it to Here Comes Gen Net. An excerpt follows below:
Unlike Gen Xers, today’s generation definitely has something to define itself by: the Internet. “Generation Net” or Gen Net lives online. They have clever away messages […]
If you’ve been reading my blog, you know that I’ve been tracking the whole Net Neutrality discussion (here and here). Well, after some considerable thought and research, I’ve finally come to my conclusion on the subject.
Unlike those on both sides of the issue, I don’t see it as cut-and-dry, ‘for’ or ‘against’ network neutrality. And […]
I’ve got a piece up over at TCS Daily entitled Untangling the Web: Man Plus Machine. Outside of my work at the Corante Web Hub, it’s my first splash into more established writing:
Just as before, the expertise of humans and the automation of technology are being used to try to sort through the noise created […]
The Net Neutrality debate keeps getting crazier and crazier. My previous post about it should give you an idea why, as it was entitled Net Neutrality - It’ll Make Your Head Hurt.
Hands Off the Internet is an anti-Net Neutrality group supported by the likes of the telcos. I just wrote about them at the Corante […]
I’ve got to admit, I am becoming a real fan of USA Today. I think it started during my trip to the Olympics, where it was typically the only U.S. English language paper available. They have been doing some great reporting on the tech scene in particular.
Yesterday, they had three separate articles speaking to social […]
Read Part 1 of my write-up on the debate I attended 3/6/06, entitled An Army of Davids or Triumph of Goliath?
Joe Trippi - like many people - likes the printing press metaphor when thinking about the power of the Internet. But he articulated the idea that the Internet isn’t just about distributing information, it is […]
The panel was first introduced by Nick Schulz, the Editor-in-Chief of TCS Daily (which co-sponsored the event with Reason Magazine). I had the pleasure of talking at length with Nick post event about various Internet issues as they relate to society. I gave him my card and hope to stay in touch with him going […]
Earlier this week, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales faced questioning from the Senate Judiciary Committee, in regards to legitimacy of the Bush Administration’s NSA wiretapping surveillance program. Mr. Gonzales wrote an editorial, published Monday morning in the Wall Street Journal’s Opinion Editorial entitled America Expects Surveillance.
Mr. Gonzales’ case as stated in this editorial and also before […]
In a political climate of exceptional partisanship, conservatives and liberals, Republicans and Democrats, have found common ground in the strangest of places - the Internet.
Last week, U.S. Internet search leader Google launched a new search service in Communist China under the domain Google.cn. With it, the same company that recently denied the U.S. government search […]
Help!
I’m a stickler for organization and orderliness. That’s why my online (and more generally my tech) life is propelling me to a digital breakdown.
The craziness of my laptop’s desktop at the end of the day, e-mail to read and respond to, RSS aggregator to manage, online groups, articles to read, bookmarks to delete, news […]
“How ya gonna keep ‘em down on the farm After they’ve seen Paree”
- song from World War I Era
Network neutrality is a phrase that has been the subject of much debate - and the discussion about it reaches far beyond the recent conversations of the blogoshpere.
Previously unbeknownst to me, I came across this term as […]
When it comes to the recent amendment, regarding a change to make anonymity and online annoyance a federal crime, I’m not sure why there is such a the big fuss.
My position, as articulated at the Corante Web Hub and in my comments throughout the blogosphere is that the change merely extends similar policy to the […]
David Cohn of Wired News poses a very relative question, Will Pajamas Media Wake up Blogs? I would argue that blogs are already awake or at least they’ve awoken and just haven’t gotten out of bed.
From the most recent numbers that I pointed to in yesterday’s interview, there are a relatively small number of people […]
According to a recent Pew survey, 91% of Americans are either unsure of or have never heard of the phrase “RSS feed”. It is a pretty amazing stat, considering the growing success surrounding this technology.
Most major news and information sites now have RSS feeds. Microsoft is including RSS support in its next version of Windows. […]
And the winner is: blogs. Merriam-Webster recently announced that “blog” was the 2004 Word of the Year, as based on yielding the highest number of user queries. But the word “blog” is only part of what is now often being described as the “New Internet”.
Loosely defined, the New Internet consists of blogs, RSS, and wikis. […]
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