Silicon Valley Watcher (5yrs)
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2014
November
22,
2014
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11:19 AM
America/Los_Angeles
The Facebook campus sits next to colorful algae on salt flats along San Francisco Bay.Ten years ago in mid 2004 I left the Financial Times and started publishing Silicon Valley Watcher. Silicon Valley was starting to wake from a long downturn from …
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2013
December
17,
2013
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15:59 PM
America/Los_Angeles
Om Malik, publisher of GigaOm, recently posted some thoughts about his 12 years of blogging and he came to the conclusion that blogs today are where he can aggregate all his fractured expressions across the web: Instagram photos, articles, comments, …
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2011
June
06,
2011
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04:38 AM
America/Los_Angeles
"I am no longer sure if I am in control of my blog, or if the blog could also be described as controlling me."This line jumped out at me as I was reading Irving Wladawsky-Berger's latest post: The Evolution of My Complex Relationship with …
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2010
September
21,
2010
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03:12 AM
America/Los_Angeles
[Here is a draft of an article for the fifth anniversary of the Society for New Communications Research (SNCR) - a Palo Alto, California based think tank. I'm a founding fellow of SNCR.] It's easy to forget that we are still in the very early …
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September
02,
2010
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04:11 AM
America/Los_Angeles
The Washington, DC organization Consumer Watchdog is making a big publicity push for its "Do not track me" campaign, which asks Congress to create a list for people that don't want to be monitored on the Internet.If the campaign succeeds it will be …
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2009
December
19,
2009
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06:43 AM
America/Los_Angeles
I've been writing about my five years as a journalist blogger and the many lessons and insights I've experienced. Five years is a good time to reflect about what I got myself into when I left the Financial Times.I had very little experience of the …
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September
09,
2009
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06:31 AM
America/Los_Angeles
[5yrs: Lessons and Insights - a series of posts looking back at the five years since I left the Financial Times and my job as a columnist and reporter, to become a "journalist blogger" at SVW.]When I worked at the Financial Times it was difficult to …
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August
27,
2009
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05:11 AM
America/Los_Angeles
[Another post in a series looking back over my five years since I left the Financial Times as a reporter and columnist.]When I left the Financial Times in early summer 2004 I didn't launch Silicon Valley Watcher until mid-September. I remember …
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August
21,
2009
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01:22 AM
America/Los_Angeles
[This is a series of articles marking my 5 year anniversary of leaving the Financial Times to become the first professional journalist/blogger.]When I left the Financial Times in late May 2004, I took a couple of months off. I had lunches, dinners, …
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August
20,
2009
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06:28 AM
America/Los_Angeles
[Five years ago I left my job as a reporter and columnist at the Financial Times to become a professional journalist/blogger. The first two installments of my story are here: Part 1 and Part 2.]After I left the Financial Times I wondered if I would …
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August
19,
2009
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07:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
[5yrs: Lessons and insights as a blogger/journalist - This is part 2 published at 4pm Pacific every day (or so). Part 1 is here.]After leaving the Financial Times in mid-2004 to become a professional "blogger/journalist" I began to think intensely …
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August
18,
2009
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07:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
It was about five years ago that I left my job as a reporter and columnist for the Financial Times in the San Francisco bureau. And it's been a tremendous journey.I didn't realize at the time that I would become the first reporter to leave a major …
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