28 Jan 2010
As I was listening to the State of the Union on my drive home last night, I was thinking about buzz. I wanted to know what actually got talked about more yesterday: the iPad or the State of the Union. Here’s a quick look. Using Sysomos, I did a scan of online conversations from yesterday. Velocity of Conversation Any medium that supported real-time discussion was far more iPad focused. The news wires went for Obama. Think about the way you experienced each of these events yesterday, and the speed at which information traveled about them. Within minutes of the iPad reveal, I’d been sent multiple emails with visual allusions to feminine products. Information consumption came in snippets. Features. Apps. Pricing. With the State of the Union, information consumption came as a whole. There was processing and analysis. Does it last? Discussion about the iPad was explosive yesterday. I wondered, though,…
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27 Jan 2010
Trophy Room put together a little video recap of our fishing trip to Antero reservoir. It is a beautiful location and an amazing place to fish. Enjoy! -Brandon
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15 Jan 2010
Here’s a look at a noteworthy online conversation that’s been everywhere this week. By now we all know about NBC’s very public fumble with their weeknight talk show hosts. I’ll admit that I don’t actually watch The Jay Leno Show or The Tonight Show (this of course is the exact reason that NBC is having issues in the first place). I have, however, been fascinated by the way this has spread online. Supporters of Conan O’Brien have joined forces to (loosely) create Team COCO. This team has some major traction, and it’s all because Conan O’Brien’s core audience is a group of Facebooking, Youtubing, non-traditional TV watching 20-somethings like myself. What I find most interesting is that the online conversation, one large enough to effect a sea-change in the world of late-night, is being held almost entirely outside of the reach of Conan O’Brien, Jay Leno and NBC. What has…
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13 Jan 2010
Social media helps information spread like wildfire, and there is no better example than what is happening today with information, relief, and fundraising efforts regarding the devastating earthquake in Haiti. Wyclef Jean, Yele, and the Red Cross At about 3pm MST on January 12th, both Wyclef and the Red Cross had their first tweets about the earthquake. Within an hour, Wyclef had started tweeting about texting a code toYele to donate $5 for relief efforts. The initial was response was so overwhelming that the Yele servers went down. Wyclef tweeted throughout the night with news updates, re-tweets of those who donated then tweeted, and his travel plans. A 3 hour gap in his tweets represented the time he was flying to the Dominican Republic; from just before takeoff to the moment he landed, he let the world know what he was doing, what others were doing, and how we could help. The…
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