The Drama 2.0 Show

Silicon Valley: The Only Place Where Getting a New Job = “Acquisition”

Drama 2.0 — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 00:04:43 +0000

Pownce, the microblogging service that tried to be a superior Twitter, is no more. The service, which was ironically “co-founded” by tweeting superstar Kevin Rose, will soon be turning out the lights. Its assets (whatever those are) have been acquired by Six Apart and co-founders Leah Culver and Mike Malone will take jobs at Six Apart [...]

Romans vs. Barbarians

Drama 2.0 — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 06:57:55 +0000

I like Glenn Kelman, the CEO of online real estate startup Redfin. He’s usually a voice of sensibility in a tech blogosphere that is often anything but sensible. In a guest post on TechCrunch this past weekend entitled “The First-Time CEO’s Recession Survival Guide,” he provided some advice for first-time CEOs grappling with today’s economic environment. The [...]

Mumbai and Social Media: Data is Not News

Drama 2.0 — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 19:26:16 +0000

The flurry of tweets on Twitter following the terrible events that developed last Thursday in Mumbai have many New Media proponents once again promulgating the notion that Twitter and other social media services are not only changing the face of news media but are dramatically improving it. One of my favorite New Media news hypesters, Michael [...]

Happy Thanksgiving

Drama 2.0 — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 21:21:56 +0000

Since I know most of my readers are in the United States, The Drama 2.0 Show wishes you a very happy Thanksgiving. What am I thankful for this year? The fact that I haven’t been incarcerated. A global economic crisis that has created many profitable trades (and fools like Howard Lindzon who make those those trades possible). Patrón Gran [...]

Best. Invite. Ever.

Drama 2.0 — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 06:51:44 +0000

Earlier today, a reader of The Drama 2.0 Show forwarded me an invite sent to her by the founder of a new startup whose service apparently just came out of private beta. The two paragraphs that had me smiling: I am asking all of you to go to [URL removed] , sign up and deposit $10 [...]

Wall Street Journal: Google To Lay Off Contractors

Drama 2.0 — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 08:25:19 +0000

Google may still be the Internet’s 400-lb. gorilla but the global economic crisis has given the company an ass-beating that it and its employees won’t soon forget. Despite its ability to hold up quite well thus far in a tough environment, the company isn’t nearly as recession-proof as top executives believed: after hitting a high of [...]

What the Fuck is Wrong with People?

Drama 2.0 — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 18:49:09 +0000

I received a curious comment today on an old post I wrote last year: Just so that no other semi-professional media types make the same mistake that Linux Insider did, this article is A *joke*. A *spoof*. A *parody*. Second Life has lots of weapons, but they can’t be used to “kill” other residents except in [...]

Sponsor Shout-Out

Drama 2.0 — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:14:46 +0000

Thanks to my sponsors for helping support my recent travels. LookupPage “helps you create a personal web page, always visible on the first page of the leading search engines’ results when someone searches your name.” My home away from home, E-consultancy.com, is “the UK’s leading online publisher of best practice internet marketing reports, research and how-to guides.” [...]

P&G Marketer Questions Social Media Scientology, Asks “Is Social Media Really Media?”

Drama 2.0 — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 05:29:58 +0000

Ted McConnell is general manager of interactive marketing and innovation at Procter & Gamble and he has a simple question for social media folks: “What in heaven’s name made you think you could monetize the real estate in which somebody is breaking up with their girlfriend?” Telling the audience at a talk hosted by Cincinnati’s Digital [...]

Tim O’Reilly’s O’Reilly Media = Spammer

Drama 2.0 — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:43:05 +0000

I’ve criticized Tim O’Reilly of O’Reilly Media fame quite a bit recently. I’ve referred to him a bourgeois hippie and called “bullshit” on his attempts to turn Web 2.0 into something more than it is, masking, of course, the fact that the hype train is rolling off the tracks. Given O’Reilly’s utopian ideals and his status [...]