Rice’s Riffs

Joseph Jaffe of Jaffe Juice needs your participation in his social experiment of Bumrushing the Amazon Charts. He has written what is sure to be a killer book on social media and is looking to put his thesis to the test.
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Yahoo! has launched their new social networking platform into private beta. It is very Facebook-like with some interesting features. If you would like an invitation to try it out email me wmrice [at] gmail [dot] com.
My Yahoo!Mash Profile: http://mash.yahoo.com/wmriceusa

I want to know more about my readers. What do you read? What do you find interesting? Who are you?
So, here is my thought–send [wmrice AT gmail DOT com] me or do the following:

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I must confess I don’t get (conceptually) the fascination, but I suppose I need to try it…
Marshall Kirkpatrick » Twittering more than blogging
This is particularly fascinating, considering the number and frequency of production software pushes we do at Kaleidico:
Dave Winer on Twitter for Coding Communities
Technorati Tags: twitter, blogging, software, cocial

Content, and copywriting specifically, are the keys to the Web lead generation and sales. Learn from some of the best:
Content vs. Links (Online Marketing Blog)
Link Building Strategies that Work (Copyblogger)
Creating Cornerstone Content (Copyblogger)
Flagship Content (Performancing)
Search Engine Keyword Research (Copyblogger)

Dave Winer has once again seeded the Internet with a critical thought question that needs an answer. How do we preserve ideas that are increasingly created and reside only digitally on the Internet?

David Carr, business writer for the NY Times talks about his blog in 24-Hour Newspaper People - New York Times.
It is interesting that he talks about relationships and community. I have also felt this was a power of blogs. I have read, written, and met people I never would have had I not had a [...]

It is stuff like this–“A Feed Subscription Marketing Ecosystem”–that makes me love this guy. He tries things that makes him understand the market that he is involved in better.
He is an entrepreneurial VC. It has to make him a better investor and certainly a better “partner” if you are in his portfolio.
Great stuff!

Robert Scoble, generally an apolitical blogger has just stepped in his blog and video camera into the 2008 Presidential race as a invited journalist of the Edwards’ campaign.
With the tech savvy Edwards and Barack Obama (with a regular blog and podcast) throwing their hat in the ring perhaps Joe Trippi’s decree, “The Revolution Will Not [...]

From copyblogger, rapidly becoming one of my favorite blogs–The Mark Twain Guide to Better Blogging.
Here are a couple more that I think should be important to bloggers:
We write frankly and fearlessly but then we “modify” before we print.- Life on the Mississippi

I think this would add more power to even the most radical writers, because rational, logical [...]