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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This is what I have been waiting for: FriendFeed.
I wan’t to know what my friends and blog readers are doing, reading, watching, consuming. This could be better than any filter, news site, periodical, or newspaper, or search engine for my daily information, IMHO.
Tags: friendfeed, social content, social software

I have been ranting about content and community in lead generation for months now, but the message often gets me skepticism at best and a confused glazed look at worst.
However, I think I may have stumbled on an enlightening analysis for my point: Steve Rubel of Micro Persuasion in his analysis of "Why Some Web [...]

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

One of my perennially favorite fantasy players, Kevin Youkilis, just started blogging: Yooooouuuuukkkkk
I love this trend that I think started with Curt Schilling. This is a great way to bring the fans back inside the game!
Technorati Tags: Youkilis, baseball, blog, mlb, boston, redsox

This is one of the big questions and ideas for the future that Dave Winer ponders.
Technorati Tags: Internet, archives, social content

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

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 [...]

Doc Searls walks through an interesting discussion of Independent Identity in Networked Markets. I definitely believe that the new market(ing) model on the Internet is going to swirl around his ideas of value constellations and identity. Traditional lead generation is having a great run on companies aggressive understanding that driving consumers to the Internet, where [...]

I went to BloggerCon III, which was my first, and it was a great experience. I think I will try to make this one too:
BloggerCon IV: ”
Friday, April 14, 2006
BloggerCon IV in SF, in June
Let’s do the fourth BloggerCon, in San Francisco, the week of June 19, the exact date TBD.
The goal of the conference [...]