Ask questions with your blog posts. Disclose anything that might be questionable. Ask them questions often. Ask questions of people you meet. One question: Under Home Base, you advise to claim your site on Technorati. But a question (you did recommend this)- when posting comments on other blogs, where is the line between outrageous and acceptable self-promotion? quick question for you Chris (or anyone else) - it seems like there are literally hundreds of web apps out there. December 2005. October 2005. September 2005. About. MORE >>

If you want to find the messages that have a certain kind of star, use one of the following queries: has:yellow-star (or l:^ss_sy) has:blue-star (or l:^ss_sb) has:red-star (or l:^ss_sr) has:orange-star (or l:^ss_so) has:green-star (or l:^ss_sg) has:purple-star (or l:^ss_sp) has:red-bang (or l:^ss_cr) has:yellow-bang (or l:^ss_cy) has:blue-info (or l:^ss_cb) has:orange-guillemet (or l:^ss_co) has:green-check (or l:^ss_cg) has:purple-question (or l:^ss_cp) You can enable the Quick Links labs feature to save some of these queries so that they are always accessible with a single click. MORE >>

Since 2005, however, he has from the ground up built This Week in Tech (TWiT) into a tech media powerhouse , thanks to a suite of shows that have attracted strong following and advertiser loyalty. The question is will the pure-plays reign the way their predecessors did or will the traditional media companies use their brands to outmuscle everyone. Every major advance in distribution technology over the last 100 years has spawned a class of media upstarts that focused on these emerging, mass platforms and, along the way, became giants. Now a new era is under way. Lose It. MORE >>

Fortunately, I had gone to a private high school that fundamentally practiced what Postman was preaching, which was to equip students to question, evaluate, and interpret what they were told. As non-experts we need to become more aware of how the "filters" that different sorts of experts use to make sense of their fields not only produce important expert insights but also blind experts to other potential insights that will more than likely bear on making an appropriately informed decision about the questions at hand. The first question should never be "how can we do this?" MORE >>

Questions around mobile monetization come fast and hard — and the answers are never easy. How I See It: I’ve been in mobile since 2005 and the discussion around monetization predates that year. Where is the BIG money in mobile? Why the disconnect between the time we spend on mobile and the amount of money brands spend to reach us on our personal devices? Facebook — the leader in the combined power of mobile and social ­— has seen its stock price plunge, a development that has brought even more urgency to the discussion. Among the new data points we need to know: Of the 6.1 MORE >>