Josue Sierra

One of the best ways to bring traffic to your blog (or company) is by being available as an “expert” guest on radio or TV. If you focus on a nitch subject (your product or industry would be perfect if you are a business blogger) or issue, and consistently write about it, its only a matter of time before you start getting invitations.

Of course, if you happen to have the “luck” of writing about an issue that becomes the “newsworthy” topic of the day, great!

We went on air just after President Bush committed the national guard to patrol the border – in the continuing controversy in the US over illegal immigration. Two Latino bloggers with different perspectives on the issue spoke to us from America. Josue Sierra of Latinoissues.blogspot.com and Jose Quinonez of Bluelatinos.org Very different views on the solution, but some agreement that the present system wasn’t working.

Click here and then click on “Listen to the latest show.”

The Wall Street Journal finaly got around to doing a review of Apple’s “Apple TV.” If you are tired of reading techy, fan-reviews from the tech sites, you might want to get the WSJ Rob Pegoraro’s perspective:

Digital photos, music and video all conspire to fill up your computer — but eventually, you’ll want to get those files back into the living room, where the big screen and the good speakers live.

Parking a laptop in the living room is one way to bridge that gap, but the electronics industry has been pushing another answer: a “media receiver” that plugs into your TV and stereo, connects to a home network, and plays your Mac or PC’s media files where everybody can enjoy them.

In the end, it didn’t get rave reviews:

Compared with most of Apple’s new products, the Apple TV feels distinctly unpolished. If your iTunes library isn’t too large, you can be happy with it now. But most people will do better to wait for a revision of this promising, but occasionally frustrating, device.

I was just made aware of a great article in January 20th of this year on the Wall Street Journal on Net Neutrality. I cant find it in the archives, and I don’t want to reprint the whole thing, but this is the gist of it:

Net neutrality’s rules, price controls and litigation would prevent broadband networks from being built, limit the amount of available bandwidth and thus encourage the zero-sum discrimination supposedly deplored.

Without many tens of billions of dollars worth of new fiber optic networks, thousands of new business plans in communications, medicine, education, security, remote sensing, computing, the military and every mundane task that could soon move to the Internet will be frustrated. All the innovations on the edge will die. Only an explosion of risky network investment and new network technology can accommodate these millions of ideas.

If you have access to WSJ archives, search for “The Coming Exaflood” by BRET SWANSON (January 20, 2007; Page A11).

Sorry for the lack of posts these days. I have been real busy, and real stressed with work. I’m trying to create some margin in my life, so I’ve had to cut down on blogging. Its only temporary — come back soon for more.

Josue

Just discovered a valuable resource for those interested in getting started in blogging. Here is a good post to start with:

Just about everyone will agree that the internet offers users a certain degree of anonymity. There will always be debates about whether that’s a good thing or not, but it’s the reality of the web. For the most part, people can’t see us if we don’t want them to, and people can’t get to know us if we don’t want them to.

As a blogger, you may have asked yourself just how personal you want to get when it comes to your blog. Do you want people to know a little or a lot about you? Do you want to disclose personal information to the readers who visit your blog?

All of these questions are important to ask if you are a blog owner; in determining just how personal you want to get on your blog, consider two critical points.

The two questions are:

1. What is the purpose of your blog?
2. What do you feel comfortable with?

Read the full post and comments on the two questions over at Blogging Expertise.

This article about YouTube on the Washington Post goes to show that in today’s fast changing competitive marketplace, no Goliath is safe from it’s David.

YouTube is at a critical juncture. Since it launched in December 2005, it has ridden a wave of popularity that led Google to buy it in a $1.65 billion deal last year. But now the site must figure out its relationship with major traditional media companies while also forging its business, which to date has relied on advertising posted alongside videos.

The partnership announced yesterday by NBC, News Corp., AOL, Yahoo and Microsoft creates a first-of-its-kind alternative to some of YouTube’s most popular content: TV and movie clips and music videos that were often posted there without permission. Unlike YouTube, the new competitor — which says it will launch its Web site this summer — has proposed a wide offering of videos, borrowing the iTunes model of offering some files for free and others, in this case movies and TV shows, for a fee.

Industry experts aren’t ready to announce YouTube’s demise but say the company needs to revamp its strategy quickly.

According to Eric Garland, chief executive of BigChampagne, an entertainment market research firm, YouTube is not about watching TV, but about connecting and social networking. Considering how fickly the social network audiences seem to be, how effective of a strategy is that?

YouTube has never been a destination site for watching television on the Internet but instead is more like a social network, he said. “People go to YouTube to be seen and to see other people and to be a part of this community environment,” Garland said.