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Tech Media This Week host Sam Whitmore analyzes the week's most important tech media news in a quick 10 minutes. Sam also interviews a leading tech editor and offers a special "takeaway" for tech PR pros who seek more and better coverage for their clients. Primary Format : Blogs Also Listed as: Media Talk Technology City : Beverly State/Province : MA Country : USA Country : NA User Tags: User Votes: RSS Feed Website People found this Podcast Searching for: Media | Car talk | News | tech | Talk | View this Podcast on a Google Map. Add to iTunes Text Only listing of Tech Media This Week Podcasts Trumix.com listings available of Tech Media This Week Podcasts Click Here to Update the directory of this podcasts programs.

Trumix.com listings available of Tech Media This Week Podcasts Build your own playlists with this podcast. David Strom's WebInformant.tv It's a new and interesting way to demonstrate software, online, just the way a user experiences it. -- Sam Whitmore Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rafe Needleman's Pro PR Tips Moonlighting from CNET, the Webware.com editor dispenses advice to PR pros on Twitter and his new blog. -- Sam Whitmore Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Forrester Buys JupiterResearch, NYT Builds Business Coverage... ...and the details behind our agreement with Cision to co-market the SWMS editorial teleconference series. -- Sam Whitmore Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Rise of User-Generated Circulation You know how you forward web links to your friends and colleagues? IDG exec Frank Cutitta wants to make money from that. -- Sam Whitmore Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Vara Leaves WSJ to Pursue Creative Writing Who walks away from a great beat at the world's most prestigious newspaper? Vauhini does! -- Sam Whitmore Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Brenner Joins CSO, Which Has Redesigned After four years at TechTarget, Bill Brenner now works for CSO, which this week launched a web site redesign. -- Sam Whitmore Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "Off With Their Heads" at eWeek There's a hell of a lot of tech reporting talent now on the street. -- Sam Whitmore Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BusinessWeek Arcade -- No Kidding! You've got to hand it to BW -- it takes chances. -- Sam Whitmore Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Arrington Angst The TechCrunch founder decries other A-listers who take venture capital. Ally with me instead and let's kill CNET, he says. -- Sam Whitmore Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website We Analyze RSS Feeds from IT Trades eWeek edges out Computerworld for the most. InformationWeek.com has the least. -- Sam Whitmore Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Heard and Seen at CES 2008 More video is being shot than ever before. -- Sam Whitmore Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What CMP Can Do with David Berlind How 'bout a three-ring circus at John Battelle's Web 2.0 event? -- Sam Whitmore Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Enterprise Tech Making a Comeback Virtualization is but one reason why, said an editorial panel at this week's PRSA symposium in Mountain View, Calif. -- Sam Whitmore Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ziff Davis on the Rebound? Former editorial employees want to return, says eWeek editorial director Eric Lundquist. -- Sam Whitmore Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Neil Cavuto on Advocacy and Point of View Two separate and distinct things, sayeth Fox's double-duty on-air talent. -- Sam Whitmore Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TechTarget's Authoritative Study on IT Buying Trends Search engines rule, and vendor web sites are creeping up on the trade publishers. -- Sam Whitmore Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Vendors as Publishers IDG and CMP deploy vendor-generated content as "editorial." Welcome to the new world. -- Sam Whitmore Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Repost: Who is Mark Anderson? We asked Eric Savitz, Tom Krazit, Eric Auchard and Mark himself. -- Sam Whitmore Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Who is Mark Anderson? We asked Eric Savitz, Tom Krazit and Eric Auchard -- and Mark himself. -- Sam Whitmore Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Once an Editor, Now in PR Former editor-in-chief Brian Fuller discusses his new job as VP at Blanc & Otus. -- Sam Whitmore Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tasks and Topics Tech publishing experts are moving beyond "editorial" to task-based sites that, one day, tech PR will recognize and respect. -- Sam Whitmore Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Local Editorial on the Rise BusinessWeek's Chicago edition is only the latest example. -- Sam Whitmore Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Changes and Opportunity at the WSJ Check out Andy Jordan's Tech Diary video podcast... it's good. And what he's doing, you can do, too. -- Sam Whitmore Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ziff Davis Media Misses Debt Payment In other news: a new leader for InfoWorld and unrest at Conde Nasty. -- Sam Whitmore Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tech Media This Week -- Aug. 22 CMP expands while InfoWorld contracts and Ziff Davis Media is broadcasting online, again. Drop us a note to tell us what you think of Tech Media This Week: sam@mediasurvey.com. Thanks! -- Sam Whitmore Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tech Media This Week -- Aug. 15, 2005 Why did Google screw up so badly with News.com? Who can stop TechTarget? Will CXO Media be transformed under new CEO Michael Friedenberg? Drop us a line and tell us what you think of Tech Media This Week: sam@mediasurvey.com. Thanks! -- Sam Whitmore Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tech Media This Week -- Aug. 8, 2005 Marketing Sherpa publisher Anne Holland discusses Jupitermedia's sell-off of the Search Engine Strategies event series and the Click-Z network of web sites, and analyst Dana Gardner explains why he left Yankee Group to go solo. -- Sam Whitmore Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tech Media This Week -- Aug. 1, 2005 Tom Foremski, editor and publisher of Silicon Valley Watcher, discusses the upcoming Vortex conference and the BlogHer conference just concluded. Also covered: Executive moves at IDG. -- Sam Whitmore Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rebecca Blumenstein, WSJ's Beijing Bureau Chief Hear what pleasantly and unpleasantly surprised Rebecca in her first year as bureau chief, as well as some of the obstacles she faces in China. -- Sam Whitmore Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tech Media This Week -- Jul. 25, 2005 eWeek loses two beat reporters, but that doesn't necessarily reflect poorly on the publication... and how does InformationWeek editor John Foley describe the ideal PR pro? Enjoy our latest podcast! -- Sam Whitmore Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tech Media This Week - 5 Have you heard of The News Show, the daily web video production from CMP's TechWeb? You'll hear all about it in Tech Media This Week. We also discuss a search engine that can pinpoint specific words spoken in podcasts. We'd love to hear from you: drop us a line at sam@mediasurvey.com -- Sam Whitmore Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CMP Gets a Second Life It's now a certified Second Life developer. Also this time: TechTarget scores record profits. -- Sam Whitmore Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website David Anderson, GreenOptions.com The leader of a hot clean tech blog network shares with us his latest news. -- Sam Whitmore Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website No Softball Questions at Fortune's iMeme Conference Adam Lashinsky, for one, kicked ass and took names. How refreshing! -- Sam Whitmore Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Odds and Ends from a Hot Holiday Week Layoffs at IDC and the San Jose Mercury News, and Backfence gets torn down. -- Sam Whitmore Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Vendors as Publishers -- Get Used to It That's where so much of this laid-off tech edit talent is headed. -- Sam Whitmore Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ziff Davis "Enterprise" Sold; Wall Street Journal Reorganized Meet the new bosses, same as the old bosses? -- Sam Whitmore Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website David Strom on CMP Layoffs Did 200 people really need to lose their jobs this week? The founding editor of the now-defunct Network Computing sounds off. -- Sam Whitmore Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Why Renay San Miguel Left CNN It must have been tough to do. Weber Shandwick Worldwide is his new home. -- Sam Whitmore Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Virtualization Belongs in the Controllah, Suckah! From the back of a taxicab in NYC, we discuss Mr. T and other topics of potential interest to tech PR pros. -- Sam Whitmore Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Joe Panettieri on Custom Publishing at Microcast Communications The two-time Ziff Davis veteran discusses his company's unique approach to exploring new tech markets. -- Sam Whitmore Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NYTimes.com Launches Small Biz Section... and We Correct Ourselves Tech Media This Week is seven minutes or less each week or double your money back. - Sam Whitmore Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Two New Features at InfoWorld.com InfoClipz are cool animations of technical concepts. And Gina Smith this week debuts "The Week Ahead." -- Sam Whitmore Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website On Our Minds: Fortune and BusinessWeek "Place your BusinessWeek column in the folded and upright position..." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mike Arrington and Steve Rubel in Hot Water Ready-fire-aim is not the sequence. -- Sam Whitmore Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The End of the Line for Line56 The enterprise site is still up there but not for long, so we're told. -- Sam Whitmore Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CMP, The Register, CIO.com and YPulse A little bit of everything this week. Still under ten minutes each week or double your money back. -- Sam Whitmore Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jennifer Fader on BarCamp; Tom Foremski Hooks Up with PodTech.net Listen to a model of tomorrow's tech PR pro: Jennifer Fader practices traditional tech PR but reads 200 RSS feeds a day and runs a social media practice, too. -- Sam Whitmore Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website News of CMP, IDG and Word with PR Blogger Phil Gomes Phil was the first PR blogger... now there are more than 600, he says. -- Sam Whitmore Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website News from IDG, ZDM and CMP; Two Tech PR Podcasts Debut Online continues to drive the business; David Strom and Paul Gillin launch the Tech PR War Stories podcast. -- Sam Whitmore Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Will Forrester Sell to Gartner? Gartner CEO Gene Hall told Wm. Blair&Co. that he'd be interested if Forrester was willing to sell. -- Sam Whitmore Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website We're Shortening This Thing Up Even ten minutes is too long these days. From now on, our podcast will take six to seven minutes of your time and no more. -- Sam Whitmore Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tech Media This Week -- Jul. 1, 2005 Business 2.0 senior writer Michael V. Copeland describes changes at the B2 web site -- and is CNet Networks really for sale? Let us know what you think about Tech Media This Week -- send your comments to sam@mediasurvey.com. Thanks! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tech Media This Week - 2 We report on location from Gnomedex in Seattle. We interview blogger/podcaster Dave Winer on what tech media pros need to know today about b-to-b podcasting. -- Sam Whitmore Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tech Media This Week - 1 Welcome to the first podcast from Sam Whitmore's Media Survey. It's called Tech Media This Week, and it looks behind the scenes at what's happening inside the business of tech media. This week we focus on the impending sale of Fast Company, and analyze from a PR perspective BusinessWeek's Jun. 20 cover story, entitled "The Power of Us." -- Sam Whitmore Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tech Media This Week -- Jul. 25, 2005 eWeek loses two beat reporters, but that doesn't necessarily reflect poorly on the publication... and how does InformationWeek editor John Foley describe the ideal PR pro? Enjoy our latest podcast! -- Sam Whitmore Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tech Media This Week - 5 Have you heard of The News Show, the daily web video production from CMP's TechWeb? You'll hear all about it in Tech Media This Week. We also discuss a search engine that can pinpoint specific words spoken in podcasts. We'd love to hear from you: drop us a line at sam@mediasurvey.com -- Sam Whitmore Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tech Media This Week - Jul. 11, 2005 Two key departures from "old" tech media to new... what's up with these thin IT publications this month... and new Technorati blog-monitoring tools on the way. Send your TMTW compliments, comments and criticism to sam@mediasurvey.com. Thanks! -- Sam Whitmore Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tech Media This Week -- Aug. 22 CMP expands while InfoWorld contracts and Ziff Davis Media is broadcasting online, again. Drop us a note to tell us what you think of Tech Media This Week: sam@mediasurvey.com. Thanks! -- Sam Whitmore Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tech Media This Week -- Aug. 15, 2005 Why did Google screw up so badly with News.com? Who can stop TechTarget? Will CXO Media be transformed under new CEO Michael Friedenberg? Drop us a line and tell us what you think of Tech Media This Week: sam@mediasurvey.com. Thanks! -- Sam Whitmore Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tech Media This Week -- Aug. 8, 2005 Marketing Sherpa publisher Anne Holland discusses Jupitermedia's sell-off of the Search Engine Strategies event series and the Click-Z network of web sites, and analyst Dana Gardner explains why he left Yankee Group to go solo. -- Sam Whitmore Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tech Media This Week -- Aug. 1, 2005 Tom Foremski, editor and publisher of Silicon Valley Watcher, discusses the upcoming Vortex conference and the BlogHer conference just concluded. Also covered: Executive moves at IDG. -- Sam Whitmore Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tech Media This Week -- Sep. 12, 2005 CXO Media lays off ten percent of its staff including senior sales and marketing executives; Hurricane Katrina provides weeks worth of edit opps for tech PR pros; and BusinessWeek poaches a WSJ page one editor for BW's new investigations team. -- Sam Whitmore Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tech Media This Week -- Sep. 5, 2005 Tom Steinert-Threlkeld leaves Baseline for Multichannel News; Jason Pontin is now publisher as well as editor-in-chief of MIT Technology Review; and the Economist stands tall. Drop us a line at sam@mediasurvey.com -- Sam Whitmore Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tech Media This Week -- Aug.29, 2005 InfoWorld remains committed to print; The Economist spoils for a fight with US business magazines; Cisco begins podcasting as News@Cisco gains steam. Drop us a line -- sam@mediasurvey.com Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tech Media This Week -- Sep. 19, 2005 CXO Media CEO Michael Friedenberg looks ahead and behind; Time Warner consolidates its business web sites; and News.com debuts a new story type. Got feedback for us? Send it along to sam@mediasurvey.com. -- Sam Whitmore Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tech Media This Week -- Week of Sep. 26 News.com redesigns; the Wall Street Journal belatedly gives a blogger his due; and InformationWeek now has 500,000 readers weekly. Drop us a line sometime at sam@mediasurvey.com -- Sam Whitmore Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tech Media This Week -- Oct. 3, 2005 Yahoo makes an end run around mainstream business and tech media; Google climbs down off its high horse; and how about all those revenue streams in 21st century tech publishing? Send e-mail to sam@mediasurvey.com -- Sam Whitmore Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tech Media This Week -- Oct. 10, 2005 News.com introduces the Blog 100; venture capitalists discover blogging; SiliconValleyWatcher.com's Tom Foremski has a question for you. We hope you enjoy TMTW. -- Sam Whitmore Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tech Media This Week -- Oct. 24, 2005 Computerworld editor-in-chief Don Tennant denounces competitive publications that cover insignificant press conferences. Don't miss this fiery interview. Send feedback to sam@mediasurvey.com -- Sam Whitmore Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tech Media This Week -- Oct. 17, 2005 A plague of blog spam in the world of Blogspot; the WSJ gets a trim; and News.com revisits its Big Picture. Drop us a line: sam@mediasurvey.com -- Sam Whitmore Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tech Media This Week -- Oct. 31, 2005 Forbes senior editor Daniel Lyons explains his cover story on blogs, called "Attack of the Blogs." Also, TechTarget just keeps on earnin'... -- Sam Whitmore Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tech Media This Week -- Nov. 7, 2005 New jobs for Michael Miller and Jim Louderback at Ziff Davis Media; restructuring at CMP; and Tom Foremski hears "The Call of the Rooster" -- Sam Whitmore Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sam Whitmore's Tech Media This Week -- Nov. 14, 2005 A successful debut for the Portable Media Expo and podcasters everywhere; a new SMB site from Ziff Davis Media; and here's how not to influence a tech editor. -- Sam Whitmore Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tech Media This Week -- Week of Nov. 21 Michael Vizard returns to Ziff Davis; Tom Foremski now a ZDNet blogger; and who are the most influential tech bloggers, anyway? Write us: sam@mediasurvey.com -- Sam Whitmore Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tech Media This Week -- Nov. 28, 2005 Paying attention to attention; AccelaCast inBanner is something to see; and Tom Foremski seeks the culture of Silicon Valley. Write to us: sam@mediasurvey.com -- Sam Whitmore Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website SWMS Tech Media This Week 1-10-06 Does spamming tech editors pay off? Listen to these two editors and analysts. You might be surprised at what you hear. -- Sam Whitmore Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tech Media This Week -- Dec. 5, 2005 Condé Nast begins hiring for its forthcoming business mag; six tips on getting to know bloggers; and how to pitch a columnist headed for CES. -- Sam Whitmore Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website SWMS Tech Media This Week 1-18-06 News of a BuzzMetrics-Intelliseek link-up and an interview with Cymfony CMO Jim Nail -- and we have some fun thrown in there, too. -- Sam Whitmore Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sam Whitmore's Tech Media This Week -- Feb. 22, 2006 Back after a four-week hiatus...it's good to be back. CMP folds two pubs and shuffles editors; Business 2.0's readership spikes 19 percent; and new blogs about pitching. Write to us -- sam@mediasurvey.com Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sam Whitmore's Tech Media This Week 3-7-06 PC World Communications CEO Jeff Edman discusses IDG's recent experiment auctioning print advertising through Google. Everybody involved seems to be happy with the results. -- Sam Whitmore Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sam Whitmore's Tech Media This Week 3-2-06 InformationWeek EIC Rob Preston describes how his publication has changed -- and how it hasn't. Also: how del.icio.us bookmarks and web forms will alter the story-pitching landscape. -- Sam Whitmore Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sam Whitmore's Tech Media This Week 3-15-06 Ziff Davis kills Smartcompany.com; BusinessWeek to launch a quarterly pub on "Innovation." Drop us a line sometime -- sam@mediasurvey.com. We'd love to hear from you! -- Sam Whitmore Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sam Whitmore's Tech Media This Week 3-24-06 Leading bloggers need help selling ads and could use some overall tech and management support. For a piece of the action, Federated Media Publishing is happy to oblige. FM VP Chas Edwards explains how it all works. -- Sam Whitmore Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sam Whitmore's Tech Media This Week 3-29-06 Announcements from Ziff Davis Media, IDG and CMP -- and when did you last sit down with a copy of Red Herring? Check it out sometime. Good stuff. -- Sam Whitmore Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sam Whitmore's Tech Media This Week 4-26-06 On Apr. 7 The Register criticized industry analyst Rob Enderle for badmouthing Sun Microsystems when Enderle receives consulting fees from Sun rivals IBM, Dell and HP. Enderle tells his story to Tech Media This Week. -- Sam Whitmore Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sam Whitmore's Tech Media This Week 4-20-06 Editor-in-chief Rusty Weston describes Global Services, a new monthly jointly published by CMP Media and Cybermedia, Ltd. of India. -- Sam Whitmore Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sam Whitmore's Tech Media This Week 4-13-06 How the Techdirt blog was born; a new IT expo from IDC; blog syndication from Pluck; and more. Drop us a line sometime: sam@mediasurvey.com. -- Sam Whitmore Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sam Whitmore's Tech Media This Week -- 4/5/06 Dennis Callaghan left his reporting job at eWeek to become an enterprise software analyst with The 451 Group. How does he like it? -- Sam Whitmore Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sam Whitmore's Tech Media This Week -- Jun. 30, 2006 Podtech CEO John Furrier lays out his content strategy. Don't think of it as editorial. -- Sam Whitmore Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sam Whitmore's Tech Media This Week 6-13-06 Is Ziff Davis Media looking for a buyer? Who can blame it for wanting to exit, when individuals such as Om Malik and Mike Arrington can build successful publishing brands all by themselves? -- Sam Whitmore Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sam Whitmore's Tech Media This Week 6-5-06 We dissect ZDNet editor Dan Farber's recent podcast interview with "the father of Java," James Gosling. It was excellent. -- Sam Whitmore Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sam Whitmore's Tech Media This Week 5-30-06 Hear Bob Angus from A&R Partners discuss why he sold to Edelman, and hear Richard Edelman on why he was a buyer. -- Sam Whitmore Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sam Whitmore's Tech Media This Week 5-22-06 We interview former Computerworld and TechTarget editor Paul Gillin, now a columnist, consultant and author specializing in social networking. -- Sam Whitmore Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sam Whitmore's Tech Media This Week 5-15-06 Find out what's going on with Going On, from Tony Perkins... also, Ziff Davis deepens its efforts in the channel, and a web site makeover from Computerworld. -- Sam Whitmore Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sam Whitmore's Tech Media This Week 5-9-06 Voce's Mike Manuel, Eastwick's Giovanni Rodriguez, Edelman's Phil Gomes and Weber Shandwick's Jeremy Pepper collaborate on "Third Thursday," a professional development event for PR pros. Hear their story. -- Sam Whitmore Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sam Whitmore's Tech Media This Week 5-4-06 We catch up with eponymous Bay Area scribe Tom Foremski, who briefs us on his latest gig with the San Francisco Chronicle. -- Sam Whitmore Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ziff Davis Media Up for Sale... and other tech media items of note Ziff Davis Media is on the block and is likely to be split up. Who cares? The titles will forge on. Also this week, tech media gossip and Estes rockets. -- Sam Whitmore Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sam Whitmore's Tech Media This Week 7-17-06 Some podcasters read to us, others talk to us. Which would you rather listen to? -- Sam Whitmore Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BusinessWeek's Boner The venerable business mag damages its credibility as it has never done before; meanwhile, TechTarget prepares to challenge CMP in the channel. -- Sam Whitmore Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Why Do So Many Women Populate Tech PR? Sharon Barclay has been looking into this, and this Blanc & Otus general manager has intriguing things to say. -- Sam Whitmore Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Giving Readers What They Want Business 2.0 and Advertising Age this week came down on opposite sides of an all-too-familiar issue: the influence of blog publishing. Both readerships got what they wanted. -- Sam Whitmore Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Text 100 in Second Life CEO Aedhmar Hynes discusses why a global tech PR agency such as Text 100 is spending time and money to understand the virtual world of Second Life. -- Sam Whitmore Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jake Ludington Discusses DEMO China The well-known blogger shares his views of DEMO's first foray in China, as well as his personal impressions of the Middle Kingdom. -- Sam Whitmore Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Four Blogger-Podcasters Launch Crayon One of them, Shel Holtz, explains what's different about the firm. -- Sam Whitmore Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TechAddress Debuts; CNET Traffic Dipping? We look at the new Web 2.0 blog called TechAddress, and point to some of the 72 comments TechCrunch's Mike Arrington received on his Oct. 13 story dinging CNET. -- Sam Whitmore Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ad Page Stats; Podcasting's Slow Climb Ziff Davis Media grew its ad pages in Q2, according to IDG's own stats...and the king of tech podcasting sees the new medium at a "plateau." -- Sam Whitmore Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website eWeek and PCMag.com's Larry Seltzer Speaks Out... ...on alarmist virus alerts, custom publishing, the masking of caller ID info, and why he might have made a good product reviewer for the Wall Street Journal. -- Sam Whitmore Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "At the End of the Day" and Other Horrifying Cliches We humbly offer an audio "reporter's notebook" of items, some useful and others that might -- we hope -- bring forth a smile. -- Sam Whitmore Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rebecca Blumenstein, WSJ's Beijing Bureau Chief Hear what pleasantly and unpleasantly surprised Rebecca in her first year as bureau chief, as well as some of the obstacles she faces in China. -- Sam Whitmore Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Three Tech Edit Operations to Watch in 2007 Techdirt, TG Publishing and Podtech.net are growing and have the right ideas. And let's play Google trivia! -- Sam Whitmore Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bill Laberis Returns to Computerworld The former EIC now runs "custom content" -- in other words, advertorial. It's a big business and growing fast. -- Sam Whitmore Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website You Too Can Work with Hubbub PR Giovanni Rodriguez and Rebekah Mitchell are looking for savvy PR pros who appreciate the power of social networking. -- Sam Whitmore Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Robert Scoble: Life after Microsoft Like any start-up, Podtech.net has its challenges, Scoble says. But he still loves his new job. -- Sam Whitmore Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A New Chief at Fortune, Shaky Earnings at Ziff Davis Media Time Warner taps Andy Serwer to fend off Conde Nast portfolio; Ziff Davis, meanwhile, is down to its last $10.8 million with big debt looming. -- Sam Whitmore Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tom Foremski on India, China and SVW in 2007 Look for Silicon Valley Watcher to break out its "new media" commentary into a separate site called New Rules Communications, Tom says. -- Sam Whitmore Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tony Perkins on Inevitable Social Networks They're coming whether we like it or not, the entrepreneur says. Also this time: press release embargoes, and a correction. -- Sam Whitmore Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Word of Mouth, Credibility Branding and Thank You! We explore two paths to greater business success, and we thank you for our best year ever at SWMS. Happy holidays! -- Sam Whitmore Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Behind Valleywag's Jan. 5 Mention of SWMS Here's how it happened and why we judge it a mixed blessing. -- Sam Whitmore Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Audio Grab Bag from CES Audio from Wall Street Journal and USA Today reporters... check out Paul Kedrosky, and how 'bout that father-and-son team at BusinessWeek? -- Sam Whitmore Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ziff Davis Media's Final Days? We hear bidders must now put up or shut up. Meanwhile, editorial cost-cutting industrywide continues unabated... here's what PR pros can do. -- Sam Whitmore Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website SWMS at AlwaysOn Media NYC Lots of VCs and start-ups, but where was the media? Also, we fish through our reporter's notebook for juicy items, and interview execs from BuzzLogic. -- Sam Whitmore Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Should PR Badmouth the Bad Guys? Some say yes, others say no. Also, Red Herring is struggling... and try to guess our mystery blogger. -- Sam Whitmore Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Conde Nast Portfolio...The Future of American Business Magazines ...but is this necessarily a good thing? -- Sam Whitmore Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Enderle and Kay Speak Their Minds Former Forrester and IDC analysts Rob Enderle and Roger Kay talk frankly about the old days at their respective Tier 1 shops. -- Sam Whitmore Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Re-post: Ziff Davis Media Raises $20 Million; CNNMoney.com Reigns Supreme We re-recorded the portion of the podcast concerning the Virtutech contest. -- Sam Whitmore Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website News of CMP, IDG and Word with PR Blogger Phil Gomes Phil was the first PR blogger... now there are more than 600, he says. -- Sam Whitmore Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Will Forrester Sell to Gartner? Gartner CEO Gene Hall told Wm. Blair & Co. that he'd be interested if Forrester was willing to sell. -- Sam Whitmore Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tom Foremski Debuts Two New Sites Siliconvalleyminute.com showcases vendors' elevator pitches; Newrulescommunications.com is built especially for PR pros. -- Sam Whitmore Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tom Foremski Debuts Two New Sites Siliconvalleyminute.com showcases vendors' elevator pitches; Newrulescommunications.com is built especially for PR pros. -- Sam Whitmore Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Conde Nast Portfolio...The Future of American Business Magazines ...but is this necessarily a good thing? -- Sam Whitmore Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download |