One part of that Nightline report I can’t get out of my head… It’s how Ben Popken Consumerist.com refers to companies that monitor blogs without interacting… “ghosting.” Dear WillVideoForFood reader. Are you a ghost?
P.S. Ben- would you please invite me to post on Consumerist so I can stop ghosting your blog? I’ve been biting my tongue for long enough!
You only came here because YouTube is down, again. Right? Maybe they’re fixing the stupid comments functionality.
Google Wave Hates You. That’s why you didn’t get an invite. But that’s not my point. I just wanted to share this video courtesy of Shira Couric. It’s informative and hysterical, and there’s no greater moment of panhandling on the web than a restricted Google beta. Naturally you’re saying to yourself, “surely Nalts must have…
DeathWish808 ripped my video and passed it as his own on Break.com. Now “Pennies for the Tollbooth Driver” has 400,000 views on the homepage. Am I ticked or flattered?
Blip does share ad revenue. The program is still in its infancy. Says BlipTV’s Michael Hudack, “Its paypal, quarterly, paid out after we receive the money from the advertiser or advertising partner. We have one partner up and running today and several more launching over the next few months.” Note that you’re not automatically enrolled….
Blogging has been all the rage for a few years — with cover stories on major magazines, blogs about blogs, and some bloggers literally becoming credible media sources that rival legacy print and television brands. Interestingly, there’s a trend that appears to have accelerated far faster and more dramatically than blogs. Online video. Take for…
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Monitoring blogs is the only way to get familiar with what individual bloggers say.
I have been ‘ghosting*’ many a blog over the last 5 years and there are about 19,800 people ‘ghosting’ my political blog every day! This is based on an estimate that only 10% of my readers actually comment. What am I going to do?! I have been ‘ghosted’ over and over again!
*for ‘ghosting’ read ‘reading’ throughout.
I must be old-school. I call it ‘lurking.’ ANd now with my own blog, I get lurked all the time. Even by my own family.
And since I’ve posted all of two times here, have I been de-lurked (or is it de-ghosted)?
Since the WVFF post-to-read ratio is .000023… both of you qualify as full-fledged participants.
I see monitoring blogs and ghosting as different. Monitoring is learning about your customers with interest. Ghosting is watching them and never engaging.
And I’m hoping that (with the help of people like Adriana) companies realize that… in the age of consumer-generated media… the best companies will go beyond ghosting.