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!
Dear online video sites. Thanks for giving us free access to online videos, as well as absorbing the costs of hosting and serving the videos. Unfortunately, that's become a commodity. I think you know this, but in case you don't… what attributes do you need to ensure that you're not a "Pets.com" of the online…
There was enough stupid ass YouTube news to warrant a post. Where to begin? Oh- NSFW. STARBUCKS FIRES DOUCHE-BARISTA TOO LAZY TO QUIT How about Christopher Cristwell getting fired for a YouTube song? Oh, yeah… the barista was wearing his uniform and bemoaning his job at Starbucks. So we’ll put that into the “too much of…
Two out of three YouTube stars (Jody Rivera/VenetianPrincess and Greg Benson/Mediocrefims) featured in ABC News’ story on “YouTube Top Earners” were among the dozen profiled in my “Beyond Viral” book. Coincidence? Or did the student author, Clay LePard (a member of the ABC News on Campus bureau at Syracuse University) forget to read his journalism…
It’s the kind of thing that drives semi-pro creators insane (see Jared’s VideoContestKing post). A video contest based not on the quality of the entries but the “popularity” of the creators. I entered Great Wolf Lodge’s contest, but was amazed that despite family & friend e-mail campaigns that we couldn’t get beyond 2% of votes….
I really find little pleasure in politics, and rarely appreciate political humor. But when someone told me today that Barack Obama said the following in Oregon, it created an uncontrollable desire in me to satire the remarks. Nalts has already given ShayCarl his assignment for a collab video, but I can’t find the video footage of this…
DoMyStuff recently contacted me about making a video to promote its site. The company provides a marketplace where anyone looking to outsource chores, errands, or projects can locate (and do business with) responsible and experienced local help. So the initial bit was that my wife would bust me abusing the service to outsource my “honey…
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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.