Robin Good Archive Of Latest News
August 2007

Become Independent By Using New Media: Empower Yourself Through Online Media Involvement And A Passionate Path   Holidays are over, at least here in Italy where most people take their two or more weeks of vacation, during the month of August. It's time to think again about work, money, the future. What you are going to do with that unsatisfied feeling... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- August 31

Online Publishing Strategies: Portals Are Over - The Future Is In Syndicating Context   Conversational marketing and contextual advertising: these are the key trends to keep following if you are seeking to make more of your online publishing efforts. Or at least, this is how content media business expert John Blossom keeps seeing the future business of online publishing going... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment John Blossom - Shore -- August 30

Design Strategy: Using Research And Experience Keywords To Avoid Customers Design Ambitions   When designing a web site or a multimedia project it is very difficult to keep the client from suggesting design changes or revisions based only on his personal, subjective taste while have him respect a more objective rationale approach in making sound decisions about the interface... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Nick Myers - Cooper -- August 29

Free Video Stock Footage Resources Online   If you are looking for online resources where you can find free stock video footage for your online video productions, you have landed on the right page. Photo credit: Pedro Nogueira Until now, producing quality opening titles and station breaks for your online video channel has required... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Michael Pick - Michael-Pick.com -- August 28

Google FUD: Paid Text Links Evil? More On My Ongoing Discoveries   Does Google penalize web sites who buy and sell text links? Text paid links and their ambiguous relationship with Google guidelines hold again the front stage as over a week has now passed since all of the pages of this site, Master New Media, were suddenly... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- August 27

Online Video Advertising And Monetization Guide   The online video advertising industry is expected to grow to to $2.9 billion by 2010 and to reach $4.3 billion in 2011 (US only) according to eMarketer. Photo credit: VideoEgg online video advertising campaign If you are an online publisher interested in getting an overview of the... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- August 26

Uncensored Video Reporting: Apache In Baghdad   Frontline journalism like the one done by The Guardian award-winning photographer / film-maker Sean Smith is become rarer and rarer as media censorship and control gets the most of the truly genuine news reporting you could see on your TV set. Video credit: Sean Smith - (c)... Link | cat.: Robin Good - The Guardian -- August 25

Mashups: What Are They? Technical And Social Challenges - Part 2   Mashups are filled with technical challenges and that is why many technologists are attracted by them. The challenge of having to find new solutions to "old" technical issues while "inventing" new ways to mix and combine existing resources and tools is undoubtedly a very positive motivator... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Duane Merrill - IBM -- August 24

Design Fundamentals: Joshua Porter's Five Principles To Design By   I myself, more often than not, am involved in some design process or decision. No matter if we are looking at ways to improve monetization of one of my sites or at how to make it easier for you to publish video clips archives or... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Joshua Porter - Bokardo -- August 23

Google And Text Links: An Open Letter To Matt Cutts   What to do with Google and text links? My bottom conclusions have not changed: when you use text links you are either cheating Google or the advertisers paying for them. Why doesn't anyone say this openly? Am I missing some pieces? Are there "good" text links that... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- August 22

Mobile Video Streaming: Building A Remote Control Panel For A Portable Videostreaming Box - The RobinPad Story   In the first part of 2007 I have taken my personal dive with live video streaming, and the Italian audience who has followed my non-stop reports from several of the largest barcamps held recently here in Italy, has seen with how much passion and interest I... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Fabio Di Niro -- August 21

Visual Presentations: Create Stunning High-Impact Video Presentations With Effects And Music Automatically - Animoto   If you are looking for a tool that allows you to create impressive web presentations in a fraction of the time it would be take the best slideshow editor, you have found the first online service that does really so. Check out here below the stunning... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- August 20

Online Video Publishing, Production and Technology Guide - Part 4: Search, Collaboration, Encoding   In this fourth part of this Video Publishing, Production and Technology Guide, the spotlight is on video search engines and services, on video collaboration tools allowing teams to work around video design, storyboarding or editing while at different locations, and on the increasingly in-demand video... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- August 19

The Google Nightmare Is Over: Robin Good Is Back Inside Google SERPs - A Call To Action To Stop This   Master New Media is back inside Google search results. This is great news for everyone working here and it is truly a day to rejoice for us. This last week has been a very tough challenge for everyone here to be confronted with, and while I... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- August 18

Google Penalization: Text Links, Redirects Not Likely Causes - Spam Comment Links Maybe - The Story Continues   It is one week today since all of the over 16,000 Master New Media web pages of this site have been actively penalized by Google and have essentially disappeared from Google search result pages (what was before on position 1 is now on 504 - check... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- August 17

Text Links And Google: Should You Keep Or Drop Text Links From Your Site?   Text links may very well be one of the many extra venues to generate some good extra cash from your web site or blog, but you need to be careful in evaluating whether in expanding your income streams with them you may hurt your other revenue... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- August 16

Penalized by Google: Master New Media Is Out Of Google Search Results   Yes, I sang victory way too early. Nonetheless I had hoped to have come out of the terrible traffic loss that started last Friday, I instead discovered that Google has fully penalized Master New Media and dropped all of my articles out of Google search results. Photo... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- August 15

Discussion Forums 2.0: Real-Time Chat Meets Discussion Board - Tangler Opens The Conversation Network   "Imagine if you took all the forums, groups and websites where you talk about all the different things you are interested in and put them in a single system. And then you upgraded them all so they made the most of new internet technology like Ajax... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Michael Pick -- August 14

Sudden Traffic Loss? Google Doesn't Send You Anymore Visitors? Here Is What To Check   A few days ago I was to wake up to a pretty strange surprise. All of the traffic coming to MasterNewMedia from Google had suddenly disappeared. From over 14,000 visitors to 4,000 and less is a pretty big change from one day to the next. All... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- August 13

Online Video: Publishing, Production and Technology Guide - Part 3 Technology, Trends And Education   In this third part of this Video Publishing, Production and Technology Guide, the spotlight is on technology infrastructure and the key differences between online television and IPTV, the thorny net neutrality issue, and on how P2P and RSS will likely be key components of the future... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- August 12

Social Credit: Money As An Instrument Of Service - Louis Even   If you have enjoyed reading The Money Castaways and the realizations you should have come to about money and the unjust interest rates imposed by the banks, here is a fascinating and alternative view of how credit and taxes could be managed in our countries today,... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Louis Even -- August 11

Leaking News To Blogs And Independents May Become Increasingly Popular Communication Strategy   Grassroots, independent media outlets may indeed become increasingly interesting venues for those "in power" wanting to feed specific news and views out to the public without needing to play by mainstream media rules. Photo credit: Dragan Trifunovic John Blossom writes: "... it is interesting that in today's... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment John Blossom - Shore -- August 10

Mashups: What Are They? Mashup Genres And Technologies - Part 1   Mashups are an exciting genre of interactive Web applications that draw upon content retrieved from external data sources to create entirely new and innovative services. They are a hallmark of the second generation of Web applications informally known as Web 2.0. Photo credit: (c) Quasimondo... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Duane Merrill - IBM -- August 9

Social Bookmarking: What Is It? - A Great Video Tutorial From The CommonCraft Show   Social bookmarking: what is it really? It's all over the web already, though it came out just a few hours ago, this new great educational video about what social bookmarking really is. Photo credit: Lee and Sachi Lefever - CommonCraft Show After RSS, Wikis and Social Networking, Lee... read more | cat.: | Link Lee and Sachi Lefever - Common Craft -- August 8

Best Portable Wireless Microphone Kit For Your Video Production Needs: Robin Recommends   Need a good microphone setup for your video blog interviews? Considering a wireless solution so that your interview may move more freely without any cables following you? Finding few wireless microphones that satisfy your needs? Discovering that prices being asked around for these microphones are... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- August 7

Content Marketplace For Professional Documents Launches Online: Gazhoo Is Here   A new user-generated content marketplace allows anyone with the appropriate know-how and assets to upload, describe, tag and publish for a price any professional document that may be of interest to the public at large. This new online content delivery and distribution marketplace, makes it very easy... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- August 6

Online Video Publishing, Production and Technology Guide - Part 2: Marketing And Monetization   Online video potential as a monetization and marketing vehicle for small and large independent publishers is experiencing a new renaissance. Not only you can use video clips to do great marketing and self-promotion of your content and expertise (see live.pirillo.com for a really good example of... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- August 5

How Money Is Created As A Debt By Private Banks - The Money Castaways   The story I present to you here today has nothing with to do with web 2.0, new media or how to make money with your site. Today's story is all about waking up. Realizing that something you have given for good and granted since you were... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Louis Even - Michael Journal -- August 4

Marketing Communications: How Are They Changing Corporate Marketing?   Marketing Communications: While the Internet keep growing at a frantic pace, "2.0" becomes a commodity word, active blogs are tens of millions, and UGC (user-generated content) is being adopted with enthusiasm by advertising agencies, a growing discrepancy grows everyday more evident between many a company corporate... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - 7th Floor -- August 3

Online New Television Formats: The RGTV News Experiment - How Did It Go? What Next?   Just about a month ago I decided to test a new grassroots live video format by utilizing the zero-footprint and zero-cost technologies available to anyone wanting to start a live video news channel. The idea was one of leveraging the latest live video streaming technology to create... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- August 2

Online Content Quality: Its Relevance In Context-Driven Web Publishing   As online content absorbs and adjusts to the new traits characteristics of Web 2.0 publishing, quality of content online has increasingly taken a backseat to the context within which this same content has been published. Is context becoming more important than quality in the online content publishing... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment John Blossom - Shore -- August 1

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