"This self-described “quiet type” Scot founded Mashable, the popular go-to spot for the latest scoop on social media in 2005. Since then, Cashmore has become a Web darling; Technorati listed as one of the top 10 blogs in the world." -- that is some poorly written copy. makes it sound like Mashable's the place to check out what social media was like in 2005.
- Trent Olson
UCLA MBAs: I want to say one word to you. Just one word: Plastics. ;)
- Otto
EVERYONE IN THE CLASSROOM GET NAKED!!!!!!!!!"come on just like Robert once did
- Jadito
"IMHO, every one of the Sports Marketing Programs, or the derivatives there of, are a HUGE waste of time and resources. It’s the 2000’s version of rocks for jocks or majoring in Phys Ed." Mark Cuban
- Steven Cains
Learn to unplug once in a while...maybe one day a week :)
- Sam Guzman
Wow, so many "thoughtful" comments. Um, NOT. Anyway, here's my question to this class: What's the next step in terms of creating a community around the local sports team? Take the Washington Nationals for example. How do you tackle that marketing problem?
- Emilie Cole
Hello Hello! Hey no talking, thats right you in the back.
- Manuel Arroyo
I am sure many of the you would be amazed to see these many updates in real time. This is Scobleizer effect :)
- Saurabh Sahni
Getting your MBA is like getting handed the keys to the car and not knowing how to drive. In a field like sports marketing where there is little precedent to be studied, you will do most of your learning out in the work place. Good luck, and if all else fails, just talk about Brett Favre some more.
- Will Thompson
All the very best for your future endeavours! Get into some serious entrepreneurship & kick some a$$ :)
- Sandeep Swaminathan
What does a sports marketer do? Social media marketing for teams and athletes?
- Sam Guzman
We like your kind here where I work. MBA students = Fresh braiiiiiiiiiins...
- tinypants - Hagitha of FF
How many of you are on Friendfeed, Twitter, and that facebook thingy?
- Aaman (Clone of FF)
I'm a UCLA alum, back from the days when we rode a horse/buggy to get to games at Pauley Pavilion. My claim to fame: Jogged around the track with John Wooden.
- Irene Koehler
Hi class! Take good notes and listen to Alex.
- Mark Layton
Please remember me when you get bored doing all that hard work out on the golf courses and feel free to fill the void by sending me event tickets in the Midwest, kthxbye.
- thestaticfrost
Hi Students. Does it bother you that Robert Scoble has once again completely neglected his wife and kids to be with you today?
- jasonte3a
Thank you, this was really great. I think we got a few people to join us on FriendFeed, cool students, too.
- Robert Scoble
jasonte3a: I am blocking you, but before I do, you should know that my son is with me here in Los Angeles and listened to the presentation today.
- Robert Scoble
This was pretty cool! What was the general reaction of the class to FriendFeed?
- tinypants - Hagitha of FF
OK, I now know not to follow Vinny or Peter;) Greetings Irene & Grant, go Bruins! Friendfeed rocks!
- Rick Bucich
I want to categorize them but link elsewhere with perhaps a short commentary... and no, I don't want to use a service like Twitter or FriendFeed. Would like to host it myself.
- Tamar Weinberg
I know it exists... I just can't remember the name of it! Anyone?
- Joshua Schnell
gah, don't make me email Andy or John ... actually, I asked Andy awhile ago and he said it was a heavily tinkered version of MT. I'm using WP.
- Tamar Weinberg
cant you just go and edit the theme template. The post.php section?
- Rohit
Rohit, you're asking someone who doesn't know how to code for the life of her...
- Tamar Weinberg
well..the one telling you is no coder either. He's an accountant. I learnt most of my wp editing skills thanks to one of my old "non-widget aware" themes. I was forced to code in everything..
- Rohit
:) I don't have time. I know there's gotta be a plugin... I just need someone to find it!
- Tamar Weinberg
bump for Louis Gray. He knows everything.
- Tamar Weinberg
mmmm this could do it, thanks Jason! (All I needed was some more Likes to get this spread!)
- Tamar Weinberg
I'll bump you in a second, if you're not careful, Tamar. :)
- Louis Gray
I don't use WordPress (surprisingly), but have stuck with Blogger, so WP is not my expertise. (that said, Blogger has this option automatically in every post)
- Louis Gray
WPbeginner has that already? I know Syed and he said that's his brand new site.
- Tamar Weinberg
It would be just awesome if coding wasn't necessary and a plugin could handle it.
- Tamar Weinberg
No idea if there happens to be a post pertaining to your particular issue at this time, but it's a great place to start picking up some tricks and to get more familiar with Wordpress. Tell Syed he's doing a good job.
- Jason Wehmhoener
It's really more of a theme type of thing than a plugin type of thing. Customizing themes does require a little coding, but you shouldn't be scared to do that, it's fun once you try it.
- Jason Wehmhoener
I hate PHP. And all programming languages. I say this as someone who majored in computer science from an ivy league college. I know absolutely nothing. It's pretty sad.
- Tamar Weinberg
Seriously, hit up the tutorials section on wpbeginner.com, find something that looks interesting and try it. I promise it won't hurt.
- Jason Wehmhoener
Heh, probably take less time than this thread ;-)
- Jason Wehmhoener
But one is more interactive and rewarding than the other. YMMV ;)
- Tamar Weinberg
Weird - Jason, that B-12 link would be perfect but I get this error: Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /wp-content/themes/techipedia/functions.php:340) in /wp-includes/functions.php on line 784
- Tamar Weinberg
And the two snippets of code are not related.
- Tamar Weinberg
This is line 784 (and 785, which also throws an error): setcookie( 'wp-settings-' . $user->ID, $settings, time() + 31536000, SITECOOKIEPATH ); setcookie( 'wp-settings-time-' . $user->ID, time(), time() + 31536000, SITECOOKIEPATH );
- Tamar Weinberg
So yeah. Now you see why I hate coding in WordPress. Where's my plugin option? :)
- Tamar Weinberg
Morning bump. I guess I need to find another alternative.
- Tamar Weinberg
That's weird. You pointed out the lines where the error occurred but not what the error message was. Check out Karen's link and if it doesn't work, I'll give you a hand.
- Jorge Escobar
Karen's link is awesome, thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Tamar Weinberg
yeah Jorge, I did - it said "cannot modify header information" as above.
- Tamar Weinberg
Ah! Sorry, long thread -- so yeah, that error is when you try to set cookies after you've printed something out to the page, so I don't believe the error is related, looks more like a runaway character you put when you edited the file. No finger pointing implied :) -- test Karen's plugin and let me know.
- Jorge Escobar
yeah, Karen's plugin did it :) now I just gotta rewrite the stinkin index.php page haha. this is an undertaking. :D
- Tamar Weinberg
Sorry I didn't see all this activity sooner, but I'm glad it all worked out, and impressed with Syed for the the quick post to wpbeginner. yay!
- Jason Wehmhoener
this product is interesting.. but sort of confusing and kind of limited. hmm, I'll give it some more time. (i also couldn't connect my twitter account.)
- Jenna Bilotta
Rochelle, it's real-time blog search by topic, not by author or source.
- Louis Gray
It keeps telling me that's an invalid code
- Jill O'Neill
"This promotional code has expired. However, we will let you know through this email when we open as public. Thank you for your interest!" =(
- David Cook
Dang. Sorry Jill, George and David. That's why I put it on FriendFeed 40 minutes before Twitter. Hmmm...
- Louis Gray
Jesus Louis why not 300 or 400? They'll already gone.
- Matt Ruiz
Unfortunately I don't keep a friendfeed window open at work, and I missed it.
- DGentry
101??? For me??? Just kidding when can we expect more to be available?
- Cody Heitschmidt
You gotta be kidding! I was late for techcrunch's and yours Louis. Is it really worth a hype around it?
- Sasha Kovaliov(.com)
That's the second time today I missed it. I'm watching Arrington and Robert discuss friendfeed live right now. They're talking about the mob issue on friendfeed. This should be interesting.
- Michael Fidler
LPH -- it is real-time powered blog search based on keywords, not sources. You want it.
- Louis Gray
BEX, LPH, I've only played with it a little. By adding some of your own feeds of your choice (I added Twitter and delicious) it looks at your tags and hashtags and shows you related content. You can also add any tags representing any topic you might be interested in. It's a little hard to explain beyond that, but it has a very simple interface that encourages serendipitous discovery of content on specific topics. I like it!
- Laura Norvig
well, there's a generic "add a blog" where you can put any URL you want and I tried adding my friendfeed URL but I'm not sure if it's working. [EDIT: No, I'm pretty sure that doesn't work.]
- Laura Norvig
it's all about tags. So, for instance, it doesn't bring in all my tweets, only those that I used a hashtag in. And the main "point" of bringing that in is to surface the fact that I might be interested in that tag and might want to see other items from all across lazyfeed with that same tag.
- Laura Norvig
I tried it out. I have a more universal stuff finder thanks to zemanta and google search. It even comes up with contextual advertising. It's getting packaged into something distributable since Google and Twitter aren't necessarily interested in working together
- Mark Essel
from iPhone
out of invites :( want to hook a friendfeeder up? ;)
- Tyler Gillies
The more I use this, I'm finding that it seems to be scraping a number of, well - 'questionable' sources for content. I'm hoping that they'll allow users to remove sources, vote things down, etc. in some fashion as things develop. It's a nice concept, but it definitely needs some serious refinement.
- Dan Dashnaw
Do you think it is scraping the entire blogosphere? Or only blogs added by users? I can't tell.
- Laura Norvig
I totally misread this, I was wondering who the unlucky 4 million people with broken WP blogs were. :-|
- cmiper
As a new joiner, I'm wondering if I could be #4,000,000. Would that count as fashionably late? I agree, very stable and fast set-up; most of all it's the support and exposure they give to the very new efforts like mine that I appreciate. Never knew so many people would be reading a pretty ordinary blog within just a few weeks. Wouldn't happen stand-alone.
- Andrew Lewin
Wow .. and that doesn't include self-hosted Wordpress blogs.
- Mattb4rd
the title sounds disastrous! although yay for Wordpress, couldn't have seen blogging to be so widespread if it wasn't for Wordpress.
- Imran Hussain
Self-hosted Wordpress blogs FTW. If you're serious about blogging then you should test your installed builds on a dev server before you deploy on production. No-brainer!
- Glenn Batuyong
just tested the wordpress.com to blurb.com integration for blog to book conversion and it's really solid.
- Achim Voermanek
Hmmm in this story context does "breaks" mean "corrupts/destroys/causes-malfunction" or does it mean "surpasses a number"? Guess it pays to click the link and read!
- Glenn Batuyong
@bibliotech Evangeline, @ContentRobot can help you move your blogspot blogs to WP whenever you are ready
- Karen Jackie