Abramson

The New "Instant Journalism"

January 6, 2007

User generated content as journalismÂ has been one of those persistent stories in the media over the last year.Â With the meteoric rise of blogs, podcasting, and video blogging, it seems that publishing has truly become the province of every person.Â In Creative Video Blogging and the new “Instant Journalism”, Andy Abramson offers some thoughts on [...]

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Andy's Stuck in a Voice 1.0 Tarpit

October 7, 2006

Andy’s stuck.Â His T-Mobile Blackberry service sucks, and the customer service reps at T-Mobile don’t really seem to be able to help him out.Â If he’d asked me beforehand, I would have told him to avoid it.Â I evaluated the data networks from T, Verizon and Cingular last January, and T-Mobile’s network didn’t cut it [...]

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From the Trenches

October 3, 2006

In Rebtel, Jajag and others should know what they are up against, Russell Shaw writes that “startups who are so wrapped up in their own special offerings should not underestimate the forces they are going up against”.Â Russell is riffing off Andy’s Being on the InsideÂ where Andy’s basic point is that the incumbents can make [...]

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Happy Birthday Andy!

August 5, 2006

My good friend Andy Abramson got an early birthday present this morning, in the form of very public recognition for his pioneering blogger relations programs.Â The Washington Post ran a story about blogger programs like his Nokia program, and quoted Andy at the top of the article. Congratulations, and Happy Birthday, Andy!

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Abramson is Back

July 17, 2006

After a sleepy hiatus, my buddy Andy Abramson appears to be back blogging with a vengeance.Â Arriving home from my wine tasting trip last night, I was confronted with 8 new stories on his blog.Â Check it out!Â Two stories I’ve been following — the Yahoo / MSN Federation, and Skype code being cracked — [...]

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Congratulations to Andy and Sightspeed

January 18, 2006

Andy Abramson has just been named to Sightspeed’s Advisory Board. It’s a great match. We’ve been working with Andy for about six months now, and I don’t know of a harder-working communications professional in the VoIP industry than Andy. Congratulations to both Sightspeed, and Andy.

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