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Mitch Ratcliffe blogs about the constantly changing boundary between media and life, the businesses that live on that border, and the meaning of all this change to society and the economy.

Mitch Ratcliffe

Mitch Ratcliffe is a veteran journalist, media executive and entrepreneur. He was editor of the ground-breaking Digital Media newsletter in the 1990s and a frequent contributor to ZDNet over the years. He led development of the first Web audio/video news network at ON24, sat on the board of Electric Classifieds Inc. and Match.com, and worked as an investment banker. A dedicated "portfolio career" worker, Mitch is co-founder and Chief Scientist of BuzzLogic LLC, a social network analytics and marketing communications platform developer, and works with Audible Inc. on its podcasting service, among other projects detailed <a href="http://www.ratcliffe.com/ disclosure.htm">here</a>. </p>

Latest Posts

Why conservative blogs are more effective

Conservative Blogs are More Effective - New York Times: But what really makes conservatives effective is their pre-existing media infrastructure, composed of local and national talk-radio hosts like Rush Limbaugh, the Fox News Channel and sensationalist say-anything outlets like the Drudge Report - all of which are quick to pass on the latest tidbit from the blogosphere.

December 10, 2005 by Mitch Ratcliffe in Tech Industry

y.ah.oo buys del.icio.us!!

del.icio.us: y.ah.oo!: Joshua Schachter reveals the news.... We're proud to announce that del.icio.us has joined the Yahoo! family.

December 9, 2005 by Mitch Ratcliffe in Enterprise Software

Paying for market share? That may be the future of networked markets

Microsoft to show search engine users the money: Microsoft Corp. will share a part of its advertising revenues from its search engine with users, the company's chairman Bill Gates said in a panel discussion on an Indian television channel.

December 9, 2005 by Mitch Ratcliffe in Google

Imagining new work to outsource

Ogre to Slay? Outsource It to Chinese - New York Times: One of China's newest factories operates here in the basement of an old warehouse.

December 9, 2005 by Mitch Ratcliffe in CXO

The rational question and the rational answer

All Your WEB 2.0 Are Suck!321#$$! Nick C says: "...

December 8, 2005 by Mitch Ratcliffe in Social Enterprise

What's the best style for rendering written articles for spoken word?

Joi Ito's Web: Podcast style issue: Thomas Crampton, writing at Joi's blog, asks.... Been testing out how to most interestingly Podcast a written article.

December 8, 2005 by Mitch Ratcliffe in Tech Industry

Right tool, wrong fight

Freedom of Anonymous Speech: Ross Mayfield writes of the Wikipedia debate.... Beyond this attempt to weaken anonymity on the Net, Wikipedia's open nature is also under attack.

December 7, 2005 by Mitch Ratcliffe in Open Source

It's just a company, a big company getting bigger

My Take on Google’s Ten Rules: So we have 10 interesting rules here, but are these the best 10 rules, or is Google the only company with 10 rules? Jeff Barr has an excellent deconstruction of the Businessweek article about Google's Ten Rules for success.

December 7, 2005 by Mitch Ratcliffe in Google

Welcome to the bigger picture

WSJ.com - Portals: The difference between the old media elite and the new blogging elite is that the latter gets redefined much more frequently.

December 6, 2005 by Mitch Ratcliffe in Tech Industry

Information statesmanship needed

Publishers to Google: back off | News.blog | CNET News.

December 6, 2005 by Mitch Ratcliffe in Google