Shel Israel has posted an interesting article looking at how he’s begun to rely on Twitter as his “personal search tool”: I am coming to trust Twitter as my personal search tool…and here’s why: I can consider the recommender. Much of the information comes from people I already know and have chatted with online. Most […]

Loren Feldman, the puppetmaster behind the puppet Shel Israel video blog, is moving on. Puppet Shel Israel is a sort of Triumph the Insult Comic Dog for new media, parodying “new media expert” Shel Israel, while scooping him with entertaining interviews, like this discussion with Digg’s Kevin Rose: While Loren’s puppet has been scoring the […]

Robert Scoble left PodTech in mid-January to work for business magazine FastCompany. His new videoblogging gig, FastCompany TV, launched today. In his welcome video, Scoble lolls around on the beach in a seaside frolic (not kidding), and explains the company’s initial two video channels. FastCompany Live, the more immediately interactive of the channels, will feature […]

Writer and new/social media guru Shel Israel announced this morning that he will be joining his Naked Conversations co-author Robert Scoble (late of PodTech and former Microsoft blogger) at FastCompany.TV. Israel’s new video podcast, GlobalNeighbourhoods TV (GNTV), debuts March 3. The program will detail “social media’s impact on culture and business.” Israel comments, “While my […]