Travels with Rhody

This is the first in a series of roughly semi-monthly summaries of my major articles in Xconomy.
At this point, Google has all but confirmed that it’s working on a social networking play, though it’s not clear yet whether “Google Me” is going to be a coherent service comparable to Facebook or just a set of [...]

I haven’t been updating Travels With Rhody much lately, and today I can finally say why: I’ve been working behind the scenes to help launch Xconomy San Francisco, the newest city in Xconomy’s national network. (Props to Scott Kirsner at the Boston Globe for figuring this out a couple of weeks ago.) The new site [...]

One of our big projects for the last week at Xconomy has been launching MassMobileMonth.com, a website collecting information about the unusually large selection of mobile technology events going on in and around Boston in March 2010. With help from more than a dozen organizations and companies around town, we’ve put together a detailed guide [...]

A side project that’s been occupying a lot of my weekend time lately has finally come to fruition. It’s an e-book version of the first 80 editions of my weekly Xconomy column World Wide Wade, which focuses on the intersection of digital media, Internet culture, entrepreneurship, and creativity. The book is called Pixel Nation: 80 [...]

The following is an excerpt from today’s World Wide Wade column at Xconomy:
Maybe you’d like to have a sleek, attractive blog or website for yourself or your business. Maybe you’ve looked around at some of the free blogging or lifestreaming platforms like Blogger, Posterous, Tumblr, TypePad, and WordPress.com and you’ve been underwhelmed by the cookie-cutter [...]

The panel on “Bootstrapping PR for Entrepreneurs” at the Web Innovators Group meeting on September 29 was extremely well attended, and I had a great time serving on the panel alongside Bob Brown of Network World, Peter Kafka of the AllThingsD blog, and Scott Kirsner of the Boston Globe. Mike Troiano of Holland-Mark, and formerly [...]

Early-stage startups need to spend every cent they have on product development—but at a certain point, they also need to get the word out about what they’re doing. I’ll be speaking on a panel this Tuesday night about exactly how technology entrepeneurs can reach out to journalists without having to call in an expensive public [...]