Comments on: TIME Wins Linkbaiter of the Year Award

By: Chess Openings Guru

Chess Openings Guru — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 05:14:11 +0000

Wow… it’s not only a creative story but a marketing technique as well! That’s pretty genius of TIME.

The user-generated world is great… we haven’t seen anything like it in all of history. I know I’m benefiting from it!

By: Baza artykułów dotyczących zagadnień linkbaitingu

Baza artykułów dotyczących zagadnień linkbaitingu — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 14:44:53 +0000

[...] Time wins linkbaiter of the year award [...]

By: Apakah “linkbait”

Apakah “linkbait” — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 10:32:55 +0000

[...] Time wins linkbaiter of the year award [...]

By: Review of Flock - The Social Browser! | ReviewSaurus - The Techie Dino!

Review of Flock - The Social Browser! | ReviewSaurus - The Techie Dino! — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 18:02:44 +0000

[...] Flock! The Social Browser!, Flock! The browser for bloggers! well, these are the statements which are creating the buzz for this browser. The browser which supports Michael Arrington (Monstrous traffic generator for startups) as well (Rather the company, who sponsors Techcrunch.com) and the browser which uses the Gecko as its rendering engine. After, reading all this I’m sure anyone will consider this browser as the top and the best browser ever built and when it has the social tag around it then certainly it becomes the choice of the year as well (By the way, in case someone doesn’t know, then let me enlighten you that TIME has chosen “YOU” as the Person of the year!). But, does the browser gives you what it is boasting about ? Why is it still not doing the best, after having all these of frills wrapped around it ? Let’s find out all this in the review of this browser and as one of the blogging software as well. This piece of software will fall in two categories and one is the browser and the other is the blogging software. So, lets find out more about Flock! [...]

By: Review of Flock - The Social Browser! » ReviewSaurus - The Techie Dino!

Review of Flock - The Social Browser! » ReviewSaurus - The Techie Dino! — Sun, 24 Dec 2006 13:25:29 +0000

By: Ankur

Ankur — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 23:53:21 +0000

Yes, and no.

Time doesnt care about making their site more legitmate – But they do care about traffic. Everyone does.

By: Time Person of the Year for 2006 is You—Yes, You * Stellify

Time Person of the Year for 2006 is You—Yes, You * Stellify — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 13:09:51 +0000

[...] Who would have dreamt how, why, and that it would become possible? That You would make it possible? Update: Added a Time Person of the Year unofficial seal. Do you agree it’s genius linkbait? I don’t. Why rain on “my” parade? [...]

By: Maria Langer, the Official Web Site* » links for 2006-12-20

Maria Langer, the Official Web Site* » links for 2006-12-20 — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 09:41:14 +0000

[...] TIME Wins Linkbaiter of the Year Award From the ProBlogger.com Web site. (tags: blogging link linkbait time person) [...]

By: Garridovaz.com

Garridovaz.com — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 16:25:03 +0000

O software livre em 2007. Ou talvez não……

Já que estamos “naquela” época do ano em que todos tentam adivinhar o que vai acontecer no ano seguinte e invariavelmente fracassam, resolvi me arriscar a passar vergonha no final do ano que vem, quando olharemos para esse post com um ar saudoso, d…

By: Ey Kullanici, Yilin Insani Sensin | Okyanus Ötesi

Ey Kullanici, Yilin Insani Sensin | Okyanus Ötesi — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 07:32:40 +0000

[...] Gercekten kontrol bizde olsaydi Time’in bizi secmesine biz karar vermis olmaz miydik? Ironik, oyle degil mi? Sahsen, bu secimi ben cogunlukla bir reklam yaklasimi, bir “yeni nesil web ve medya treni hizla gidiyor ben de vagona atlayayim ve tarihte yerimi alayim” yaklasimi, ve belki de bir “link baiting” yaklasimi olarak goruyorum. Bana gore Time vagona atlarken Web 2.0 furyasini sisirdikce sisiriyor ve goz boyamaya calisiyor. Cunku medyanin kontrolu henuz biz de degil. [...]

By: PayPerPost Goes Reality TV 2.0 With Rockstartup - chickjunk.com

PayPerPost Goes Reality TV 2.0 With Rockstartup - chickjunk.com — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 12:00:56 +0000

[...] Unique people are grabbing the spotlight and creating runaway hits simply by offering their own unique perspective on things. The power of a unique perspective can capture an audience’s attention. While most people were recently writing about Time Magazine’s interesting choice for Person of The Year, Problogger Darren Rowse commented on how Time magazine made itself into linkbaiter of the year with it’s decision to crown you, me, and everyone else, Person of the Year for “seizing the reins of the global media”. [...]

By: I’m Time Person of the Year! at The Not So Secret Life of Simone

I’m Time Person of the Year! at The Not So Secret Life of Simone — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 09:40:27 +0000

[...] I do agree with Darren Rowse at Problogger.net that Time wins the Linkbaiter of the year Award! And with Rodney who says that the person of the year is whoever came up with the idea! Ahh yes, the irony! Published December 18th, 2006 | in Blogging and Internet fun.| [...]

By: Pramit

Pramit — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 09:36:35 +0000

The Person of the idea is a tired idea. It is sad that Time and many old media maagazines hasve rely on blog-like link articles to survive.

MediaVidea has more on the issue:
http://mediavidea.blogspot.com/2006/12/no-time-for-time-magazine.html

By: Copywriting and marketing tips for small businesses

Copywriting and marketing tips for small businesses — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 06:58:09 +0000

[...] Cue every content-generating user out there linking to Time’s website. Finger on the pulse, or cunning traffic-generating strategy, asks ProBlogger. [...]

By: Blog World Expo Blog » More on the Time Person of the Year Award

Blog World Expo Blog » More on the Time Person of the Year Award — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 06:08:21 +0000

[...] Darren Rowse who is a great blogging advocate gently chided Time earlier today for their person of the year award. When I first read his post, I thought he had nailed it, then I thought he was a bit harsh on Time and felt compelled to post this in his comments section which I wanted to repeat here: [...]

By: Rick Calvert

Rick Calvert — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 05:54:04 +0000

You know when I first read your post; I thought Darren has nailed it. Then one commenter said you were nuts to criticize time.

A couple of points, first off far more people read Time than any blog on the planet. More than most blogs on the planet combined in fact.

Just an idea of how Big time is:

“Time Inc. magazines are read 340 million times each month worldwide by 173 million adults over18 years of age. Two out of every three U.S. adults read a Time Inc. publication every month. In the last year, about 70% of women in the U.K. read a magazine published by Time Inc.’s IPC Media unit, the largest consumer magazine company in the U.K.

Time Inc. continues to account for nearly a quarter of the advertising revenue of all U.S. consumer magazines. Time Inc. ended 2005 with three out of the top four magazines in both advertising revenues and pages. People remained the #1 magazine in advertising revenue for the 15th consecutive year. Seven of the top 25 magazines in advertising revenues in 2005 were Time Inc. titles. ”

So when a traditional media magazine this big recognizes how big new media has become it is a very big deal.

As new media content creators we often forget just how small we really are compared to the whole non blogging world out there.

I repeat this often because it bares repeating. Most people I speak to when I tell them about my blog, let alone my show BlogWorld ask me “what exactly is a blog?”.

These aren’t idiots living in caves. These are professionals, smart people, computer savvy people, business leaders and most of them have no clue.

That isn’t to say new media isn’t big it is and Time magazine just told the world about it.

No matter their motivations, what Time just did was a very good thing for bloggers, and new media content creators everywhere.

So if they get a few dozen, hundred, or thousand links out of it, I say good for them.

By: Rhea

Rhea — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 02:20:32 +0000

So, it really is all about me. I mean, us.

By: I Am Time Magazine’s Person of the Year | aczafra.com [Librarianship with a dash of everything]

Mon, 18 Dec 2006 01:46:46 +0000

[...] So whether this is the best link bait of the year, or confused why Time did this only now, still the fact is I am one of Time’s Person of the Year 2006. And I deserve to put this (un) official seal. Read the Time article Get your own seal [...]

By: 50 Blogs

50 Blogs — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 01:26:07 +0000

Good ole link baiting methods. If you can’t beat em’, join em’ :)

By: Web 2.0 and the Law of TANSTAAFL | WinExtra

Web 2.0 and the Law of TANSTAAFL | WinExtra — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 01:06:37 +0000

[...] TIME magazine has proclaimed their person of the year as “YOU” meaning the rise of user generated social networks that are the backbone of Web 2.0. The proclamation has been seeing the gamut of responses from the real founders of Web 2.0 – the citizen journalists; and just as with main stream media they are either gushing over the award or in the words of Darren (problogger) While I think it’s a great award (you/we) have been a part of a massive shift) I think it’s also a brilliant Linkbait strategy (planned or unplanned). Can you imagine the inbound links this is going to create for Time?!? Every user generated content maker is going to be linking to this one! [...]