Here’s a baker’s dozen’s worth of podcasts focused on customer success. Included are podcasts from Forrester and vendor Intercom — those may not be overly pitchable. The rest probably are.
A subscriber recently asked for a POV on where the low-hanging fruit was in the world of AI coverage. As subjective as that might be, it’s still worth trying. Who might you suggest?
Here’s a cheat sheet with ten authors of cybersecurity newsletters on Substack. All are men, and few are Americans.
Here’s an updated cheat sheet with 11 Substack newsletters focused on AI. The selection comprises a combo of analysis-driven work from experts, and newsletters that blend original work with ICYMI links to “AI news of the week.”
Substack is producing a fair amount of talented fintech experts; here’s a cheat sheet with eight of them, with contact info and more.
Here’s an all-new cheat sheet on Tier 1 CEO profiles, scarcer and more valuable than ever. You might want to bookmark this page and check in now and again. Please let us know when you encounter an opp that isn’t on our list.
Below are the names of 16 reporters — mostly from the trades — who regularly cover issues of data privacy. Their articles run the gamut from politics, to law, to breaches, to VC funding of startups in the data privacy space.
At a subscriber’s request, here’s a cheat sheet with ten cloud targets based in Boston. Three of the ten, predictably, work at TechTarget. It’s a sign of the times that no IDG/Foundry names show up on the list.
This revision of a June 2023 cheat sheet doubles the number of cybersecurity targets based in the Washington, DC area — from 13 to 26. You’ll find multiple reporters from a single publication only if they write frequently.
Back in the late 1980s, Computerworld employed an Internet reporter. That’s right — one reporter to cover every aspect of the Internet. That’s the way it became with the AI beat.
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Can you imagine not needing to be a human being to be a superstar? You may remember Max Headroom. There’s plenty of examples of technology personas, but AI is a different world altogether. Is there a tech media angle to this item? Not really, but here she is — Xania.
This is a must-read article about both Business Insider and Wired being tricked by a phony freelance reporter writing phony stories. If BI and Wired can be fooled, everybody can be fooled.
Veteran tech journalist David Strom is working with a couple of AI developers to understand exactly the nature of his writing as it has unfolded over the years. In this edition of Sound Thinking, David shares his learnings and where everything might go.
It’s been tough to keep track of SDxCentral this year, with the sale… management moves… Here’s a podcast and an article that will help you catch up.. thank you, Ben, for the assistance.
Newly merged TechTarget and Informa this month laid off 10 percent of their employees. Check out the euphemism in the 8-K: “[the] net reduction [will be] up to approximately 10% of the Company’s current global colleague base.” That just beats all, doesn’t it?
