Category Archives: Linkshttp://www.scottberkun.com/blog/2009/calling-bullshit-on-social-media/
This is so true… We keep talking about "social media" like it's something different than people just talking and connecting. It's really very human and simple, despite technology.
(tags: social+media analysis)
Mobile Media Mergers Jump 46% – BusinessWeek
What is going on? Clearly, activity in this sector has nothing to do with distress. Use of mobile content and applications is exploding. And companies large and small are in a land grab mode, acquiring small and promising start-ups in hopes of increasing their mobile presence. IAC and Amazon [...]
Gawker – Let's Screw Up the Entire Internet to Save Newspapers – journalismism
"You can copyright a news story, but you can't copyright the news. "The news" just means "things that happen in the world." What would it mean, in practice, to make it illegal to paraphrase a copyrighted news story? Summing up, for example, political [...]
peoplebrowsrquicktour
tutorial for a new social media search engine I want to try out
(tags: social+media search+engines trythis)
5 Questions: Collecta CEO Gerry Campbell | SearchViews – Daily insights on Search Marketing, Social Media and SEO by Reprise Media.
Collecta, a new real-time search engine, went live in beta on June 18th.They intro themselves on their homepage by saying [...]
Will the Smart Grid Be the Next Tech Bubble? | Inside Green IT on GreenerComputing
On the other hand, a bubble isn't always a bad thing. In fact, Internet pioneer, 3COM founder, and Ethernet inventor Robert Metcalfe, believes bubbles are good things. Metcalfe is involved in green tech these days, and he argues that bubbles mean [...]
AP: Massey Energy chief begins twittering
Yes, BUT: AP doesn't mention his twitter ID (@DonBlankenship). D'oh!
(tags: twitter mainstream+media environment business energy problems)
Welcome! TwitWall – Instant Blogging Companion for Twitter
Multimedia microblogging tool that ties in to twitter. Need to see how this really works, I think it just truncates….
(tags: twitter microblogging services)
AP Issues Strict Facebook, Twitter Guidelines to Staff | Threat Level | Wired.com
The AP’s social-networking policy comes as the media at large begins adopting Facebook and Twitter guidelines during a time of explosive growth in online social media. The News Media Guild, representing about 1,000 AP journalists, says the AP’s policy is perhaps the most [...]
Forrester's Advice to CFOs: Embrace Cloud Computing to Cut Costs
Forrester Research advises CFOs to take a close look at cloud computing for messaging and collaboration and enterprise applications. The payoffs could be noticeable during the current economic downturn. Microsoft, Google, Cisco, IBM and a number of smaller players are ready to take your money for [...]
TweetPsych: agahran
I've been psychologically profiled via Twitter! Only, um, I dunno what the scores here mean… Hmmmm….
(tags: twitter social+media events fun psychology linguistics analysis)
ProPublica | Eye on the Bailout
Eric Umansky of Propublica points this out: "Chk out our bailout stuff It's an ongoing commitment, not a single story. (Oh, and it's a bad-ass database). It's [...]
Corrupted-Files.com | Don’t hand in a Garbage Paper, send a Corrupted File Instead!
Step 1: After purchasing a file, rename the file e.g. Mike_Final-Paper.
Step 2: Email the file to your professor along with your "here's my assignment" email.
Step 3: It will take your professor several hours if not days to notice your file is "unfortunately" corrupted. [...]
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