January 2010
72 posts
“Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try.” -”
– Yoda
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“But like Mr Obama, social networks have also generated great expectations along...”
– A special report on social networking: A world of connections | The Economist
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J.D. Salinger passes ... →
“I mourn for a light that has gone out, but also … that light was hidden away quite a long time ago.”
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Google Adds More Social to Search →
infoneer-pulse:
Google is trying to make users’ search results more social, adding new features to its search page and integrating relevant links from people you know and connect with online. Google hopes to improve your search results with this information.
As Maureen Heymans, Google’s technical lead for social search, writes on Google’s official blog, the company is planning to integrate...
“I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is,...”
– Douglas Fairbanks
“Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.”
– Charlie Chaplin
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6 Ways to Get People to Believe You Online →
Direct and clear suggestions, something most list pieces don’t have.
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“Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.”
– Lily Tomlin
“Overheard in the Newsroom #2792: Copy Editor: “Somewhere there are a bunch of...”
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Foot on Bomb, Marine Defies a Taliban Trap →
Holy crap…. that’s good writing!
“I’ve been told by doctors and surgeons that I have the energy of ten men who...”
– Gary Busey (via david)
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5 Social Media Lessons From the Haiti Earthquake... →
marketcomm:
While terrible in scope and nature, catastrophes like the Haiti earthquake bring out the best in people. In the age of social media, we get to witness this firsthand. With the widespread adoption of social media in the non-profit sector, people’s ability to act and support communities in need like Haiti has only been increased. There’s no greater example of this than the incredible...
“I am only one, but I am one. I can’t do everything, but I can do...”
– Edward Everett Hale
30 PR Experts You Should Follow on Twitter →
Yes and no on some of these. Each to their own
“The internet helps drives a wedge between information and meaning: Previously we...”
– Internet Thought via Marginal Utility (via somethingchanged)
“I’ve been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I’ve...”
– Georgia O’Keefe
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Apple iPhone OS 4.0 features detailed! →
If it’s true, awesome! I have, however, been here before.
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A Third of Adults Now Post to Sites Like Facebook,... →
infoneernet:
A third of adults online are now using the Web for “quick conversations,” posting updates on sites like Facebook and Twitter at least once a week.
The ranks of these networkers, dubbed “conversationalists” in a report released today by Forrester Research, have grown in the past couple of years. They’re mostly women, and they aren’t only young people — 70% of the adults in this...
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Social Media PR vs Traditional PR
bmbm:
Compared with what is seen as ‘traditional’ media relations, social media work is still in its infancy. New technologies are constantly being created and replaced, and this fast changing landscape is unlikely to settle down into something more permanent anytime soon.
The more that we explore the opportunities presented by social media, the more that it becomes apparent that the successful...
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Government 2.0 on a Boat: U.S. Navy Explicit...
cheekygeeky:
Today I published a post for Mediate titled, “I’m on a Boat: The Motherf*cking Navy Version” which was about some enlisted U.S. sailors who lip-dubbed a classic Saturday Night Live video called I’m on a Boat.
Here’s the original I’m on a Boat video from SNL’s Andy Samburg and crew, featuring hip-hop star T Pain:
And here’s the Navy version I wrote about as an example of...
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Social Marketing in Twenty Ten →
Courtesy of @briansolis, a good take on long term trends.
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Fido or Fluffy: What’s your pet personality? →
Dog people are more extroverted? DUH!
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“The rise of the internet and social media has given PR a big boost. Many big...”
– Public relations in the recession: Good news | The Economist
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Insipid Common Sense →
I think you listen too much to the soldiers. No lesson seems to be so deeply inculcated by the experience of life as that your should never trust experts. If you believe the doctors nothing is wholesome: if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent: if you believe the soldiers, nothing is safe. They all require to have their strong wine diluted by a very large admixture of insipid...
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Why Social Media Isn't for Everyone →
Do you fall in this group? Do you fall in between?
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The power of social media. →
coherentramblng:
$21 Million donated since last Monday via the Red Cross text message campaign (text “Haiti” to the number 90999 and $10 will be donated and added to your monthly cell phone bill).
Simply Amazing.
Brian Eno on the naming of things →
austinkleon:
“A way to make new music is to imagine looking back at the past from a future and imagine music that could have existed but didn’t….My interest in making music has been to create something that does not exist that I would like to listen to, not because I wanted a job as a musician. I wanted to hear music that had not yet happened, by putting together things that suggested a new thing...
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Established Newsrooms Try to Vet New Breed of News... →
infoneernet:
News comes from more and more outlets, about which readers know less and less.
Publishers and broadcasters have always called on freelance journalists. But a generation ago, if they used material from another organization, it was usually limited to a handful of large, well-known and respected ones like The Associated Press or Reuters. With established newsrooms shrinking, a raft...
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“You have been told that real life is not like college and you have been...”
– Meryl Streep (via nancysun)
“I’m going to give you a little advice. There’s a force in the universe that...”
– Ty Webb, Caddyshack
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“Public calamity is a mighty leveler”
– Edmund Burke
Apple and Red Cross accepting Haiti donations via... →
mrgan:
Apple and the Red Cross worked together to create a frictionless way to donate to the Haiti relief effort through iTunes. Click the link (or hit the iTunes Store on your own) and pick your amount - that’s it.
Everyone donates more when it can be done in fewer steps, using an existing, trusted payment system. Any company sitting on such a system has a responsibility to make things like...
“So, if we’re going to talk about the value of the open Internet, we have to ask...”
– It’s Not An Open vs. Closed Internet, But Ours vs. Theirs | Techdirt and Dave Weinberger (via bettyann) (via notational) (via infoneernet)
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With the world scrambling to cover the recent... →
tapwaterjackson:
“Today, down in the descriptively named Research Triangle in North Carolina, more than 250 scientists, journalists, bloggers, programmers, and multi-hyphenated combinations thereof are planning the future of science communication on the web. (Practicing what it preaches, the conference has provided a wiki and an iPhone app as its go-to sources for information.)
Organized by a...
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“Blood alone moves the wheels of history.”
– Martin Luther
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“Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a...”
– Tacitus
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Clay Shirky on the Internet →
Good stuff on how the net has widened communication
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jingc:
In the 20th century, the mere fact of owning the apparatus to make something public, whether a printing press or a TV tower, made you a person of considerable importance. Today, though, publishing, in its sense of making things public, is becoming similarly de-professionalized; YouTube is now in the position of having to...
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LEGO’s mind shift from company to consumer →
How to change a marketing point of view…
“Any man who has had the job I’ve had and didn’t have a sense of...”
– Harry S Truman
“Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has...”
– W. Clement Stone
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Where did they get "Zork"? →
Heck… I figured they made it up.
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How Social Media Has Changed Us →
Some very solid effects for those of who look for what social media has done to society.