Posts on ‘November 17th, 2008’

Via Media Shift
by Simon Owens, November 17, 2008
Every year Locus Magazine, “The Magazine Of The Science Fiction & Fantasy Field,” publishes a year-in-review of the genre. This summation always includes a rundown of the circulation of the remaining speculative fiction magazines, sometimes referred to as the “pulps” because of the cheap wood pulp paper on [...]

Via ARS Technica
By Jacqui Cheng | Published: November 17, 2008 - 11:53AM CT
No matter how into gadgets and hardware we are, we’re all forced to face a cold truth every once in a while: our PCs and gadgets sometimes break. What’s important, however, is how often it happens and how easy (or difficult, as the [...]

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November 17, 2008 - 11:30 am PDT - by Sarah Evans

Sarah Evans is the director of communications at Elgin Community College (ECC) in Elgin, Illinois. She also authors a PR and social media blog.
In my previous post I discussed how to build your Twitter community, offering 10 tips as a [...]

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by Lucie Morillon, November 14, 2008
In many countries, you have to commit a serious crime to be sentenced to 20 years in jail, but in Burma this can happen just for using the Internet.
There are almost 69 cyber-dissidents in jail worldwide, yet Burma’s Nay Phone Latt has become the first blogger to receive [...]

Via PR 2.0
What follows is the unedited version of my latest post for TechCrunch, “Is Obama Ready To Be a Two-Way President.”

Source: Barack Obama’s flickr stream
Where there’s victory, there’s also opportunity…
America voted while the entire world watched and listened. Whether you supported Obama or McCain, we equally shared the hope for positive change and a [...]

Via Gerry McGovern
The more you delete, the more you simplify. The more you simplify, the more you increase the chances of your customers succeeding on your website.
I recently worked with an organization that had managed to delete a substantial quantity of content from its website. It was not an easy process. In fact, it took [...]

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November 15, 2008 - 5:38 pm PDT - by Mark ‘Rizzn’ Hopkins 8 Comments

You can always tell when the weekend is approaching. If it isn’t Twitter getting killed, it’s podcasting dying, death of blogs, slaughter of the record labels or one or more form of Heritage media.  It’s honestly [...]

Via Tech Crunch
by Erick Schonfeld on November 16, 2008

We all know online advertising decelerated in the third quarter, but how bad was the slowdown overall? To find out, we added up the online advertising revenues for Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, and AOL, which together account for the majority of online advertising. In the third [...]

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November 16, 2008 - 7:03 pm PDT - by Sarah Evans

Sarah Evans is the director of communications at Elgin Community College (ECC) in Elgin, Illinois. She also authors a PR and social media blog.
The inaugural celebration of International Baby Wearing Week also serves as a platform for the Motrin brand’s launch of their new [...]