Daily Archives: November 17, 2008

Pulp Magazines Struggle to Survive in Wired World

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 … Continue reading

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Study reminds us why we’re always fixing our parents’ PCs

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 … Continue reading

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HOW NOT TO: Build Your Twitter Community

Via Mashable 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 … Continue reading

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Burmese Blogger Sentenced to 20 Years For Reporting on Protests

Via Media Shift 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 … Continue reading

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Barack Obama, The Social Web, and the Future of User-Generated Governance

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 … Continue reading

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Business case for deleting content

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 … Continue reading

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The Death of Tangible Media is a Little Murky

Via Mashable 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 … Continue reading

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Online Ad Growth Grinds To A Halt

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, … Continue reading

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Motrin Moms: Social Media Fail Whale

Via Mashable 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 … Continue reading

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