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Sips from the firehose
A site that attempts to render the internet down into one easy-to consume mental beverage.
Facebook Ads & the Curated Social Web: A Way to Tame the Firehose
Basically, this boils down to "are we willing to pay - either with our privacy (the coin of the online realm) or in actual ca$h dinero - for the relentless stream of information to be filtered down to stuff that we actually want to see, or that we need to see?" ...
How to Tell a Story – from Pixar, via BoingBoing
OK, this is really derivative, but I'm so impressed with the insight in this list that I'm shamelessly repeating it here. Go to BoingBoing. Click on the ads. Give them some money. They are good. I like BoingBoing. (Please, no DMCA notice for this...) To my journalism...
Gaming Twitter Follower Counts Makes You a Dick
The "Follow/Unfollow Dance" builds your lists ... but to what end? Social media whiz & Cheesehead Homie Erik Johnson writes powerfully about his experience with one of his intellectual idols. Viz: Every school had one. The kid who pretended to be your friend just...
NMX – Blogger Tools
The blogging community is notoriously hard to please. Check out the vitriolic tweets directed at the poor victims who dared to sit onstage at the close of the NMX convention, talking about "Inventing the Future." Check out the silvery television-headed robots: Despite...
Inventing the Future at BlogWorld
Somehow, I expected more of a mad scientist's lab, with chortling henchmen. Or hench-Americans, as I hear they prefer to be addressed.... It is always dangerous to give a group of bloggers (should that be "a flamewar of bloggers"?) a stage and a microphone, and dare...
The Ongoing Digital Migration: Spin Magazine
Spin magazine is killing its print edition-tell me how paywalls would help this situation? I keep hearing over and over again that the demise of Murdoch's The Daily means that digital magazines don't work, the real solution to the revenue problems is to "fix the...