Digg Patriots Uncovered – US Conservative group found to be gaming Digg

Aug 06 2010

Digg Patriots Uncovered - US Conservative group found to be gaming Digg:

Saving this to read properly over lunch but this really shows what a determined group can do in social media circles.

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Old Spice sales figures: Up 107% in the last month

Jul 28 2010

Old Spice sales figures: Up 107% in the last month:

Score for Old Spice! I’m not surprised that this is the outcome of such a fantastically put together campaign.

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Community Managers Should Be Working Towards Unemployment

Jul 23 2010

Community Managers Should Be Working Towards Unemployment:

I agree with this, and it’s something that’s causing me some issues in finding a position i’d like to work in.

Since Social Media seems to be the current in trend in Marketing, a lot of companies want people to come on board and manage the company profile through Twitter/Facebook/Forums and Blogs, it doesn’t seem to be so much about actually building a community up.

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This is a thoroughly impressive video of a particle physics…

Jul 20 2010



This is a thoroughly impressive video of a particle physics framework, i’m utterly amazed.

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News sites reining in nasty user comments

Jul 20 2010

News sites reining in nasty user comments:

Are comments on these stories a social barometer or just malicious folk hiding in the anonymity of the internet?

What I do find interesting is the ways they’re trying to verify people, they don’t seem to have suffered a backlash similar to Blizzard with their RealID. Slightly different circumstances, granted, but it’s a very similar situation.

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Times loses almost 90% of online readership

Jul 20 2010

Times loses almost 90% of online readership:

This is a follow up of the post from late last week.

Quite a speculative article from the Guardian but I suspect that their figures are pretty close to the truth.

It’s quite telling that News International removed the Times Online from the ABCe audits, no publicly available figures for people to pore over.

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What’s Really Going on Behind Murdoch’s Paywall?

Jul 16 2010

What’s Really Going on Behind Murdoch’s Paywall? :

I can’t say that this is a huge surprise to me, with all the other sites still operating on a free to read basis why would anybody pay to read the Times?

It’s interesting that the sentiment seems to be that Murdoch is trying to reshape the internet, but I think this is one medium that he’s going to struggle to tame.

This sums it up for me ‘Why would I get any of my clients to talk to the Times or the Sunday Times if they are behind a paywall? Who can see it? I can’t even share a link and they aren’t on search. It’s as though their writers don’t exist anymore.’

Will it last? Murdoch certainly has the funds to throw at this.

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U.S. Mood Throughout the Day inferred from Twitter

Jul 16 2010

U.S. Mood Throughout the Day inferred from Twitter

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Achievements Unlocked

Jul 16 2010

Achievements Unlocked:

Great article from Microsoft about how Achievements came to be and how they almost didn’t make the cut!

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Breakfast Bunker Briefing: ‘How to Avoid a Social Media Crisis’

Jul 16 2010

Breakfast Bunker Briefing: 'How to Avoid a Social Media Crisis':

Great read on avoiding a social media crisis, and dealing with one if it happens. Social media is really changing the way companies act and think.

I’ll try and come back to address this more when my head stops spinning. Late nights and free bars are not conducive to a functional brain!

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