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TypePad Offers "Bailout" to Journalists
Sometimes you just have to tip your cap to a company for an online marketing job well done. So today, I lift mine to TypePad for their Journalist Bailout Program.
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Yahoo: Editor-in-Chief or CEO?
Saul Hansell offers an intriguing suggestion in a blog post at NYTimes.com today: namely, that Yahoo needs an editor-in-chief to right its ship.
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Responding to a Meme: Change will be incremental
Mark Story tagged me in a meme, asking about how the Obama Administration might incorporate social media into its governing role.
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Get Your Fall 2008 MB Magazine Now
The latest quarterly issue of the Media Bullseye print edition is in the mail now, with Sandy Kalik penning the cover story "Digital Footprints: Raising Kids Online." There's also a slew of other great content from the likes of Jason Falls, Doug Haslam, Leslie Poston, Wayne Kurtzman, Sarah Wurrey, Jen Zingsheim, Albert Maruggi, Nathan Burke, and even yours truly.
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Newspaper Ills Viewed as a UI Problem
Is the downturn in the fortunes of the newspaper business in America a result of their very design? While many suggest that the quality or nature of the content may be the biggest challenge, others point to the attack on the classified advertising business model. But blogger Mark Cahill suggests it may be the newspaper's clumsy "user interface" that is to blame.
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Treating Consumers Like Bad Children is No Solution
As a huge fan of what Rafat Ali has done with PaidContent.org over the years, I was dismayed to read Lauren Rich Fine's commentary today that exhorted newspapers to tell consumers how to consume content.
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News Doesn't Have to be Free
Mike Masnick at TechDirt continues to peddle the belief that "online news has no choice but to be free." I have railed against that sort of view many times in the past, so I won't belabor the point other than to indicate that you can charge for some news.
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MediaBullseye.com's New Look
MediaBullseye.com has a new look designed to better organize our wide variety of content focused on the new media and communications arena. We welcome your feedback on the changes and look forward to more enhancements in the near future.
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Friday fun...proofread please!
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Benefiting Jane Doe, an organization dedicated to fighting violence against women, Social Media for Social Change was a great success. I was truly moved to see so many of the social media community come out on a Friday night and pitch in to help. Details after the jump...
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Well, in a few months time, Washington, DC might be taking on a couple more citizens by the name of Sarah. The first one might be vice president, and the other will be me!
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Andrew Frank over at Gartner's research blog posted asking which social media monitoring vendors watch for mentions of their own products.
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After a sign supporting Sen. Obama was repeatedly stolen by unknown thieves, one teenager in Portland, Oregon set up a web cam constantly trained on his family's newly homemade sign.
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I don't blame Bill Gates for wanting to get into the quirky commercial game. I mean, how long can the poor man go on being roundly lampooned in those brilliant, if ubiquitous and annoying and well past their prime, "Mac vs PC" ads? That being said...I don't get it.
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Well the lazy, hazy days of summer are drawing to close, just in time for me to take a vacation!
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Clearly, someone at AMC reads Media Bullseye! Okay, not really. But it was only yesterday afternoon that I penned a long lament that AMC had issued take-down notices to the fans behind the "Mad Men" Twitter characters, and today that decision has been reversed. Hurrah!
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Last week I noticed I had several new followers from some familiar names. Don Draper? Peggy Olson? Paul Kinsey? Where have I heard them before? Oh yes, they are all characters from one of the best shows on television right now, AMC's "Mad Men." Unfortunately, however, their accounts may not be long for the world, as AMC was not behind them.
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I attended a farewell breakfast Tweetup for Bryan Person this morning, which was fitting, as Bryan is the pioneer of the Social Media Breakfast. Bryan is leaving Boston for a new job in Texas, and while we'll certainly miss him at all the Boston-area events we attend, we at CustomScoop are thrilled for him and wish him luck!
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There is an episode of "Family Guy" where the evil Baby Stewie takes over the world, and one of his first orders of business is to threaten to send anyone who uses the phrases "irregardless," "a whole nother" and "all of a sudden" to a work camp. I agree, and I have some additions.
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Hasbro, the company responsible for Scrabble, clearly the inspiration for Scrabulous, decided to launch its own Facebook game, and filed suit against the makers of Scrabulous. The result? No more of Facebook's top game. I'm with Hasbro.
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Well, I continue my trend of using questions as headlines for my Media Bullseye posts, but this question is actually relevant and important! Should we not complain so much about Twitter's frequent outages considering we don't pay for the service?
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It will be interesting to see the results after Twitter hits the ABC Evening News this week, in a story detailing how frustrated consumers are turning to Twitter to find customer service. Will we see an influx of consumers flocking to Twitter with service complaints?
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Chip Griffin has developed a short video on Digital Advocacy--including a brief history of use of the medium.
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Why does slang have to be in the dictionary? Doesn't it receive a certain level of validation by that inclusion, resulting in it no longer even qualifying as slang? Media Bullseye editor Sarah Wurrey argues against including nonsense words in the dictionary.
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FriendFeed is the most-mentioned potential replacement for Twitter, which continues to be plagued with technical issues. I spent some time today trying to figure out how that might work. I am unconvinced.
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