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- Deb Ng: Thanks for the example, Rebekah. I did this as well when I was a community manager. I trolled Twitter to see...
- Rick: haha Great example Rebekah! We all love to hate our cable companies. What a great way for a company to provide...
- Rebekah: I Twittered about a problem with my Charter internet the other day (I think I said something along the lines...
- Jim "Genuine" Turner: Maybe I should change my title to New Media Director?
- Kathryn Lang: Companies from all industries are learning the power of social networks. The recent troubles in Iran...
Ashton Kutcher Threatens to Stop Tweeting - Do We Care?
Dear Ashton Kutcher,
I have news for you. There was a Twittersphere long before you went on national television begging for followers, and there will be a Twitter long after.
Your threatening to stop Tweeting if Twitter turns into a reality television show is akin to the many Twitterers who threatened to stop Tweeting if celebrities (that [...]
Should Oprah Be Allowed To Speak At BlogWorld?
Wow people can really get their shorts in a twist really quickly in the Blogosphere or in this case the Twittersphere.
Tonight Twitter and the tech blogs were buzzing with talk about Ashton Kutcher’s little challenge to CNN to see who could be the first to get to one million followers on Twitter. Larry King Responded. [...]
Twitter Worm Spreads Over Easter Weekend
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- Posted on April 13th, 2009 by
Tyler Knott Gregson
Isn’t Easter supposed to be the time of getting dressed up nicely, maybe going to a church with your family, eating too much ham, eggs and rolls and finding bright colored eggs hidden all over the yard? I’m fairly sure the last thing it’s supposed to be about is the spreading of a new worm [...]
Google Wants Twitter…Is Twitter King?
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- Posted on April 7th, 2009 by
Tyler Knott Gregson
Unless you’re hiding under some sort of stone in the past few days and weeks, you’ve most likely heard the rumors circulating and floating around that Google has officially expressed some interest in acquiring the wildly popular microblogging site, Twitter. Wow.
Given the fact that newer rumors are now circulating that Twitter wouldn’t sell to Google, [...]
- Tags: Aquisition, Google, Rumor, Sale, Twitter
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Do You Read “Terms of Service”? Who Owns Your Content? Should you Be Scared?
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- Posted on February 19th, 2009 by
Jim
I was recently reading the blog post by Brian Solis over at PR 2.0 entitled "Facebook and the Reality of Your Online Content" and I wanted to ask the question, do you read the terms of service?
I came from the legal world before getting into this web 2.0/social media/blogosphere/Twittersphere or whatever the case may be. [...]
Does Pandora Have a Future?
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- Posted on August 17th, 2008 by
Jacob Morgan
For those of you not familiar with Pandora, it is a platform devoted to the music genome. What this means is that you can listen to a particular artist that you like, then Pandora will suggest other bands you may like based on that choice. Pandora uses a complex system to analyze the music to [...]
What Do Loren Feldman and Don Imus Have in Common?
More and more we see new media imitating old media which is yet another sign of new media’s inevitable move toward the mainstream. In this case Loren Feldman the popular and controversial video blogger has just lost a distribution deal with Verizon Mobile due to a series of videos he created back in 2007 called [...]
Join Us Friday June 20th for BlogWorld Radio Our Guest Will Be Bob Cox of the Media Bloggers Association
***Update 10:09 pm PST****
The link below now points to the archived interview Jim Turner and I conducted with Bob Cox today. A very interesting discussion and I encourage you to listen to the whole thing and share your thoughts in the comments below.
The Media Bloggers Association has posted an update here.
Join Jim Turner, me and [...]
Are Traditional Magazines Unbiased?
And are blogs inherently biased?
The answers to those two questions are no, and yes respectively. The recent Wired/Arrington dust up is just the latest in a very long series of charges and counter charges between blogs and traditional media.
I am not picking any sides in this particular story. I read TechCrunch almost daily not because [...]
Should Bloggers Blacklist PR Firms?
I agree with much of Stowe Boyd says in his post about PR Spam but I am going to be the devils advocate here and I am hoping we can agree on what I am about to say.
If you are a professional journalist, or editor covering a particular industry or topic then part of your [...]

