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How to Lose Credibility in Social Media the Easy Way
(PR News Blog)
Make sure you check for typos and fact check before you post on Facebook and Twitter.
How Your Cell Phone is Ripping Traditional Media Apart
(Social Media Today)
Mobile devices must be regarded by marketers as being on a level with television or radio in terms of media consumption.
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WikiLeaks to U.S. Politicians & Media: “Stop Inciting Assange’s Murder” (Mashable)
The Wiki Leaks Twitter account posted a press release calling for American politicians and media personalities to stop advocating the assassination of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
Why Don’t the Legal Standards That Govern the Privacy of Letters Apply to Emails? (The Atlantic)
The Electronic Communications Privacy Act gives law enforcement officers a much easier path to your private online life than your offline one.
You’d better believe it, says Matthew Robson, a 15-year-old British lad whose paper on how young people devour media is being read by online marketers around the world. Robson wrote the report, How Teenagers Consume Media, while on a two week summer internship at Morgan Stanley.
After reading the young Brit’s report, most of the information is obvious: Kids don’t read newspapers, boys play video games, and no one uses the yellow pages anymore. But his comments about Twitter are what are making headlines. (more…)
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Study: Social Media Transforming Our Influences on What to Buy (Mashable)
Thanks to social media, Web users are sharing their preferences at unprecedented rates, creating a world of online influence in which many trust the opinions of virtual strangers as much as their closest friends.
Mainstream News Outlets Start Linking to Other Sites (New York Times)
Many traditional media Web sites are beginning to include links within stories to outside sources, a practice that previously has been rare outside of blogging.
The End of Web 2.0, Beginning of Web Infinity (Web Monkey)
Will the recent economic woes of the country hinder Web development? Scott Loganbill takes a look at a few of the theories out there right now regarding where the Web will go in light of the bailout.