From Social Media Today: Should Social Media Fall under Technology or Public Relations? Good comments regarding its place as a communication tool, but that PR departments might not have technical types (at the moment) that can work with these tools. Also, 4 Unexpected Observations from Blogher, compares it to SXSW in terms of social media […]
I got to visit my old alma mater today, went to UT to visit with some high school journalism advisers at the Reynolds ASNE High School Journalism Institute. I had an hour to talk about the ways I use social media in the classroom. I didn’t want to bombard them with Web Design concepts, since […]
Wow, good thing Obama has such an informed and eloquent person representing him. Here’s the story.
From the darker side of the Internet, a UT employee was sued for making a false Web site that included libelous statements. The person basically set up a page that looked just like a legit newspaper’s site, The Oklahoman, and then posted links to it on some other sites. Stupid. And, here’s the commentary we […]
Rumors are circulating about new Kindle models, the e-book reader from Amazon. Looks like they will try to make them cuter to appeal to kids. Get them while they’re young. This weekend, political bloggers descend on Austin for the NetRoots convention. It used to be called the YearlyKos, named after the blog Daily Kos. From […]
Great post on Social Media Today by Brian Solis entitled The Social Revolution is our Industrial Revolution. We need to start thinking about things differently and our direction with the social usage of the Web is a major shift. This NY Times piece discussed some of the legal implications of blogging, subpeona’s being delivered to […]
The Silicon Valley Insider details the differences between Google’s Lively and Second Life. Mainly, no sex in Lively. It’s the PG virtual world. This Yahoo/Microsoft/Icahn just won’t go away, and it gets uglier by the minute. NY Times had two views of Apple on the same page. One was very complimentary about the efficiency of […]
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjgE3ltXU68] Looks like it wasn’t quite as hot there.
