Month: December 2009
OMG. Did you just feel a quake? US Geological Survey using Twitter to monitor earthquakes
The Spark Series – 3 short documentaries on social use of the web
Part 1 -The new dialtone
Part 2 – Not another Twitter conference
Part 3 – OPEN
This is how you do it – email promotion
I love Photojojo. And Photojojo loves me, or so they tell me. I read their email newsletters and I occasionally buy some photo-related bits and pieces from them. Over the weekend I got a mail from them saying thanks for my past purchases, giving me a $5 discount on anything from their store for the weekend only and first dibs on a few new items before they were announced. That’s totally cool with me, but in case it wasn’t they sign the email off as shown below. Reassuring me that they’re not going to spam me (once in three years is acceptable) and two very clear links to unsubscribe. Can’t beat that.
Nice bit of perspective, via @topgold – Your Social Media Strategy Won't Save You 2
The 2008 US election, on YouTube. Features Chuck Norris
The BBC blog post I found this on has some universally applicable advice on how best to use YouTube to build awareness.
There’s also an audio interview with Steve Grove, YouTube’s head of politics and news.
"It turned out that the Internet was just fax machines that think the thoughts of somebody who lived 8,000 years ago"
Just watched The Take, great 2004 documentary about recovered factories in Argentina
Uh-oh – Ireland's economy goes bust – ITV (UK) news Dec 11, 2009
Where’s Bertie when you need him to sort out these irresponsible doom-mongering reporters with their facts and figures? (Link contains hilariously unsubstantiated rumours and bad language. Proper order.)