Posts Tagged ‘blogs’

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Anonymous, Reddit Top ‘Time 100′ Poll (Mashable)
Time‘s poll asked Internet users to vote for the year’s most influential individuals spanning a range of fields and professions, from politics to entertainment. Time In the beginning, it seemed to be a runaway win for Erik Martin, the general manager of the online sharing community Reddit. And then Anonymous, the loosely knit network of like-minded Internet activists, surged to take the top spot just before deadline. The Verge What should be an Internet popularity contest might be more accurately seen as a ranking of who’s better at gaming poll results. PCMag Does any of this really matter, however? Not to Time: Its final list of influential entities for this year’s Top 100 issue will be chosen by the magazine’s editors for the big April 17 reveal, not by popular vote. Read more

You already dance like nobody’s watching. Now you can now post like nobody’s reading. I’m talking about new privacy features on Posterous – real ones. Posterous won the hearts of many social media newbies by letting them update their blogs via email. The latest improvements to the site have to do with how the information you post is viewed and shared by others.

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Tumblr replied to Fresh Air’s concerned and it looks like Tumblr has plans to officially crack down on spammers and scammers.

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The Japan Tourism Agency is seriously looking at the potential of social media to help the country’s tourism industry regain visitors after the recent earthquake, tsunami and nuclear issues. The agency is proposing the country offer 10,000 free round trip tickets to social media users to help promote the country as a safe and exciting holiday destination.

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The 2011 MTV Video Music Awards dominated Twitter and YouTube in the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism’s New Media Index for the week of Aug. 29-Sept. 2, while bloggers focused on a much more serious event in Hurricane Irene.

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The announcement that Steve Jobs was resigning as CEO of Apple was, by far, the subject of the most news links shared via Twitter during the week of Aug. 22-26, according to the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism’s New Media Index.

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I’m knee-deep in launching a new blog. This will be my tenth (non-personal) blog launch/re-launch in six years. Each time I do it, I seem to forget (and re-learn) the pain that’s involved. Getting a blog off the ground is far from easy, and keeping it alive is even harder. Of the 10, five are alive and well, if in different hands, two are dead and two should be if they aren’t. For the tenth, it’s still too early to tell, but everything looks better than it has with my other launches.

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Google’s deal to acquire Motorola was subject of the most news links shared via Twitter during the week of Aug. 15-19, according to the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism’s New Media Index.

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Not getting the response from bloggers that you think your company deserves? Here are five tips for pitching bloggers that will get even the crankiest bloggers to consider writing about you.

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The Aug. 2 agreement to raise the debt ceiling for the United States was the subject of the most shared links via Twitter and blogs, but the Twitterverse took a different approach, focusing on the role that Twitter itself played in the process, according to the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism’s New Media Index for the week of Aug. 1-5.

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