March 2010
49 posts
WatchSocial Media Is Dead: Long Live Common Sense.
Some good slides here. I like slide #s:
4 (Let’s do something viral) 45 (New Process flowchart) 49 (Learning to Fly)
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“Another truth: Joe [Mauer] could buy either paper [the Star Tribune or the...”
– David Brauer, Health care versus Mauer: What gets the bigger front-page treatment? via MinnPost.com today.
And Now, Maybe that Number Will Finally Decrease
newsweek:
leslieb:
22,000 Americans die annually because they lack health insurance. - Newsweek, 9/21/09
The Other KSM
fimoculous:
Foster told me that I actually don’t sound like a total asshole in this interview, so that’s all the incentive I need to link to it.
I despise digital/creative agencies! They’re slow, ineffectual little monsters. And they bill you like lawyers. But I like to create companies around the fringes of what I hate. So I came up with this twist on the idea: a very horizontal organization...
I need a distraction. Or two.
“The driver who caused the accident was picking up her cell phone, police say.”
– Child killed in 3-car accident in Columbia Heights
So tragic. Avoidable. This story hit really close to home for me. Because I have little kids, and because I’ve reached for my cell phone before while driving. Reality check.
Don't be an ass: credit the artist.
soupsoup:
homeofthevain:
If you’re posting someone else’s work, credit them. Don’t deliberately remove the name of the artist. That’s just wrong. If your reasoning is that it’s own personal scrapbook — then keep it personal, not public. If it’s public, the least you can do is credit the artist and link back to their site, or at least their Wikipedia entry.
When I see something I like not...
“Media traditionally has gained its profits by owning distribution. Cable...”
– “I Don’t Like The iPad Because…” by John Battelle, February 27, 2010