links for 2005-10-01
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Can wikis actually create useful textbooks?
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Ken Yarmosh hosts a “blogoposium” (he coined the phrase) – “The general theme is Communicating the Ideas behind Web 2.0.”
Mike Manuel republished on WebProNews a piece he contributed to Global PR Week 2 last week that is worth a read by anyone who collaborates on projects on a regular basis. Collaboration. I hate this word, it’s overused, especially in the PR industry. I should know, I work for a PR agency and my job…
I ran across this announcement today about SearchForVideo.com and checked it out. Looks pretty good. A quick comparison of with Truveo (see yesterday’s post) found that SearchForVideo.com found nearly twice as many videos matching the search term "John Roberts" (634 vs. 349) I haven’t spent enough time to study the differences in methodology, but it’s…
IS BUZZ MARKETING ILLEGAL? “As marketers more frequently look to recruit consumers brand agents to spread goodwill for brands, industry attorneys view buzz marketing as a likely area of regulatory involvement, especially around the issue of compensating people to participate in buz (tags: BuzzMarketing WordOfMouth Marketing)
Former VP candidate John Edwards will launch a podcast next week, likely being the first national politician to do so. For the technically challenged readers of InterAdvocacy, check out this definition of podcasting. (Thanks to the BuzzWebster blog for bringing this to my attention.)
Matt Cronin, a partner at online marketing firm WebLiquid, emailed an intriguing analysis of the recent Gallup survey on blog audience: Blogs are indeed quickly becoming mainstream but only to the extent that they’ll complement the news picture for those who are interested, simply due to the natural topic/opinion/agenda fragmentation of the blogoshere. While these…
My preferred RSS reader, SearchFox, will cease to exist in 2 weeks. Esteban Kozak writes in his blog: Thanks for all your help in making SearchFox what it is. We have enjoyed providing this service, and hope that you have enjoyed using it. Please export all of your links and an OPML file with your…