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In the FT yesterday with the title, "Blog inspired movement spawns new breed of amateur agitators calling for electoral reform".
According to the piece, the blog has led to a change in attitudes among young voters in Kuwait who, through the blog, are exposed to the system’s corruption (one post videos a voter pledging to [...]
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Met Ron, the founder of BoardTracker today in London for an interesting pow wow on the future of the messageboard (see previous discussion here). BT are doing some things we @ 1000heads are excited about and both companies agree the future of the board lies in sharing rather than ringfencing content.
Look out for some cool developments in the [...]
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Back in the UK after another productive WOMMA summit. Here’s a pic of Emmanuel Rosen, author of ‘The Anatomy of Buzz’ speaking on the last day.Thanks again to Andy for organising as well as AMMO for the excellent day one afterparty.
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Midway through the first day and some interesting speakers. Measurement and ethics are dominant themes - as expected. Most interesting for me so far were the results of a recent offline US WOM study by Keller Fay looking at which brands are hottest for WOM generation. The dominance of the automotive industry (4 car brands [...]
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Blogging from the Hilton, San Fransisco on the eve of another WOMMA conference. If the last one was anything to go by, this should be great.
One annoying thing (and bear in mind its 2.40am my time so I am a little cranky) is the broadband in the hotel which seems to go up and [...]
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Piece in FT today (well yesterday now!) looking at how word of mouth, particularly online, is having to make ad agencies redically re-evaluate their campaign approach.
“It is clear that traditional advertising is not as effective as it used to be as people spend more time on the internet and as technology allows them to [...]
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Ted Scoble AKA The Scobleizer - the virtual face behind the Microsoft employee blogging movement has resigned to pursue startup interests elsehere in Silicon Valley. He was at least partly responsible for helping to make the impenetrable and often faceless corporation appear to live and breathe from the inside. Not afraid to criticize at times, his obvious passion and [...]
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Had some post-meeting time to burn today so met up with the Farfar boys and girls on Nokia business and a big thanks for being such good hosts again. Their new site - which has been in development for some time - is on the cusp of launching soon so watch their space for what will certainly [...]
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Intriguing snippet from Steve Garfield’s latest vlog (no, not the fish jokes!). Take a trip to Second Life and check out the phenomenon from the inside out.
Entire Trash Talk installment here.
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Really cool piece of attitudinal social media intelligence from the Amsterdam Informatics Institute, courtesy of Organic via Steve B. It tracks the collective mood of Live Journal blogosphere based on what bloggers choose as their mood setting on the service. According to a scan of the last month, the Live Journal collective were at their most ’thirsty’ on 1st June.
Hmmmm. Some really [...]
