links for 2009-06-30

• Facebook Sets the Stage for IPO With New CFO >>Mashable
  (tags: facebook ipo cfo)
• WARNING: Twittersblogs is Another Twitter Phishing Scam >>Mashable
  (tags: twitter scam phishing)
• US political blog Talking Points Memo to double staff to 14>> Talking Points Memo
• Craving intimacy in our social networks >>Robert Scoble
  (tags: twitter friendfeed socialnetworks)
• Blogger ethics: proper attribution > accountability >> Ars Technica
  (tags: blogging ethics accountability)
• How active is Twitter now? Tweespeed >>O'Reilly Radar
  (tags: twitter statistics)
• 80% of Twitter traffic come through API >>InfoQ
  (tags: twitter technology api)
• Keynote: Ad Networks Failed, Not News Sites (during Michael Jackson story) >>Data Center Knowledge
  Kevin: Rich Miller cites a Keynote Systems analysis of the internet traffic as news of Michael Jackson's death broke. "Advertising networks and widgets are being cited as the key factors in the performance problems experienced by major news sites during the crush of Internet traffic Thursday as news broke about the death of pop star Michael Jackson."
  (tags: michaeljackson internet journalism news traffic analytics)
• UK ad spend dropped 4% in 2008, says ASA >>Journalism.co.uk
  (tags: advertising UK business economy)

links for 2009-06-29

• Alice Hoffman Trashes Literary Critic on Twitter >> Gawker
  (tags: twitter_rage)
• “Silicon Valley’s First Phone Company” -A conversation with Ted Griggs >>O'Reilly Radar
  (tags: voip telecoms BT technology)
• 53 APIs Used in 7 Days: Bing, Flickr, Last.fm, Ooyala, Salesforce, and 48 More >>Programmable Web
  (tags: APIs mashups lastfm flickr delicious amazon)
• Jackson, Twitter and Wet iPhones: Top 10 Social Media Stories This Week >> Mashable
  Celebrity deaths dominated the news this week, and these tragic stories became the source of much social media chatter.
  (tags: iphone iran michaeljackson socialmedia twitter youtube)
• The Troubles of Crowdsourcing: How Do You Keep a Secret? >> Mashable
  (tags: Afghanistan NYTimes journalist safety wikipedia)
• How To Save The Newspapers, Vol. XII: Outlaw Linking>> TechCrunch
  "Of all the misguided schemes put forth lately to save newspapers (micropayments! blame Google!), the one put forth by Judge Richard Posner has Posner has to be the most jaw-dropping."
  (tags: businessmodels copyright hyperlinks journalism)
• Saturday Post: If You Are In The Path Of A Disruptive Technology You Are Toast – Goodbye Newspaper Companies >> SiliconValleyWatcher
  Silicon Valley Watcher – reporting on the business of innovation at the intersection of technology and media
  (tags: business journalism newspapers technology)
• Debate: Can the Internet handle big breaking news? | Digital Media – CNET News
  CNET News' Tom Krazit and Declan McCullagh debate whether the tendency of Web sites to stagger under high demand can be avoided, or is even that big of a problem. Read this blog post by Declan McCullagh on Digital Media.
  (tags: internet michaeljackson news traffic)

links for 2009-06-26

• 702.tv Launches Crusade to Get News to 'Non-News' Consumers >> Poynter Online – E-Media Tidbits
  (tags: journalism news startup video)
• Is TMZ less credible than CNN? >> John Bracken
  (tags: cnn credibility journalism michaeljackson news)
• Michael Jackson: media, mourning, music and monstrosity >>Charlie Beckett, POLIS Director
  Charlie Beckett comments on international journalism, media and society
  (tags: celebrity michaeljackson news)
• Reinventing classifieds: MinnPost launches “real-time advertising” » Nieman Journalism Lab
  MinnPost, the non-profit news startup in Minneapolis, has rolled out a new form of advertising that looks a little bit like print classifieds, a lot like
  (tags: advertising blogs journalism local startup twitter)
• 200 Twitter Mashups >>Programmale Web
  ProgrammableWeb.com keeps you up to date with web mashups and APIs: what's new, interesting, useful and important. Hundreds of mashups and APIs. Contribute, search, view, and chart them.
  (tags: api mashups twitter)
• Apple, the Boomer Tablet and the Matrix >> O'Reilly Radar
  I have written here, here and here about Apple’s inevitable assault on the Tablet market. What I hadn’t factored until recently is how symbiotic such a device would be for Baby Boomers. Why Baby Boomers? Well, for the same two reasons that this demographic is unlikely to embrace the palm-sized iPhone en masse. One, such a bookish-sized tablet device –…
  (tags: apple iphone netbook tablet)
• Michael Jackson Facebook Page Surges On News of Death, Turns Into Memorial>>All Facebook blog
  Michael Jackson's Facebook Page experienced a surge in fans after news of his death spread around the web. Currently the page appears to be attracting around 20 fans a second …
  (tags: facebook michaeljackson socialmedia)
• Perez Hilton’s Despicable Michael Jackson Coverage Creates Backlash >> Mashable
  Earlier today we mentioned the role of social media in distributing news of tragic deaths, including those of Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett today. The LA
  (tags: blogs mashable michaeljackson)
• Michael Jackson Dies: Twitter Tributes Now 30% of Tweets >> Mashable
  The death of one of the world's greatest pop stars is having a global impact, but social media brings into sharp focus the scale of the world's shock and
  (tags: michaeljackson traffic twitter)
• Michael Jackson, Twitter and TMZ >> Hitwise Intelligence – Robin Goad – UK
  (tags: hitwise michaeljackson tmz traffic twitter uk)
• Current events (Michael Jackson's death) and traffic spikes « Wikimedia Technical Blog
  (tags: michaeljackson traffic wikipedia)
• Reuters Editors » Blog Archive » Rethinking rights, accreditation, and journalism itself in the age of Twitter | Blogs |
  (tags: Twitter olympics reuters)

links for 2009-06-24

• Geodelic Brings Serendipity to Location >> GigaOm
  (tags: services location mobile)
• App Growth, PalmOS vs iPhoneOS >> O'Reilly Radar
  Why the iPhone will be the dominant mobile platform for the next decade.
  (tags: iphone apps mobile)
• Twitterature: 19 Year-Olds Score Twitter Book Deal >> Mashable
  (tags: publishing twitter)
• Microsoft, Outlook Is Broken, Says 6,000 Tweets (And Growing). Fix It. >> TechCrunch
  (tags: Microsoft outlook twitter)
• ACLU Calls Subpoena 'An Abuse' As Newspaper Readies To Hand Over Information >> MediaPost
  (tags: socialmedia business content privacy)
• Why A New (And Unusual) Pricing Strategy By A Rhode Island Paper Will Fail >> paidContent
  (tags: journalism businessmodels newmedia)
• Crowdsourcing: Top iPhone apps >> Mathew Ingram
  (tags: iphone crowdsourding)
• MySpace to lose international MD amid global cutbacks >> Media Week
  MySpace international managing director Travis Katz is leaving the News Corp-owned social networking site – as part of cutbacks leading to 300 redundancies among its international staff.
  (tags: cutbacks jobcuts layoffs myspace)
• Microsoft To Scale Back Its YouTube Rival Soapbox >> paidContent
• Will Digg Users Bury New Digg Ads System? >> PBS Mediashift
  (tags: web advertising online digg)
• AP Issues Strict Facebook, Twitter Guidelines to Staff | Threat Level >> Wired.com
  The Associated Press is adopting a stringent social-networking policy for its employees, informing them to police their Facebook profiles to make sure material

links for 2009-06-20

• MediaShift . Rules of Engagement for Journalists on Twitter | PBS
  (tags: Iran journalism socialmedia twitter)

links for 2009-06-17

• Could Iran Shut Down Twitter? :: The Future of the Internet — And How to Stop It
  Could Iran Shut Down Twitter? :: The Future of the Internet — And How to Stop It
  (tags: twitter iran internet freedom)

links for 2009-06-15

• FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right: Iranian Election Results by Province [UPDATED]
  FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right: Iranian Election Results by Province [UPDATED]
  (tags: iran election analysis)

links for 2009-06-13

• 20 Years Ago Today: Birth of the Dot-Com Era – Business Center – PC World
  20 Years Ago Today: Birth of the Dot-Com Era – Business Center – PC World
  (tags: internet history dotcom)
• Google Fusion Tables (Pre-Alpha)
  Google Fusion Tables (Pre-Alpha)
  (tags: google data tools)
• Netimperative Social Media Report 2009 Final
  Netimperative Social Media Report 2009 Final
  (tags: socialmedia business economics)
• Google Wave API Samples – Google Wave API – Google Code
  Google Wave API Samples – Google Wave API – Google Code
  (tags: google wave api web20 collaboration)

links for 2009-06-12

• The New Negroponte Switch
  The New Negroponte Switch
  (tags: design services devices)

links for 2009-06-11

• John Viega Talks About Beautiful Security – O'Reilly Radar
  John Viega Talks About Beautiful Security – O'Reilly Radar
  (tags: security design)
• Yes! 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to Be Persuasive « alex.moskalyuk
  Yes! 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to Be Persuasive « alex.moskalyuk
  (tags: speech, tips, persuasion)
• The NUJ’s economic stimulus plan for local journalism – can it work? | Journalism.co.uk Editors' Blog
  The NUJ’s economic stimulus plan for local journalism – can it work? | Journalism.co.uk Editors' Blog
  (tags: nuj, uk, journalism, economics, taxbreaks)