del.icio.us links for 10 August – 24 September 2009

September 24, 2009 in Bookmarks

links for 2009-09-24

• Twitter faux pas: 20 dreadful types of tweet – Telegraph
  Fans of the micro-blogging site are more aware than anyone just how annoying some tweets can be.
  (tags: twitter tips)

links for 2009-09-18

• How to fix Craigslist
  The odd phenomenon of Craigslist – old-fashioned, unsophisticated, cumbersome, flooded with spam – and yet a runaway success that's devastated the traditional classified ad outlets
  (tags: craigslist)

links for 2009-09-17

• Mobile internet use surges late at night
  Interesting spot stat on mobile usage from O2
  (tags: mobile usage statistics)
• Masters of illusion: The great management consultancy swindle
  "It's cost the NHS £300m and its practitioners are wielding the axe at magazine giant Condé Nast. But is it all just smoke and mirrors? Ex-management consultant Matthew Stewart recalls his career in the "efficiency business" – and reveals its dark arts"
  (tags: consultancy business)

links for 2009-09-15

• The Kindle in Crisis?
  The Atlantic on why the Kindle is struggling: the advanced features make it too expensive to appeal. Can Amazon fix the problem?
  (tags: amazon ebook kindle)
• BBC | Taking showers 'can make you ill'
  The latest thing to make us anxious: showers that make us ill! (Well, if you shoot the first load of water in your face, anyway.)
  (tags: health)

links for 2009-09-14

• Facebook and Bebo banned by Aberdeen council
  Aberdeen Council is setting up a Facebook page – but its own staff who try and access it will be reported for breach of IT rules …
  (tags: facebook councils internet)
• An Advertising Shift Helps Blogs Survive as Businesses
  Blog networks making money "like a digital-era Condé Nast" say it's down to "obsessive coverage of narrow topics, along with business models that reach beyond advertising. "
  (tags: blogs business media journalism online trends)

links for 2009-09-11

• The Internet Is Dead
  Great post about how we no longer "go online" but to to Twitter et al instead. Consultants are now being asked not "should we be online," but “Why don’t we just take the money we would be spending on Twitter and Facebook and instead put it into radio ads, or advertise in a magazine or local newspaper, or better yet, let’s revamp our website?”
  (tags: internet trends)

links for 2009-08-30

• Why Twitter is underhyped and is probably worth five to 10 billion dollars
  Robert Scoble isn't noted as being one of the big Twitter advocates (he prefers Friendfeed) so this is an interesting conversion.
  (tags: twitter facebook sociamedia)

links for 2009-08-20

• Future of Local News About More Than Paid Conten
  "At their peak, local newspapers did two things: They created community. And they provided the local marketplace for goods and services." What people have never done, says this piece, is pay for news and journalism.
  (tags: journalism business newspapers businessmodel paidcontent media future)

links for 2009-08-19

• BBC | The problem with PowerPoint
  "Eye contact plays such a fundamental part in holding an audience's attention that even as brilliant a speaker as Barack Obama depends on an autocue to simulate it."
  (tags: powerpoint presentation work microsoft)

links for 2009-08-16

• BBC | Microsoft backs long life for IE6
  Microsoft will support IE6 until 2014 – four years beyond the original deadline. Oh. Yay.
  (tags: microsoft browser internet ie6)
• RDFa and Linked Data in UK government web-sites
  (tags: rdf ukgovernment data jobs)

links for 2009-08-14

• Statistics Show Social Media Is Bigger Than You Think
  Fascinating ollection of social media stats: there are over 200,000,000 Blogs, and the number of bloggers who post content or tweet daily is 54%. For starters.
  (tags: socialmedia statistics data)

links for 2009-08-12

• Lund heralds a new era for the COI
  Interesting interview with Mark Lund, and a few comments on whether COI should rationalise its media buying contracts.
  (tags: coi ukgovernment procurement media)

links for 2009-08-10

• The advert that just keeps going
  The story of the longest-running ad in newspaper history: "Why Does Your English Let You Down"? We've all seen it.
  (tags: guardian advertising)
• McSweeney | Status Updates Since My Mother Became My Facebook Friend.
  So true – you have to watch what you say when you don't know who is listening. And especially when you DO know!
  (tags: facebook funny status mcsweeney)
• How to lose your job in one Facebook post
  Not to mention leave yourself open to a libel suit.
  (tags: facebook funny)

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