Once again, Tamera over at her 3i blog has got me thinking with an excellent post on the logical limits of community collaboration. She is likely among few bloggers questioning whether New Line bending over backwards to appeal to the blogosphere’s demands for the film Snakes on a Plane is actually a good thing. Personally, [...]

I was just having a conversation with a PR person about our hesitancy in recommending clients to develop blogs and we came up with several barriers that Canadian companies face. While I recognize that the blogosphere is anything but monolithic in their opinions, but sometimes there is a real two-faced nature about corporate blogging. Specifically, [...]

An interesting analysis and breakdown from Asi Sharabi of No Man’s Land Blog of the most successful 100 videos of all time on You Tube.
The overall breakdown is that 58 are user-generated and 42 are commercial efforts (of various kinds).
Some great insight here for would-be viral producers (be you corporate or amateur).

I had a conversation with someone at work a while ago and he asked me about evidence for the loss of efficacy in Mass Media. I recently found an interesting example that, while not at all scientific, is certainly indicative of that point.
There is a You Tube video that has been making the rounds for [...]

For those who were not aware that the Internet is not actually “a big truck”, but is instead “a series of tubes”, we can thank Alaskan Senator Ted Stevens for setting us all straight on that point.
The full content of his speech is available here and affirms three things:

Senator Stevens is not very informed, intelligent [...]