Archive for October, 2007

Chris Anderson Versus the Flack Spammers

October 30, 2007

Chris Anderson the editor of Wired Magazine, gets spam. Not the garden variety pills and stock tips brand, but Flack Spam or unsolicited pitches from PR people pitching marginally or totally irrelevant stuff. I can imagine it is a serious burden for an editor of a popular tech magazine, enough to drive someone to [...]

Posted in Issues, Public Relations, Social Media 5 Comments »

Big Media taking over podcasting?

October 29, 2007

I have been noticing an interesting trend over the last few months. I check the top iTunes podcasts (Canadian Store) in a few different categories and there has been an interesting and for some perhaps disturbing trend. It would appear that more and more traditional media companies and broadcasters are becoming the top podcasts on [...]

Posted in Media, Opinion, Podcast, Social Media, Trends 1 Comment »

Halloween-o-gram

October 27, 2007

The clever folks at Indusblue have left a trick-or-treat for us at Halloweenogram. If you have a web cam stick your face on the side of a pumpkin.
Happy Halloween
[tags] Halloween, viral, halloweenogram, indusblue[/tags]

Posted in Funny, Online, Viral 2 Comments »

The Two Faces of the Marketing Blogosphere

October 26, 2007

I have had two interesting online experiences today that have highlighted the two sides of the marketing blogosphere in stark contrast.
First DDB Radar. Big Agency launches Social Media arm, which I blogged about a while ago. David Jones comments on how they are not reaching out to the existing community, just the news trades [...]

Posted in Advertising, Blogs, Public Relations, Social Media, Trends, Word of Mouth, agencies 20 Comments »

We didn’t start the Viral – Another history of Net Memes

October 26, 2007

We Didnt Start The Viral – Watch more free videos
Several great Net memes that didn’t make the Internet People video.
Hat Tip – my buddy Klint from Venture.
[tags] viral, We didn’t start the viral, video, break [/tags]

Posted in Culture, Funny, Social Media, Trends, Viral No Comments »