Unpolitco linkety-link
It's linkety-link for the independents within us all:
- Osama Bin Twitter? And you thought Barack had problems. So apparently the proof of concept that a technology has gone mainstream is now 3-fold: the appearance of porn, gambling and alleged terrorism! Sheesh!
- When I went to college in South Africa, I studied Marketing from a textbook authored by Philip Kotler. Now I get to present on the same bill as my Marketing idol.
- Social Media Marketing Advertising Branding Communications Conversation defined by Peter Kim (click the link and you'll get a better understanding)
- The Guidance Economy - lead on my brother, lead on....
- How brands thrived during the Great Depression by Dave Chase (hint: it involved alcohol. Lots of it!)
- Tim Bray from Sun Microsystems is the latest rogue to steal my trademark on the word "conversation"
- The first Twinterview between myself and Jason Baer
- Creativity isn't a destination; it's a meeting place. The launch of Meet is worth its pound of flesh.
- Need more juice for your iPhone. Click here
- Every year, 12.9 million people turn 31 on a Saturday. Celebrate this unique community here. I have no clue where this goes but they had me at "every"
- Armano gives me a migraine with this post on unconventional marketing. I hate how he makes me think. Here's another one on the 4 kinds of free. Looks like someone is trying to write themselves into a new book being written....
- Tim Collins from Wells Fargo reads Jaffe Juice. If only the folks over at Lehman Brothers, Bear Sterns and AIG had done the same...
- The A-Z of better blog engagement
- Microsoft gets nailed from both sides - first from stereotyping stereotypes in their PC vs Mac ad and then from the latest Mac vs PC ad which exposes the ultimate disconnect of modern day marketing: instead of focusing on fixing a bad product, we invest our money into advertising instead
- NYU's Jay Rosen gives a very thoughtful presentation titled, "If Bloggers Had No Ethics Blogging Would Have Failed, But it Didn't. So Let's Get a Clue." Check it out here.
- Unrelated, how do bloggers make money...
