Friday Digital Flames
Isn’t it ironic thatwe’re spoiled for choice when it comes to the volume of media channelsavailable to us, but when it comes the content we really don’t have anysay in what is offered up?Instead of being happywith the normal dribble that is part of a greater political slant orbeing satisfied reading stuff serving someone’s personal businessagenda, some lucky communities in parts of California cannow pay for stories to be written that they are genuinely interestedin.
Power to the people indeed.
Maybe if they get enoughmoney together they could get Gary Larson to come out of retirement andstart doing what it is he does so good.
A newspaper with a new ‘Far side’ comic, now that’d be a newspaper worth reading.
Todaywe’re pleased to announce a new service: bit.ly Pro. The Pro serviceprovides custom short URLs powered by bit.ly. Publishers and bloggerswill be able to use their own short domain names to point to pages ontheir sites.
Whiledigital shops have fared better than their traditional counterparts inrecent years, a hot-button question points to their still-debatedstatus: Can these agencies move beyond their primary role of techjockeys to become leaders of brand strategy?
Techtrend-watcher Mark Anderson, publisher of Strategic News Service, anindustry newsletter, gives his annual predictions for the coming year.
Decemberis supposed to be a time for joy and merriment, but with the hustle andbustle of daily life, the stress of holiday travel, shopping andplanning, the sheer anticipation we used to experience as kids seems adistant memory. But mobile applications can help us stop, take abreather, and regain some of that missing holiday fun.
Justa few short years ago, if you had asked most marketers about the futureof mobile, their nirvana most likely would have been a consumerstrolling down the aisle of her local grocery store receiving textmessages offering 50 cents off a bottle of ketchup or jar of peanutbutter.
Facebookusers may be in for a rude awakening this week following a revamp ofprivacy settings that prompts them to post their status updates andpersonal information directly to the internet for everyone to see.
Thefolks over at Global Web Index, put together a nice little overview ofglobal social media activity across the web. They interviewed 32,000users in 16 countries to put together the info.