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Content Aggregators are Killing Content Creators

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Social Media Consultant and Tech Geek at Heart Home About Press Consulting Contact Sitemap Home > Opinion , Social Media > Content Aggregators are Killing Content Creators Content Aggregators are Killing Content Creators by Tamar Weinberg on September 23, 2009 Share This is a guest post from Josh Schnell, founder of Macgasm.net and web developer.

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Five Benefits to Using Twitter Â? Techipedia | Tamar Weinberg

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

As an example, I followed two major news aggregators for awhile, but the updates were just too frequent for my needs. A social media user might want to call people’s attention to a recent stumble, blog post, or website. You can share your thoughts with the world or link a blog post to have your followers read.

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How friendfeed Can Teach You About Your Friends

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

For your blog, any URL will do, and if you are writing for a blog with multiple authors, FriendFeed parses through the authors and only features blog posts written by you. FriendFeed isn’t just an aggregator, though. That is, of course, if your friends are using Twitter. What can you learn about me?

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Boycott Facebook & Related Sites | Bare Feet Blog

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But the way that Facebook’s Beacon is setting cookies and sending my very specific online behavior (at selected sites) back to it’s databases not in the aggregate but assigned to my personal data, is going too far. There are so many socnets and microblogging/status update services out there. Let’s keep at it folks.

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Top 20 iPhone Apps for Bloggers

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The Internet changes pretty fast, and if you want to have a popular blog, you must keep up with it. The bottom line is: you should be able to work on your blog all day long, even if you are not sitting in front of your computer. If you are reading this blog I am guessing you use WordPress, right? Then it must be using TypePad.

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Is Social Media the Final Frontier of Marketing?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

The reason is that people didn’t have aggregate power: they were individual voices that a news channel or a company can choose to ignore. Anyone can set up a website for their personal voice; we call that a blog. He writes a science blog , maintains a set of SEO tools and moderates at Cre8asite Forums.

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The Great Social Media Traffic Debate: Niche or General Networks?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

I was fortunate to have the help of James Duthie, a serial guest blogger from Online Marketing Banter , a blog on social media, marketing, and more.? Many people found the research interesting, but a number of people commented that the social networks probably shouldn’t be grouped together. Other topics though maybe not so much.