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Is Blogging Killing Good Writing?

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I read a blog post today that recommended people forget what they learned in school about writing, and instead, write like they speak, and from the heart. I used to work at an artificial intelligence company that made foreign language translation software. Back to the blog post. Common Russet Potato. It’s just performance art.

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A Blog is a Better Social Media Hub Than Twitter

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Twitter is excellent for distribution , but if you’re going to communicate original ideas, you’ll need a blog (or something similar). They are most often using Twitter as a super-news-feed, and as a way to drive people back to their blog, web site, etc. A blog is less dominated by spam than Twitter.

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Judge Confirms: You Have No Privacy. Get Over It.

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Yet how many blog posts tell us how to adjust our Facebook privacy settings? Facebook has made one privacy screw-up after another. Google compromised user information with the launch of Buzz. They are all repeat offenders with little possibility of rehabilitation.

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Five Social Media Predictions for 2010

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Enterprise Social Software Applications Will Become Commonplace. Large software providers like IBM, SAP and Oracle will launch, or announce, the first enterprise-grade social networking and Web 2.0 Before we can say the enterprise social software market is mature, enterprise brands must become as generic and pervasive as PowerPoint.

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Facebook: Too Big to Fail

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Now that Facebook has released its Open Graph Protocol for example, which allows, among other things, developers to add a Facebook “Like&# button to their blog or web site, who is responsible for privacy as it pertains to the use of that Like button? And that’s not a slam. The web site owner or Facebook?

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The Ultimate Guide to Social Media Listening

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Social listening seems to be the method of following keywords on social media, forums, blogs, news, and the Internet. These tools crawl the references you want and compile references in a single dashboard on all social media, blogs, news, etc. One of the most common social listening software is customer support.

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McLuhan, Socrates and Edith Wharton On Social Media

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McLuhan clearly foresaw the whole phenomenon of blogging, Twitter and Facebook status updates. The value to a brand of a social media presence, whether through a corporate blog, Facebook page or Twitter account, is hard to dispute, but equally hard to measure. And all but one of them are dead. Publication is a self-invasion of privacy.”