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On Influence and Bad Blog Posts

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You see a compelling blog title tweeted, you click on it and it’s end up being something that you might wrap your dead fish in. The second, I will refer to this definition from Wikipedia. We’re all suckers for a great blog post title. The first one I’ve been sucked into a bunch of times.

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This weeks #SocialMedia Tweetchat Topic: Destruction of the Media Industry: Will We Be Better Off In the Long Run?

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No one had heard of blogs. million blog entries every day. Wikipedia posted its three millionth article. Newsroom employment would peak in 2001 as newsstand sales of the top 100 magazines approached 30 million. People used mobile phones to talk. Fast forward to 2009. Reader’s Digest declared bankruptcy.

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