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This Week in Social Media – 8/7/2013

Social Media Marketing

Why Bezos bought the Post , Facebook gets a CMO and starts bumping, time on digital surpasses TV, Facebook ads are undervalued, Vietnam outlaws sharing news on social sites, GE wants to put an end to press releases, the effect of tweets on TV ratings and more, it''s This Week in Social Media. this week in social news'

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The Future of Blogging: I Had to Tell You This

Viper Chill

A prediction about the future of blogging; a platform actively used by over 181 million people (Nielsen data for October 2011). He also contributed to what I call padding , which is now popular on news websites. An Apple event that could normally be covered in one or two blog posts will be turned into five or ten, purely for pageviews.

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