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Free Summer School For Marketers

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At the same time, I was already publishing a couple of music magazines that were becoming successful. In a very non-traditional fashion, my mother said, "If the magazines don''t work out you always go back to school, but if you stay in school and stop publishing those magazines, you will never know what could have been.

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On Knowing (And Experience)

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Do you think we would have things like poetry, comic books, magazines and fanzines if we judged the printing press the same way we judge social media? It would be like going back to the days of Gutenberg's press and demanding that everything being printed must be a certain way. We'd probably all be priests and nuns. Don't be confused.

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To Thine Own Self Be True

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I was flipping through an in-flight magazine yesterday and noticed a two-page spread for a diaper company. It became a more prescient concept when MySpace collapsed as Facebook began to gain its momentum. Back then, it was much easier to build and update a MySpace page than it was to build and nurture a unique website.

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Uncoupling Everything

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As Social Media gained traction, it seemed like MySpace and Facebook were just the next generation (or next iteration) of the portal - with the big difference being that it wasn't about the edited content but rather about the connections that individuals have to one another. Maybe Wired Magazine was right and that the Web is dead.

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Six Links Worthy Of Your Attention #115

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Our New Shrines - Contents Magazine. Just a parlor trick like MySpace ? contents magazine. News & World Report [what?]), The Economist has quietly grown to become perhaps the most influential media entity of our time. " (Hugh for Alistair). Craig Mod thinks that might be backwards. And it will sustain.' bitcurrent.

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Google+ Continues Attempts to Start Major Trends in the Social World

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High profile hangout events with prominent organizations such as TIME Magazine have further helped spur some interest in the fledging social network. Ultimately, social attention is often fickle, with users quickly migrating to other platforms and leaving once popular meccas such as MySpace in the dust. Google+’s Problems.

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World Wide Rave – Works!

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Note his ebook is a preview for his upcoming book called World Wide Rave due out in March There are some great examples of how ideas spread in his ebook on the Top 10 unsigned bands from MySpace who just give away their music as a means of promoting themselves.

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