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Traffic Rises 350% Year-Over-Year For Social Publisher BuzzFeed

The Realtime Report

Calling itself “the social news and entertainment company,” BuzzFeed demonstrated last month that whatever the publisher’s formula may be, it’s working. ” Or, as Wikipedia puts it, “ a snapshot of the viral web in realtime.” What’s your take? Comments I''m not too sure about Buzzfeed.

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Six Links Worthy Of Your Attention #230

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Jay Rosen ''s excellent list of things he expects his journalism students to have understood by the time they finish in his class. I suppose this kind of thing already happens for the wealthy: Swiss bank accounts and off-shore tax shelters and Cayman Island company registrations and the like. fast company. fast company.

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Six Links Worthy Of Your Attention #100

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American Airlines once offered an unlimited, lifetime first class seat for a paltry half-million or so. Faced with bankruptcy--and realizing this deal costs the company a million or more a year--American decided to try and shut them down. "Several years ago, I read a feature in Fast Company magazine on the future of education.

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Six Links Worthy of Your Attention #426

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Queensryche - Wikipedia. You know how sometimes you wind up down a rathole on Wikipedia and learn something that blows your mind? For a certain political class, Russia has come to be seen as the global villain destabilizing the world. The NY Public Library wants you to read more books-on Instagram - Fast Company.

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Is Pay-to-Post Blogging The New Advertorial?

Waxing UnLyrical

It was something to the effect of “Would/should companies do this with big bloggers in their spaces?&# Alas, the issue is even stickier for bloggers than it is for companies. When I think about how auto companies have done PR (BIG paid trips to exotic places to test cars) paying for a post seems a bit less obtrusive.

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Six Links Worthy Of Your Attention #83

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Instead, the failure was one of lobbying power: Dodd and company didn't move fast enough, or lobby hard enough. While we'll still see a ton of disruption, I think the shift to the creative class powered by technology will push us into a new post-disruption world. They say that if you like eating sausage, don't watch it being made.

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Can Greater Social Connections Improve Higher Education?

Social Media Strategery

It leverages the connected power of Facebook’s social graph with the added functionality of creating “lighter” relationships — that is, connections that don’t require friending each other — centered around common hubs like interests, classes, or programs. Below is our Q&A. Pages are great for brands to push out information.

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