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Why Reddit Continues to be Relevant

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According to Digg’s top brass, these changes were meant to bring in more revenue to the site, giving corporations and companies more control over content and more exposure for their own content. Reddit is (was?) So why did these Digg users embrace Reddit as their new social news website home? Digg’s main competition.

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Katie Couric Will Give Us The Internet That We Deserve

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At the same time, Apple is still pushing iTunes Radio and Yahoo is making all kinds of waves this week by announcing that Katie Couric will be joining the company as their "Global Anchor" (does anybody know what that title even means?). I love television, radio, newspapers and magazines, but I want the Internet to do a whole more.

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This Blog Is Dead

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Let''s forgo the irony that this piece was published on a blog and read this: "Instead of blogging, people are posting to Tumblr , tweeting, pinning things to their board, posting to Reddit , Snapchat ting, updating Facebook statuses, Instagram ming, and publishing on Medium. Blogs are for 40-somethings with kids. blog comment.

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Content Aggregation: The Future of (B2B and Consumer) Media?

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Weekly news magazines are declining, newspapers are shriveling, and industry trade magazines are downsizing. While the use of such technologies is limited only by the imagination, there are three types of entities that could clearly benefit from content aggregation tools: large brands/companies, online publishers and PR firms.

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This Week in Social Media – 5/15/2013

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And if you’re on Flipboard, you can get these links in the This Week in Social Media Magazine. Legal/Regulatory Facebook''s general counsel Ted Ullyot is leaving the company. Twitter has acquired big data company Lucky Sort , a visualization and navigation service that allows users to look at trending news topics in a visual layout.

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Moving People Creates Movements

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It could get popular on a site like Reddit. A magazine or newspaper might be so moved by it, that they offer you an opportunity to write for them. Your words might inspire a company to take action and hire you as their consultant or agency. Traditional mass media journalists may even call you up to be interviewed about it.

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Facebook Shares Jump 80% in 3 Months at Private Auction

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The Palo Alto-based social networking giant is a privately held company, and its shares are not listed on the NASDAQ or the New York Stock Exchange alongside Google, Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, or any of the other publicly traded Silicon Valley behemoths – at least for now. Share this on Reddit. Unsurprisingly. Share this on Facebook.

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