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Socialympics: How Social Media and Blogging Has Boosted Sports Media

Convince & Convert

Funded by reputable venture capitalist firms, Wizards/Capitals/Mystics owner Ted Leonsis and other sources, SBNation has taken the concept of the blog network to another level. This has given the old-school media guys something to point to when they criticize the legitimacy of sports blogging and microblogging.

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The Unfortunate Investment of Social Media (and its Consequences)

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

As seen on compete.com, alexa, comscore and other sites, Digg growth has flattened in the past few months. It has thrown me for a loop the past week. I’m getting frustrated. Reply Toothful Dolphin February 1, 2008 at 6:26 pm Digg “jumped the shark&# several months ago.

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Analysis of Five Top Blogs and What You Can Learn from Them

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

However, comScore, the leading internet marketing research firm recently did a study on Kontera In-Text ads and found among other things, that we’re actually one of the least disruptive ad formats. Tamar, regarding your feelings that In-Text ads are irritating, I realize that no form of advertising will ever be 100% embraced.

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