The Day’s Delicious
Assorted nonsense and marginally relevant shenanigans via my personal delicious.com bookmarks.
- Crises Tracking on Twitter: The Benefits –and Dangers– of New Media: Jeremiah Owyang put out another great post on Twitter this week, this time on crisis reporting/tracking. It's really gotten my gears turning on a hypothetical situation related to the topic. Tagging this as a reminder for a future blog post.
- Why Brands Are Unsuccessful in Twitter: Jeremiah Owyang has a great take on why so many brands have a high suckitude factor on Twitter.
- Are Music Tweets Mostly For Twits?: Just like any brand, a music artist needs to be authentic when it comes to engaging on a social media front. Otherwise, you're just adding to the noise and not the music.
- Facebook rigged for “Hussein” hack: Facebook making accommodations for the presumptive Democratic nominee? Liberal bias among techies living on the left coast? Sun yellow? Sky blue?
- Twitter / don_draper: Damn, even Don Draper "gets" web 2.0, though I'm sure he prefers to call it "evolutionary advertising."
Here’s one for the “power” of the web that you might have missed…
A Chinese news site identified one of their winning women gymnasts as being 13 or 14 and an “up and comer” earlier this year. After she helped to win the team gold on a passport that said that she was 16 that page was captured by Western news sources. The page “disappeared” shortly thereafter.
It’s almost impossible to stuff the genie back into the bottle once people can freely share information so broadly.
If you don’t want the world to know… never put it on the web!
If you don’t want the world to know… never put it on the web!
And the corollary to that is, of course, that if it’s on the web, it must be true!
/sarcasm
That’s not unique to the web, that’s just human nature!