Archive for October, 2008
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Print is Dying, Not Newspapers
Newspapers have been struggling and losing readership for some time now. That is not news. But what is news is that a paper like The Christian Science Monitor will now stop printing on weekdays and mostly an online newspaper with a weekend print edition. From the NYTimes:
After a century of continuous publication, The Christian Science [...]
PodCampAZ this Weekend Nov 1st & 2nd
The PodCampAZ schedule has been released, which means its time to remind you all to join us if you can this weekend November 1st and 2nd.
I’m on Sunday anytime between 10.15am - 11.15am.
“Friending” Addiction on Facebook
Last week I posted a funny video on how Facebook can lower your self-esteem. Apparently, this is no joke and certainly not a laughing matter for some. A leading psychologist in London, England says Facebook is causing some pain in people:
But a leading psychologist says Facebook is driving a worrying trend.
The social networking site is [...]
Unreadable Captchas Can Destroy Your Business
I admit I can be a social media junkie. I say “can be” because there are only so many hours in a day and I like to network offline as much I do online. I also like to stay on top of new emerging networks and tools. So, when I saw a report on marketing [...]
No Customers Since 1972: Ouch!
I just read about a store in the Tokyo area that has not had a customer since 1972. Amazing to think that it is still in business, bu that is besides the point. It’s a broom store and the article states that perhaps the reason for no business is due to the fact that it’s [...]
Developing an Effective Social Media Strategy
Companies large and small are trying to develop an effective social media strategy. Many are stumbling over the ROI question, but then again many are just pushing forward and trying to make something out of it. In essence it doesn’t have to be a shot gun approach. ROI may seem to be hard to quantify, [...]
Facebook Lowers Self-Esteem?
A Word About Air Marketing
There appears to be some confusion regarding the two places I’ve been most actively blogging. I wanted to take this opportunity to clarify the relationship between this blog and AIR Marketing. If you’ve read my “About” page, you will know that I work for AIR Marketing. AIR is an analytics driven, marketing and advertising agency [...]
A Spam Gang Smashed
This from the NYTimes today, a spam gang bust:
The Federal Trade Commission won a preliminary legal victory against what it called one of the largest spam gangs on the Internet, persuading a federal court in Chicago on Tuesday to freeze the group’s assets and order the spam network to shut down.
The group, which used several [...]
