Weekly Grab Bag – September 10, 2010
Based on the majority of the content featured in this week’s Grab Bag, the subtitle for this edition could be, “How To Do Things Wrong On the Internet.” (And don’t think I didn’t consider it.)
Included below is a post on social media doubling as a popularity contest, why updating your media lists is crucial, and why using Twitter to bitch and moan can be an exercise in futility.
Please. Read on.
101 Ways To Live Your Life To The Fullest (Personal Excellence Blog) – We will start with the good stuff. Quite often, a list of ’101 Things…’ loses momentum around number 75. Not this one. There are seriously some great ideas in here for getting the most out of your life. #24 is one that I’m particularly fond of.
How The Seattle Times Is Using Mobile Video, Twitter To Report News Fast (Poynter Online) – This is where journalism is headed, frankly. We’re seeing the Journal Register Company experiment with digital means as a way to deliver the news, and now the Seattle Times is bringing it to the mainstream. Won’t be too long until this is the standard news delivery model, methinks (I hate that word.)
The Internet Has Become A Big Popularity Contest (SimplyZesty) – One of the best things I read this week, and I thought about devoting an entire entry to it. Basically, it operates under the premise that numbers (Twitter followers, “likes”, etc.) make social media too numbers-heavy when it comes to identifying valuable content. Read the whole thing for gist. I think you’ll dig it.
Why I’m Tired of #Fail (Brass Tack Thinking) – Amber Naslund is one of those people who writes exactly what I’m thinking, and I admire the shit out of that. I’m also extremely jealous of her abilities. This post captures something that bugs me about Twitter: a rush to complain. If you’re going to read two articles in this week’s grab bag, make it this one and the one above.
Magnalight.com’s Rob Bresnahan and the Dim Bulb Pitch (Bad Pitch Blog) – The key takeaway, if you will, of this post is that you need to keep your media lists updated, especially in today’s day and age of high turnover rates. The reporter who was covering technology last week might be this week’s food & beverage correspondent. So, if you send them a pitch for a new Web browser, for instance, they’re going to think you are stupid, and we don’t want that. This post takes a PR professional to task for this very sin.
That’s all for this week.
What captured your interest?
