ExperienceCurve by Karl Long

Crowdsourced Corrections and Fact Checking for Social Media Authors

GooseGrade is an interesting new service that is launching tomorrow that puts the power of editing in the hands of the audience. These corrections can be anything from spelling errors (yeah, i’m installing it for that), to more importantly fact checking even. As readers correct things on your blog your “goose grade” score goes down, [...]

How To Make A Viral Video

Funny as this is, it’s almost analogous to how lost some companies are in approaching social media. I love it when Ben Stiller is whispering to his cousin “let me in, what is it makes you tick”. Brilliant. No Tags

Social Media: The Marketing Summit

Not sure why I have not heard about this yet, but this looks like a great conference. Social Media seems to have been a concept that is gaining a hell of a lot of traction in the last year or so as a term to describe the enormous disruption that the internet is bringing. The [...]

You’re no one if you’re not on twitter and les misc

Twitter song by I hate mornings and via My poor blog has not been updated in a while, and yes I have been on twitter a lot and Plurk. I’ve also been working on my own line of T-shirts and here is my first design, it’s the Prez Dispenser Obama T-Shirt by a local artist called [...]

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Social Media is becoming core requirement for Marketing Managers

Mashable asked last week if Social Media Jobs Here To Stay? That in many ways is like saying in 1999 are these web jobs here to stay, there is no doubt that social media in the broader sense is here to stay, some tools and social networks will disappear, but IMHO pandoras box is open, [...]

An anthropological introduction to YouTube presented to the Library of Congress June 23rd

This is a wonderful video presentation on YouTube that focuses the anthropology, the behavior, and the culture that YouTube is enabling. This is a wonderful video from an educational standpoint and I plan to use it in the upcoming course on social media I will be teaching in the fall at the Academy of Arts [...]

Try Something New, PSFK Conference In San Francisco July 17th

If you are tired Bay Area conferences where you hear the same old cheerleaders in what has become an increasingly incestuous web 2.0 echo chamber you need to check out the PSFK conference in San Francisco next week. This is sure to be a very creative and inspiring conference with great people from creative and [...]

Amazing Dancing Liquid Video

The liquid on top of a metal tray on top of a booming sub-woofer produces some memorizing effects that look supernatural. The liquid is a mixture of water and cornstarch at about a 1:6 ratio, start with the cornstarch, add water slowly, it’s a substance that feels ‘hard’, pours like liquid. No Tags

Engagement vs. Popularity Metrics in Blogs

Lots of people have been talking about the right metrics for blogs and other kinds of social media for a couple of years now. It is in fact a desperate need in the blogging community because apart from the obvious ego-surfing, feedback and benchmarkeing is absolutely critical to managing and growing a blog. Also for [...]

Users Improving Products - Attaching an external mic to Nokia N95

I’ve often wondered how to add an external mic to my N95, as i think it would make a killer podcast recording device. Anyway, looks like someone figured it out and put an instructional video on Qik. I had a blog post brainstorm a while ago on what a “social media phone” would look like, check [...]

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