Curated Stories, Weekend Feb. 6 and 7, 2010

I like Chris Brogan. I’ve even referenced him among social media power users I recommend this community connect with. With that said, I don’t agree with everything he says and have disagreed with him…

In the world of custom news applications that look to provide you personalized content, there are a growing number of contenders using different methods to filter the “best” from the “rest”. Some, like Techmeme…

by Josh Bernoff

Im not a corporate spokesperson for Forrester. But as a prominent social
media analyst here, I wanted to comment on the recent discussion regarding our
policy on analysts and blogs.

Forrester…

Nearly half of voters follow candidate’s Facebook and Twitter profiles: 40% of social media users support or follow candidates via Facebook or Twitter. …

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A minor tempest in the research industry teapot erupted today on Twitter and elsewhere. A SageCircle blog post entitled Forrester tells analysts no more personal blogs with interesting im…

David Weinberger asks: “After press conferences, what?”
Imho: A hybrid of newsroom and press conference. And it must be open, unlike newsrooms and press conferences of the past.
A few years ago I wrote about a…

With the continued growth of both the pubic social web and private collaboration, communication and social business tools we are creating an explosion of social data. As businesses get more deeply …

User-experience (UX) storytelling was one of the storytelling applications that was new to me in 2009. I interviewed Whitney Quesenbery (who is writing a book on the subject) and wrote about Cindy Chastain.

N…

Look, I think Twitter is great. I use it all the time, and without question it brings me business, sends me great information, helps me build friendships and relationships. I’m a fan.
But there are some short…

Keeping up with information these days is like sipping through the proverbial fire hydrant. You don’t need to check your Twitter, Facebook, Google Reader, etc…..you already know what’s building up on the…

One way to think about running a successful business is to figure out what the least you can do is, and do that. That’s actually what they spent most of my time at business school teaching me.No sense putting m…

Trust
in business and Government has gone up in the last year, while trust in
media seems to be declining across the board — this is the latest
finding of the latest annual Edelman Trust Barometer survey….

As someone who writes about social media and promotes it in the newsroom, I’m a big believer in its value as a tool for engaging people in public issues. …

According to Sage Circle, Forrester is telling all of their analysts that have their own personally branded research blogs that they must either take them down or re-direct them to the Forrester site. Apparentl…

Even before Apple announced the iPad last week, the Internet was going tablet-crazy. After speculation, literally years in the making, finally came to a crescendo, the public reaction has been decidedly mixed….

Here’s the spec. If you build it and it’s great, I’ll use it and I’ll blog it.A while ago, I posted about the talking pad and a modern version of it.I think there’s a killer app version of this for the iPad, an…

Sometimes the most interesting stuff in an unfamiliar city is hiding in plain sight. With the right location-aware and map-friendly web tools, you can find the best cheap eats, picture-worthy sights, and much m…

Last week during #journchat, I saw a reference to a post titled Does Your Twitter Handle Belong on Your Resume? The author is a PR college student, and the conversation around the post is mainly tactical, but…

Charlie Rose had The Wall Street Journal/All Things D’s Walt Mossberg, The New York Times’ David Carr and our own Michael Arrington on his show Thursday night to talk about the Apple iPad. You can also vie…

David Goldman submits: The drop in the unemployment rate to 9.7% is an artifact of seasonal adjustment: Employment on the Household Survey actually fell from 137.953 million to 136.809 million. Seasonally adjus…

Yesterday I turned down a job offer. Well, it wasn’t a formal offer, but I had a good feeling it was going to be. Normally, that would be VERY exciting news considering my current unemployment status, but as…

by Danielle Ofri, MD, PhD
There is a veritable epidemic of doctor-writers out there. What is going on?
Are doctors suddenly in the kiss-and-tell mode? What about confidentiality? Professionalism? HIPAA?
As one…

So last night I made my way to Pakhuis Wilhelmina, a funky former warehouse turned live music venue in Amsterdam to see what turned out to be a surprisingly excellent Dutch Ramones tribute band. (Click the pho…

A lot of online retailers have been rushing into using Social Media as the next big marketing thing and yes it is showing some promise.
A recent study by Compete which evaluated online shopping trends, unearthe…

If you’ve ever hired or managed or taught, you know the feeling.People are just begging to be told what to do. There are a lot of reasons for this, but I think the biggest one is: “If you tell me what to do, th…

Recently, at CUNY, we held a roundtable for ad sales people from hyperlocal blogs to big newspapers to hear what they are hearing from local merchants. We’re wrapping up our research for the New Business Mode…

Whenever something’s a really “big deal” in the Ruby world, we cover it – even if it makes more sense on Rails Inside (which is now switching to a user contributions model). Given that, we’ve gone through all…