Hand curated for your reading enjoyment.

• How many Twitter friends click on your links? As little as 1%
  Just when you thought that by passing on all those useful links to your faithful followers you’d be enriching their lives or careers, along comes this bit of research to let the air out of your tires.
• An Era of Mass Micro Marketing
  Shel points out that after decades of thinking really, really big, marketers now have to learn how to think really, really small. Look around you and you’ll see what a difficult time they’re having.
• Friending Your Employees: What Are The Rules?
  The post doesn’t answer the question unfortunately. It does point out some things that should be considered from both employer and employee standpoints though.
• 4 key ways the tech PR practice is evolving
  Four fundamental ways that the tech PR industry is evolving to adapt to doing more with less. Social centeredness, Google trumps ink, Cross functional expertise and Putting the public back in PR (Deirdre and Brian have to love that one!) comprise the four fundamentals.
• Adding Value To Social Media Explorer
  Jason Falls is going to start complementing his popular blog with a newsletter and he’s looking for feedback on what you’d like to see. I’m betting we’ll start to see more of this.
• How to Network With Busy People – Part 10
  It’s probably just me, but I’ve really enjoyed this series. If you haven’t been following Steve you might want to check out what you’ve been missing.
• When tactics drown out strategy
  Seth Godin nails what’s wrong with 99% of today’s marketing.
• 10-no-4 Days to Become a Social Media Expert
  I tweeted about this earlier today saying that Chris might be one of the few who could actually be called an expert and guessing that it took him at least 10 years. He responded saying that he still learns something useful each and every day. And, I missed by one. He started in ‘98.
• Blogger claims to have manufactured the infamous Obama Kenyan birth certificate
  This is a story that just doesn’t want to go away and this post just adds fuel to the fire.
• A Career in Public Relations – A Student’s Perspective
  Deirdre, one of the best in the business, does a reverse interview with a future PR professional.
• Active Listening on the Social Web; It’s Overrated
  Michael Brito points out that you need to do more than just “listen”. You need to engage. And engaging can lead to dramatic financial performance.
• Answers to Social Media Questions You Should Know
  These are questions you’re likely to ask your social media, marketing pr consultant, or, likely to hear from your client if you are one of the aforementioned. Sound advice here for both sides.
• Scenes from corporate life
  The first of what I hope will be many more corporate cartoons from goodcopybadcopy. Brad Shorr of Word Sell helped with the inspiration and encouragement. I think you’ll enjoy it.
• Social media: Old people rule!
  You’re darn tootin’ we do! Mark Schaefer’s daughter guest posted this one. He writes at {grow} and is one of my favorite marketing voices. She is majoring in PR. The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree!
• Man: Naughty Kitty Downloaded Kiddie Porn
  This guy gets the award for Most Creative Way to duck the porno charge. To steal a line from Dharma and Greg, “Who among us has not blamed the dog?” Or, in this instance, the cat.

Social Media, Marketing, PR

• Why Do You Tweet?…   ReadWriteWeb
• Posterous – What’s it all about?…   SMT
• How Do Companies Manage Multiple Users on Twitter and Other Social Media Accounts?…   Fast Company
• HOW TO: Deal With Social Networking Overload…   Mashable
• Marketing with fascinating data: IntraLinks Deal Flow Indicator…   Web Ink Now
• Andy’s Answers: 3 tips from General Mills on connecting with key influencers…   Smart Blog on Social Media
• Why You Should Start Over On Twitter With A BRAND NEW Account…   TwiTip
• From Corporate to Personal: A Breakdown Of The Four Types of Twitter Profiles…   Web Strategy
• “All I do is work here”…   Seth Godin
• Warm the Mug…   Chris Brogan
• Social media measurement — It’s like being a great bartender…   {grow}
• Is Zappos’ Email as Good as Their Social Media?…   Convince and Convert
• BlogHer ‘09 reveals the ugly side of social media…   Econsultancy
• Social Media Agencies and Transparency…   davefleet
• Sharpen Your Social Media Intelligence…   Alibaba
• 1-800-Flowers.com brings online retail to Facebook…   Econsultancy
• How Much Do You Think Twitter Is Worth? How about a Half-Billion Dollars…   Om Malik on Broadband
• Immersive Social Gaming: Twitter and Facebook on XBox…   ReadWriteWeb
• Want to leave a prayer on the Western Wall? There’s a Twitter account for that…   Inquisitir
• CONFIRMED: Twitter Takeover Caused By Facebook Glitch…   Mashable
• Enterprise Social Media Normalizes…   Naked Conversations

Apple

• The iPhoneocalypse is Coming: Every iPhone is at Risk…   Mashable
• AT&T releases new mobile social networking app…  macsimumnews

Technology

• 3jam Launches Virtual Numbers, Takes Google Voice Head-On…   TechCrunch
• Poken And The Evolution Of The Digital Business Card…   Interactive Influential Marketing

Journalism, Newspapers, Magazines, Writing

• A Copywriter’s Intro to Frame-switching and Nested Storytelling…   Conversion Rate Marketing
• What If: The New New York Times…   TechCrunch
• 12 Tips to Find Ideas for Your Writing…   Ronda Writes
• AOL Newsroom Now Has (Wow) 1,500 Writers….   TechCrunch

Business, Finance, Money

• Overqualified and underpaid…   CNN/Money
• What Business Thinks of Obama…   BusinessWeek
• Foreclosures Spread As Unemployment Rises…   BusinessWeek

Medicine, Health

• Controlling health care costs will require patient sacrifice, that how that will affect the status quo…   Kevin, M.D.
• Americans Spend $34 Billion on Alternative Medicine…   WebMD
• Health Reform: Big Wind, Take Small Steps…    medinnovationblog
• Fixing health care: Full coverage…   CNN/Money
• ACP: Putting effectiveness into the health care equation: Rational or rationing?…   Kevin, M.D.
• E-Health – It All Depends on How It’s Used…   Health Care Blog
• Health Care in Crisis: Patients Are Pushovers…   BusinessWeek

Lifestyle

• Beaches better in N.C., report says…     News and Observer

Social Media, Marketing, PR

• Public Relations Measurement 2010: Five Things to Forget & Five Things to Learn …   Metrics Man
• What Twitter and Facebook Can Learn From Phish…    Mashable
• Socialcast Thinks Your CEO’s Status Be Louder Than Yours…   ReadWriteWeb
• Managing Your Small Business’s Online Reputation…   NY Times
• Airlines Follow Passengers Onto Social Media Sites…   NY Times
• How do you report social media success?…   Dirk Shaw
• If It Feels Wrong, It Probably Is…   All Facebook
• A Guide to Crowdfunding Success…   Mashable
• Why Big Business Will NEVER Get Social Media…   Spirit Wealth
• Top 10 Things the Microsoft/Yahoo! Deal Changes for SEO…   SEOmoz Blog
• Deloitte Study Suggests Social Media Policy a Must Have…   Web 2.0 Journal
• Top 10 Social Media Gaffes…   ABC News
• Share Tweets with Friends Right in GMail…   Micro Persuasion
• How Should Marketers Guard Against Viral Backlash?…   Fast Comapny
• Dumb Facebook Comments On Current Events=No Jerb…   Wonkette
• Super-Charge Your Twittering With FollowFormation…   Fast Company
• Social Media Mavens – An Interview with Kodak’s Tom Hoehn…   The Viral Garden
• If I Had A Social Media Hammer …   Patrick Barbanes
• How Social Media Monitoring Can Benefit B2B…   Search Engine Land
• Social Media Best Practices… eMarketer
• Readers have responsibilities too…   Writelife
• Turning Web Analytics into Nonprofit Success…   Conversion Rate Marketing
• Great Headlines, Poor Rankings – Why Clever Headlines Don’t Beat Optimized Title Tags for SEO…   Search Engine Journal
• How Gen-Y Startups Use Social Media to Shatter the Status Quo…   Mashable
• Stop Blaming Marketing!…   Phoenix Rising
• Report: Social Networks Growing while Other Social Media Sites Stagnate and Decline…   ReadWriteWeb
• Facebook To Release Ads API…   All Facebook
• How to Find Your Blogging Mojo – Experiment with Different Voices and Styles of Writing…   ProBlogger
• Marketing Voices: Three Recommendations for Marketing Leaders (11min)…   Web Strategy
• Does that Facebook App Have a Privacy Policy? Probably Not.…   ReadWriteWeb
• How Amanda Palmer made $11,000 on Twitter in two hours…   Web Ink Now
• Time for Twitter to Ditch Trending Topics…   Naked Conversations
• Measuring Your Level Of Social Media Engagement …   PR Communications
• The Ultimate List of Basic SEO Resources for a Kick-Ass Start…   Search Engine Journal
• What is Digital Asset Optimization?…   Online Marketing Blog
• Tweet Cloud for Luxury Brands – Using Twitter for Exposure…   TwiTip
• May I Contact You Please? The Evolution of Permission…    Convince and Convert
• How Twitter Is Changing Business Blogging …   Word Sell Inc.
• Can a single tweet create a tidal wave?…   Econsultancy
• Social media influence in the workplace may be relatively small…   {grow}
• Do Thought Leaders Need To Be Practioners?…   Th Kmiec Ramblings
• Cameron condemns Tweeters as tw*ts…   Register
• How to Win Customers and Piss People Off…   Ask Kalena
• Social PR Crisis and Response: How Horizon Group Management Might Yet Save the Day…   Experience: The Blog
• Marketing is Not a Substitute for a Great Product or Service…   Social Media Marketing Strategy
• TweetDeck updates – Creating an application with thought…   SMT
• Live Tweeting from the Verizon Developer Conference #VDC09…   Socialize Mobilize
• Twitter Highlights Search on New Home Page…   Search Engine Journal
• What Would Happen If Social Networking Sites Charged…   Techdirt
• Twitter Finally Explains Itself…   Technologizer
• You are the Captain….   Chris Brogan
• Twitter Redesigns As Streaming Trends Site…   ReadWrireWeb
• What the Horizon Realty Fail Can Teach You About Social Media…   Copyblogger
• The Goal of Twitter’s New Homepage? Be the World’s Water Cooler…   Mashable
• Facebook Announces New Ad Policy Which Eliminates User Data From Third Party Networks…    All Facebook
• The Power Of ALL…   s.m.o.g.
• Would the real social network please stand up?…   apophenia
• Social Media Experts, Your Messages are Getting Through. Sort Of.…   Elizabeth Shugg

Apple

• How I Read the ATT Comment on Google Voice…   Newsome.org
• AT&T: Don’t Blame Us For The iPhone’s Google Voice Ban…   TechCrunch
• Apple to developers – piss off and don’t bother us…   Inquisitir
• The Black Mac Desktop [Featured Desktop]…   Lifehacker
• See Apples through Windows…   PCR
• iPhone SMS Vulnerability: Should You be Scared?…   Technologizer
• TNT doesn’t like Mac users…   David Alison’s Blog
• Apple bigger than Dell and HP combined…   CNN/Money
• How To Hijack ‘Every iPhone In The World’…   Forbes
• Apple’s fussyness shows the real platform – the web…   Epeus’ Epigone
• Why You’ll Buy Apple’s iTablet…   Fast Company

Technology

• Recipe for a Successful Teleconference…   Web Worker Daily
• YourMapper.com Quietly Building World’s Largest Map Mashup Platform…   Social Media Explorer
• Lack of demand for Acer’s Android netbook: a sign of things to come for Chrome OS?…   Econsultancy
• Yahoo’s Bing Deal Puts Delicious, BOSS & More at Risk…    ReadWrireWeb
• Exclusive: Former MySpace CEO Chris DeWolfe Raising Money For New Venture…   TechCrunch
• Screw the Cloud! Tonido Wants to Put Your Apps on YOUR Computer…   ReadWriteWeb

Journalism, Newspapers, Magazines, Writing

• EBooks: Sony Now Offers 1 Million Free Books From Google Books…   ReadWriteWeb
• Chris Anderson’s Unbelievably Annoying Interview With Spiegel…   Silicon Alley Insider
• Editorial: Google’s Big Plan for Books…   NY Times
• Inside AP’s New News DRM System…   TechCrunch
• Become a Better Proofreader By Distancing Yourself from the Text [Writing Tips]…   Lifehacker
• Old Media, New Media and Where the Rubber Meets the Road…   O’Reilly Radar
• eBook Craze Spurs $15M Funding for LibreDigital…   Om Malik on Broadband
• AP Says It’s ‘Done’ Talking About Fair Use And Its DRM…   Techdirt

Business, Finance, Money

• Why Microsoft and Yahoo had to do a deal…   Fortune
• Study: 40-hour workweek is no more…   Triangle Business Journal
• Question…Is Tweeting Your Trades Pumping Stocks?…   Howard Lindzon
• How One Grasshopper Is Boosting Employee Morale…   Fast Company

Medicine, Health

• AARP Members Air Doubts about Obamacare…   medinnovationblog
• Mass Mess…   medinnovationblog
• Magical Thinking Of The Week: The Anti-Inflammation Diet…   Better Health
• Health Care: Public Plan, ‘Pay or Play’ May Go…   BusinessWeek
• Orzag’s Bad Idea – Ending Practice Variation…   medinnovationblog
• Why it’s difficult to put doctors on a salary…   Kevin, M.D.
• Much ado about something important…  DB’s Medical Rants
• Creating Cost-Efficient Primary Care Medical Practices By Using 21st Century Technology…   Better Health
• Are patients refusing doctors who no longer do hospital work?…   Kevin, M.D.
• Obama asks Americans to tweet their Senators…   Econsultancy
• Who can save the future of medicine?…   CNN/Money
• Are health info seekers sharing less with doctors?…  Health Populi
• Kung Fu Surgeon…. Surgeonsblog
• Health program brings back house calls…   News and Observer
• Health Care, A Plan…    John Dalt
• Health Care Mythology…   Clifford Asness
• Patients for a Moment…   Everything Changes
• Health Care in Crisis: Overmedicating America…   BusinessWeek

Lifestyle

• Personal Lives vs. Electronic Communication: The Battle Continues…   Web Worker Daily
• The Case for Eating Local, Beautifully Made…   Fast Company
• Imagine Pot Was Legal. How Would You Brand It?…   Fast Company
• 6 Resources for Tomorrow’s Happy Hour…    ReadWriteWeb
• Dear god no: Coca Cola is test marketing a fizzy milk drink…   Inquisitir
• Cremation urns that look like the dear departed…   BoingBoing
• 4 ways to restart your career…   CNN/Money

Social Media, Marketing, PR

• An Organized Facebook: An Impossible Feat?…   All Facebook
• Ford one of Top Ten Brands Using Social Media…   SMT
• Best Buy’s Interesting, Imperfect Experiment in Customer Service Via Twitter…   Technologizer
• Social media growing in sports…    Cincinnati.com
• Would You Twitter if Your Tweet Carried a $50,000 Price Tag?…   Fast Company
• Number of Social Networking Users Has Doubled Since 2007…   Mashable
• TweetMart: Classifieds For & From Twitter…   ReadWriteWeb
• How Social Media Can Help Organic SEO : 2 Case Studies…   Jeff Bullas’s Blog
• What Is Twitter? Apparently, No One Knows…   Fast Company
• 34 Ways to Use YouTube for Business…   Web Worker Daily
• SEO Is Not Always As Simple We Think…   E-Marketing Performance
• Social Media Engagement And Financial Success Are Both Trailing Variables…   BrandSavant
• Business Banking Leaders Pioneer Social Media…   SocialMediaB2B
• Beware the Social Media Hucksters…   Community and Conversation
• Announcing The Social Times 25…   All Facebook
• Enough With Social Media ROI, Already…   davefleet
• 5 Easy Social Media Wins for Your Small Business…   Mashable
• How to Create Compelling Content Through Reader Interaction…   ProBlogger
• How to Develop a Successful Facebook Page…   Marketing Profs
• Does your legal department work for you?…   Web Ink Now
• Making the Most of the Press Release: Getting the Idea Viral…   Search Engine Journal
• A Facebook success story from the Lupus Foundation of America…   Smart Blog on Social Media
• Review of Twitter Success Blueprint…   TwiTip
• Sustainable Web PR Requires Relationships…   Future Buzz
• The Agency Side of Business, Walking the Talk…   Conversation Agent
• 5 Social Media Lessons You Can Learn from Bikers …   Words of a Broken Mirror
• The 4 Biggest Motivators for Social Media Marketing…   Commerce Times
• Retailers need to focus on online customer service…   Econsultancy
• Five jobs for Facebook addicts…   CNN
• Add Multimedia to Your Blog Quick and Easy with Apture …   Word Sell, Inc.
• UK Government Writes a Twitter Guide…in 20 Pages…   Mashable
• The Importance of a Social Media Audits…   Web Strategy
• Why IZEA is Wrong for Absolutely Everyone: Bloggers and Consumers…   Experience: The Blog
• When Bloggers Attack: Retaliation is Not the Answer…   Search Engine Watch
• Why Coke beat Pespi for the last 100+ years…   Inquisitir
• Groupon – Clever Collective Buying Site…   Chris Brogan
• 10 Signs that Sales & Marketing are Mis-Aligned…   SMT
• Verizon Uses Twitter To Trash Talk AT&T Too…   TechCrunch
• Creating a measurement plan without losing your marbles…   {grow}
• What’s the point of social media…   Examiner
• Mommy blogger tries to introduce honesty seal, colonoize Mars…  Inquisitir
• Along the Media Spectrum…   SMT

Apple

• Best. Comment. Ever.…   TechCrunch    (This is just too funny!)
• Why is Apple even getting away with this shit?…   Inquisitir
• Busted! Thieves Caught by MobileMe’s Find My iPhone…   Mashable
• Introducing Scanaroo…   Social Customer Manifesto
• Locking Customers to Your Product? It’s Probably Not Good Then.…    Louis Gray
• Let the Apple tablet wars begin…   CNN/Money
• One Bad Apple Does Spoil the Whole Bunch of Apps…   Newsome.org
• Apple iTablet: Will You Buy One?…   Mashable
• Is AT&T behind the rejection and removal of Google Voice apps?…   Unofficial Apple Weblog
• Why Michael Scalisi deserves the Al Reis ‘Why the iPhone will Fail’ Award…   Rex Hammock
• Phones Down, Tablets to Go…   Newsome.org
• Things Keeps Tasks Under Control…    Web Worker Daily
• Apple Is Growing Rotten To The Core, And It’s Likely AT&T’s Fault…   TechCrunch

Technology

• Online usage has flat lined. And why that doesn’t matter.…   Econsultancy
• Top 7 Places to Watch Great Minds in Action…   Mashable
• Google Realizes That Short Links Are Smart Links In Mobile Gmail…   TechCrunch
• Ten Useful & Interesting Google Docs Hacks…    dumblittlemanblogs
• First Impressions: Google Voice…   paul Stamatiou

Journalism, Newspapers, Magazines, Writing

• AP: “We’re Done” Answering Questions About Fair Use & Our Rights System…   Danny Sullivan
• The Freelancer’s Library of Free E-books, Manifestos and Other Resources…   Web Worker Daily
• The Joys of Unplugging…   Well-Fed Writer Blog
• Pay = “mass delusion”: Schiller…   BuzzMachine
• Reset: How This Crisis Can Restore Our Values and Renew America…   BoingBoing
• How To Improve Your Writing – Resource Roundup Tuesday…   About Freelance Writing
• Finding the right subscription model at the NYT…   Econsultancy
• Tomorrow’s news companies: small, lean and venture capitalist…   Econsultancy
• How not to write a job advert…   goodcopybadcopy
• Is The AP Even Relevant Any More?…    Techdirt
• Permission Culture: Want To Quote A Single Sentence In A Book? Pay Up!…   Techdirt

Business, Finance, Money

• Diller: TV Web Revenues will Come from Cable…   BusinessWeek
• How to Save $1,000 on Your Kid’s College Costs (Deal of the Day)…   Smart Money
• Bank of America may close 10% of branches…   CNN/Money

Medicine, Health

• Are female surgeons happier than their male counterparts?…   Kevin, M.D.
• WHO: Tanning Beds Cause Cancer…   WebMD
• Explaining soaring health care costs in easy to understand language…   Kevin, M.D.
• Divorce Has Lasting Toll on Health…   WebMD
• Beyond the pill – comparative-effectiveness is about people, too…   Health Populi
• Physicians Are Biased About Healthcare Reform…   Better Health
• The senate 6…   DB’s Medical Rants
• New Estimate on Swine Flu in U.S.…   MedicineNet
• Health Care in Crisis: Needless Costs, Needless Deaths…   BusinessWeek
• Seven Reasons to Have a Digital Personal Health Record…   Prudent Press

Lifestyle

• Is YOUR husband hooked on internet porn?…     Mail Online

Social Media, Marketing, PR

• Three Changes I Wish Facebook Would Make…   Chris Brogan
• Pete Cashmore Talks Social Media on This Week in Tech [Live]…   TechCrunch
• Retweet.com Looks To Be A TweetMeme Competitor With A Killer Domain Name…   TechCrunch
• Save Tons of Time Deleting Twitter DMs…   Web Worker Daily
• Twitter marketing: genuine works…   SMT
• Rethinking Social Relevancy Rank: What’s Missing?…   ReadWriteWeb
• Connect with Fans (CwF) + Reason to Buy (RtB)…   Future Buzz
• “Social” Media…  s.m.o.g.
• Amazon and Zappos, PR2.0?…   Conversation Agent
• Does Advertising Guide Content?…   Microsoft Weblogs
• The reason riding a unicycle is difficult…   Seth Godin
• Facebook Makes Baby Steps Towards Its Twitter-Like ‘Follow’ Feature…   TechCrunch
• Another Opportunity to Learn from Starbucks & Facebook…   Ryan Spoon
• Sports Illustrated & Smart Water follow the ESPN & Apple Route…   Ryan Spoon
• 13 Tips To Get Found Online: How To Achieve Free Organic SEO…   Jeff Bullas’s Blog
• Does Social Media Produce Groupthink?…   Inventor Spot
• Need a job? Show them you can Twitter…   SF Gate
• Status Search: A Search Engine For What Your Friends Are Saying Online…    TechCrunch
• Am I the only one distracted by apostrophes and weird “quoting”?….   Seth Godin
• Quid Pro No…   Chris Brogan
• Tweeting from the Web? Nine Alternative Web Clients…   TechCrunch
• 5 Conversations Social Media Consultants Have Over and Over Again…   Hightalk

Apple

• How to Read Your Favorite RSS Feeds on an iPhone…   Guy Kawasaki
• Apple: Another opening, another show…   CNN/Money
• Photo: AutoStitch is a Winner…   Micro Persuasion
• Does Apple Have a “91 Percent” Share of the High-End?… Apple Blog
• iPhone App Brings in a 6-Figure Wage in 6 Weeks…   iPhoneWorld
• iPhone apps I paid for but don’t use…   Unofficial Apple Weblog
• Apple vs. Microsoft: Playing to strength…   CNN/Money

Technology

• 12 Companies Targeting Early Tech Adopters…    ReadWriteWeb
• The Pushbutton Web…   Rex Hammock
• Is the party over for Microsoft?…   MarketWatch
• Why Is Obama’s Top Antitrust Cop Gunning for Google? …   Wired
• How ‘Free’ Economics Are Going To Impact The Video Game Market…   Techdirt
• Arrington and Calacanis..Internet Bullies and Asshats…   Howard Lindzon

Journalism, Newspapers, Magazines, Writing

• Alternatives to charging for content from the New York Times and Daily Telegraph…   News from the Herd
• A.P. goes nuclear on fair use…   Scott Rosenberg
• How Reuters Should Be Responding To The AP’s Suicide…   Techdirt
• You are what you post…    Writelife
• The NYT’s Latest Bad Online Subscription Plans…   Silicon Alley Insider
• Can the New York Times and Washington Post survive on a pay-wall business model if they do it together?…    Metafilter
• I for one welcome AP’s war on links and fair use…    Inquisitir
• History Lesson: Newspapers Haven’t Charged For News In 180 Years…   Techdirt

Business, Finance, Money

• A Bitter Lesson in Student Loans…   BusinessWeek

Medicine, Health

• Job Loss And Its Connection To Illness…   Better Health
• Want a good night’s sleep? Have sex, say doctors…   Telegraph
• AMA working for reform that benefits patients and physicians…   Kevin, M.D.
• Bill Moyers’ discussion…    PBS
• Thoughts From The Official Twitter Reporter Of The Medblogger National Press Club Event…    Better Health
• Common Sense and Lost of Health Care Freedoms…   medinnovationblog
• Doing Away with Fee-For-Service and Putting Doctors on Salaries…   medinnovationblog
• Some thoughts on health care reform…    DB’s Medical Rants
• The Case for Price Ceilings for Health Services…    Health Care Blog
• Commentology…   Health Care Blog
• KevinMD on Facebook, become a fan and win a free medical journal subscription…   Kevin, M.D.
• Swine Flu Could Eventually Affect 40% of Americans: CDC…   Health Scout
• The Case for Home Health Care…   Health Care Blog

Lifestyle

Social Media, Marketing, PR

• lifeIO: A Social Media Dashboard That Combines Email, RSS, And Just About Everything Else…    TechCrunch
• Facebook Posts Update About Advertising Policy…   All Facebook
• FriendFeed Follows For A Change With “Recommend Friends” Feature…   TechCrunch
• 9 Steps To A Great Start In FriendFeed…     Make Use Of
• Grey Flannel Suit vs. the Hawaiian Shirt…   Wikinomics
• Brand Storytelling: Connecting With Your Audience…   Fast Company
• The Most Important Social Media Strategy for Making Money…   Web Pro News
• Social media tips from the field, Volume III…   Examiner
• Dear Zappos: Have You Sold Out?…   Conversation Starter
• Free BlackBerry Twitter Apps Roundup…   Web Worker Daily
• Twistory 101: It’s All About Small Business…   John Battelle
• Tweetups (and other tweety meetings) — a primer…   Smart Blog on Social Media
• Great proof that social media works!…   KD Paine
• Blogging Made Easy… Web Worker Daily
• AdWords Gets More Local…   TechCrunch
• Interview with Brian Carter on TweetROI and Overall Marketing on Twitter…   Search Engine Journal
• 5 More Twitter Related Trends to Watch Right Now…   Mashable
• Facebook Wants To Know If You’d Mind Sharing All Of Your Information… TechCrunch
• Tools for hearing what customers won’t tell you… Convince and Convert
• Viral Facebook Message Brings Issue Of Ad Endorsements Into Spotlight… All Facebook
• Dion Hinchcliffe’s 12 Rules for Getting Value from Making Your Business Social… SMT
• Pfizer’s Social Media Strategy: Piss Off John Mack, Get Hundreds of New Followers!…   Pharma Marketing Blog
• Social Media and Social History…   Open Culture
• Email marketing: Listen to consumers. And hit send at lunchtime...    Econsultancy
• Does Search Engine Optimization Make a Difference?…   ProBlogger
• Why Email Marketing is Dead (And How to Bring it Back to Life)…   Copyblogger
• What Makes a Story Work…   Chris Brogan
• Poll Results: Why Do You Tweet?…   TwiTip
• Bridge Conference: Social Media ROI: Mapping Metrics to Strategy…    SMT (Beth Kanter)
• Who Knew?…   Conversation Agent
• Marketing via Facebook Pages…   Paul Chaney
• How To Track Social Media Traffic With Google Analytics…  Ploked
• The Ultimate Guide to Creating an eBook – The eBook eBook…   Junta42 Blog
• Your Facebook, your MoMA experience…   Adverblog
• Back-to-school pitches go social with Facebook, Twitter…   USA Today
• How to work “turd” into a headline and other crappy subjects…   {grow}
• Five tips to help your social media strategy work better…   Chevychaser
• Social Media and Socialising…Let’s not muddy the waters.…   SMT
• Social norms…   Seth Godin
• A double-standard on social media marketing?…   {grow}
• Twitter Corrects Follower Counts: How Many Followers Did You Lose?…   Mashable
• Twitter MUST Stop the Spam Use of APIs Now…   Chris Brogan
• Video Demo: How to Use Lazyfeed for Real-time RSS Feeds By Topic…   Louis Gray
• Marketing to Boomers…   BusinessWeek
• #SMCQ18 Whose making change happen…   Social Media Club
• Twitter now offering live updating Twitter widget…   Inquisitir
• Social Media in Healthcare Cheat Sheet…   SMT
• Exclusive: Twitter to Debut a New Main Homepage Next Week…   Boom Town

Apple

• Another Killer Data Point For iPhone Apps: F.A.S.T. Pulls In $1 Million In Six Weeks…   TechCrunch
• Google Latitude on the iPhone: Impressive! Not Confusing!…    Technologizer
• Apple’s much-anticipated tablet device coming early next year…   AppleInsider
• The Truth About The iPhone, Week 2…   Silicon Alley Insider
• Well, That’s the End of Flip: iPods to Get Cameras…   Fast Company
• Why Apple’s iTouch Tablet Will Become Its Flagship Product…   Sound Money Tips
• After Apple legal threats, Microsoft quietly changes ads…   AppleInsider
• OmniFocus for iPhone finally has reminders, but implementation is awful…   Unofficial Apple Weblog

Technology

• Shareflow: It’s Google Wave, But Available Now…   ReadWriteWeb
• Microsoft’s Netbook Problem…   Technologizer
• Elsevier’s Prototype: Is This The Scientific Article of the Future? ReadWriteWeb
• Ten Reasons Why People Will Upgrade To Windows 7… Silicon Alley Insider
• The Pushbutton Web: Realtime Becomes Real…  Anil Dash
• PortableApps Suite Out in New Beta…   Web Worker Daily
• BlueRetriever Reunites You with Your Lost Cellphone [Lost And Found]…   Lifehacker
• Today’s mashup presented by Wall-E and Pink Floyd…    Inquisitir
• The Best About Us Page in the World…   Post Money Value

Journalism, Newspapers, Magazines, Writing

• Is AP Run By Idiots?…   BNet
• It’s official: The AP is absolutely nuts…   Rex Hammock
• How (and why) to replace the AP…   BuzzMachine
• Associated Press Tries To DRM The News… Techdirt
• Dear Newspapers: You Don’t Have A Monopoly On Local News Coverage…   Techdirt

Business, Finance, Money

• Ballmer: How Wrong Can One Man Be?…   The Apple Blog
• The Enemy is Out There…   Phoenix Rising
• The Leaner Baby Boomer Economy…   BusinessWeek
• I’m Starting to Feel Bad for Rob Enderle…   Daring Fireball
• Rob Enderle couldn’t analyze his way out of a wet paper bag…   MacDailyNews
• Microsoft Income Statement Analysis for June 2009 Quarter…   Sound Money Tips

Medicine, Health

• New Estimate on Swine Flu in U.S...    WebMD
• Should health care come with a warranty?…  Kevin, M.D.
• Innovations in Health Care as Simple as Picking Up the Phone…    Fast Company
• Reinhardt’s modest proposal…   DB’s Medical Rants
• 5 freedoms you’d lose in health care reform…  CNN/Money
• American Support for Health Reform Erodes a Bit; “Sin Taxes” Are Among Favorite Tax Proposals…   Health Populi
• Costs v Coverage: Krugman gets it–Brooks is almost quite close…   Health Care Blog
• Campfire Blues…   Surgeonsblog

Lifestyle

• Look who’s farming now…   Fortune
• Modern Technology Brings More Productivity, Longer Working Hours…   TechCrunch
• How Coworking Is Working in Portland…   Web Worker Daily
• What your dad had instead of email scammers…   BoingBoing

Social Media, Marketing, PR

• Twitter 101…   Twitter
• 10 Ways Universities Are Engaging Alumni Using Social Media…    Mashable
• Getting It Right the First Time: Incorporating Data Tools Into Marketing Campaigns…   Fast Company
• Top 50 June Websites: Facebook Rises, Twitter Cracks List…   Sound Money Tips
• Getting Your Colleagues in the Game…   Altitude Branding
• Get More Out of Google Blog Search…   Web Worker Daily
• How HP Integrates Digital and Social, Kathy Durham, VP Marketing…   Web Strategy
• 2 Critical Ways to Improve Social Media Monitoring Tools…   Socialize Mobilize
• 50 Ways to FAIL On Twitter…   Online Marketing Blog
• MediaPost Publications Social Networks Not Much of a Marketplace … Media Post
• The harder they come… Herd
• 9 Rules of Facebook Promotion Every Small Business Should Know…   All Facebook
• How Customer Service Should Respond to Social Media…   QAQNA
• 5 Common Sense Twitter Tips To Keeping It Real On Twitter…   TwiTip
• United Airlines Lose $180 Million due to YouTube Video! …  SEOptimize
• What to do if you have SNF?…  Deirdre Breakenridge
• Facebook Relents, Lets You Change Your Username…   ReadWriteWeb
• Coordinate Multiple Twitter Accounts With CoTweet…   davefleet
• Turn Website visitors into Facebook Fans with new Fan Box Widget…   Paul Chaney
• Learn Your Blog Readers’ Opinion with ProProfs Polls…    Search Engine Journal
• Welcome to island marketing…   Seth Godin
• Three Keys To Non-Profit Success In Social Media…   Social Media Explorer
• The most important question in social media marketing…   {grow}
• Building a Marketing Asset (take the red pill)…   Junta42 Blog
• Empowering Actual Communities With Social Media…   SMS
• Use Online Listening for Competitive Research…   Convince and Convert Blog
• What’s So Wrong With the Echo Chamber-amber-amber?…   Experience: The Blog
• Leveraging the might of social media…   Media Life
• Consumers annoyed with Internet ads…   SMT
• Proxifeed Delivers Automated Tweets and Ads Based on Keywords…   Louis Gray
• Artist Finds His Own Music Video Removed From YouTube, Lashes Out On Twitter…   TechCrunch
• YouTube Insight: Share Detailed Stats for Your Videos…   Mashable
• Guzzle It: The RSS-Powered Personalized Site With A Unique Name…   Louis Gray
• Are Media and PR Pros Ready to Embrace the Twitter-Sized Press Release?…   Mashable
• Putting Social Media Education Into Focus: A Community Proposal…   Social Media Club

Apple

• Google Latitude Comes to iPhone…   Mashable
• Get real-time Basecamp project reporting from the iPhone…   37 Signals
• The Mac Versus PC Debate Has Never Been Clearer…    TechCrunch
• How Apple Won 91% of the Premium Computer Market…   Fast Company
• 10 Fantastic iPhone Apps That Use Facebook Connect…    Mashable

Technology

• Put Your Microsoft Office Data Into the Cloud Now…   Web Worker Daily
• Switching To Windows 7 Will Be A Nightmare, Says Mossberg…   Silicon Alley Insider

Journalism, Newspapers, Magazines, Writing

• The AP gets serious about tracking content online…   Econsultancy
• Why Copywriters Shouldn’t Rush to Go Digital Because 60% Prefer Print…   Copywriter’s Crucible
• Why I don’t like the Amazon-Zappos Deal…   Naked Conversations
• Can the Free Market Fix Journalism?…   Conversation Starter
• Online Ad Revenues At The New York Times Keep Dropping Like A Rock…   TechCrunch
• Can a company comprised of real people survive being acquired by Amazon?…   Rex Hammock
• From Z to A…   Doc Searls

Business, Finance, Money

• The Windows Cash Cow Takes a Beating…   Technologizer
• CHART OF THE DAY: Online Ad Rates Picking Up…   Silicon Alley Insider
• Microsoft’s Money Pit. Every Dollar Of Online Revenue Is Wiped Out By A Dollar Of Loss…   TechCrunch
• Did the Venture Capital Crunch Force Zappos-Amazon Deal?…   Fast Company
• Use Cases a Simple but Powerful Tool…   Post Money Value

Medicine, Health

• Average Americans Are Very Confused About Healthcare Reform…   Better Health
• ObamaCare: Mandates Will Devastate the Working Poor…   Blogcritics
• Health engagement is a key driver to accessing health care…   Health Populi
• Patient, Heal Thyself…   Health Care Blog
• Thinking is undervalued…   DB’s Medical Rants

Lifestyle

• Social media helps Statehouse legislator…   The Item

Social Media, Marketing, PR

• Calling All Bloggers: Blippr Launches Blipbacks Network!…   Mashable
• The original barcamp: another good reason to have liberal arts majors on your enterprise 2.0 team…    Wikinomics
• Facebook Adds Global Photo Upload Via Email…   All Facebook
• Why You Should Be Thinking Video in Your Email Marketing…   Junta42 Blog
• The $65 billion hole in the online advertising business…   Econsultancy
• The Value of Official and Unofficial Twitter and Facebook Fans…   SMT
• Bloggers: Are You Being of Service or Self Serving?…   Copyblogger
• Focus, People!…   s.m.o.g. talk
• Social Media Marketing: Tell Me The facts!…   Maine Business
• 10 Questions to Evaluate a Social Media ‘Expert’…   Conversation Marketing
• Social Media: Taking Cues from Indie Music…   Ad Age
• Draw the Line: When and How to Stop Giving Away Professional Advice…   Web Worker Daily
• 79% of Bloggers Pay Nothing for their Blog Design…   ProBlogger
• Not everyone buys into social media…   Canada.com
• Customer Service at the End of the Line…   Web Worker Daily
• No One Else Can Be You…   TwiTip
• Less is More…   Phoenix Rising
• 10 Ways To Jump Start Your Social Media Thinking…   Social Media Explorer
• Social media ROI and the mystery of brand equity…   {grow}
• Set Yourself Apart In The Tough Times…   davefleet
• Yes, Your Social Media Strategy Needs Design…   Conversation Starter
• Strategic use of social media key for nonprofits…   Philanthropy Journal
• Why I Focus on Content, Not Personal Branding…   WebWorkerDaily
• Death spiral!…   Seth Godin
• Facebook top for sharing links…   News from the Herd
• 20% of marketing emails missing inboxes: survey…   Econsultancy
• Buddy Media Unveils The Ultimate Twitter Client For Brand Management…   TechCrunch
• Wetoku: Record on a Webcam & Embed, Do Not Pass Go, Do Not Collect $200…   ReadWrireWeb
• Hyatt is doing Twitter concierge service…  Dennis Schaal
• Yahoo to Acquire Xoopit for About $20 Million…   BoomTown
• Google Wave Due Soon; Early Apps Are Arriving Now…   WebWorkerDaily
• The Top Ten Rules of Social Media Marketing…   MLM Dream saver
• XING Launches OpenSocial App Assault On LinkedIn…   TechCrunch
• 32 Ways to Use Facebook for Business…   Web Worker Daily
• LocalBunny Gives Businesses Custom Twitter Bots, But It Longs For Old @Replies System…   TechCrunch
• MindTouch: The First Enterprise App to Get Collaborative Video…   ReadWriteWeb
• Does KM need social media?…   Inmagic
• Google Wave: Is the World Ready?…   Mashable
• Three Steps to Building an Online Brand…   ReadWriteWeb
• 10 Impressive New Implementations of Facebook Connect…   Mashable

Apple

• 34% Of Consumers Not Buying iPhone 3GS Because Of AT&T, Survey Says…   Silicon Alley Insider
• CHART OF THE DAY: The Rise And Fall Of Apple’s iPod…   Silicon Alley Insider
• HeartMath intros Mac version of stress-relief bundle (Macworld.com)…   Yahoo News
• Apple’s Mesmerizing Window Display, Featuring An Infinite Flurry Of iPhone Apps…   TechCrunch
• Google, Apple: Two Mobile Software Visions…   BusinessWeek
• Who’s paying Brett Arends to malign Apple?…   Roughly Drafted Magazine

Technology

• In Support of Our Troops…   Microsoft Weblogs
• Why Do Enterprise Software Companies Need an Open Source Front Group?…   Seeking Alpha
• Open Source for America: The New Government Accountability…   ReadWriteWeb
• The Anti-trust Case That Could Be In the Works Against Google…   ReadWriteWeb
• Will Google Chrome OS Bring Us the Mythical GDrive?…   ReadWriteWeb
• Nobody Hates Software More Than Software Developers…   Coding Horror
• This Message will Self-Destruct: New Tool Makes Online Postings Disappear…   ReadWriteWeb
• Seven Tools for Making Firefox Jump Through Hoops…       Technologizer
• IBM and The Internet of Things…   ReadWriteWeb
• Google Creates Its Own Mashups…   Programmable Web

Journalism, Newspapers, Magazines, Writing

• Magazine ad URLs could use some work. But they still drive readers online.…   Econsultancy
• A Closer Look At The Marburgers’ Plan To Save Newspapers Via Copyright Law…   Techdirt
• On defence, ESPN is dodging some big sport stories…   Inquisitir
• Braiding Businssweek…   Naked Conversations
• New ebook publisher from publishing veterans with novel ideas…   BoingBoing
• NYT.com Editors Don’t Know What Stories Readers Click On…   Silicon Alley Insider
• AT&T to Power Upcoming E-Reader…   Digits
• Under Cover…   Word Wise
• Another Mainstream Media Castoff Joins TechCrunch: Welcome Paul Carr…    TechCrunch
• Test-driving the Barnes & Noble eBook Store…   TechCrunch

Business, Finance, Money

• Amazon and Zappos – let’s see how high we can pile the crap…    Inquisitir
• Here’s Why Amazon Bought Zappos…   Mashable
• When you buy Zappos, what do you buy?…   Seth Godin
• CEO Letter…   Zappos
• Guess Who Lost Big on the Zappos Deal?…   TechCrunch
• A Mutual Interest in Customer Service…   BusinessWeek
• ‘Scared of looking for work at my age’…   CNN/Money
• Death and Taxes, the 2010 edition…   BoingBoing
• The Impact of Amazon’s Amazing Board of Directors…   Seeking Alpha
• 18 Things I Believe about Business — a Manifesto…   MakingITclear
• As Ning’s U.S. Audience Flattens, It Raises Another $15 Million.…   TechCrunch

Medicine, Health

• Better Living Through Wireless Telehealth…   eWeek
• Why Congress is stalling on health care…   CNN/Money
• Op-Ed: The Unintended Consequences of “No Pay for Errors”…   Health Care Blog
• Health Insurers Fight Public Plan, Not Each Other…   BusinessWeek
• The greatest pharmaceutical commercial ever?…   BoingBoing
• The Difference Between Short and Long Term Medicare Savings for Health Care Reform…   Better Health
• Primary care doctors face burnout, and how that affects health reform…   Kevin, M.D.
• A shaky foundation beneath ‘rising health confidence’…   Health Populi
• Who’s at High Risk From Swine Flu?…   WebMD
• I want HealthVault now…   Microsoft Weblogs

Lifestyle

• 5 TED Talks on Science That Will Blow Your Mind…   Mashable
• The Early TV Appearances of 9 More Stars…   mental_floss blogs
• 1950s Beauty Pageant Judging Guidelines…   BoingBoing
• 100 things your kids will never know about, old man…   Inquisitir
• The Big Book of Everything Organizes Important Personal Information [Organization]…   Lifehacker
• Creating ‘Moments’ of Your Life…     WSJ

Social Media, Marketing, PR

• More irresponsible social media financial “research”…   {grow}
• Case Study: How a small business more than doubled leads with local paid search…   Econsultancy
• Google Reader “Likes” Find the More Shy Blog Readers…   Louis Gray
• How To Write A Blog Post…   Quick Sprout
• The social media guru and the Instant Campaign…   Adverblog
• Bernie Borges’ Marketing 2.0 Social Media Book…   .Net Dev Journal
• Poll shock: Consumers and advertisers differ on ad perception…   Econsultancy
• HOW TO: Start a Petition on Twitter…   Mashable
• SM Global Report: Richard Edelman…   Naked Conversations
• How to Treat your Blog like a Business…   ProBlogger
• Customer Service Has a New Name and It’s Twitter…   Search Engine Journal
• Two Reports You Can’t Miss…   Media Post
• Online Marketing Needs to Be Consistent and Constant…   Business Blogs
• Social media: Customers’ postings a hazard for stores…   The State
• A Beginner’s Guide To Facebook Ads…   Silicon Alley Insider
• The Most Engaging Brands In the World, and How They Got That Way…   SMT
• Does social media really correlate with the bottom line? Color me … ZDNet
• How to Use Interns In Your Social Programs…   Web Strategy
• Is Live Streaming on Twitter the Next Big Thing?…   SMT
• Andy’s Answers: Cisco’s tips to get executives involved in social media…    Smart Blog on Social Media
• CMO 2.0 Conversation with Mark Gambill, CMO at CDW…   SMT
• Creating Movements…   Conversation Agent
• Local Advertising On Facebook Is Big Business…   All Facebook
• David Ogilvy’s best advice for leading…   Fortune
• Mobile in the middle…   Greg Verdino
• 3 Steps To Building A Profitable Freelance Business Using Twitter…  TwiTip
• SiteJabber: A Power to the People Tool for Reviewing Online Businesses…   Mashable
• Facebook Marketplace Wants You to Shout Out Classifieds…   All Facebook
• Is Your Social Media Productive?…   The Relationship Economy
• 3 ways to showcase your social media profiles: Card.ly, DandyiD & Google profiles…   Social Wayne
• The Difference Between a Social Media Strategy and a Social Media Campaign…   Social Media Marketing..
• Crunching the real numbers on social media ROI…   {grow}
• A Social Media Gun to the Head…   Convince and Convert
• Q&A: JD Lasica, Founder of Socialmedia.biz…   Econsultancy
• Winning on the uphills…    Seth Godin
• An Interesting Book Promo Offer…   Chris Brogan
• Social Influence Marketing Report Proves Useful…   Social Media Explorer
• Spending on Soc Med amoong b2b soars, as does concerns about ROI — DUH!…   KD Paine
• Theme Wars – Where WP Themes ‘Battle’…   ProBlogger
• SAP and Social Media Brand Engagement…   Servant of Chaos
• Best Buy Goes All Twitter Crazy With @Twelpforce…   TechCrunch
• The Tweeting House: Twitter + Internet of Things…   ReadWriteWeb
• Branding your existing product as a Twitter app isn’t a recipe for success…   Inquisitir
• Using Social Media as a Business, not a Social Tool…   SMT

Apple

• Apple Reports Third Quarter Results…   Apple
• Can’t Get Approval for your App? Sell the Source Code…   O’Reilly Radar
• WebMD debuts Medscape Mobile free medical application for Apple iPhone and iPod touch…   Mac Daily News
• Ma Bell Goes Blind…   Motley Fool
• My AllTop On My iPhone: A New Way to Consume RSS?…   Louis Gray
• Hands-on With Microsoft’s New Document Connection Tool…   Apple Blog
• Microsoft Hiring Secret Weapon To Fight Apple Retail Stores…   Silicon Alley Insider
• Putting the Mac to Work in a PC Shop…   Mac News World
• Mac Users – Meet Your Web Hosting Service…   MacMegasite
• From Closed To Open: iPhone App Developer Skepticism Highlights Platform Trajectory…   Techdirt
• How One iPhone App Could Save Public Radio…   ReadWriteWeb

Technology

• IT Failing 1 in 4 Small Businesses Says New ITEI Survey…   Tophosts
• Wikis Get Enlisted in Military Experiments…   ReadWriteWeb
• Evan Williams vs the Internet…   Scripting News
• Google Wave – First Impressions…   Solid State Group
• Developers Start to Surf Google Wave, And Love It…   Fast Company
• How They Built the Software of Apollo 11…   Slashdot
• Google Wave Begins To Swell With Developers; Wider Release This September…    TechCrunch
• 70 Windows 7 Tips & Tricks…   Microsoft Weblogs
• Card.ly: Lightweight Personal Microsites from Three Guys with Three Weeks and Five Hundred Bucks…   ReadWriteWeb
• Spinvox’s Paid API Gains Developer Traction…    ProgrammableWeb
• “Secret” Questions: Not. Secret. At. All.…   Technologizer
• Adobe Unveils New Open Source Initiatives Targeted Towards Media Companies…   TechCrunch
• Free Alternatives to Photoshop With All the Bells, Whistles, Filters, & Layers…   ReadWriteWeb

Journalism, Newspapers, Magazines, Writing

• Authors using Facebook Fan Pages or Groups to market their book…   Paul Chaney
• Can Barnes & Noble Challenge Amazon’s eBook Empire?…   ReadWriteWeb
• Do You Have These 11 Traits of Highly Creative People?…   Copyblogger
• Barnes & Noble Ramps Up E-books…   Technologizer
• An Open Letter to the Publishing Industry…   Inquisitir
• Charles’s Pen and Jesus’ Name…   Daily Writing Tips
• Hyperlocal sites: Please help…   BuzzMachine
• Announcing the NYT API Tool…   NY Times

Business, Finance, Money

• Customer Retention in Tough Times…   Fast Company
• How Much House Can You Afford Now? (Consumer Action)…   Smart Money
• House committee backs Obama student loan reform (Reuters)…   Yahoo News
• Laid Off? It’s Good for You and Good for the Tech Industry…   Wired
• The art of laying people off…   CNN/Money

Medicine, Health

• The Web Becomes the New Health-Care Battleground…   Fast Company
• Where Docs Agree on Health Care Reform…   Better Health
• Health “reform”: Lest we forget… Health Care Blog
• The unintended consequences of preventing patient falls…   Kevin, M.D.
• Employers like health care status quo, with more consumer-directed and evidence-based care…   Health Populi
• The doctor is in and logged on.…   Health Care Blog
• Flu death toll at 700, school closures an option: WHO…   Reuters
• Guidelines and performance measures need testing…   DB’s Medical Rants
• A Book Review: Health Reform: The End of the American Revolution? by Lee Kurisko, M.D., Alethose Press, St. Paul, Minnesota…    medinnovationblog
• Obama doing phone pow-wows with bloggers to sell health plan…   Inquisitir
• Poll Finds Support Slipping For Obama’s Healthcare Plan…   Inquisitir
• Obama’s Health-Care Plan: Prepare to Pay Up (The Tax Guy)…   Smart Money

Lifestyle

• Is It Cheating Or Is It Collaboration?…   Techdirt
• Digital Gap & Generation Lap…   Wikinomics
• Improve Your Posture with Duct Tape [Confidence]…   Lifehacker
• HOW TO: See the Longest Solar Eclipse of the Century Online…   Mashable
• 10 Things Your Exterminator Won’t Tell You (10 Things)…   Smart Money

Social Media, Marketing, PR

• Twitter contests: How big can they get?…   Econsultancy
• Card.ly Lets You Create Cool Online Business Cards In A Matter Of Minutes…   TechCrunch
• Success Story: Build Your Personal Brand to Land Major Clients…   Dan Schawbel
• Boston Police Using Twitter and Facebook to Track Down Bike Thieves…   Mashable
• Make social media part of the job…like email…   Microsoft Weblogs
• To blog or not to blog… Murphy’s Law
• Is Twitter ‘Digg’ing Their Own Ditch?…   Conversion Rate Marketing
• Twitcam turns Twitter into a video streaming hub…   CNet News
• Twitter for Beginners: 5 Steps for Better Tweeting…   Mashable
• How small companies should be using search…  DM News
• The Anti-Brand: How to Erase Yourself and Concentrate on the Content…   Web Worker Daily
• Position Your Tongue Properly to Look Good in Photos [Photography Tip]…   Lifehacker
• The Age Of Responsible Consumerism …   Media Post
• Facebook Advertising: It’s All Local…   Mashable
• Social Graces And The Micro-Blogger …    Media Post
• All the hype in the world (why PR isn’t enough to build your business)…   scobleizer
• FriendFeed’s Latest API Spreads Real-Time Goodness…   TechCrunch
• Marketing: Are Social Media’s Rewards Worth the Risks?…   Health Leaders
• Is your social media consultant a groupie, chatty cathy, or strategist?…    Seer Interactive
• Bring Legal in Early on Your Social Media Strategy…   Deon Designs
• Social Media ROI: How about an increase in revenue?…   Social Media Club
• The 4 Types of Branded Facebook Campaigns…   All Facebook
• Not Every CEO Needs to Be a Social-Media Star…   Ad Age
• Social media use soars among b-to-b marketers…   B2B Online
• Web Community Building: Making It Thrive…   Online Marketing Blog
• Social Media Really Does Impact the Bottom Line…   WebPro News
• “20 Things Job Seekers Shouldn’t Say on Twitter”…     Resume Bear
• Twitter Generates $48 Million of Media Coverage in a Month…   Ad Age
• 22 Why Reasons People Go Online: Which is Your Blog Connecting With?…   ProBlogger
• Use special occasions to maximize your WOM shelf life…   Smart Blog on Social Media
• Angry Monkey…   Web Word
• Ways to spend your Social Capital…   SMT
• 8 Photo And Video Sharing Tools For Twitter You May Not Have Seen…   TwiTip
• iWise Is “Twitter For Dead People.”…   TechCrunch
• Today’s bonus tracks: You can’t be semi-authentic…   Smart Blog on Social Media
• Cloud Storage for Social Media: Twitter Backup…   ReadWriteWeb
• Social design explosion: Polls, quizzes, reviews, forums, chat, blogs, videos, comments, oh my!…   Futuristic Play
• Content Marketing, Need I Say More?…    Inbound Marketing Strategy
• The Biggest Lie in Social Media Marketing…    {grow}
• Twitterville excerpt: Introduction…   Naked Conversations
• Is Your Baby Ugly?…  Phoenix Rising
• Web Analytics for Social Media…   ClickZ
• Experimenting with Facebook Page Apps…   Paul Chaney
• 5 Areas of Integration to go from Customer Conversation to Conversion…   Conversation Agent
• The future of media and the rise of TV brands…   Herd
• How Carnival Cruises Uses Marketing Inspired By Seinfeld…   Influential Interactive Marketing
• Best signup on a website ever…   Laurel Papworth
• Defining Social Media…   ClickZ
• The Most Engaged Brands On The Web…   TechCrunch
• Open Source and Social Media: Community, Collaboration, Freedom…   ReadWriteWeb
• Social Networking: Everyone is Doing it, All the Time…   Mashable
• Can Twitter replace Walter Cronkite as “the most trusted ‘MAN’ in America”?…   KD Paine
• New study: Deep brand engagement correlates with financial performance…   Charlene Li
• Empowering Actual Communities With Social Media…   Social Media Explorer
• He’s doing his best…   Seth Godin
• Cablevision sucks…    BuzzMachine
• You are Always On…    Chris Brogan
• 7 Signs That You Are Now An Expert And Can Call Yourself One…   Dan Schwabel
• Microsoft Betting Big On Mobile Ads…   Silicon Alley Insider

Apple

• To AppleCare or not to AppleCare — that is the question…    Unofficial Apple Weblog
• Key Apple retail exec now shaping Microsoft stores…   Apple Insider
• MacBooks flew off the shelves in June…   CNN/Money
• The iPhone’s Visual Voicemail Is Broken For Many, How Is It For You? [At&t]…    Gizmodo
• Apple’s Secret Weapon: Your Mom…   Forbes
• The iPhone development ‘emergency guide’…   Apple Core
• 7 tips for using Faces in iPhoto ’09…   MacCentral
• Office:Mac 2008 SP2 available today…   Microsoft Weblogs
• iPhone Icon Paperclips Appify Your Office Supplies [IPhone]…   Gizmodo
• Email access issuess can cause short iPhone battery life…   macosxhints
• iPhone Is Now A Blu-ray Remote Control…   Silicon Alley Insider
• 30 Free System Tools for a Better Mac …   UsingMac
• The proper way to set up MobileMe on an iPhone…   Apple Core
• Want to Find Marijuana? There’s an App for That…   Mashable

Technology

• This Is Wrong: ‘Without The Content Industries, The Internet Would Be Empty’…   Techdirt
• Google’s Marissa Mayer And Her Fiancé Work It — All The Time…   Silicon Alley Insider
• 10 Reasons Why Companies Should Consider Alternatives to Internet Explorer…   eWeek
• Living With the Pre: 23 Things Palm Could Improve By Software [Smartphones]…   Gizmodo
• Bits: Can Tim Armstrong Think Different at AOL?…  NY Times
• Mobile Marketing (SMS): The Definitive Guide to Short Codes…   Search Engine Journal
• The Digital Mafia: Online Crime Gets Organized, Says Cisco…   ReadWriteWeb
• AOL CEO Tim Amstrong Sits For A Q&A…   Silicon Alley Insider
• The Codeless Website: Four Awesome Tools for Creating Cool, No-Tech Sites…   ReadWriteWeb

Journalism, Newspapers, Magazines, Writing

• Can Print Be The Next Vinyl?…   Techdirt
• Barnes & Noble partners with Plastic Logic; Opens up; Targets Kindle…   Between the Lines
• Barnes & Noble unveils online bookstore (Reuters)…   Yahoo News
• Uh Oh: Condé Nast Hires McKinsey…   Silicon Alley Insider
• Charging for Access to News Sites…   Daring Fireball
• A Writer’s Story Of The Pain Of Modern Jargon…   all kinds of stuff
• Freelance “X” Factor is Live…   Copyblogger

Business, Finance, Money

• World’s next top brands set to rise in the east…   Financial Times
• Will 25% Unemployment Doom the Recovery? (On the Street)…   Smart Money

Medicine, Health

• Health 2.0’s shiny & new web site is alive…   Health Care Blog
• How Do Doctors & Patients Find Out About Food & Drug Alerts?…   Better Health
• Strenuous Exercise Linked to Memory Loss…   MedicineNet Daily
• Should doctors support Congress’ health reform efforts?…   Kevin, M.D.
• Swine Flu Vaccine: When?…   WebMD
• Natural history, guidelines and performance measures…   DB’s Medical Rants
• Health care and insurance are local: a pace-of-change uninsurance report from Families USA…   Health Populi
• There’s Not Enough Waste And Inefficiency In Healthcare…   Better Health
• Poll: Is easy patient access to the medical record a good idea?…   Kevin, M.D.
• On Eding Fee-For-Service Through Bundling…   medinnovationblog

Lifestyle

• 10 Ways to Use Social Media to Pick a College…   Mashable
• Jimmy Carter gets out…   Metafilter
• CityMove Makes Movers Bid for Your Business [Moving]…   Lifehacker
• ManualsOnline Keeps Your Manuals Organized [Manuals]…  Lifehacker