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No bumper, but lots of stickers

Steve Mays — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 14:46:01 +0000

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Miss Teen SC Learns Where Babies Come From

Steve Mays — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 14:01:32 +0000

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She’s clearly smarter than her famous geography question/answer suggested. And a fine sense of humor.

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Becky!Becky!Becky!Becky!

Steve Mays — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 02:30:54 +0000

Which more useful? Google’s links or home page?

Steve Mays — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:51:00 +0000

It’s interesting how many of Google’s expanded listings have become even more useful than the home page behind the link.

For example, take these two examples. One is the Google listing for Grub & Ellis. The second is the Grub & Ellis home page you get when you click the search result link.

Links to screenshots at 37signals.com

Wow. I couldn’t agree more. I’m not long interested in your graphics. Just get me to the stuff I’m looking for.

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How PR people should respond to social media

Steve Mays — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:40:12 +0000

via olympusevoltcamerablog.com and Steve Rubel.

New News Audience: 12 ways consumers have changed in digital age

Steve Mays — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:30:00 +0000

View more presentations from Pew Research Center.

“How Twitter is changing the face of media”

Steve Mays — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:07:12 +0000

This post by Soren Gordhamer (at Mashable.com) resonates for those of us who followed/participated in the “reporting” of “the hostage situation that wasn’t” here in Jefferson City.

“Sure, in the past, you could always email or call a friend to inform him or her of a quality news story or TV show; now, however, in a matter of seconds you can share this information on your broadcasting network via Twitter or Facebook, with tens, hundreds, or even thousands of people. It’s not my or your media anymore; it’s our media, and we can all broadcast it.” [Emphasis mine]

“In the past, what people thought of as “news” was what was reported that day in the New York Times or CNN. In an age where we all possess our own broadcasting network, though, smaller stations have greater power. Of course, a post on Twitter from CNN, which has over two million followers, will get more views than one from Joe Smith who has 20 followers will, but Joe Smith is at least in the game now, where he was not previously.”

“In the new media landscape, the task of defining what is the news that matters to people lies less with a few major media outlets, and much more with the millions of small outlets like you and I who each choose what to talk about. Increasingly, lots of littles, in aggregate, are becoming more powerful than a handful of bigs.” [Emphasis mine]

“Media is also becoming more personal. More and more people expect their broadcasting networks to be people with personalities, not simply sources of news. We want to know as much about the person reporting news as we do the news they are reporting. [Emphais mine] Broadcasting is more a personal act than ever, as users seek to have connections not just to content but to people.”

Mr. Gordhamer is the author of the book, Wisdom 2.0 and the organizer of the Wisdom 2.0 Conference.

From iPhone to Posterous to WordPress

Steve Mays — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:17:51 +0000

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Listen on posterous

[Okay, not what I was hoping for. The audio player didn't make the trip from Posterous.]

Sent from my iPhone

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Future of Advertising? Social media, video and mobile

Steve Mays — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:06:11 +0000

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Tech note: This was an auto-post from my Posterous page. Easy and perfect. I have to wonder why WordPress wouldn’t provide the same ease-of-use that has made Posterous so popular.

Sunrise at Camp Learfield

Steve Mays — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:13:45 +0000

Photo by Jim Foucault. Silhouette is big old satellite uplink dish.