"While taking a look at this list of social search engines compiled at the TopRank Online Marketing Blog it dawned on me: 2009 is the year of meta-social media. I’ve been encountering tools that fit the description all over recently but I couldn’t find an apt term to describe them. Today I will introduce and compare 6 meta-social media services." - AJ Kohn
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We'd have to ask the person who has the analytics. :-) I've been promoting FF. - Internet Strategist
AJ its just the people you subscribe to getting back from vacation and back to their usual activity of FF - Chris W
YES!!! crazy huh? I love it...bring it on! - Susan Beebe
Everybody went back to work. Hence the barrage of "I don't wanna be at work" posts ;-) - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)
@Chris W: Yes, definitely the vacation returnees ... but it seems more than usual. Or perhaps it's just that post summer crush of traffic when you forget what it was like before. @IS: I'd LOVE a real-time meter of fed items/second, likes/second and comments/second on some footer link page. - AJ Kohn
Yeah...lots of people at desks and computer today. - Still Just Katie
"The news comes as a bit of a surprise. Smith’s name had not been one of those rumored to be taking the role in recent weeks. Rumored contenders for the part included “Survivors” star Paterson Joseph, James Nesbitt and Chiwetel Ejiofor. Smith is the youngest actor to play the role of the Doctor." - AJ Kohn
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Just from looking at the pic I'm inclined to go ew, but oddly I trust the producers. He'll probably be awesome! - Tad Goes to 11
To young and too pretty.. what happened to older with sophistication? - Chris W
He looks very 80's Morrissey here. I hope he isn't too goth in the role. - Phil Glockner For Hire
Actually, for some strange reason he reminds me of Richmond from "The IT Crowd" but once I hear him speak, it will probably destroy the illusion. - Phil Glockner For Hire
I'm worried he could be another Peter Davison - clearly the worst Doctor thus far. I'll give the producers the benefit of the doubt but ... I'm nervous. - AJ Kohn
Problem is that David Tennant was a great Doctor and he brought in a lot of fans. The fact that they will have to get used to a new Doctor is going to be a shock or a let down. As to the older fans this will be something of a hope bit they know if this one doesn't last there will be another. - Chris W
I agree with you, Chris W., fans of David Tennant are not going to like the new Doctor, but they will have to get over it, IMHO. I think he'll be a good Doctor. The Doctor can't be old all the time, they need a young Doctor once in a while. - LOLMolly
I grew up with Tom Baker, then stopped watching for a long time. I saw a few with Tennant, then went back and started with Eccleston. I LOVE Eccleston. I also really like Tennant. - Joey Gibson
One can only tell so much from photos (never seen any of his work), so I'm definitely keeping an open mind. But as far as his more recent predecessors go, I adored Tennant and Eccleston, so there's a lot to live up to in my mind. I must say, though, that I'm enjoying the news if only because I get to watch some of the more... enthusiastic Tennant fans' reactions. - The Bohemian Penguin
Do not want emo Doctor who might be meant to attract the Twilight crowd. I'd have preferred Ejiofor! Please let the producers prove me wrong. And +5 AJ- I thought of Davidson and my heart sank. [And I loved Eccleston too. Wish he'd stayed longer.] - Abby Martin
"I’ve put together a list of the coolest plug-ins and apps designed for us Twitterholics and scored each out of five on the *must have* scale." - AJ Kohn
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"U.S. Internet users viewed 12.7 billion online videos during the month, representing an increase of 34 percent versus year ago. " - AJ Kohn
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"So, here are my favourite few search engine optimisation videos – not necessarily the most complex or groundbreaking, but the ones I consider most accessible for those discovering the sector." - AJ Kohn
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"Look out indeed. This isn't the first we have heard about Landis' fitness, as some of his OUCH teammates commented that he was putting them through hell at a recent training camp in South Carolina. Floyd's hip has healed completely, and the Pennsylvania Mennonite will be looking to take out his anger over his suspension on the US domestic peloton in 2009. In fact, based on Matt's and other people's observations of Floyd recently, he should be considered as a dark horse contender for the overall title at the Tour of California in February." - AJ Kohn
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"This study covers the world outlook for electric pencil sharpeners, staplers, and other electric office machines excluding mailing, letter handling, and addressing machines across more than 200 countries." - AJ Kohn
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How much do you think this costs? Guess before you look! - AJ Kohn
"And while both authors and publishers agreed to disagree with Google about whether their copyrights were being violated, they now have set a rate for revenue sharing. Google will take 37% of the revenue generated through ad sales on preview pages, subscription fees, and the consumer digital access sales, leaving 63% for other parties involved." - AJ Kohn
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"Worldwide LCD TV revenues are expected to fall year-on-year for the first time since LCD TV was launched in 2000, according to a dramatically revised TV market forecast for 2009 by DisplaySearch, Retailer Daily reports." - AJ Kohn
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Good deals during the Super Bowl is my guess. A very good indicator of how the economy is performing IMO. - AJ Kohn
Fantastic post that underscores our inability to get out of our own way. Our obsession with every little detail and nuance which prevents us from actually using products or technology or helping to contribute in any substantial way. What happens when the amount of meta actually outweighs the content? - AJ Kohn
Hat tip to Chris Brogan for bringing this one to my attention. - AJ Kohn
"Actually, it's Matt Frewer, the actor who played "Edison Carter/Max Headroom," who turns 50 years old today, but we like to stretch things from time to time." - AJ Kohn
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"Outside of Book Soup there are trashy girls from the Inland Empire, heading with arms crossed to a nearby club, and raving homeless men, and at the newsstand an actress is reading about herself in the tabloids. A man walks by selling puppies, maybe a waterproof radio. Inside of Book Soup there are highly opinionated, supremely well-read booksellers who want to know what five books you'd take with you to a desert island, go, and what your favorite Morrissey song is, and how many people you've slept with, and don't you think I need another tattoo? Inside there are books, so many books." - AJ Kohn
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""I asked myself if I was normal or an idiot. I would try to concentrate but I felt anxiety, frustration, boredom. When I graduated from high school in 1980 I was functionally illiterate," he said." - AJ Kohn
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Chris, ^_______^ [Edit: aww, looks like he deleted his comment.] - Akiva Moskovitz
Had a friend who worked for an organization who was helping kids deal with depression. The stories about what Scientology would do to try and stop the program was ... frightening. Religion is fine but when you're using it to bully others ... that's not good in my book. - AJ Kohn
AJ, I'm with you 100%. I'm as much for religion as I am against proselytization. And I dislike Scientology even more for it's pay-to-play structure. - Akiva Moskovitz
If the Cult of Scientology decides they don't like you, they have resources for making you miserable that put J. Edgar Hoover to shame. - Spidra Webster
@Akiva: Yes, the money angle is ... unsavory. - AJ Kohn
Pay2Play heh. The headline I want "Tom Cruise says frontal lobotomy made him join Scientology" - Will Higgins
"Finally, as an adult I learned to read perfectly through the method of (Scientology's late founder) L. Ron Hubbard" -- I wonder how many other kids got hooked on reading thanks to Science Fiction. - Andy Bakun
I was waiting for Tad to come in with that... :) - Derrick
I thought the message was that people will suddenly "love" you when the boss promotes you. - Spidra Webster
@Akiva: Yes. But not just respect but love. @Spidra: lol. That too! But seriously, not exactly a kind message. Being yourself is okay, but when it turns out being yourself is useful, well, then it's great! - AJ Kohn
It's true - why should you be loved if you do nothing good or useful? I think its a great message for kids that being useful is a good thing. - Sparky
@Sparky: He was ridiculed for a physical attribute until that attribute came in handy. Sort of like a guy with a wooden leg who you snicker at until he takes it off to save you from a vampire. THEN you love him. No thanks. You want being useful is a good thing - that's Thomas the Tank Engine. - AJ Kohn
AJ, I'm practically hyperventilating at the brilliance of pegleg/killvampire. OMG so funny and dead on. - Spidra Webster
AJ - not a perfect analogy I know. I just think it's important to instill kids with the idea that they have to do something to be worthwhile. So many people pull the bare minimum these days and it pisses me off. Our society does far too much to coddle those that don't try. - Sparky
@Sparky: I'm on board with your sentiment. Thomas the Tank Engine does just that for kids. Rudolf ... not so much in my book. - AJ Kohn
So, all the gold stars that kids get for showing up to skool are... are... worthless? *shudders* - Mark VandenBerg
@aj: interesting take. i always read--no pun intended-- Rudolf's morale as: people won't like you if you're **different**, so do whatever you can to fit in and conform. Rudolf tried to hide his red nose. but that's just me. - .LAG
@Mark: Yes, stars for attendance=garbage. These are the ones who grow up thinking 'face time' makes all the difference. @.LAG: Excellent! That's another dangerous undercurrent. - AJ Kohn
But lots of people say "Most of life is just showing up." - Chris White
@Chris: Two things can be equally true. ;) - AJ Kohn
I pay a straight production rate, and 100% QC is part of it. Try "showing up" and not being useful around here. - Mark VandenBerg
Mark, I didn't understand what you said because I don't know what "production rate" and QC means, but I think it's advice about not bowing out of things just because you don't feel like doing it. Not really about work, as much as about obligations. - Chris White
It means people that work for me don't get paid a salary. How about I expand it to a life philosophy: Instead of worrying about how much I give to society, my main concern is to take as little as possible from society. If everone in the society is useful, the society as a whole grows. Members of a society who are not useful are hurtful to society. - Mark VandenBerg
I just assumed that twitter and facebook had been bought out by access-logins, seemed pretty likely when you think about it - one easy to remember URL rather than two... - Richard Bradshaw
@Richard: LOL. +1. Seriously though, what we're witnessing is pure monkeyclick behavior which is what drives SO much of the web. - AJ Kohn
Yeah. Phishing shouldn't work on anyone - there are ways to check where you are, and if something smells wrong, you can always just visit the site by manually going to your bookmark/typing it in. At least we have the phishing notification thing in browsers nowadays for the less computer literate of us. - Richard Bradshaw
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"There is an ever-growing delta between the metrics that are commonly used to gauge search success and the true underlying value search marketing delivers. There is a ton of ROI being left on the table – not because it isn’t being delivered but because it isn’t being measured and marketed." - AJ Kohn
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