Huffington Post
Matthew Dowd, a prominent political consultant and chief strategist for George W. Bush's reelection campaign eviscerated John McCain on Tuesday for his choice of Sarah Palin as vice president.Dowd proclaimed that, in his heart of hearts, McCain knew he put the country at risk with his VP choice and that he would "have to li (Read More)
: Gmail, Google Docs, Twitter, Delicious, FriendFeed, and now Socialmedian are the most important to me at the moment. Just signed up with Identi.ca, though.
Silicon Alley Insider
A list of companies that were blind-sided by the internet, they didn’t understand the impacts of the power shift to the participants, or how fast information would spread, or were just plain ignorant. (Read More)
Submitted by Sheuer:
Best Buy will be the first national retailer to sell Apple Inc.’s iPhone in the United States in a partnership that could help increase sales of a device expected to be one of the hottest gadgets this holiday season. (Read More)
Cinematical
Filed under: Comedy, Drama, Foreign Language, Romance, New on DVD, Home Entertainment, Cinematical IndieComedies don't have an obligation to be particularly insightful, but you'd think an indie aimed at an adult audience would have something to say about its characters. Smart People stars Dennis Quaid, Sarah Jessica Parker, (Read More)
louisgray.com
By Cyndy Aleo-Carreira of Shakespeare I Ain't (E-mail / Twitter)There appears to be an interesting trend appearing more often on FriendFeed: comment moderation. Users have been able to moderate comments on their own FriendFeed threads for as long as I've been using the site, and most use it to remove any spam that makes it (Read More)
Submitted by Jasongoldberg:
Every socialmedian user can now adjust their own Noise Level on any News Network they belong to. When you change the volume it will be only for yourself; other users can set their own volume level for the same news network. Users will now see a "Noise Level" widget on the right sidebar of every news network they belong to (Read More)
FriendFeed todorchristov
Some of us spend too much time on multiple social media websites. When I started using social media websites, I spent hours on things that were not really necessary. Afterward I discovered some Extensions for Firefox (If you still use IE, this is just another reason to switch) that didn’t only save me a lot of time but also (Read More)
Submitted by Scbalazs:
Here’s a closer look at the 303 newspaper Twitter accounts (28 more than last month). On average, each account as 131.85 followers — down slightly from last month. The “new to me” accounts are marked according to when I discovered them. Accounts that have not posted any updates are marked with an asterisk. (Read More)
: I recently watched a youtube video with the Chicago Tribune about their Twitter accounts. They mentioned having both, one that is more of a personality, and another that is just an aggregate of news. The idea is that both serve an important, though different purpose.
Submitted by Netzoo:
Louis Gray writes: "Despite only being available in beta for less than a week, Social Median has been shoehorned into my online news consumption activity, lopped on to my staples of Google Reader and FriendFeed - and each site performs a different critical function."... (Read More)
: That is actually my favorite quote from the article. That, and: "Blogging 2.0 is about participating everywhere, and understanding that the comments can't be controlled just on your blog. They're moving to micro-communities where people are comfortable discussing your content with peers."
I'm not happy with the term Blogging 2.0, but it gets the point across.
TechCrunch
Twitter user Orli Yakuel, with 650 followers, had a nasty surprise this morning - her direct messages (private messages between two Twitter users) showed up in her normal Twitter stream (and were subsequently published to her FriendFeed account). Friends messaged her to tell her about the embarrassing issue. At first she tr (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb
Let's be honest here: we're all a bunch of social media addicts. We're junkies. Whether it's a new Twitter app, a new Facebook feature, or a new social anything service, we're all over it. But we may not be the norm. The truth is, being involved in social media takes time, something that most people don't have a lot of. So (Read More)
: This is definately a consideration when trying to budget your time online. With websites to manage, forums to moderate and blogs to write, social sites like Twitter and Friendfeed can steal time from more productive activities.