playboy who are you Post Source: mondaymorningmediaquarterback.com Posted: Jul 10 2008 01:33:49
if the opening spread for your magazine is not a woman at all but an ad for a game for aasony playstation portable the handheld game favored by twitchy teenagers what does that say about playboya
as usual what playboy says about men or perhaps about its own irrelevance is far more interesting than how it shows women overloaded on top and shaved for action or with tiny nonthreatening landing strips... [Show More]
i havent typically turned the social media top 5 spotlight directly on my own honorable profession public relations but the recent run of low comedy in the social media world on the subject of pr leaves me no choice.
twitter does not employ public relations professionals. no kidding. i thought nonresponse to serious charges of harassment by some twitter users against others was the result of a c... [Show More]
more on facebook profile changes the feed wall the new profile is slated for launch later this year. the latest new feature the company is previewing a feed portion of the new design where you can easily add content from within a standardized interface. the goal is to make facebook easier to use. the company is being transparent about this latest effort in contrast to some of its earlier product... [Show More]
brijit closed up shop today.
un fortunatel y despite our best efforts weve run out of money and can no longer afford to pursue our vision of adapting great longform content for a shortform world at least not as a standalone company. as recently as yesterday morning we thought we had the funding in place to continue our work together. but as it turns out we dont.
like cameron i found the site usefu... [Show More]
brijit has closed temporarily
whoa. id grown to like and rely on the abstracting service brijit over the last few months but suddenly its gone. their announcements seem thoroughly unsure about their future but i hope to see it return in some form....... [Show More]
...efforts weve run out of money and can no longer afford to pursue our vision of adapting great longform content for a short form world at least not as a standalone company. contained in an email from brijit.com that arrived this morning.a...... [Show More]
in a tragic and surprising turn of events brijit one of the most interesting startups on the web has announced that the company has run out of money and will cease operations until more funding is found. brijit offered 100 word summaries of the best longform content in print on television and most recently on sites like digg techmeme and youtube. review writers were paid 5 per approved review an... [Show More]
organized crime in japan
jake adelstein has a fascinating oped in todays washington post about his time covering the impotent policing of organized crime in japan. a snippet
most americans think of japan as a lawabiding and peaceful place as well as our staunch ally but reporting on the underworld gave me a different perspective. mobs are legal entities here. their fan magazines and comic books a... [Show More]
today i would like to write about a unique site called brijit which provides information in 100 words. their main concept of creating this site is simple.generally due to the huge content on each topic people are wasting so much of time to cover up small topics. hence this site was created in order to take a content and resize it to 100words so that getting complete information for a topic is quic... [Show More]
dyslexia varies by language
not terribly surprising but still interesting
in this sense we may regard dyslexia in chinese and english as two different brain disorders dr. tan said because completely different brain regions are disrupted. its very likely that a person who is dyslexic in chinese would not be dyslexic in english.
via brijit though i should note that this was on clusterflock a month ... [Show More]
the billy letters Post Source: www.messagedance.com Posted: May 06 2008 12:49:51
these are really interesting despite how creepy it is to write letters to eminent personalities and have those letters be a total identity forgery. still the answers from jailed killers are pretty interesting and the comments at the bottom of the article in which certain zodiactype folks try to parse mansons total nonsense rambling is kind of neat....... [Show More]
closing a bunch of tabs on my firefox here so i thought id share some interesting search related resources ive come across in the last few weeks
brijit is a tool that aggregates content and abstracts it to 100 words or less. it has a pretty comprehensive scope and covers some sources that you might not otherwise think to keep track of including certain subscriptiononly sources. they are primarily... [Show More]
happy friday
my first link is something which has been weighing on my mind a bit.
to know me in real life is to know that im a big fan of the power of positive thinkinglaw of attraction.
i have a vision board in my office which im always updating it has everything from tiny goals to loftylofty ones pinned to its surface and a matching gratitude board which hath pretty much outgrown its borders.
i ... [Show More]
brijit the world in 100 words zachklein
brijit aggregates the worlds best longform content and abstracts it in 100 words or less providing busy omnivorous and increasingly mobile readers with rich qualitative summaries as well as better guideposts for what to read watch or listen to now. they pay users 5 to sum up an article and rate between 0 to 3 dots from not a priority to exception not to b... [Show More]
the politics of the dead
pretty interesting review of two books about the civil war over at the new republic. of all the interesting bits though this still seemed the most important
the american government has learned sometimes in fits and starts to manage the problem of its troop casualties much as early nineteenthcentury reformers learned to manage the punishment of social deviants remove them ... [Show More]
my life in forbidden lhasa
national geographic has dug up a 1955 story by heinrich harrerauthor of seven years in tibet and played by brad pitt in the eponymous movieabout his time in tibet. its a rather fascinating read and a great way to see how much the world has changed since then.
via brijit
also of note a similarly resurrected story. this ones from 2002....... [Show More]
brijit the magazine and newspaper review site we reviewed very positively when it launched in october is today expanding its innovative platform to include very short user reviews of top articles in digg techmeme and videos on youtube. the company pays users 5 for each 100 word review of a magazine article news story or tv show.
its already proven to be a great way to make more informed purchas... [Show More]
the last few weeks have seen an interesting uptick in developments around the periphery of ensembli
the launch of alltop guy kawasakis digital magazine rack for the web. though the blogosphere has been snooty about alltop for ensembli it provides validity to our notion that the current generation of media aggregation tools dont cater to a broad audience.
the current issue of wired carries an ar... [Show More]
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