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Digital Darwinism

A great slide stack…

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All Social Media is Local in the Global Village

An interesting panel of pundits from across the globe chinwag on digital media. This takes an hour to watch regardless of what time zone you’re in.

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20 Free eBooks About Social Media

Courtesy of Chris Brogan:

  1. The New Rules of Viral MarketingDavid Meerman Scott
  2. Marketing AppleMarketingApple.com
  3. Masters of MarketingStartup Internet Marketing
  4. Podcast Marketing eBookChristopher S. Penn
  5. Google Adwords SecretsSEOBook

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The Global Village Gets Social

Interesting stuff from Universal McCann and their recently released report: Social Media Research Wave 3 [PDF]:

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WorkFast TV: The Future of Work is as Boring as Hell

Just posted on Social Disorders: Do Not Adjust Your Set on my Recruitomatic blog…

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Digital Ethnography

This morning I posted Just Another Brick in the Wall on my Recruitomatic blog. It features a video produced by the Digital Ethnography Working Group out of Kansas State University. The group is led by Dr. Michael Wesch

Wow, these guys produce such good stuff!

Here is another great visual, Information R/evolution:

Information R/evolution follows on from the excellent primer Web 2.0…The Machine is Us/ing Us. I posted that a while back on RecruitingBlogs.com.

Social Media Brain Busters!

You wouldn’t know it from my posting frequency but I have been quite busy in my research. In an effort to develop an understanding for the recursive nature of blogging and its value, and reconcile Pierre Proudhon’s notion that “property is theft” with the persistent nuisance of walled gardens — or is it the perennial nuisance of persistent identity? — I am in danger of missing out on the increasingly popular YouTube gimme-juice phenomenon. Phew!

I came across this example from Cisco which illustrates the point — take your pick from any one of those above:

Ah, the human condition and the human network are becoming indistinguishable. What a bummer.

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