Opt-in vs. Opt-Out; Value vs. Numbers
From "all the news fit to print" to "all the news you can fit [in a tweet]". It looks like the news media model is moving into the social media realm. Sell and buy ads and you'll have sustenance for the tool and a way for brands to get something...

Kevin Marks: The Flow Past Web: even better than the RealTime thing
It's the sushi-train web.

Nonprofit Marketing: Getting Attention Blog
The Getting Attention blog is a source of ideas, tactics, and tips for nonprofit communicators focused on helping their organizations succeed through effective marketing.

"Streams of Content, Limited Attention: The Flow of Information through Social Media"
Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.danah.org%2Fpapers%2Ftalks%2FWeb2Expo.html

Danah | "Streams of Content, Limited Attention: The Flow of Information through Social Media"
Transcript of Danah Boyd's Web2.0 presentation. Full of interesting stuff.

Apple patents anti-user attention-complianceware - Boing Boing
unbelievable

danieltenner.com — The questionable value of the real-time web
Everyone is talking about the “real-time web”. That’s usually a pretty strong indication of a buzzword that will soon mean very little. Bello in confronto tra real-time e strumenti che permettono di immagazzinare (Read-it-later o Instanpaper)

Digital Strangelove – or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Internet
I’m not presenting the below presentation as gospel, if I may be so bold as to quote myself, I am not looking for right, just for least wrong, as one of the premises I state in the presentation is that so much of this space will continue to change for...

Chris Messina on attention brokers and proximity marketing
He loses me at the end (Brightkite and Foursquare don't work for me, I just use their service), though I like what he has to say about VRM and privacy as currency.

FCC comments by CSM fellow reveal how public media can spur broadband adoption -- News from the Future of Public Media -- Center for Social Media at American University
Titled “Digital Public Media Networks to Advance Broadband And Enrich Connected Communities,” Goodman’s comments examine a variety of current public media projects that rely on high-speed connections to reach and engage users, and observe that...

Finding Business Contacts
In a struggling economy, networking should be a top priority for you, especially if it hasn’t been in the past.  You need business contacts, no matter where you are on the chain.  Through business contacts, you open up the possibility that you wi