The Ad Industry Is Finally Promising To Make Online Ads Less Terrible
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HuffingtonPost...
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10/16/15 
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And we believe them, right? Right? Right after this message.
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Alexander Howard
Senior Editor for Technology and Society, The Huffington Post
The impact of Apple’s ad blocking technology on the future of the Internet came faster than we might have expected. On Thursday, the Internet Advertising Bureau acknowledged... (Trends: Content Aggregators Cloud The Truth,New Value Moment,Mass Media to Atomized,Behavior Creates Structure)
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Shopping Made Psychic: No-Content Marketing Marches on
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Huffington Post...
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08/25/14 
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Let the Robot do the shopping!
(That's what might happen when the "sheer volume of content drives its value below zero".)
by Spencer Critchley, Boots Road Group in Huffington Post.
A while back, I predicted the coming of no-content marketing: what comes next after the sheer volume of content drives its value below zero. That's the point at which we start paying to avoid co... (Trends: News to Meta News,Distribution Reforms Around the Net,Critical Journalism to Normalized Promotion,New Value Moment,Mass Media to Atomized,Technological Determinism,Behavior Creates Structure)
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Yahoo files patent for social influence-based advertising
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BBC...
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06/14/13 
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Readers Valued For Their Connections
(Everything you know is not only wrong, but they know that you know it. )
By Leo Kelion
Technology reporter
Using social influence scores could help Yahoo offer more targeted adverts to marketers
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Researchers Mine Old News, Web to Predict Future Events
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Parity News...
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02/14/13 
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(We describe and evaluate methods for learning to forecast forthcoming events of interest from a corpus containing 22
years of news stories. We consider the examples of identifying signicant increases in the likelihood of disease out-breaks, deaths, and r)
Microsoft Research has teamed up with the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology to develop software that can predict events like outbreaks of disease or violence by mining data from old news and the web.
The project, if successful, will result into... (Trends: News to Meta News,Data to Meta News,Mass Media to Atomized)
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media law 3 Major Publishers Sue Open-Education Textbook Start-Up
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ChronicleofHigherEducation...
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11/10/12 
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Aggregating web content into a "pattern" that mimics another's work academic work -- is it a copyright violation?
(I remember thingking that I remembered hearing someone describe a thought that resembled a thought that someone else once described to me, after they remembered something someone once said.)
Open-education resources have been hailed as a trove of freely available information that can be used to build textbooks at virtually no cost. But a copyright lawsuit filed last month presents a potential roadblock for the burgeoning movement.
A group o... (Trends: Critical Journalism to Normalized Promotion,Content Aggregators Cloud The Truth,Detecting Pedigree Remotely,Creation to Aggregation,The Renaissance of Copyright,Mass Media to Atomized)
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Can Twitter Monetize the Cultural Zeitgeist?
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WHARTON...
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11/02/12 
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Pay attention to the Attention Field! Pay! Pay! Attention!
(Share this Article (Links: Share on facebook Share on twitter; Share on email; More Sharing Services))
Published: September 26, 2012 in Knowledge@Wharton
Among social sites, Facebook and Twitter are often mentioned in the same sentence. Both services attract an extensive and ever-expanding base of users. The two are also increasingly competing for consum... (Trends: Solo to Swarm,Critical Journalism to Normalized Promotion,New Value Moment,Mass Media to Atomized,Synergy at Vortex Points)
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The decaying web and our disappearing history
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BBC...
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09/29/12 
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One keystroke kills, history, archiving kill searches.
(The thought that the content on the internet would be "immortal" proves to be quite mortal.)
Tom Chatfield -- Our online history is disappearing at an astonishing rate, creating a black hole for future historians.
Congress to archive every tweet
The Library of Congress will give billions of tweets a home next to the Declaration of Independence... (Trends: Detecting Pedigree Remotely,Creation to Aggregation,Mass Media to Atomized)
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Pulling people to news websites serve two important functions:
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Knight Digital Media Center...
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08/31/12 
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On, and there's "selling that dedicated audience to advertisers."
("...increasing traffic inevitably results in a decline in the average time spent online.
The more successful a site is as measured by pageviews, the less successful it is in engaging people for longer periods of time on a site.")
Websites and Engagement
For news media organizations, the focus on Web 2.0 tools and strategies that gathered momentum in the mid-2000s has mainly been about using the Internet to distri... (Trends: Distribution Reforms Around the Net,Audience to Participants,Nameplate to Disembodied,Mass Media to Atomized,Services become Games)
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Instagram: The Porno Moment (Habit Forming Technologies)
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Nirandfar.com...
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06/20/12 
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"Internal triggers” enable us to control you minute-by-minute.
(Marketing tells you to "sit there and twitch". And so you do. And marketing tells you to "eat this." And so you do. And every cell-phone hugging, Facebook-addicted consumer is glad to have "Freedom.")
(original title: THE BILLION DOLLAR MIND TRICK: AN INTRO TO TRIGGERS by Nir Eyal and Jason Hreha) Yin asked not to be identified by her real name. A young addict in her mid-twenties, she lives in Palo Alto and, despite her addiction, attends Stanford Un... (Trends: Solo to Swarm,Addiction to Habit Forming Technologies,Knowledge to Belief,Creation to Aggregation,Mass Media to Atomized)
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Facebook, Twitter are killing search
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ZDNET...
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03/08/12 
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Searching moving inside social media, leaving Google, Bing behind
(Or, search is expanding into social media, and Google and Bing will be in there, too.)
Stafford Masie, the former head of Google South Africa, believes Googles traditional business in search is shrinking and that sites like Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr are to blame. Last week, Masie said: Google is dying. That could have been my headline... (Trends: Services become Games,Distribution Reforms Around the Net,The Renaissance of Copyright,Centralized to Distributed,Mass Media to Atomized)
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The eBook Backlash
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NYT...
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03/06/12 
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When is reading an eBook not like reading a book?
(When is soaking in a tub not like kayaking through the rapids? "She is constantly fending off the urge to check other media, making it tough to finish books.")
Can you concentrate on Flaubert when Facebook is only a swipe away, or give your true devotion to Mr. Darcy while Twitter beckons?
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How agile methodologies can help publishers
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RADAR.OREILLY...
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01/12/12 
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Daily journalism has always had agile attributes.
(Great start of an idea, but she finishes with lame, vague suggestions. )
by Jenn Webb
Agile methodologies originated in the software space, but Bookigee CEO Kristen McLean (@ABCKristen) believes many of the same techniques can also be applied to content development and publishing workflows. She explains why in the following... (Trends: Critical Journalism to Normalized Promotion, Mass Media to Atomized)
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The Privatization of Copyright
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TORRENTFREAK...
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11/14/11 
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Jason Mazzone, of the Brooklyn Law School, shows how contracts expand copyright law.
(Again, this turns on a property issue. By contractually restricting the rights of a purchaser of content (like a DVD), does that same contractual limitation apply to the person who steals the DVD, or downloads the content?)
... (Trends: The Renaissance of Copyright, Mass Media to Atomized)
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Fuego: New mobile tool to follow the future of journalism, anywhere
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KNIGHTMEDIA...
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10/15/11 
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Automatically follow the Twitter threads about the future of Journalism.
(Aggregated content about the aggregation of meta-news content about news content, and the discussions thereby generated --- on Twitter.)
Fuego: New mobile tool to follow the future of journalism, anywhere
Lots of smart people are always discussing the future of journalism and media on Twitterbut knowing which of those conversations are most important at any given time can mean spendin... (Trends: News to Meta News, Mass Media to Atomized)
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GPS Phones Show Virtual Stores On Top Of Yours
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BLOGS.WSJ...
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09/22/11 
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Turns out Cyberspace has an street address, and it's yours!
(GPS-phones may show cyber-businesses squatting on your physical store, a very obscure form of Real Estate "porno". )
Our Tech Leader 25 group identified augmented reality as a key future trend but actually it isnt a future trend at all, it is already here.
Raimo Van der Klein is the CEO of Layar, based here in Amsterdam. Layar was one of the very first to deliver A... (Trends: Nameplate to Disembodied, Desktop to Mobile, Mass Media to Atomized)
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What is journalism worth?
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ONLINEJOURNALISMREVIEW...
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08/19/11 
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"Incremental daily journalism traditionally has had no financial value to a publisher beyond its value as a vehicle for advertising." -- Robert Niles
(What is news worth? Robert Niles breaks it down per story based on actual newspaper economics (if such a phrase can still be used.))
What is journalism worth? That's the question journalism managers and entrepreneurs have been trying to figure out ever since it became clear, years ago, that the Internet was disrupting local publishing monopolies.
And so we've endured years of conferenc... (Trends: Print to Electronic to ?,Mass Media to Atomized,Property Rights vs. Human Rights,Government-centric vs. Culturally deterministic,Research)
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Authorship markup and web search
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GOOGLE...
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06/12/11 
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You stole my stuff, and I CAUGHT YOU! This may be a new metaphor for the organization of business models.
(HTML Authorship tags can shift the balance of power between content creators and producers. For a while. See Ted Nelson for details.)
... (Trends: Nameplate to Disembodied, The Renaissance of Copyright, Mass Media to Atomized, Research)
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News Articles: Now A Luxury Or Byproduct
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BuzzMachine...
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06/04/11 
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The article -- disembodied from its nameplate -- further disintigrates into tweets and twitches.
(At the dawn of telephones, reporters would phone "takes" of the story to a rewrite desk at the daily paper, and wire-service stories would be transmitted in paragraphs written as details emerged.)
Jeff Jarvis, BuzzMachine
Jeff Jarvis is associate professor and director of the interactive journalism program and the new business models for news project at the City University of New Yorks Graduate School of Journalism
A few episodes in news mak... (Trends: Nameplate to Disembodied, Mass Media to Atomized, Research)
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Digg Ditched as Consumer Habits Drift
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NEWSWEEK...
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10/24/10 
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Fleeting is the warm glow of popularity.
(Part of Digg's demise was self-inflicted, but part was also how easy it was to manipulate Digg's recommendations through covert group action.)
A cautionary tale for Web 2.0 companies.
Four years ago Kevin Rose, the boyish, 20-something founder of Digg, was on the cover of BusinessWeek under a headline that screamed HOW THIS KID MADE $60 MILLION IN 18 MONTHS. Digg wasn’t rocket science. It was ... (Trends: Known Source to Crowdsource,Nameplate to Disembodied,Mass Media to Atomized)
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Facebook and Twitter to Transform the TV Landscape
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APPMARKETbeta...
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10/14/10 
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Will Dick Tracey get PPV on his WristTV?
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It's Not Just You: 71 Percent of Tweets Are Ignored
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WIRED...
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10/12/10 
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What did you say?
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Ever feel like youre talking to a brick wall on Twitter? That might be because 71 percent of tweets get absolutely no response from the world.
Toronto-based social media analytics company Sysomos scanned 1.2 billion messages that were sent in August an... (Trends: Information overload vs ability to comprehend, Known Source to Crowdsource, Nameplate to Disembodied, Mass Media to Atomized, Research)
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Why YouTube Viewers Have ADD and How to Stop It
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ADAGE...
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10/01/10 
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The Video Was Soooooo Long!
(It was still playing right after I started it.)
How often do you click away from online videos while they're playing? Yeah, me too. In a world of nearly infinite choice in online video, it doesn't take much to get bored or distracted or... and poof, we're gone.
This behavior of viewers clicking away or... (Trends: Audience to Participants, Mass Media to Atomized)
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Why Netflix Has Already Won the Digital TV/Video War
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ADAGE...
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09/29/10 
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They did it early, and they did it right.
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Now that premium entertainment is becoming easy to stream from web to TV, the race to monetize growing consumer demand is becoming fierce. The stakeholders include nearly the entire internet -- Google, Apple, Amazon, Hulu -- and nearly the entire entertain... (Trends: Centralized to Distributed, Mass Media to Atomized)
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It takes nearly $1 billion/yr to run iTunes
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ASYMCO...
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09/12/10 
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Compared to what?
(I just love reporters who are impressed by big numbers. "One Billion Dollars. Wow!" Is that a lot for the size of iTunes business? Uh, the answer would be "no".)
n recent articles I highlighted the acceleration in iTunes App downloads where the rate is approaching 18 million apps per day and the cumulative total apps which is about to overtake the cumulative songs downloaded.
We now turn our attention now to con... (Trends: Mass Media to Atomized)
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Real-Time, Detailed Face Tracking On a Nokia N900
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Dr. Philip A. Tresadern...
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08/22/10 
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Open the Pod Bay door, Hal.
(You look at your phone; it looks back at you. What is it thinking?)
A video of your face contains useful information such as who you are, where you are looking and how you are feeling. If we can extract this information from the video, it potentially paves the way for automatic face verification (i.e. determining whether y... (Trends: Audience to Participant, Centralized to Distributed, Desktop to Mobile, Homepage to Browser to AppsGadgets , Known Source to Crowdsource, Mass Media to Atomized, Shared to Solo)
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Vonage: Free Phone Calls for Facebook Users
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AP...
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08/08/10 
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Android and iPhone App lets users connect directly.
(The final atomization of media will be followed by a reception at the River Styx. )
Vonage has introduced two apps that allow you to make free phone calls to your Facebook friends nationally and internationally.
The apps, called Vonage Mobile for Facebook, are available free for the iPhone and Android phones.
The app is very simple to... (Trends: Mass Media to Atomized, Print to Electronic)
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METAWEB (FreeBase): Real-Time Wide-Spread Content Indexing Service.
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METAWEB...
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07/18/10 
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Barcodes for content. A unique approach to making information valuable (or findable).
(notes
"Metaweb provide real-time indexing of ""partners"" content and cross-mapping their content molecules to a category of millions of ""entities"" (uh, ""subjects."")")
YouTube... (Trends: Known Source to Crowdsource,Audience to Participants,Critical Journalism to Normalized Promotion,Content Aggregators Cloud The Truth,Creation to Aggregation,Mass Media to Atomized)
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Cloud-as-router Presages Virtual Hosting
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PCMAG...
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06/05/10 
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Everything On Your Camera/Phone is Mine!
(Applications that use the cloud as a router, and automatically collect images and other data from cellphones and other interactive devices from within a geographic area. Another really great idea with some really frightening unintended consequences.)
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Keywords Replace Headlines
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NYT...
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05/20/10 
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Can you feel anything when I do this?
(The oldest game on the web is fooling search engines so people see your porno. As news becomes the ultimate fractal business model, every little sticky spot will help. )
Dont know who Taylor Momsen is? Neither do I, beyond that she is the mean one on Gossip Girl. But Facebook knows her well, Twitter loves her, and she and Google have been hooking up, like, forever.
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Few Americans Use Twitter
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EDISONRESEARCH...
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05/03/10 
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Twitter is a Seven Percent Solution.
(Thirty-two percent of Americans believe in ghosts, 37% percent believe their houses are haunted, 10% believe that the moon landing was staged. Oops. Over the 140-character limit.)
... (Trends: Local to Granfalloon, Mass Media to Atomized)
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Two-thirds of World Internet Users Use Social Media
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NIELSENWIRE...
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04/21/10 
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Member Communities activity soaked up one in every 15 online minutes in 2007, one in 11 in 2008 worldwide.
(The number is one is six in the U.K., and one in four in Brazil. Some suspect that US Teenagers actually spend more minutes online than living.)
http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/facebook_growth.png... (Trends: Local to Granfalloon, Mass Media to Atomized)
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Dimensions of Online Behavior: Toward a User Typology
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LIEBERT...
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03/08/10 
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The salient features of online behavior are conceptualized as sociability (human connection motives), utility (efficiency orientation), and reciprocity (cognitive stimulation and active involvement)
(These are the attributes of paying attention.)
Online behavior refers to organized (e.g., search) and unorganized (e.g., browse) interactions with both human (e.g., chat) and nonhuman (e.g., database) elements in online environments. The salient features of online behavior are conceptualized as sociabi... (Trends: Local to Granfalloon,Solo to Swarm,New Value Moment,Mass Media to Atomized)
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Politicians' Tweets Are Mostly Self-Promotional, Researchers Say
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TWP...
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09/18/09 
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(The Death of Twitter? "A team of researchers from the University of Maryland plodded through more than 6,000 Twitter postings" ... to discover ... "politicians spend most of their time on Twitter promoting themselves." )
The arrival of Twitter on Capitol Hill has given ordinary citizens access to the candid, real-time thoughts of their elected representatives.
Like this dispatch from Rep. Neil Abercrombie (D-Hawaii): just completed weightlifting workout at the Nuuanu Y.... (Trends: Critical Journalism to Normalized Promotion, Mass Media to Atomized)
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Start-Up Plans to Make Journalism Pirates Pay Up
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NYT...
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07/27/09 
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(Oh, Ted Nelson, where are you now? "Micropayment" was the heart and soul of Nelson's "Thinking Machines", a vision of an electronic world where you could follow links back to their origination, instead of their destination like the World Wide Web. Giving)
nline piracy isnt just a problem for music companies; it hurts newspapers and magazines as well. News organizations are now trying to do something about the many Web sites that simply copy articles and paste them into their own pages.
Enlarge This Imag... (Trends: Nameplate to Disembodied, Mass Media to Atomized)
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USA Today To Introduce Paid Digital Edition To Be Delivered By E-Mail
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HUFFINGTON...
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07/10/09 
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USA Today To Introduce Paid Digital Edition To Be Delivered By E-Mail
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NEW YORK USA Today's new publisher said Wednesday he hopes to expand the newspaper's revenue from mobile phones and portable electronic reading devices, and pledged to fight The Wall Street Journal's bid for readers in hotels.
The comments from David ... (Trends: Paid to Free to Paid to Free, Mass Media to Atomized)
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Internet most popular information source: poll
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ZOGBY...
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06/18/09 
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(Reuters)
UTICA, New York - As broadcast television network newscasts continue to lose viewers by the month, a new online survey by Zogby Interactive shows that the Internet is by far the preferred source for information, and that it is considered the most reliable ... (Trends: Nameplate to Disembodied, Known Source to Crowdsource, Centralized to Distributed, Mass Media to Atomized)
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