May 2009
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Maybe Rockers and Twitter Aren't All That Bad →
Any 90’s music fans in the house? Well then you’ve obviously heard of the mega-band Nine Inch Nails. The band’s front man/all around creative genius, Trent Reznor, just used his Twitter account to raise “$645K for the brother of former CNN anchor Veronica De La Cruz, who is in need of a heart transplant.” It’s nice to see celebs using their influence for a...
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Blood Copy and Gawker Sink Fake Fangs Into... →
With the help of boutique interactive agency, Campfire, Gawker Media convinced members of the trade press that it acquired a blog by and for vampires named “Blood Copy”.
The blog was not actually real, but meant to be more of a slick advertorial for the second season of HBO’s True Blood (which is, if you haven’t figured out yet, about vampires).
Among those fooled into...
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Can Twitter Save My Name Is Earl? →
Image courtesy of Mashable.com
Do any of you watch the sitcom My Name is Earl? Sorry to inform you that NBC has cancelled the show after four seasons. BUT WAIT! You still have a shot at saving Jason Lee’s plummeting career by joining the guerilla movement on Twitter at the account @EarlTwitition, which has received over 6,000 followers in 24 hours.
-Maria
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“[Brand representatives on Twitter] are not acting like spokespeople, but real...”
– Josh Bernoff in The New York Times
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Adam Lambert Wins 'American Idol,' as Predicted by... →
Although I’m not an American Idol fan, I can appreciate the effort made by digital agency 360i to predict the winner using Google.
If you take a step back down memory lane, you’ll see that Google has been able to predict the AI finale winner for the last four years in a row!
The ill-fated winner or future Broadway star this year seems to be Adam Lambert. Come on down!
-Maria
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Cision launches JournalistTweets →
Cision recently launched JournalistTweets, a site that shows tweets from members of the media on Twitter. However, there don’t seem to be too many journalists listed as yet, since the same ones keep coming up.
—Alyssa
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“Without newspapers to provide the bulk of original reporting, what do you link...”
– Dan Rather, Bulldog Media Relations Summit
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Tweets Meet Tees in Viral Marketing Push →
T-shirt maker Threadless has partnered with Twitter to release two new shirts a week priced at $18 each. The witty catchprases featured on each shirt will be voted upon by Twitter users, making the selection process a true democracy.
The Twitter Tees site will allow users to log on using their Twitter identification and carry a running tally of the most popular tweets of the week.
Threadless...
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On Monday, Children's Hospital to Document Kidney... →
Here’s one that’s near and dear to my heart (or lower back to be more specific). The Children’s Medical Center Dallas/UT Southwestern public relations team will be the first hospital to live tweet from a pediatric kidney transplant surgery. The surgery, scheduled for Monday morning at 10:00 am, is for a 3 year-old boy who is receiving the organ from his dad. The hospital staff...
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Twitter’s Spectacularly Awful 24 Hours →
In case you missed all the Twitter drama yesterday, TechCrunch has a great recap of what happened.
A lot of people were confused about what exactly got taken away from us. In the past, users would be able to see all @replies twittered by the people they followed, if they had that option activated (it wasn’t the default). So, if I twittered, “@andrewrossi you are my idol,”...
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CEOs Who Use Twitter →
BusinessWeek currently has a slideshow of 50 CEOs on Twitter. But they forgot M Booth’s CEO, @margibpr! I’m still working on converting her into a Twitter fan.
—Alyssa
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My Plan To Use The Internet to Become Amy Adams'...
I don’t have a strong track record with celebrities — most notably when Kerry Washington had to forcibly pull her hand from my iron grip while I tried to talk to her about The George Washington University. But still, one of my top five goals in life is to become best friends with Amy Adams.
Now, the internet has provided me with a tool: OMGICU! First off, this fits my lifestyle...
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Self-Promoting Celebs on the Internet
Celebrities are famous for all sorts of reasons: they are willing to take their clothes off on camera, or their parents are rich, or…huh, I guess celebrities are only famous for two reasons. But how do you keep the public interested? Here are a couple of examples of celebrities leveraging the ‘net (I like calling it that, it reminds me of the Sandra Bullock movie) for personal gain:
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There’s A Queen On Twitter, And She Ain’t Latifah →
To be totally honest, my real interest in posting this article from TechCrunch lies in sharing the amusement that I received from reading the title as I scrolled through Google Reader.
The other news though, is that Jordan’s Queen, Rania Al Abdullah, has joined Twitter! So far, her feed is interesting and charming, making it a little easier to forgive her bad taste in movies (“Wknd begins...
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Awkwardness = Internet Magic
One of my favorite things in life is receiving family holiday newsletters. The incorrect grammar, the proclamations (“Dale and I went to Detroit this year”; “We bought a new dining room set”), and the egregious punctuation!!!!!!!!!!!!!! But what it comes down to is that I love things that are awkward.
But what fills that void from January to November? Perhaps a new...
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URL Shortening Wars: Twitter Ditches TinyURL For... →
Twitter just decided to replace its automatic URL-shortening service, forgoing TinyURL for our friends bit.ly. Those of you who use TweetDeck know that the desktop application has been automatically shortening your URLs with bit.ly for a while, but Twitter itself has always used TinyURL. This is actually pretty handy, as bit.ly tracks all sorts of analytics on the links, such as how many people...
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Demi Moore's Approval Signals End of Trend
Who doesn’t love a good late-night text/drunk-dial? I know I do. It says, “I’m thinking about you,” but without all the effort of a real telephone conversation.
That said, let me introduce you to a website that you’ve probably already heard about: Texts From Last Night. (Note, this site uses some Christian Bale-esque language. It is bawdy…ribald, even.)
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“One of Twitter’s charms is that it demands almost nothing of us….On...”
– Stephen Baker
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"Should Be on The Nanny" Proves There Is a God
I think that there is one central problem with ALL websites: they don’t include enough mid-’90s fashion. In fact, a search of The New York Times site reveals a staggering ZERO results for the search “Fran Drescher; Amazing Outfit.”
Enter “Should Be on The Nanny,” a site dedicated to photoshopping The Nanny’s head on current runway fashions that look...
