rightupmyalley.
I attended this panel on microcontent at SxSW last week - worth watching, one of the more entertaining panels I’ve ever seen.
- Zuckerberg’s hoodie is getting more play in the media than…oh wait, I don’t know because I’ve barely had time to read anything else. Sorry, hard hitting news - maybe tomorrow. Today I was too busy learning about the fact that the Zuckster wore a hoodie (what else) to several meetings with large banks and other institutional investors this week. Then some analyst made a few snide remarks, including that Facebook would be better off with Zuckerberg not as their CEO. Now of course, among other things, it’s become fodder for some satirical tweeting (cough @ZuckerbergsHood) and therefore kept some Mashable reporters working late. The hoodie situation also inspired a blogger on TechCrunch to write this masterpiece earlier today which I’m a little too obsessed with for my own good.
- Also, in even less hard hitting news, someone thinks it’s a good idea to recreate 170-year-old beer. And by someone, I mean Finnish researchers. I don’t know about you, but when I find a shipwrecked boat from the 1840s (as happened in this story), I immediately search it for any alcohol still on board and then scheme ways to recreate it. Just me and the Finnish?
- Lastly, if you are unemployed, you should probably post your name, picture and website with the words “Hire Me!” in size 3948534 font on a billboard. Apparently, that is what recruiters are looking for these days. Or so goes the moral of this story.
- Creating a viral meme about Hilary Clinton can get you a job at Buzzfeed.
- “Girls” only raked in 1.1 million viewers last night, lower than Eastbound & Down’s season/series finale, which came in at 1.6 million.
Okay, first - this is what social media news sources are talking about when they say social media can get you a job. LinkedIn, Twitter, and so on, are baseline standards. If you don’t have them, you’re behind; if you do have them, then you’re (usually) tied with everyone else. At least in this city anyway. Second, how did “Girls” do so poorly in viewership?! The fact that Eastbound & Down beat it is ridiculous - after watching that show for the first time yesterday, I don’t understand the draw at all. Just me?
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I got my invitation for Lookwork today! I haven’t decided how I feel about it yet - upon first glance, it seems very similar to Pinterest (for example, see the feed above). Anyone use it/have thoughts to share?
From the February issue of the New Yorker.
Twitter recruitment video…can’t decide if I love it or hate it. I do like that they cut the engineer off mid-sentence.
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That’s right. Fact-checking, by the New York Times, in real time. Awesome.
I don’t know how I feel about these “personal results.” Is this partly to encourage me to use Google+ more at all? Because that’s unlikely to work…
It is funny that because of this new development, I am the second search result that comes up when Q searches her own name.
It’s pretty lame they didn’t “tumble” about it. There was definitely room in there somewhere. After all, yogurt demands a lot of real estate…
Marketoonist Tom Fishburne
“MTV added Tumblr to its social media arsenal, launching a blog that initially offers original and repurposed content, with expansion plans including live-blogging the MTV Movie Awards June 5 (excerpt).”
Redefining what it means to have an “unforgettable” birthday…
Facebook Flashmob of the Day: A German teen named Thessa pulled a Kate Miller and inadvertently listed her birthday party as a public event on Facebook, prompting 15,000 to RSVP.
A cancellation notice went unheeded, and several hundreds showed up to celebrate Thessa’s Sweet 16. The birthday girl herself, however, was nowhere to be found, having split just before the revelers arrived.
“It was by and large a peaceful party,” said Hamburg Police spokesman Mirko Streiber. “There were some fires set alight, some acts of violence and with considerable alcohol consumption there was some property damage. There have been larger organised birthday parties in Hamburg but this may be the largest unorganised birthday party ever.”
Kelloggs uses Twitter to search for PR agency
Cereal brand Kelloggs is asking public relations agencies to make their pitch on Twitter via #kelloggspr in order to secure Kelloggs as a client.
It’s a clever way of determining the creative, social media-savvy agencies from the traditional PR dinosaurs.
Let the games begin!
