Groundswell (Incorporating Charlene Li’s Blog):
Are you and your audience Creators, Critics, Collectors, Joiners, Spectators, and Inactives?
(tags: business marketing social media)

gmapsmania - 100 Things to do with Google Maps Mashups
Does what it says on the Tin. Lots of ideas here.
(tags: google map mashup)

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picture by saltyseadog on Flickr
No, the title isn’t a move to push the blog in the popular gossip, chat an lifestyle magazine arena. I’m taking a holiday. Sunny (please, god, sunny) spain awaits. So little (if the wife doesn’t catch me) or no posting for a week or so.
Whilst I’m away there is another [...]

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Avid Unveils “New Thinking” for 2008
Avid move stuff around and get more social but putting an MC badge on Xpress to make MC look cheaper seems backwards. Make a sub $800 avid xpress lite and scoop up some of that Vegas/FCexpress market
(tags: editing film avid)

War reporting: two online reports - spot the difference « [...]

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Kevin May from Travolution talks to Martin Couzins (sorry I missed that Martin. Thanks Adam) on Adam Tinworth’s blog about how he uses online to build the brand and the tools he uses.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKZGAXWCupY[/youtube]
As well as being gold to show to my students it’s also a good ad for using google alerts as a kind of [...]

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cybersoc.com: social media isn’t a website plug-in it’s something you do
“The only way to “do social media” is to embrace it, not just as something that’s tacked onto the back of a website, but as a method of actually doing whatever it is your business is.” Top stuff from Robin Hamman
(tags: socialmedia cybersoc)

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Over at the excellent editblog, Scott Simmons has posted a fantastic video about video that’s been made to promote an IFC contest. 
It’s very well made. I especially like the reference to Al Gore as having nearly, but not quite, inventing the internet.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Rrzv2nHdeM[/youtube]
Oh, and the bit about bars, tone and audio levels doesn’t even come close [...]

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Given the recent issues the guardian seem to be experiencing with comments, perhaps they need to get Martin Belam in as a consultant to help them out.
Given how valuable his skills are, maybe he shouldn’t be giving away all the great stuff in his mega-series on dealing with comments, for free
While he is, go and [...]

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UKjournalism obviously irked ITV news when they questioned the approach that they had taken with their ‘behind the scenes’ vlogs
Three things stand out in this vlog piece. First, it’s just like a traditional piece of broadcast news, presenter driven, sets constructed and people artificially placed to interview. Second, if there is a war about, [...]

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