Social Media Will Help Police Net Neutrality

On net neutrality…PCMag.com reports that:

BellSouth officials denied Friday that they had blocked consumer sites MySpace and YouTube, although customers in Florida and Tennessee said that they were unable to access them.

BellSouth customers filled the Technorati blog Thursday and Friday, complaining that they had not been able to access YouTube, which stores and plays back user-generated videos, and MySpace, a social networking site for teens.

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Hurricane Preparedness: Search Versus Talk

Bill Tancer at Hitwise referenced a drive-time radio news story asserting that Hurricane Katrina has led to increased concern and preparedness for the 2006 Hurricane season which starts today. He offers the chart below showing search term breadth: searches for all terms containing "hurricane" over a fifteen-month period. … Read the rest

Readers: Your Comments Are Worth Far More Than This Column

…and that’s the title of my latest OnlineSpin column in MediaPost…

Social media may be riding a wave of hype right now, but nobody can deny that it is forcing traditional media companies and marketers to rethink what the media business is all about.Read the rest

48 Million Americans Have Posted Content To The Internet

 

I’m probably the last one to point to this Pew research, but it’s important because it came from Pew, Lee Rainie at Pew Internet does good work, and people tend to pay attention to Pew. Pew says:

Adoption of high-speed internet at home grew twice as fast in the year prior to March 2006 than in the same time frame from 2004 to 2005.

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It’s Here: Skypecast On Marketing & CGM

The MP3 recording of the recent Skypecast I did with Chris Tolles of Topix.net and my colleague Pete Blackshaw is now available here. This was a tease to the Innovative Marketing Conference that Prof. Bernd Schmitt of Columbia University is producing with Francois Gossieaux of Corante June 8-9.… Read the rest