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A need for a new blog ranking system

Posted on July 4, 2009 by Steven Hodson
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rankings_lg We might not want to admit in public but bloggers; especially those doing it as a career, liked having a ranking system that we use to get with Technorati. I say use to because whether they might not want to admit it or not Technorati isn’t really relevant anymore. Still though we flash that Technorati chicklet in our sidebars like it does mean something.

The thing is that between the service being severely gamed into uselessness the whole new media arena, of which blogs are only a part of now, has changed dramatically. Links, the very commodity by which we figured out our worth within the blogosphere have changed. They have grown beyond the blogs and into metric powerhouses on other new media services.

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Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: blogs, Facebook, FriendFeed, links, ranking, Tweetmeme, Twitter

Marketers count on gullibility so you will spam for them

Posted on July 3, 2009 by Steven Hodson
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Thumbs Up A big thumbs up to Sarah Perez over at ReadWriteWeb for her excellent post on needing a marketer filter on Twitter. I couldn’t agree more but there’s a couple of things that these marketers, or companies, are doing which is worse than just counting own our gullibility in order to promote their products. After all, as Sarah points out, who wouldn’t want to win a MacBook Pro.

The way they are doing this ‘promotion’ is really just another way to game Twitter, and us, by manipulating what has become an integral part of Twitter – the hashtags. I’ve taken exception before to the abuse of hashtags and how the misuse of them is detrimental to the use of Twitter. By their definition in the Twitter ecosphere hashtags are meant to identify a specific tweet as belonging to a larger conversation on a current ‘hot’ or trending subject.

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Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: advertising, marketing, Twitter, viral

Okay Twitter the ball’s in your court

Posted on July 2, 2009 by Steven Hodson
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fitnessalways-cap I don’t follow that many people on Twitter which makes it rather easy to spot out of place tweets as they come through my Twitter client. At first when I started noticing a specific Twitterer showing up in my Friends stream I didn’t really pay attention. However as a part of my Social Media spring cleaning I started paying attention to just who was showing up in the stream.

So when I saw a series of tweets from @fitnessalways I scratched my head and tried to remember when or why I would have added this ‘person’ to my timeline – after all fitness isn’t big on my list of interests. So I did a check on Twitter for this person’s Twitter page and just as I thought – I wasn’t subscribed to them. Yet there she was, showing up in my timeline.

Now I could unsubscribe since I hadn’t even subscribe in the first place so my only other option was to block them, which I did. I figured that would solve the problem after all block is suppose to mean they never show up on your timeline, or at least so I thought.

Apparently though I was wrong because another tweet from @fitnessalways just showed up in my timeline

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This isn’t the first time that I have found people I am not following showing up in my timeline and as far as I know previous blocks have been haphazard as well. So I ask you Twitter – what the hell is going on here?

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Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: Twitter

ING Canada needs to stop this idea dead in its tracks

Posted on July 2, 2009 by Steven Hodson
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feetweeter I just caught this brain dead idea via Kris Abel’s Tech Life blog and the only thing I can say is that this has to be one of the stupidest ideas for using Twitter yet. Apparently ING Direct Canada wants people to publish their banking fees and charges via Twitter for the whole world to see.

Say what the fuck?

Are you guys insane?

Or just stupid in the marketing head?

As Kris says in his post

There may be no technical link between ING’s application and your bank account, but they are creating a psychological one. With the seal of approval of their brand, they are saying that "some" information from your banking account is "safe" to publish, when the responsible rule is that no information all at is safe for publishing. That’s the kind of social engineering vulnerability that scammers like to exploit.

Dumb. Dumb. Dumb.

Stop this idea ING Canada before it comes back to bite you on the ass really hard.

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Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: banking, banks, ING Canada, social media, Twitter
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