Linkfest Top 8
March 9th, 2008 by Alec McNayrPosted in Marketing |I have been bookmarking links to mention for a few weeks now, and need to clear my “things to blog about” folder. Enjoy these 8 links. You should consider them “must reads” from early 2008. Most of them pertain to marketing, but a few others related to the still-emerging world of online video…
(PS - I keep track of these things using InstaPaper, a clever little site renders an RSS feed of tagged pages)
- Microsharing, Social-Bookmarking and the Middle 50% You Can’t Ignore
From: Marketing Profs Daily Fix (related to: MicroSharing: Inside the One Trend Most Marketers Are Ignoring
“There are certain individuals who are tastemakers and influencers. They are the ones who apply their own lens to content out there, and sift through it to provide a boiled down list of what people should pay attention to. They are not so much content creators as they are content aggregators, and they serve an important role. This is a population of people you can’t afford to ignore anymore.”
- 23 Ideas for Finding New Readers for Your Blog
From: ProBlogger (related to: DIY PR)
- Narrower is better (dark thoughts during NPR pledge week)
From: The Long Tail
“But look at the arc of history here. The podcast model is getting cheaper and more ubiquitously available (who doesn’t have a cellphone?), and it serves individual needs and taste better. Meanwhile the broadcast model, which is all about one-size-fits-all taste, is based on human labor costs and costly transmission equipment and is only getting more expensive. You can see how this story ends.”
- Sanctuary Comes To SCI FI
With all the hoop-la surrounding Quarterlife’s short life on NBC, the news that fellow big-budget online series Sanctuary moved to TV has fallen through the cracks… but not for me…
- Seeing other people
In the middle of the writer’s strike, screenwriter John August undertook a secretive (how secretive can it be when you’re blogging about it?) project — kind of an online pilot. In the following posts he describes the joys of low-budget filmmaking…
- My Agencies Suck At Social Media!
From: ViralBlog
- Hollywood, Silicon Valley and AT&T? It’s a Deal
From: NY Times
- Vixy - Download FLV (Flash) Videos and convert into MOV or AVI files.
