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A Plurkshop, or text-based workshop, today brought about a concern for me as an up and coming social media professional. That was that A-listers, celebrities, and large corporations are ruining social media by using it in an irresponsible manner. That is to say, they are using social media as no more than a promotional tool to bombard their followers with one-way communication, disregarding the

This entry refers to a previous post about tag clouds, priming, linguistics and search engines. You may want to read that before continuing So, for a moment, throw out everything you know about search engines and imagine this. A new type of search engine. Upon entering a keyword, the engine forms a type of tag cloud with this term as the center-most concept. Then, on the next layer, the

When I first set my eyes on a simple, four-color tag cloud, or keyword cloud, I was instantly reminded of chalkboard sketches by frazzled linguistics professors. A particular lecture on the lexicon and its interaction with the brain’s priming effect comes to mind. The theory, later confirmed by brainwave and eye movement studies, was that when a person hears a word, a slew of other concepts

The Burg is a Web-based sitcom that takes place in Williamsburgh, New York (yeah...there's an h). Their show is as good or better than anything on basic cable these days. From their site. "When we started this project, there were no rules. Anyone could do anything on the internet, make content however long and ambitious as they wanted, and as long as it was good, it would garner attention. We

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) has been quickly become an important concept in the public relations world. The way in which the public interacts with the information around them is important in understanding how to driving traffic to a Web site. Now, that Wikipedia article is a little technical, but the page itself can help us understand what SEO means. The numbered points in the image above