With thousands of headlines and tips being shared every hour on Twitter alone, we thought it would be helpful to share our favorites—the articles and blog posts that really stood out this week as the most relevant, interesting and insightful. Browse our list, then tell us about your favorite article this week.
Melissa Lion: Will Condé Nast be able to pull up out of print media’s death spiral with a new revenue model? The New York Times article, Condé Nast Is Changing Its Blueprint, explores the possibility.
Sarah Biedak: Facebook has launched Facebook Questions, a Yahoo! Questions-esque service. This could be useful for seeking community feedback and research.
Darcie Meihoff: I have two favorites this week. Have you considered inviting a guest blogger to your blog? Get some helpful tips from HubsSpot’s recent post. I credit @DaveAtNorth for this one: a 14-page article from The New York Times, The Web Means The End of Forgetting, explores how your digital past is never forgotten and can haunt, or help you. Enlightening and a little frightening.
Erik Sebellin-Ross: New Forrester research shows that Foursquare doesn’t have a big enough user base to warrant its use in marketing efforts. Outside of major cities, sure . . .
Stefanie Week: Content is king, but only if it’s free. A new USC survey shows that zero percent of those polled would pay for Twitter. I think I’d have to agree.
Julie Yamamoto: Mashable reveals how to send an audio tweet.
Julie Ma: Having a case of writer’s block? Clarabela Media’s post, Nine Sites Every Freelance Writer Should Bookmark, will get anyone’s creative writing juices flowing.
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Darcie,
Thanks for the credit. I like what you have done here; it’s what we know as sharing the sharing. I’ve been contemplating the idea of what it means to have a blog in 2010, especially with Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr et al making it real easy for anyone to share their “instant” thoughts, likes or dislikes.
If we recall, a blog was originally an online diary, wherein one could share openly what you thought were the best of life’s minutiae – at that moment. Then blogs morphed into a great filtering system where not only could we find great original content [from a few I would add, not all,] but also non-original content that a particular blogger felt would appeal to her readership. It’s that mix of voice, originality and shared content that makes the social web vibrant.
What it means, ultimately, is that blogs in one form or another are here to stay. For those that want less filter there is always the fire hose of the RSS feed.