{"id":432,"date":"2008-03-15T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-15T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulgillin.com\/2008\/03\/daily-reading-03152008.html"},"modified":"2008-03-15T06:30:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-15T13:30:00","slug":"daily-reading-03152008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/daily-reading-03152008\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily reading 03\/15\/2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"title\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com\/2008\/02\/15\/is-myspace-good-for-society-a-freakonomics-quorum\">Is MySpace Good for Society?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"title\">A New York Times columnist asks six thought leaders a simple question: &#8220;Has social networking technology made us better or worse off as a society?&#8221; Their consensus: both.<\/p>\n<div class=\"highlights\">\n<div class=\"content\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.readwriteweb.com\/archives\/identify_top_blogs.php\">Comparing Six Ways to Identify Top Blogs in Any Niche<\/a><\/strong><br \/>ReadWriteWeb has a useful review of free tools that help you search the blogosphere and assess the influence of the bloggers you find.<strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.myspace.com\/ninavenetta\">Elliot Spitzer&#8217;s call girl has a MySpace page<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"title\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/searchengineland.com\/080214-080046.php\">The Inconvenient Truth About Social Media Marketing<\/a><\/strong><br \/>Aaron wall offers a succinct and persuasive argument against link-baiting. We need more of this rational thinking. Link-baiting is a waste of time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"title\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottmonty.com\/2008\/03\/corporate-blogging-how-pros-do-it.html\">Corporate Blogging &#8211; How the Pros Do It<\/a><\/strong><br \/>Scott Monty provides thorough coverage of an SXSW panel on corporate blogging. Includes some nice nuggets, such as Dell&#8217;s customer relations philosophy: &#8220;<span id=\"fullpost\">they&#8217;ve empowered <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">every employee<\/span> to apologize.&#8221;<\/span><span style=\"font-size:0;\"> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"title\"><span style=\"font-size:0;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><\/span><\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jwMj3PJDxuo\">Jeff Jarvis tells why you should reach out to the customers who say they hate you<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"title\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jwMj3PJDxuo\">What happens when 207 people freeze simultaneously for five minutes in Grand Central Station? Watch this&#8230;<br \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is MySpace Good for Society? A New York Times columnist asks six thought leaders a simple question: &#8220;Has social networking technology made us better or worse off as a society?&#8221; Their consensus: both. Comparing Six Ways to Identify Top Blogs &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/daily-reading-03152008\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[5,27,29],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pTy95-6Y","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}