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The Pack Mentality on the Internet

Jaron Lanier talks about the failure of Web2.0 with Aleks Krotoski

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Five Great Alternatives to Google Reader

By now, you'll all have heard the rather sad news that effective July 1, 2013, Google Reader will be shutting down. If you like to read blogs in an organized, easily digestible way (like we do), chances are you're a big fan of Google Reader (like we are). We're also willing to bet that you aren't looking forward to the legwork needed to find a solid replacement  - one that will allow you to keep up with your favorites in a way that doesn't resemble the old school method of bookmarking and checkingdaily for a new post. Luckily, we're here to help with that.

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So it looks like Feedly then...

Did Real Time Marketing Win The Superbowl?

The real winner of this year's Super Bowl might just be real time marketing—or at minimum the ability for your marketing team to be nimble. The lights go out at the big game? Get creative about it as they are being fixed. Have a copywriter ready to craft a headline, a designer who can whip up a compelling visual, and don't let your media buying slow you down because you will need to promote that post on the spot—and in my opinion the best people who are in position to do this kind of media buying is the team working in the "newsroom" who have access to all the analytics. The future of marketing will move at the speed of now. Kudos to the Oreo team for once again nailing the execution.�

We had our own team mobilized in a newsroom setting (our SICC) as we supported Cars.com who launched their new campaign with a spot that debuted during the game. More on that later, the pictures below capture the activity level as we monitored social mentions, sentiment and coordinated posts and responses:

We also�addressed�the power outage during the game as it unfolded (above)—working it into our evening, but the creativity shown in the Oreo example is something that should make you stop and think because it's not easy to pull off. But while the Oreo example is well executed, I still think this game is in it's infancy, and as if the real time creativity wasn't easy enough to pull off—as I mentioned earlier the media buying is really going to create headaches. Here's a simple illustration of the basic flow of the real-time marketing model.�It begs the question: Can you really do real time? Do you have a content team ready at a moment's notice? Can you promote a Facebook post as quickly as it takes to develop the content? Can you measure what's working and what's not as it unfolds?�We're all going to find out. �

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They were very quick on the draw! I wonder if they photoshopped this within seconds or they keep it on deck for things like Hurricane Sandy.

The Fundamental Fallacies of Katy Pearce's Machinopology in Azerbaijan

January 14 2012 youth protest in Baku by Obyektiv TV.

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Why are the Registanis Holding a Conference about Regime Change in Uzbekistan?

Why is Registan having a conference on regime change in Uzbekistan today?!

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Tajik Opticon #6

This is my little blog about Tajikistan that comes out on Saturdays. I had a three-week hiatus during the region's holidays, which I call "The Land of the Eternal Yolka," and my own holidays, which were actually a chance to get some big work projects done. If you want to read past issues, click on "Tajikistan" under the categories. If you have comments leave them here or write me at catfitzny@yahoo.com where you can also get on the list to get this newsletter via email.

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Why Alex Stamos is Completely Wrong About Aaron Swartz

Alex Stamos' piece describing the defense he would have given for Aaron Swartz at trial is being widely linked by all the copyleftists and coders mourning the suicide of Aaron Swartz and attempting to turn him into an "Internet freedom" cult hero.

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Professorial Overreach

I've already explained how repulsed I am at the posturing that Prof. Lawrence Lessig is doing around the tragedy of "Internet freedom fighter" Aaron Swartz's death. He claims that "prosecutorial overreach" somehow is to blame for Swartz's death, although as this very good analysis by Volokh Conspiracy's Orin Kerr explains, the law was properly applied.

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The Wall Street Journal Capitulates to Copyleftism

How is this video discussion about Aaron Swartz by the Wall Street Journal any different from the way Amy Goodman's Democracy Now! would cover this same story?

Very little -- okay, well, maybe the suit and ties and the shorter hair, and maybe the quoting of Abraham Lincoln on copyright and patents -- which David Reith, assistant features editor, quotes as saying "add the fuel of interest to the fire of genius".� And sure, there's a vague nod to the need to modernize law but still have some law.

But Mary Kissel -- an Alyona Minkovski-in-training (Minkovski previously served as the Kremlin's RT propagandist and is now at Huffington Post) -- hammers in the copyleftist viewpoint which we should maybe re-dub the copylibertarian viewpoint in their hands. Without referencing at all the 6-month plea bargain actually offered by the prosecution -- which is irresponsible for the newspaper of record and business to be doing on January 16 when this fact is known -- she scarifies with the "35 year sentence" and "up to a million dollar fine" and then goes on to boost the anti-SOPA movement as well.

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Will the Copyleftists Stop Harassing Swartz's Prosecutor Now?

Attorney Carmen Ortiz at her swearing-in ceremony as prosecutor in the state of Massachusetts. "The Internet' has been outrageously harassing her, but she was just doing her job -- and doing it rightly and justly. Office of Governor Patrick. Photo credit: Eugena Ossi/Governor's Office

"The Internet" -- that motley crew made up of Anonymous persecutors, cunning professors and Big IT moguls who know how to dog whistle to the mob -- have been harassing Carmen Ortiz, the prosecutor of the case against Aaron Swartz, the hacker who committed suicide rather than face trial on charges of hacking 4 million documents from JSTOR.

Let's be clear -- suicides always bear the primary responsibility for their deaths and are accountable for them.� Sometimes there are grey areas if a drug overdose or alcoholism are involved, but that doesn't seem to be the case for Swartz. Yes, he was often depressed, perhaps bi-polar or on the autism spectrum, and there is a concerted lobby of "helping professionals" who want no one to ever discuss any political underpinnings to any death (especially if it doesn't fit their own liberal sensibilities) and want depression to be seen in a vacuum, without valid or invalid reasons.

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Attorney Carmen Ortiz at her swearing-in ceremony as prosecutor in the state of Massachusetts. "The Internet' has been outrageously harassing her, but she was just doing her job -- and doing it rightly and justly. Office of Governor Patrick. Photo credit: Eugena Ossi/Governor's Office

"The Internet" -- that motley crew made up of Anonymous persecutors, cunning professors and Big IT moguls who know how to dog whistle to the mob -- have been harassing Carmen Ortiz, the prosecutor of the case against Aaron Swartz, the hacker who committed suicide rather than face trial on charges of hacking 4 million documents from JSTOR.