Social Media Top Ten

Time for another edition of the Social Media Top Ten.

As always, the concept (started last month by Bryan Person) is to list the Top Ten things about Social Media running through your mind in a given week, and I encourage everyone to post their own!

Social Media Top Ten

1) FEC legitimizes blogging – Okay, so this story is not exactly timely, but it didn’t make the last edition of the SMT10, so I’m including it now. This is a major move towards further legitimizing bloggers as members of the media.

2) Ad Age editor vs Joe Jaffe – Jonah Bloom writes a scathing post about the head crayonista, prompting some great responses from the blogosphere.

3) Age vs. Experience debate - A terrific blog and Twitter conversation developed last week regarding the place of young PR bloggers. See Paull Young's blog for a round-up of thoughts from across the blogosphere.

4) Mash – Yahoo! asks the question: Do we really need another social network? And I am really bummed that I haven’t gotten an invite? Actually, while I normally suffer from raging cases of IE (invite-envy), I am not interested in Mash. There are just too many networks to keep track of at this point.

5) MySpace targeting ads with user data – This sort of thing generally creeps me out, like when Gmail “reads” my emails and puts ads relating to whatever my email is about on the sidebar.

6) Fake proposal on CollegeHumor.com – According to the blog of the prank’s main victim, he and his girlfriend are still together. Even after he shouted “I don’t want to (expletive) marry you” at her after his friend put a fake proposal on the Jumbotron in Yankee Stadium—and she said yes. He should marry her anyway on general principle.

7) Southwest Airlines vs. the Hooters Girl – After taking a lot of heat for asking a scantily clad passenger to cover up on a flight, Southwest bit back, offering a special Miniskirt Fare sale, and only increasing the ire of their “victim.” This is the sort of thing the blogosphere (me included) loves.

8) Unlocked iPhones – I definitely don’t speak enough Geek to understand what’s going on here, but I think all this talk of unlocking iPhones means that there’s a trick you can play on your iPhone to make it work with any carrier, not just at&t. Considering it should have been this way from the start, I can’t applaud the move more. It makes the decision to pony up the dough that much easier.

9) If you like Pina Coladas… - Ah, nothing like online love. Except when you’re married, and you’re having an online affair, and you discover that you’re online paramour is…your husband. Unlike the catchy ditty portraying a similar situation, this one doesn’t have a happy ending; the couple is divorcing.

10) Boston Social Media Club – Their event this Thursday, September 20, will feature Fake Steve Jobs! I’ll be there…will you?

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Comments

[Geoff Livingston]

Thanks Sarah. As always, a great read!