Itās good for journalists to see PR behind the scenes [http://venturebeat.com/2013/08/16/oops-google-sends-journos-its-internal-youtube-coverage-audit-by-mistake/#eptR6dUDCrAkzEKg.02] : > A Google press rep accidentally included the wrong attachment in an email to multiple journalists today, revealing part of Googleās YouTube press coverage goals, plans, progress to date.
A good digest of how Facebookās newsfeed algorithm has changed over the years. [http://marketingland.com/edgerank-is-dead-facebooks-news-feed-algorithm-now-has-close-to-100k-weight-factors-55908] : 100,000 factors seemsā¦ peculiar. > EdgeRank, Facebookās original News Feed ranking system, is dead. Facebook hasnāt used the word internally for about two-and-a-half years. Thatās when the company
Comms
Last summer, I left my agency to become an independent comms consultant. I was looking for new experiences and new challenges that would push the scope and breadth of my knowledge as much as they drew upon it. When Tradeshift asked me to come on board, it felt like I
Evernote
I like Evernote. But thereās only so far I think you can really love software. By contrast, my notebook is like a trusty familiar idea-steed. Yes, Idea-steed. From the ceremony of pinging away the elastic to leafing open a page, It even makes me love my favourite pen more
Ask yourself āWhy Google isnāt killing PRā [http://www.dannywhatmough.com/2013/08/12/me-on-tom-foremski-on-pr/]: Danny has some good words to say on Tom Foremskiās controversial assertions [http://www.zdnet.com/google-is-forcing-a-reinvention-of-pr-7000019219/]re. Googleās latest search tweaks: > Do I think the press release will die? Yes.
endorsements
Since its introduction, itās fair to say that Linkedinās āendorsementsā feature, which makes it simple to add a āpointā to your connectionsā skill in various areas, has divided opinion. Actually, thatās probably not fair ā anecdotally most people I know seem to think itās a complete absurd
Interesting piece on the relationship between authors and alcohol. [http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/jul/28/what-drives-writers-to-drink-echo-spring-extract?CMP=twt_gu] : āBut if the drinking is habitual, the brain begins to compensate for these calming effects by producing an increase in excitatory neurotransmitters. What this means in practice is
A really well written profile of VP Joe Biden from GQ [http://www.gq.com/news-politics/newsmakers/201308/joe-biden-presidential-campaign-2016-2013?mbid=social_twitter_gqmagazine¤tPage=all] : (God the corporate world has diffused the impact of āVPā.) Joe Biden: The Most Misunderstood Man in Washington > The job of vice president
Featured
The humble status update has grown up a lot in recent years, by me on Medium [https://medium.com/p/dfc799a7310e]: > Itās more and more common to have not just a stream of social updates now but a full landscape. What we have today, is almost like a
community
Thereās a lot of talk about trolling at the moment but just because someone shouts about wanting to kill you, it doesnāt mean their actual goal is a murder. Itās attention ā and trying to quiet everyone in the world whoās after attention is going to take
New Gmail got me thinking [https://medium.com/product-design/c356a2b806e2]: > Alongside archive/ action, now thereās a third, lower maintenance option: scan the subject lines. They say decreasing decision fatigue helps you concentrate on the things that matterāāāand I think the new Gmail represents a step in that
How a total n00b mined $700 in bitcoins [http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/06/how-a-total-n00b-mined-700-in-bitcoins/] : This article makes Bitcoin mining sound like fun. > Numbers. Lots of numbers everywhere. I stared at it for long seconds, watching the updates crawl upward from the bottom of the screen. Am I actually
