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Thanks for the link and the kind words. Might I also humbly suggest TheSameRowdyCrowd.com, another site I write for. It's much more Minnesota-focused, though not exclusively. About journalism, politics, communication and some other randomness. Written by a team of local folks.

I'm shocked this function doesn't exist already. Having a "Send me email when people comment on my feed and I haven't logged in recently" seems silly without the broader "Send me email *whenever* people comment on my feed" option.

Fact check: Bush and McCain weren't dancing to House of Pain. It was Cypress Hill.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insane_in_the_membrane

I love the 90-10-90 rule. And reading that has driven me to solidify something I've done casually in the past: I want to do my part to lower that second 90 percent for the brands I use and like. That is, I want to make sure they hear positivity from consumers, not just complaints. Good brands deserve that, no?

Realistic? Sure. Comprehensive? No.

It's realistic in that nothing here is a bad idea, and everything here can and probably should be done by anyone even considering to call him or herself a "social media marketer." In fact, I've been working on putting together a couple of communication plans during the past couple of weeks that look a lot like this.

But it stops short. She's not producing any of her own content -- not blogging, not podcasting, not sharing videos, not posting photos, not hosting her own events (though she's working toward it).

I understand that you can only do so much in one article, but it should be noted, for the sake of those who are relying this as guidance, that this is just a starting point. A *great* starting point, but just that.

How about "unheard" or "new" voicemails? :)

Mmmm...Knob Creek. Doesn't taste a day younger than 10. :)

Makes sense overall, but it's obviously quite a complex thing. In general, your left-to-right setup makes sense, but where do you put *bad* content marketing? To me, a terrible, short-sighted, pushy, salesy podcast is no better -- no farther right on the spectrum -- than a run of the mill banner ad.

And, of course, there's a lot more stuff to fill in on that spectrum, but I'm sure we can tackle that in a future post!

Touche. :)

Thanks for putting this together. I really appreciate it, as I'm certainly not experienced in this realm and I'm struggling to learn from other sites that don't explain things well.

One question: I have things set up, but when my page loads (http://mbtest.unjournalism.com), I see this error up top:

"DB_DataObject Error: Connect failed, turn on debugging to 5 see why"

I, too, am on Dreamhost, if that matter. Any ideas off the top of your head? I don't expect full-on Laconi.ca support from you, but if you have any ideas on where to start, I'd appreciate it.

For what it's worth, when you say, "I then ran the MySQL command line client to run the db/laconica.sql script to populate the database" -- I haven't been able to figure out exactly how to do that, but I used Dreamhost's phpMyAdmin to "import" the laconica.sql file into the database I created for Laconi.ca. I'm not sure if that's the right thing to do or not.

Thanks again...

Allen Stern doesn't write for ReadWriteWeb. :)

Personally speaking, I'm a geek, so I'm interested in investigating all sorts of stuff -- technology or otherwise -- that most people aren't.

In a professional sense, I'm a public relations and marketing consultant at an agency, and I have little interest in "investigating social media" in that context. What I do have an interest in is investigating places where the right people gather to talk about the right topics (for me and my clients). Guess what? Those places often happen to be Twitter, the blogosphere, other Web communities, and the like. So here I am!

You're being silly. Because something similar and new exists, the previous iteration is "dead"?

Are phone calls dead because someone invented the Internet? Is CNN dead because you and Rocky record hour-long video interviews? Am I dead (worthless, less significant) because my little sister is cuter than me and my mom finally got the daughter she wanted?

Right now, FriendFeed is a place for early adopters and overactive social media types. They're more likely to comment, to "like," to share. If you think your blog and its comment-driven discussions are dying, give it up. Go ahead.

You sneaky bastard...nice headline. :)

Congrats to the boy and the parents!

Happy birthday, Mr. Chris's Dad!

I'm sure your 40-second clip cost The Artist Formerly Known as Cool several thousands of dollars.

It's strange that (at 5:05 p.m. Central Time) the audio is still there, despite YouTube's claim to the contrary.

I love it.

Out of respect to your readers and commenters, I weighed in on my own site here:

http://www.unjournalism.com/2008/04/17/my-socia...

If I may be so brash as to simply share something I wrote more than one year ago:

http://www.unjournalism.com/2007/03/10/social-m...

My, how so little has changed.

Thanks for the post, Matt.

Sorry. I read about the Scoble video in one of the comments. The video of Feldman is at Scoble's Qik page: http://qik.com/Scobleizer

Do you have a link to more info about this Scoble video of Feldman editing the Loic interview? Just curious.

Have you heard of Tweetscan.com? Searches all tweets or lets you specify a user's tweets to search - even your own, of course.

Perhaps not many people are speaking up because this is petty bullshit. It's truly unfortunate for Shel, and I think he's learned a lesson or two. But beyond that, this is petty - and easy to ignore. I'm going to try to keep doing that.

Your criticism of Seesmic - that "it takes way too long to post a video and listen to a video playback then read a maximum 140 character message" - seems to assume Seesmic is supposed to replace Twitter or somehow be "like Twitter but in video!"

Sure, some people explain it like that because it's an easy way to explain what Seesmic is - roughly. But it's actually quite off the mark. There's a massive difference between interacting with people in short bursts of video and doing so in minuscule bursts of text. Comparing the two so directly isn't even like comparing apples and oranges - it's more like apples and cheeseburgers.